The difference between direct involvement and enabling a system matters. So does the evidence.
For years, much of this history was difficult to piece together.
Operation Condor: The story they couldn't keep buried.
Imagine fleeing your country because the government wants you gone, only to discover that the people you escaped from can still reach you in another country.
That was the reality for many political exiles....
His view is that the US helped enable the military regimes and ignored abuses, even while objecting to cross-border assassinations.
Others argue that helping such regimes and tolerating their abuses can itself amount to complicity.