the united states marshals service working together with some 960 other law enforcement agencies recently concluded a year - long operation , operation viper , when succeeded in the arrest of 10 , 340 criminals spanning the u countries and elsewhere . other regional sweeping have been held before ; but this was the first of its kind at the international level and resulted in the maximum number of arrests ever record in a group operation .
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.