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On 21 September 1976, Orlando Letelier, a leading opponent of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, was assassinated by car bombing, in Washington, D.C. Letelier, who was living in exile in the United States, was killed along with his work colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt, who was in the car with her husband Michael. The assassination was carried out by agents of the Chilean secret police (), and ...
Orlando Letelier was a former Chilean Ambassador to the United States under President Salvador Allende. Under the Pinochet regime, Letelier was imprisoned alongside thousands of other Chileans. After being released from prison, he was expelled from Chile and moved to Washington D.C. in 1975.
21 de sept. de 2016 · Isabel Letelier, Orlando’s wife, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after the bombing. To make things worse, much of her family, terrified of being killed by Pinochet, turned away from her. Her friends, also scared of being murdered, did not visit her or ride in her car, ...
22 de sept. de 2023 · Car-bombed in Washington: How Orlando Letelier's death woke up the US to dictator's evil As the 47th anniversary of the bombing approaches, Chilean President Gabriel Boric will be at the attack ...
16 de oct. de 2018 · General Pinochet’s agents killed Chile’s former Ambassador, Orlando Letelier, in the first state-sponsored international terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
7 de may. de 2024 · Orlando Letelier (born April 13, 1932, Temuco, Chile—died September 21, 1976, Washington, D.C., U.S.) was a Chilean lawyer, economist, and diplomat who was closely identified with Chilean president Salvador Allende, whose democratically elected Marxist government was overthrown in a military coup in 1973. Letelier is best known in the United States for the manner of his death: three years ...
In an interview done with one of his sons in 2016 for the Washington Post, Francisco Letelier describes the danger his father knew he was in and his family's reaction to his father's murder. He was in 11th grade when his father was assassinated. Quote “We immediately knew that he had been killed by the junta, Pinochet or agents of Pinochet.
