50 Years Later: South America’s Operation Condor and Contemporary Transnational Repression

Francesca Lessa— Transnational repression constitutes a “global threat to national sovereignty, security, and human rights,” according to a 2025 report from Freedom House. The term transnational repression describes the tactics that governments employ to persecute political opponents who are living in exile. States have adopted various strategies in this regard; they range from propaganda campaigns, surveillance, the infiltration of agents…Read More