FRONTERAS PERMEABLES DURANTE LA DÉCADA DEL 70: EL PLAN CÓNDOR

Abstract

The topic we will develop or put at issue will be the permeability of the borders in South America during the Condor Plan and how it generated immigration and mobility of citizens between the countries members of this Plan. The Colonel Manuel Contreras, Commander of the National Intelligence Department of Chile (DINA, the acronym in Spanish) in 1975, recommended to the Commanders of Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina to create an intelligence coordination plan against the international communist subversion (Blinex, 2007 in Rey Tristan (Dir.)). The main objective of the plan was the union and cooperation of the Intelligence services of the members to be able to act freely in another territories. They did it by persecution methods and repression and they even “disappeared” those considered enemies (Memoria Abierta, 2007). These operations of the Armed Forces encouraged activists and people opposed to neoliberal ideals of the military governments to migrate from one country to another, illegally, since the borders were controlled. By doing so, a legal (because the Armed Forces are part of the State) and legitimate movement was generated, but the Armed Forces banned the immigration to some citizens, leaving weakened borders.