129. Along these same lines, the need for a comprehensive treatment of forced disappearance has also led this Court to analyze it as a complex, joint violation of several rights recognized in the American Convention through a compound set of behaviors that, exercised toward a single purpose, violate continuously, for as long as they persist, the legal rights protected by the Convention—in particular, the rights to recognition of juridical personality, life, personal integrity, and personal liberty, enshrined in Articles 3, 4, 5, and , respectively. 158 B.1. Forced disappearances of Victoria Lucía Grisonas Andrijauskaite and Mario Roger Julien Cáceres 130. In accordance with the determination of facts made in this Judgment, the Court recalls that the operation carried out on September 26, 1976, at the home of the Julien Grisonas family, in which members of the Argentine police and military forces participated, 159 took place during a period in which the forced disappearance of persons was a systematic practice undertaken in the context of "State terrorism" 160 (supra paras. 59 to 68 and 88 to 91). As Argentina explicitly indicated, these facts are not in dispute. 131. Thus, toward preservation of historical memory and the pressing need to prevent recurrence of such facts, 161 the Court highlights the context of systematic human rights violation that characterized the 1976-1983 period in Argentina, during which the "fight against subversion" took the form of both an internal policy of repression of the civilian population, and coordination with the dictatorial governments of other states, exercised within the framework of "Operation Condor," whose objective was the persecution and elimination of political opponents to the dictatorial regimes that ruled the Southern Cone at the time. 162 To this end, the coordination efforts opened effective channels of communication and joint work among the different investigative agencies and the State security forces, to the point of allowing foreign agents to operate in the territory of another State in order to carry out counterinsurgency actions. 163 132. The Argentine-Uruguayan coordination, deployed in the framework of Operation Condor, ended up—due to the number of victims and the effectiveness of the applied case no. 1574/2014/RH1, “Bignone, Reynaldo Benito Antonio et al. on extraordinary appeal”; Plurinational Constitutional Court of Bolivia, Constitutional Judgment No. 1190/01-R of November 12, 2001; Constitutional Court of the Republic of Colombia, Judgment C-580/02 of July 31, 2002; Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of Mexico, Thesis: P./J. 87/2004, Forced disappearance of persons. The term for prescription begins from the moment the victim is located or their fate has been established; Constitutional Court of the Republic of Peru, Judgment of March 18, 2004, Exp. No. 2488-2002-HC/TC, and Constitutional Court of the Republic of Guatemala, Judgment of July 7, 2009, case file 929-2008. 158 Cf. Inter alia, Case of Velásquez Rodríguez v. Honduras. Merits, supra, pars. 150, 155 a 158, 186, and 187; Case of Godínez Cruz v. Honduras. Merits. Judgment of January 20, 1989. Series C No. 5, pars. 158, 163 to 167, 196, and 197; Case of Anzualdo Castro v. Peru. Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of September 22, 2009. Series C No. 202. pars. 68 to 103, and Case of Isaza Uribe et al. Colombia. Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of November 20, 2018. Series C No. 363, par. 81. 159 Specifically, agents from the State Information Secretariat, the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Security Superintendence of the Federal Police, and military personnel participated (supra par. 88). 160 The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances was created in 1980 “as an outlet to address and investigate the thousands of complaints against Argentina” filed before the then Commission on Human Rights, resulting from “[t]he massive and systematic way in which [t]he dictatorship […] carried out [this] practice.” Cf. Human Rights Council, Report of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Mission to Argentina, January 5, 2009, UN Doc. A/HRC/10/9/Add.1, para. 9. 161 Cf. Case of Goiburú et al. v. Paraguay, supra, par. 93. 162 Expert witness Francesca Lessa stated that the coordination making "Operation Condor" possible was used specifically "to silence the voice of opposition political parties and groups operating from exile." Cf. Expert report signed by Francesca Lessa (evidence file, volume XII, affidavits, folio 16998). 163 Cf. Nunca Más. Informe de la Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 1984, chapter I.A, “La coordinación represiva en Latinoamérica,” and expert opinion signed by Francesca Lessa (evidence file, volume XII, affidavits, folios 16993 and 16994). 37

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