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A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings, ... In 1983 the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ...
Human Rights Watch asserted in a 2019 report that the CIA was backing death squads in Afghanistan. [3] The report alleges that CIA-supported Afghan forces committed " summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability" over the course of more than a dozen night raids that took place between 2017 and 2019.
Death squad victims in San Salvador, (c. 1981)Death squads in El Salvador (Spanish: escuadrones de la muerte) were far-right paramilitary groups acting in opposition to Marxist–Leninist guerrilla forces, most notably of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), and their allies among the civilian population before, during, and after the Salvadoran Civil War.
Operation Condor. Operation Condor ( Portuguese: Operação Condor; Spanish: Operación Cóndor) was a campaign of political repression involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers, liberals and democrats and their families in South America which formally existed from 1975 to 1983.
The Contras (from Spanish: la contrarrevolución, lit. 'the counter-revolution ') were the various U.S.-backed-and-funded right-wing rebel groups that were active from 1979 to 1990 in opposition to the Marxist Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction Government in Nicaragua, which had come to power in 1979 following the Nicaraguan Revolution.
Memorial depicting Oscar Romero and the 1980 murders of U.S. missionaries in El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, four Catholic missionaries from the United States working in El Salvador were raped and murdered by five members of the El Salvador National Guard (Daniel Canales Ramírez, Carlos Joaquín Contreras Palacios, Francisco Orlando ...
The CIA and Argentine advisors cooperated closely in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and in training the Nicaraguan FDN, especially during 1981-82. Argentina's involvement with the Guatemalan security services allegedly included direct involvement in running death squads.
These death squads killed trade unionists, peasant leaders, human-rights monitors, journalists, and other suspected "subversives." The evidence, including secret Colombian military documents, suggests that the CIA may be more interested in fighting a leftist resistance movement than in combating drugs.