Chilean court convicts three men in 1976 Washington DC car bomb attack
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A Chilean court convicted three former agents of Augusto Pinochet's secret police for their involvement in a 1976 car bomb attack in Washington DC that killed Ronni Karpen Moffitt, an American colleague of murdered Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier. The agents were sentenced to 15 years in prison for their roles in the killing.
The three who were convicted were agents of Augusto Pinochet’s feared secret police which hunted down opponents at home and abroad Fifty 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 Zara, and Raúl Iturriaga to 15 years in prison for their roles in the killing of Moffitt, 25. Continue reading...