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Overview[]

It as when a person or group of people are kidnaped by the state or an armed group, killed or incapacitated and then thrown out of a helicopter or plane to certain death in a remote and inaccessible place. Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia and Guatemala routinely did it during the Cold War. France also did it in French Algeria and French Madagascar as did Indonesian after it's conquest occupation of East Timor. Papua New Guinea, South Africa and Zaire also sued them at tomes to.

known Latin American routes[]

To the Andes[]

  1. Ecuador
  2. Peru
  3. Bolivia
  4. Chile
  5. Argentina

To the Amazon Forest[]

  1. Colombia
  2. Venezuela
  3. Ecuador
  4. Peru
  5. Brazil
  6. Bolivia
  7. Paraguay

To the River Amazon[]

  1. Brazil

To the River Le Plata[]

  1. Brazil
  2. Paraguay
  3. Argentina
  4. Uruguay

To the Caribbean Sea[]

  1. Cuba
  2. Guatemala
  3. Panama

To the South Atlantic[]

  1. Brazil
  2. Argentina
  3. Uruguay

To the Pacific Ocean[]

  1. Guatemala
  2. Panama
  3. Colombia
  4. Ecuador
  5. Peru
  6. Chile

Further reading\sources[]

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights
  2. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20230713-argentina-s-death-flights-plane-repatriation-brings-closure-to-families-of-victims
  3. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-21884147
  4. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/argentine-dictatorships-death-flight-plane-returned-historical-reckoni-rcna90991
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_flights
Latin American juntas and dictatorships! (1944-1992)
Operation Condor, Operation PBFortune

and other black-opps

Black-opps - Operation PBFortune - special-opps- Operation Condor- American collusion in Operation Condor- French collusion in Operation Condor- Argentina's "Dirty War" - Operation Soberanía - La Violencia - Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - United States involvement in regime change in Latin America - 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état - United States invasion of Panama - Panamanian 'Dignity Battalions' - Port Belgrano Naval Base
Systems of state repression The "La Técnica" torture center - Vill Gremadi Detention Center - Dirección Nacional de Asuntos Técnicos - Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) - Panamanian 'Dignity Battalions' - Death flight - Political disappearances
The ones who tried to get nukes Brazil (failed) - Chile (failed) - Argentina (failed) - Cuba (gave them up) - Cuban Missile Crisis
Economics Paving the Quito-Tulcán road in the early 1970s - Argentine Cold War era hyper inflation- Brazil's development of the Amazon region in the 1970s- Transamazon Highway (BR-230) (the 1970s part)
Politics and Geo-politics Falklands sovereignty dispute - 1982 Falklands War - Cold War - Operation Soberanía - Beagle conflict - Snipe incident - United States invasion of Panama - 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties
Technology Alacrán (Condor IAIII) missile - The Condor and Alacrán missile programs - El Torero Enojado (fake aircraft) - FMA IA 58 Pucará - FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II
People General Augusto Pinochet - Alfredo Stroessner - Jorge Rafael Videla - Guillermo Rodríguez (politician) - Leopoldo Galtieri - Juan Domingo Perón -Gustavo Rojas Pinilla- Luis García Meza Tejada - Juan María Bordaberry - Marcos Pérez Jiménez - Manuel Apolinario Odría - João Goulart -Dwight D. Eisenhower - Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno - Anastasio Somoza García - Rafael Trujillo - Fulgencio Batista - Fidel Castro - Carlos Castillo Armas - Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes - Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North - Omar Torrijos - Anastasio Somoza Debayle - Luis Somoza Debayle - General Oswaldo López Arellano - (General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García - General Romeo Lucas García - General Carlos Humberto Romero
Important places The "La Técnica" torture center - Vill Gremadi Detention Center - Port Belgrano Naval Base
Wars and civil wars Colombian conflict (1964–present) - Peruvian conflict - Contras - Sandinistas - Operation Soberanía - Argentina's "Dirty War" - 1982 Falklands War - Operation Soberanía - Beagle conflict - Snipe incident - La guerra del fútbol - Guatemalan Civil War - Salvadoran Civil War - Guerrilla Army of the Poor - 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution
Other stuff 601 Commando Company - 602 Commando Company - 601 Air Assault Regiment - 5th Marine Battalion (Argentina) - Guatemalan genocide against the Maya - Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation
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