Ian Chinich is a Rhode Island health care customer service agent who has been involved in ensuring the seamless rollout of the Affordable Care Act. Passionate about politics and history, Ian Chinich is presently at work on a documentary that examines social movements that resisted Operation Condor and associated dictatorships.
A September 2020 article in the Guardian on the 45th anniversary of its inception looked back at Operation Condor, described as one of the most “sinister international state terror networks” of the 20th century. Encouraged and in many cases coordinated by the United States, the network was unprecedented in the way it brought together eight military dictatorships across South America, including those of Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, and Bolivia.