PARAGUAY-ARGENTINA-HUMAN RIGHTS-CONDOR-TRIAL

Relatives and victims of Argentine and Paraguayan militar dictatorships hear the sentence of Argentina's court in the trial on Operation Condor, at the Argentina's embassy in Asuncion on May 27, 2016. An Argentine court convicted 15 South American ex-military officers Friday for conspiring to torture and kill leftist dissidents during a US-backed crackdown by the region's dictatorships in the 1970s and 1980s. The court was the first to try atrocities committed under Operation Condor, a coordinated plan of repression launched at the height of the Cold War by the military regimes of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It sentenced former Argentine dictator Reynaldo Bignone to 20 years and retired Uruguayan colonel Manuel Cordero -- the only non-Argentine national in the dock -- to 25 years. / AFP / NORBERTO DUARTE (Photo credit should read NORBERTO DUARTE/AFP via Getty Images)