Gerald Ford

He was born in Nebraska in 1913. He becomes president of the United States in 1974 following the Watergate scandal, which also spelled the end of Vice-President Spiro Agnew’s political career. He remains in the White House until 1977.

He followed in the political footsteps of his predecessor with respect to Latin America, advised by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In this connection, he was firmly committed to the practice of state terrorism and to dirty war tactics which resulted in the death and disappearance of tens of thousands of Latin Americans during the 1970’s, and to criminal transnational campaigns such as Operation Condor.

In 1975, he attempted to drown the echoes of sensitive information revealed by the senatorial committee headed by Frank Chruch, which implicated the CIA and the National Security Council in different plans to assassinate political leaders around the world, Cuban President Fidel Castro among these.

During his presidency, one of the most sinister acts of terrorism known by the Western Hemisphere took place: the bombing of a Cuban commercial plane departing from the coasts of Barbados on October 6, 1976. Declassified documents provide irrefutable evidence that the U.S. intelligence community had prior knowledge of the attack and had protected the brains behind this crime against humanity. Source:

Suarez, Luis, Madre América. Un siglo de violencia y dolor (1898-1998) (Mother America: A Century of Violence and Pain (1898 – 1998). Ed. Ciencias Sociales. La Habana, 2002 Dinges, John. Los anos del Condor (Years of the Condor). Ediciones B. España, 2004