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