Brazilian police on Tuesday took into custody Uruguayan former army officer Manuel Cordero for extradition to Argentina, where he faces trial for the 1976 disappearance of an Argentine citizen. Cordero was to be taken to Brazil's border with Argentina, where officials will 'hand him over to Argentine authorities,' a Brazilian police spokesman told selfnews. Cordero, who had been under house arrest at his home near Brazil's border with Uruguay, is a former army colonel and intelligence officer in the Uruguayan army. He is accused of being part of Operation Condor, a coordinated repression by rightwing South American dictatorships in the 1970s against leftwing activists carried out with CIA assistance. Cordero is specifically suspected of being behind the disappearance of Adalberto Soba in Argentina. Argentina's military regime at the time was allied with the one in Uruguay. He tried unsuccessfully to avoid extradition by claiming he was protected under a law in Brazil granting amnesty to Brazilian soldiers acting under that country's military government. Argentina has no such amnesty, however. Cordero was arrested in February 2007 under warrants issued by Argentina and Uruguay. The head of a Brazilian association called Justice and Human Rights, Jair Krikchke, alleged that Cordero was believed to have been the third in charge of a unit dedicated to 'disappearances, torture and murders.' 