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ROME, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- An Italian prosecutor has issued warrants for the arrest of 140 former military and intelligence chiefs in seven South American countries.
Giancarlo Capaldo, a prosecutor in Rome, has asked the Ministry of Justice to request extradition from Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru, the Italian news agency Ansa reports. Brazil has said it does not expect to grant those requests, while the other countries have not responded.
Capaldo began an investigation into Operation Condor, a South American campaign against leftists, in 1998. Those he is seeking include a former Argentine military leader, Jorge Rafael Videla; two former heads of a junta in Uruguay, Jorge Maria Bordaberry and Gregorio Alvarez; former Peruvian president Francisco Morales; and former Peruvian premier Pedro Richter Prada.
The prosecutor said the United States was aware of Operation Condor but did not participate in it.
One person has been arrested. Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli, a former intelligence officer in the Uruguayan navy, was arrested this week in Salerno, which has been his home for several years.
Troccoli is now an Italian citizen.
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