but you will love the surprise, orlando letelier insisted. isabel letelier acceded. after all, her husband was a charmer. it was time for orlando letelier to go to work. he had been at a leftist think tank for years, using a platform that undermined the ironfisted dictator who had overthrown the government of president salvador in day -- salvador in day -- president salvador allende. as a private citizen now, he exposed pinochet's human rights atrocities, incited boycotts, and discouraged investment. two of his colleagues happen to ride with him that day. michael and ronni moffitt, both 25, recently married. they waited while he showered and dressed and rushed out the door. isabel barely had time to kiss him goodbye. orlando took the wheel of his 1975 chevelle malibu classic. he opened -- michael opened the front passenger door for ronni and plopped himself in the backseat. in less than an hour, orlando and ronni would be dead. michael would be traumatized for life. this is the actual car after the bombing. i never learned what the surprise was, isabel recalled when

on october 4, an unknown male called letelier's aunt. maria, maria, maria, maria he said, talking to the fbimaria, condescendingly, talking to the fbi won't help you. your legs have been spread lewis like orlandos. then he hung up. in late november, a fight answer the ant was standing at kennedy airport rifling through her purse for a key to an airlines office. suddenly a man grab her arm and yanked her around. you tell your friend larry to keep his nose out of chile's business or you won't be so pretty anymore. boom boom, do you know what i mean? this happened over and over again in the investigation. two of the fbi, the lawyers, to the uj js and everybody who would talk to the fbi. if they could do this and gotaway with it under the easy no of the cia and the fbi said president-elect jimmy carter, then no president can govern. he was talking about the assassination. on the one hand -- it made the united states make unable to police its own borders. it made the cold war seem out of control. on the other hand foreign policy makers were c

to put the hit on letelier. he never says the words "pinochet did it," but he says things like, "everything i did, i did because el jefe told me to do it. everything i did as the head of d.i.n.a." at some point, they even have a shouting match against this. pinochet saying, "no, no, no, i just gave you general directions to deal with subversives. i did not tell you to kill anyone." so it is not absolutely clear from those conversations and those shouting matches what contreras really meant. contreras' explanation for this particular crime was always the same. until he died, he said the cia did it, and michael townley was an agent of the cia, right? because that is a lie that anyone in south america would believe, either on the left or on the right. they would believe the cia is able to do these sorts of things, and of course, it is able to do it, and townley is an american, so it seems to make sense. but it does not make sense. it is not true. >> i have one last question. i just wanted to know what your personal

he was talking about the letelier assassination. on one hand, carter meant that such a brazen attack on the chilean dissident on u.s. soil was unacceptable to the u.s. policy-making apparatus, whether republican or democrat. it made the united states look unable to police its own borders. it made the cold war seem out of control. on the other hand, foreign policy makers were careful of pushing too hard. we were not against the chilean government. we were not against what the military had done, which means the overthrow. we were against the abuse of it and the terrorism that had been performed its in name. so it was often up to regular people like isabel letelier, michael moffitt and human rights organizations to pressure carter officials against the chileans. first to expel townley from chile, which proved successful, and second to extradite contreras and other chileans, which proved a failure. when pinochet once travelled to washington, carter met him in the oval office and brought up human rights, and his -- carter's determination

morales and it made my stomach turn because conservative and liberal use papers painted a composer letelier deceptive picture all events in bolivia a betrayed president morales as almost too radical as someone who falsifies election results but that is no surprise let me tell you this between 2007 i was a writer on tribune and the editorial line of the tribune about time was one of jubilation at how latin america had largely speak in a letter to its socialist governments which wanted to really gain their political economic and cultural independence from america and who also wanted to forge close relations with. russia now lost in 2007 i was the light it at the success of socialist parties across latin america i was a little bit more pessimistic or realistic because my opinion was that one day the american empire will shrug back america merican knows the u.s. knows latin america like i know my at chance the american the americans are playing the long game in latin america they have penetrated in 3 institution in free country or even decades on that concert and they know this peter that yes t

and as the crucial make or break iran letelier talks continued into the night details of how they were going were leading the journalists camped out in geneva so we waited and waited and waited while diplomats from six world powers and iran inched their way closer to an historic breakthrough than after sixteen hours a tweet from the e.u.'s top diplomat a deal had been done. to the six negotiating powers agreed to recognize iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy business including its right to enrichment under the conditions of this program is placed under strict control by the. issue. as we received word of the agreement we got details to iran had agreed to reduce its uranium enrichment from twenty to a maximum of five percent used for u.s. centrifuges while halting construction of a new reactor near the town of iraq this throughout this long list of concessions iran's foreign minister still had a smile on his face in return he won for his country a partial easing of sanctions allowing tarantula regain control of billions of dollars worth of much needed funds in foreign banks we belie

