An Argentine judge has asked Uruguayan authorities to repatriate a plane used to transport victims of the region’s dictatorships from Paraguay to Argentina in 1977, as part of Operation Condor. It has been sitting abandoned at an airport near Montevideo for 16 years.

The plane, a Hawker Siddeley HS-125 model 400B jet, was abandoned at Ángel Adami (Melilla) Airport in 2008, after being sold by the Argentine Navy in 1987.

The plane was used to forcibly fly five political exiles — three Argentines and two Uruguayans — from Asunción, Paraguay, to Buenos Aires in May 1977, in a case known as the “Five in Asunción.” The activists........

© Buenos Aires Herald