December 27, 2007 (LPAC)--Jorge Nestor Troccoli Fernandez, a retired officer of the Uruguayan Navy, was arrested in Salerno on Dec. 24. Troccoli was wanted in Uruguay, because of his role in Operation Condor, the plan for the extermination of political opponents of military dictatorships in South America in the 1970s. Troccoli was so fond of his role, that he wrote a book entitled The Rage of the Leviathan to justify Operation Condor.

Operation Condor was born in the office of the Chilean secret police DINA in 1975, under Augusto Pinochet, the dictator put into power by George Shultz and Felix Rohatyn. Additionally, Rome Judge Luisanna Figliola has issued arrest warrants for 146 citizens of Chile, Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia (four of whom are dead), including former Argentinian leaders Rafael Videla, Emilio Eduardo Massera, former Montevideo dictator Jorge Maria Bordaberry, and former DINA chief Manuel Contreras.

The Rome warrants are the product of a nine-year-long investigation by prosecutor Giancarlo Capaldo, upon lawsuits brought by relatives of Operation Condor victims of Italian origin.

Briefed on the actions by Capaldo, Lyndon LaRouche asked whether George Shultz and Felix Rohatyn will be arrested too? After all, it was their sponsorship of the Pinochet coup that overthrew the Allende government in Chile, that was the basis for Operation Condor.