Innocent people were murdered, including women and children. The exact number of deaths resulting from Operation Condor is unknown to this day, but it is estimated that a minimum of sixty thousand people were viciously murdered. Condor’s key members were the governments of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, …show more content…
First, I will discuss Salvatore Allende, who was the president of Chile from 1970-1973. Allende pursued a policy called “La Via Chilena”, which translates in English to The Chilean Way of Socialism. Allende’s socialist ideas included the nationalization of certain industries such as the mining of copper, the healthcare system, and the redistribution of land. This was opposed by land owners, the middle class, and even the U.S. owned companies, which Allende did not fully compensate for the mines they had owned. These groups were against these socialist views, because they would diminish the poorly distributed wealth that these groups had acquired. Allende did this, because he wanted to improve the economic welfare of Chile’s poorest