Stories of crimes, murders, and atrocities in left media always seem so heavily one sided.
From the days of the Vietnam War, when the US left press flooded TV screens with crimes of the South Vietnamese troops and government, or the CIA, or anti-Communist governments - often but not always dictatorships - in South and Central America.
A reminder of how left wing French intellectuals handled such issues during France's wars of decolonization.
Italian court jails 24 over South American Operation Condor
It was all part of the Cold War as it was fought out in the region.
Did you think wet work was an invention of the war against Jiharder terrorism?
A creation of fiction writers?
Who did you think Western governments were likely to be interested in killing, back in those days?
Come to that, what did you think "cold war" meant?
Between ordinary political competition and open and direct war there is cold war.
Less destructive and intense for the opposed parties than direct, open war, cold war includes - but is not limited to - both proxy war and covert war, and any war is an affair of violence.
Here's an interesting bit.
Last April, a newly declassified CIA document showed that European intelligence agencies sought advice from South America’s 1970s dictatorships on how to combat leftwing “subversion”.
“Representatives of West German, French and British intelligence services had visited the Condor organization secretariat in Buenos Aires during the month of September 1977 in order to discuss methods for establishment of an anti-subversion organization similar to Condor,” the document stated.
According to the human rights prosecution office in Buenos Aires, 977 former military officers and collaborators are in jail for crimes relating to Argentina’s dictatorship.
PS, did you think the use of torture was a novelty introduced by the Bush administration?
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