This activities report by the Plancondor.org team documents the project "Digital Technologies and Justice: Civil Society and the Tireless Struggle Against Impunity in Chile". It describes three knowledge-exchange workshops held in Valdivia, Santiago, and Valparaíso, plus a follow-up workshop in Santiago, carried out between December 15 and 22 of 2025, which brought together more than 70 representatives from human rights organizations, government bodies, the legal profession, and academia, held close to the 50th anniversary of the founding of Operation Condor in Santiago (1975).

The authors and editors have provided these texts so that they may be freely accessed as part of this special collection.

Original website of the publication: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300254099/the-condor-trials/ 

The authors and editors have provided these texts so that they may be freely accessed as part of this special collection

Original website of the publication: https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/68/2/sqae035/7637878 

The manual systematises the experience of the projects plancondor.org and sitiosdememoria.uy, providing a technical contribution to the reflection and implementation of best practices in two key areas:

This policy brief is based on a multi-year study carried out between 2013 and 2016 on accountability for Plan Cóndor crimes and, in particular, two knowledge exchange workshops, in which academics, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, policy experts and members of civil society from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay participated. The brief highlights the main challenges and obstacles that have delayed and slowed down the elucidation of past transnational atrocities in South America. It also sets out three recommendations to overcome these hindrances across the region.

This policy brief is based on a long-term study of accountability policies in this region. It also draws upon the discussion and knowledge exchange held during the workshop “Investigating Crimes against Humanity in South America: Present and Future Challenges,” organized by the University of Oxford and Argentina’s Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against Humanity, held in Buenos Aires in May 2018. The brief summarizes the main challenges and difficulties associated with investigating crimes against humanity in South America.

Since General Augusto Pinochet’s detention in 1998, an unprecedented number of human rights trials has taken place across Latin America. The main source of evidence employed in these proceedings are victims’ testimonies: in fact, records documenting human rights violations are generally unavailable, having either been destroyed or hidden. When archives do exist, they do not usually identify individual perpetrators or victims, nor do they directly establish criminal responsibility.