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Former Pinochet agents convicted over 1976 Washington DC carbomb murder

theguardianTuesday, June 23, 2026
Former Pinochet agents convicted over 1976 Washington DC carbomb murder

Attack targeted former Chile ambassador Orlando Letelier and his US colleague Ronni Karpen MoffittFifty years after Gen Augusto Pinochet’s secret police detonated a car bomb in the heart of Washington DC, killing Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean minister and ambassador to the US, and his American colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a Santiago court has convicted three former agents of Moffitt’s murder.Judge Paola Plaza, a special minister for human rights in Chile, sentenced Pedro Espinoza, José Z

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