MATIAS JOFRE

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This article traces how the brutality of Operation Condor continues to echo in Brazil through the testimony of Claudia Alencar, who was abducted and tortured in 1973 by the military dictatorship. Her story exposes the deep violence coordinated across the Southern Cone through Condor—torture centers like OBAN, sexualized violence used as a weapon of terror, and the repression of left-wing, populist, and socialist movements. Although Brazil’s Truth Commission later documented these crimes, the trauma endures. Survivors like Alencar are only now breaking decades of silence, revealing how Condor’s legacy of fear, misogyny, and state-sanctioned torture still shapes Brazilian society today.