On this day in ...... 1976 (35 years ago today), at Sheridan Circle (on which the American Society of International Law, as well as many embassies, are heaquartered), in Washington, a car bomb detonated, killing 2 of the occupants: Chilean exile Orlando Letelier, who'd served as foreign minister in a socialist government in his country until Gen. Augusto Pinochet staged a coup on September 11, 1973, and American Ronni Moffitt (right), a fundraiser for the D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies. Over the years Chile and the United States would secure convictions in the case against several men -- albeit not Pinochet himself. (prior IntLawGrrls post)
(Prior September 21 posts are here, here, here, and here.)
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