1980: US-Trained Costa Rican Death Squad Raids Radio Station for Comments on Argentina
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Costa Rican death squad raids a radio station which had broadcast "unpleasant news" about the Argentine military dictatorship: "One of the places they visited was Argentina. At that time, Argentina’s military dictatorship was one of the most brutal in the world, and its generals were regarded as pariahs even by other military regimes in Latin America. The generals there had a deal for them. A radio station in Costa Rica was broadcasting unpleasant news about the Argentinian military government, accusing it—correctly; as it turned out—of murdering political opponents and nonpolitical citizens alike by the thousands, sometimes by dropping them out of helicopters or burying them alive. The radio station was getting on the generals’ nerves. If the Nicaraguans were serious about fighting their way back into power, the Argentines said, a little demonstration of their sincerity might not hurt. Why didn’t they try to put Radio Noticias del Continente out of the broadcasting business? The legion agreed to take care of the radio station and infiltrated a sapper team into Costa Rica, hitting the station about two in the morning on December 13, 1980."

Source: Gary Webb, Dark Alliance
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