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SOUTH AMERICA: DOCUMENTING THE DISAPPEARED


(Tati Almeida, whose son Alexander Almeida was arrested and disappeared in the early 1970s)

In 1975, the right-wing dictatorships of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay embarked on a military plan called Operation Condor. The mission was to eliminate opponents to the regimes. Now, photographer Joao Pina has made it his goal to document those who "disappeared".