The assassination at all, even though it was his government that did it, but later on, he trumpeted the version of events from the pinochet regime, which is that theres no way his government could have done this. It must have been some leftist guerrillas trying to pin it on pinochet. It is important the residence is there because the residence it self now has a bust of Orlando Letelier to try to remember him also. Around the circle, we have these two memorials to this one man and of course, to Ronni Moffitt. Sheridan circle will be marked forever by this one event. Hello, everyone. We can hear everyone. Welcome to busboys and poets. My name is olivia. I am the book Events Coordinator and im very excited to welcome Alan Mcpherson for his book ghosts of Sheridan Circle. It was an event that i was not aware of, honestly, and im very excited to read about it in this book, and im excited for alan to speak about it and have conversations to speak about it. Here at busboys, we like to have co
This is a memorial that was put here by the institute for policy studies to memorialize the assassination of Orlando Letelier. At the same time, Ronni Moffitt, a u. S. Citizen, was killed. All of this happened on embassy road and washington, d. C. On that morning, september 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier was an employee of a think tank in washington called the institute of policy studies. He was driving his car to work. He lived in that direction. He came down embassy row, massachusetts avenue, lined with several embassies. In the car with him were runnin Ronni Moffitt and her husband michael. They turned the corner here and unbeknownst to them, following them was a great sit in. In that great sedan were two cubanamericans who had helped put a bomb underneath the driver seat the drivers seat in the chevelle Orlando Letelier was driving. The order was given by the secret police of chile, ruled at the time by pinochet, a dictator who did not like the political activity that Orlando Letelier,
Who have been hired to create a temporary exhibition about the latino civil rights of the 1960s, but the museum shelved the exhibit after coming under criticism by conservative latinos. Instead the museum is now working on an exhibit about salsa music. But first, chilean president gabriel boric made a historic trip to washington, d. C. , over the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Backed coup in chile. Boric visited the site in washington, d. C. , where in 1976 agents of the pinochet dictatorship assassinated former chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt of the institute for policy studies. When some people dare to ask the victims to silence their grief, to turn the page, i would humbly like to tell them, having spoken to many of those victims, this reconciliation is only possible with truth and justice, not with forgetting. Amy we will speak with Orlando Leteliers son Juan Pablo Letelier, a former senator in chile. He has just returned to santiago santiago
Who have been hired to create a temporary exhibition about the latino civil rights of the 1960s, but the museum shelved the exhibit after coming under criticism by conservative latinos. Instead the museum is now working on an exhibit about salsa music. But first, chilean president gabriel boric made a historic trip to washington, d. C. , over the weekend to mark the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Backed coup in chile. Boric visited the site in washington, d. C. , where in 1976 agents of the pinochet dictatorship assassinated former chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt of the institute for policy studies. When some people dare to ask the victims to silence their grief, to turn the page, i would humbly like to tell them, having spoken to many of those victims, this reconciliation is only possible with truth and justice, not with forgetting. Amy we will speak with Orlando Leteliers son Juan Pablo Letelier, a former senator in chile. He has just returned to santiago santiago
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