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Abstract

During the 1970s, for the first time in the political history of Southern Cone, a supranational integration between the various dictatorships in the region was established. Those dictatorships intensified state repressive action, by operating a counterrevolutionary war machinery of state, with a clear desire to liquidate the opposition that reached its objective through the disappearance of people and the spread of terror. A result of this process was the massive violation of human rights with no national or ideological boundaries. In the social sciences, the conceptualization of state terrorism was used before its conceptual precision allowed uniform criteria. This article contributes with a conceptual theoretical reflection to advance the understanding of the specific mechanisms of emergence, expansion and transnationalization of state terrorism. It is exemplified by the specific study of Operación Cóndor, which demonstrates the integration of the dictatorships of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

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Title
Terrorismo de estado. El sur del continente americano durante la década de 1970. Un caso de transnacionalización del terrorismo estatal/State terrorism. The south of the American continent during the 1970s. A case of state terrorism transnationalization
Author
Voirin, Julio Lisandro Cañón
Pages
185-202
Publication year
2016
Publication date
Jun-Sep 2016
Publisher
Relaciones Internacionales
e-ISSN
16993950
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1826103286
Copyright
Copyright Relaciones Internacionales Jun-Sep 2016