The Former President of the Republic Francisco Morales Bermúdez He passed away this Friday, July 15 at 100 years of age. The former dictator had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Italian justice as a result of the disappearance of citizens in the Condor Plana campaign of political repression hatched by several Latin American dictatorships in the 70s and 80s of the last century.
In February of this year, the Italian Supreme Court (TS) ratified the request of the Prosecutor’s Office and rejected the appeal filed by Morales Bermúdez’s defense against the sentences in the first and second degree. Like almost all the defendants, the former dictator did not appear before the Roman Court.
With the death of Morales Bermúdez the criminal action is extinguished and his sentence is annulled, as happened with General Germán Ruiz Figueroa, who died in 2019.
What was the Condor Plan?
The Plan Condor was a strategy conceived by six Latin American dictatorships during the 1970s and 1980s. The countries included are Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia. It was a repressive coordination that took place in the South of the region in order to persecute and eliminate leftist opponents or those related to the communist political and economic system.
according to the book Operation Condor: 40 years laterpublication by the International Center for the Promotion of Human Rights of the unescoPlan Condor began on November 28, 1975, in Chile, during a security meeting headed by Manuel ‘Mamo’ Contreras, head of the Chilean secret police.
María del Carmen Alva defended former dictator Morales Bermúdez: “Thanks to him we returned to democracy”
The President of the Board of Directors of Congress, Maria del Carmen Alvadefended the deceased former dictator Francisco Morales Bermúdez during the plenary session of Parliament. First, she offered a minute of silence as a tribute to later praise his behavior.
“Thanks to him we returned to democracy, which we still have today,” said the populist activist.
