Orlando Letelier

Edited and translated by Maxine Lowy, with a contextual introduction. Originally published by Memoria y Justicia.cl in September 2007. It was September 1975. It had been a year since the Military Junta, headed by Augusto Pinochet, under international pressure—and particularly pressure from…

Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt became ‘symbols of the broader human rights catastrophe of the Pinochet dictatorship’ by Sarah Lazare, staff writer for Common Dreams Loved ones have long charged that U.S.-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet had a direct hand…