On #ThisDayInHistory in 1976, Chile's #Pinochet régime carried out a car-bomb #assassination in the heart of Washington, DC. It killed refugee #socialist economist #OrlandoLetelier and his American assistant #RonniMoffitt. The US did not object because the victims were leftists.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1976, Chilean socialist economist #OrlandoLetelier was murdered in DC by agents of the #Pinochet régime. The carbomb also killed US citizen #RonniMoffitt. An American helper was imprisoned but the US worked to discredit Letelier instead of punishing Chile.