State surveillance and extraterritorial repression of the Chilean dictatorship in democratic Argentina (1983-1988)

This article examines the intelligence service and repression actions against Chilean exiles in Argentina that were carried out between 1983 and 1988 by Chilean agents and security forces. Along with this, it seeks to characterize the repressive experiences lived by the exiled community in Argentina understanding how the representation of a "transandine threat" involve the multiplication of different faces of control and surveillance since 1986. this article relies on different sources, diplomatic and intelligence documents, as well as in press notes corresponding to that period of time. The hypothesis of this work indicates that the existence of infiltrators and agents of extraterritorial repression in Argentina strained the process of pacification that both countries had been carrying out since 1984 as a result of the war conflict over the Beagle Channel, and hinted the need to implement a coordination plan repressive on both sides of the mountain range.