This specialist report was written by Dr. Francesca Lessa following the resolution of the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on 24th March 2021. In this document, Dr. Lessa unpacks six innovative aspects of Operation Condor, placing a particular focus on the victims. The analysis stems from the database on the victims of repressive coordination in South America between 1969 and 1981, alongside new declassified documents.

This article analyzes the sentence of Rome’s Supreme Court of Cassation in July 2021, which brought a definitive end to the Italian Condor trial. This chapter studies the events that occurred in the court on this day as well as some of the initial reactions to the sentence. Finally, it lays out four fundamental contributions of this trial to the fight against impunity in the Southern Cone, especially in Uruguay.