Latin American dictatorships: The day that Chile’s Augusto Pinochet turned his sights on Washington DC

The first evidence that Pinochet ordered the attack, and that the US knew it, did not see the public light until a year ago.
A car bomb went off in the heart of the US capital’s diplomatic neighborhood, taking the lives of the former minister and of his young American aide, Ronni Moffit.
Tireless in his efforts to restore democracy in his country, he needed to get to the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) quickly.
Letelier, an exile in the US ever since Pinochet stripped him of Chilean nationality, was in a hurry that morning.
Britta Pedersen Dpa Picture-Alliance/AfpIn time, the US government began considering the assassination of Letelier and Moffit “evidence of the criminal nature of the Chilean regime and of similar regimes in the region,” notes Juan Gabriel Valdés, who went on to become the Chilean ambassador in Washington.

Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/21/inenglish/1474451129_339276.html