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That began to change with Pinochet’s arrest in London. “It was Garzón who woke the world up to this,” Laura Elgueta told me. As Pinochet’s arrest highlighted, amnesty laws did not provide universal protection, and Condor was a weak spot. In retrospect, those who expected lifelong impunity for their involvement in Condor made three key mistakes. First of all, they stole children, a crime that even amnesties did not cover. Second, they wrongly assumed that amnesties would cover crimes committed on foreign soil. Finally, they hid their killings by making victims disappear – thereby turning those crimes into ongoing, unresolved kidnappings, which, unlike a murder where a body is found, cannot be covered by a statute of limitations or an amnesty for past events. These errors allowed a bold group of prosecutors and judges to bypass amnesty laws in a handful of carefully selected cases. These, in turn, revealed such ghastly truths that some governments were … [Read more...] about Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America

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Sergei Kolesnikov, initially a collaborator on the project but then a whistle-blower after fleeing to the West, said what had started as a single house had become 20 buildings and with a budget that had long passed the billion-dollar mark. The opulence, he said, was reminiscent of the last days of the Tsars. … [Read more...] about Vladimir Putin’s £1bn palace of pleasure: Grander than Versailles, it’s a monument to the Russian leader’s vanity – complete with lap-dancing room and ice hockey rink… allegedly paid for by oligarchs desperate for his patronage, writes RICHARD KAY