and as the crucial make or break iran letelier talks continued into the night details of how they were going were leading the journalists camped out in geneva so we waited and waited and waited while diplomats from six world powers and iran inched their way closer to an historic breakthrough than after sixteen hours a tweet from the e.u.'s top diplomat a deal had been done. just that the six negotiating powers agreed to recognize iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy business including its right to enrichment under the condition that this program is placed under strict control by the i.a.e.a. this year. as we received word of the agreement we got details to iran had agreed to reduce its uranium enrichment from twenty to a maximum of five percent used for u.s. centrifuges while halting construction of a new reactor near the town of iraq. throughout this long list of concessions iran's foreign minister still had a smile on his face and return he won for his country a partial easing of sanctions allowing tarantula regain control of billions of dollars worth of much needed funds in forei

miss being spread by western guard media that china is the new colonialists the power in africa scoop letelier ridiculous. next a smalling afghan president hamid karzai is in catarrh hoping to start peace talks with the taliban groups opening a political office in the capital doha but has so far refused to talk to president karzai describing him as an american puppet washington's pushing both sides though to the negotiating table with the looming handover deadline at the end of twenty four tape i spoke to security analyst impact the path he thinks wrangles that in america and the afghan government make any success of peace talks though a tall order informal contacts have been taking place in doha for the last couple of years but then those informal talks did break down for two reasons accuse the americans of being shaky and vague. they wanted an exchange of prisoners president obama didn't want to have anything to do with any exchange of prisoners because of mainly congressional pressure but also outside the congress from his opponents and secondly president karzai himself suspect that he was

law and international rights of someone over who likes to you know harsh ecuadorian officials have letelier been increasingly indicating that the wiki leaks founder has out steve has welcomed behind these walls while the sancia spent the last sixteen years here fearing that if you leave the premises he will be extradited to the us and prosecuted for his work as we cue weeks publisher that released information that washington would rather have kept under wraps reporting from london. with r.t. . meanwhile a journalist who has been a long time media partner for wiki leaks has won a freedom of information act appeal the ruling requires the london metropolitan police to turn over any correspondence they may have between u.k. and u.s. authorities regarding three wiki leaks journalists and a u.s. court ordered google to disclose the journalist's emails and i peer dresses back in two thousand and twelve as part of an investigation into wiki leaks but journalists lawyer still to hong spoke to r.t. about the. tribunal decision is a very important decision for journalists the key point that it's clari

and as the crucial make or break iran letelier talks continued into the night details of how they were going were leading the journalists camped out in geneva so we waited and waited and waited while diplomats from six world powers and iran inched their way closer to an historic breakthrough than after sixteen hours a tweet from the e.u.'s top diplomat a deal had been done the six negotiating powers agreed to recognize iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy including its right to nuclear enrichment on the condition that its program is placed under strict control by the i.a.e.a. . as we received word of the agreement we got details to iran had agreed to reduce its uranium enrichment from twenty to a maximum of five percent used for u.s. centrifuges while halting construction of a new reactor near the town of iraq. throughout this long list of concessions iran's foreign minister still had a smile on his face and its hand he won for his country a partial easing of sanctions allowing tarantulas gain control of billions of dollars worth of much needed funds in foreign banks we believe that

miss being spread by western guard media that china is the new colonialists the power in africa scoop letelier ridiculous. well news making headlines right now this hour first to the volatile northwest of pakistan where a roadside bombs hit the convoy of a secularist backed politician called add now was here the blasts killed two of his supporters and injured many others including was the year the group was heading to a regional election rally when the attack happened taliban militants who want people from attending the rallies of secular parties have admitted being behind the ambush. afghan president hamid karzai is in qatar hoping to start peace talks with the taliban ahead of america's planned troop withdrawal in twenty four teams the islamic fundamentalist movements being fighting u.s. led nato forces no since two thousand and one but is now opening an office in the gulf states to do so far refused to talk to president karzai describing him as an american puppet but washington needs both sides to start negotiating soon with about twenty months left before to hand over control to local secu