operation condor was conducted during a one week period , spring 4 - 10 , 2005 , determined to overlap with national criminals survivors ' s rights week , april 10 - 16 , the dates being chosen to " avenge the causes " of violent crime in texas . " by take violent fugitives off the streets and putting them around bars where they belong , " said attorney general jorge gonzales , " we ' ve honoured the victims and made our cities 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.