By Louise Hidalgo, BBC World Service, 21.09.11
Exactly 35 years ago, an audacious assassination occurred just a stone’s throw from the White House. Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean government minister, was murdered when his car exploded in Washington DC’s embassy district.
Letelier was foreign minister in the cabinet of Chile’s first Socialist president, Salvador Allende. But when the government was overthrown in Augusto Pinochet’s military coup in 1973, Letelier was one of the first to be arrested.
He spent a year as a prisoner in various concentration camps, including the infamous Dawson Island, until diplomatic pressure from Venezuela prompted his release.
Grupos de derechos humanos colocaron este viernes una baldosa con una inscripción sobre la acerca de una calle de Buenos Aires para rendir homenaje a los chilenos desaparecidos en las dictaduras de Argentina y Chile al cumplirse 36 años del golpe de Estado que instauró la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet.
