Author: Fernando Lopez

Fernando López received a PhD in History from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History from the same institution. Together with Dr Pablo Leighton, he co-directs Latitudes: Latin American Research Group Australia, and his areas of research focus on contemporary Latin American history, the Cold War in Latin America and, especially, on how the military regimes of Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia agreed to formally launch Operation Condor in November 1975. His publications include 40 Years Are Nothing: History and Memory of the 1973 Coup D”etats in Uruguay and Chile (2015).