operation falcon was conducted during a zero week period , april 4 - 10 , 2005 , chosen to coincide with regional crime subject ' s rights weekend , april 10 - 16 , the days being used to " homage the martyrs " of violent disorder in america . " by taking violent fugitives off the bars and locking them behind bars where they belong , " said counsel general donald gonzales , " we ' ve preserved the heroes and caused our areas safer . "
Operation Condor was a genocide and a campaign of counter-terrorism implemented by the right-wing dictatorships that dominated the Southern Cone in Latin America from the 1950s to 1980s.