However, if genocide is under­ stood as these courts define it, as an attempt to deliberately obliterate the groups who were barriers to a political project, then this process can be seen not just in Argentina but, to varying degrees of intensity, throughout the re­ gion that was turned into the Chicago School laboratory. In these countries, the people who "got in the way of the ideal" were leftists of all stripes: econ­ omists, soup kitchen workers, trade unionists, musicians, farm organizers, politicians. Members of all these groups were subjected to a clear and delib­ erate region-wide strategy, coordinated across borders by Operation Condor, to uproot and erase the left. 

 Naomi Klein, The shock doctrine.