Uruguayan Foreign Ministry declassifies documents on Plan Condor

Documents on the Uruguayan state's participation in the repressive Plan Condor and the search for missing persons are now available to the public, announced Acting Foreign Minister Valeria Csukasi.
 
 
The Vice Foreign Minister stated that these are key texts on the coordination between the dictatorships that ruled South America in the 1970s and 1980s.

“Over the last 20 years, the Foreign Affairs Ministry has been part of a process through which progress has been made in the area of archives linked to human rights violations,” she explained.

She added that in 2005, then-Foreign Minister Reinaldo Gargano instructed the creation of a working group with representatives from the Department of Diplomatic Historical Archives and the Administrative Archives, with the mission of collecting, organizing, and disseminating these documents.

Csukasi said that these archives are now at the reach of victims, their families, researchers, and society.

“Whenever the families believe it is necessary, from a critical, reasoned framework, files are opened to contribute to understand the events that happened during the civil-military dictatorship that ravaged Uruguay between 1973 and 1985,” she asserted.