The Uruguayan Foreign Ministry digitalized and released to the public 10 historic case documents from the infamous Operation Condor Monday. 

The decision comes ahead of the 50-year anniversary of the collaborative cross-borders scheme Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay signed on November 28, 1975. Brazil, Ecuador and Peru would later join as well. Collaboration from the United States government during that time has also been documented.

Interim Foreign Minister Valeria Csukasi said that the documents are “key” to understanding how the collaboration between South American regimes operated. “For the past 20 years, the foreign ministry has been part of a process in which there have been advances in terms of archives linked to human rights violations,” she said during the presentation.

The list of documents the foreign ministry released includes two crucial cases of human rights violations that took place across Uruguay, Argentina and........

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