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Chilean court convicts three former Pinochet agents in 1976 car bomb attack
<p>The three who were convicted in the Washington DC killing were agents of Augusto Pinochet’s feared secret police</p><p>Fifty years after Gen <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/pinochet">Augusto Pinochet</a>’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.</p><p>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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/conviction-chile-washington-dc-car-bomb-attack-1976">Continue reading...</a>