세미나는 1970∼1980년대 남미 군사정권들이 좌파 인사들을 탄압하기 위해 벌인 '콘도르 작전' 40주년을 맞아 열렸다.
The seminar was held to commemorate the 40th anniversary of 'Operation Condor', which was carried out by the South American military regimes in the 1970s and 1980s to suppress leftists.