Operation Condor illustrated book to be released in May

Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent exposes the clandestine machinery of fear that united South America’s military dictatorships in the 1970s and ’80s, tracing how intelligence networks coordinated across borders to hunt down political exiles, turning supposed refuge into peril and entire nations into surveillance zones. Drawing on archival breakthroughs and the stories of emblematic victims, Francesca Lessa and Sebastián Santana Camargo illuminate not only the reach of these regimes’ transnational terror but also the quiet, unyielding courage of families, lawyers, and investigators who refused to let the disappeared vanish from memory.

The book, translated from Spanish into English by Alejandro Reyes, will be published by Casa Carlini Publishing House in New York. It is an updated edition, released to mark the 50th anniversary of the civic-military coup in Argentina of March 24, 1976. The book will be available as paperback, e-book, and audiobook.

Originally published in Spanish in October 2023 by Reservoir Books / Penguin Random House Uruguay in Montevideo, the book is in its second edition in Uruguay, and was also released in October 2025 in Chile by LOM Ediciones (published as a revised and updated edition to mark the 50 years of the official founding of Operation Condor in Santiago de Chile in 1975). The book has been available in Argentina since February 2026. 

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