Many suspect the meeting had another purpose: the exchange of left-wing political prisoners under a secret arrangement code-named Condor.

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This is why nations such as France have been pushing this scheme, of course, and why left-wing academics have long dreamed of this type of arrangement.

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The inadequacy of this arrangement is increasingly felt, and not just among the old nationalist right wing.

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