Chilean court convicts three former Pinochet agents in 1976 car bomb attack
Overview
The three who were convicted in the Washington DC killing were agents of Augusto Pinochet’s feared secret police
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.
Details
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.
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Originally published at www.theguardian.com.