so letelier died almost immediately. and then came the tragic story of ronni moffitt. she was not targeted but she happened to be in the car with him. she stumbled out of the car and her husband was in the backseat. he suffered just minor cuts. he looked at her and she was stumbling away so he figured she must be okay. i'm going to go help orlando who's in the driver's seat and clearly is dying. and so he went around the front, tried to get orlando out and couldn't do it. there was, you know, jagged metal pieces everywhere, broken glass. and he simply couldn't -- the car had essentially imploded onto itself. he couldn't get the body out. eventually he went to see his wife and he realized at that point that a piece of shrapnel had exploded from the driver's seat and had cut her carotid artery and she was essentially drowning in her own blood even though that was her only injury. and so both victims were immediately brought -- within a few minutes there were police vehicles and ambulances all over this circle. we're just a few blocks away from dupont circle and so a lot

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

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

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

el artista chileno francisco letelier, hijo de orlando letelier que fue embajador de chile en washington durante el gobierno de salvador allende, comparÓ lo ocurrido la semana pasada en el capitolio. >> en ningÚn momento pensÉ en chile, no pensÉ que era como un golpe de estado como el que ocurriÓ en chile. letelier dijo haber visto similitudes. los golpes de estado son diferentes. unos pueden ser blandos, otros pueden ser legislativos. tiene que ver con las maneras de como ocurren las cosas. lo que me resuena y que tiene mucho que ver es la manera en que estÁ dividida la sociedad civil en estados unidos, es muy similar y me hace pensar en los aÑos en chile antes del golpe y despuÉs. la manera en que la sociedad civil fue dividida con pensamientos muy extremistas de personasue procesos. marÍa: el artista visual chileno, cuyo padre fue asesinado por un auto bomba, ve el futuro cambio de gobierno con joe biden como una seÑal de optimismo. >> creo que estamos ante un logro enormeporque vamos a poder dar un paso y dejar atrÁs un momento muy crÍtico en la historia de estados unidos

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

memorial that was put here by the institute for policy studies to memorialize the assassination of orlando letelier. at the same time, ronni moffitt,

memorial that was put here by the institute for policy studies to memorialize the assassination of orlando letelier

letelier fled to the u.s. after being tortured and incarcerated under pinochet's dictatorship. he was killed in a car bomb in washington, d.c., only a mile from the white house. the declassified documents also show pinochet was so concerned about covering up his role in ordering letelier's assassination that he also planned to assassinate his head of intelligence. the guardian has obtained data showing diesel cars from four major car manufacturers are emitting significantly more pollution on the road than in their regulatory tests. tests conducted by the company emissions analytics shows that models of mercedes-benz, honda, mazda and mitsubishi all emit far more toxic pollution than previously thought. this comes as volkswagen ceo michael horn apologized for the emissions cheating scandal in his testimony to congress thursday. >> on behalf of our company and my colleagues in germany and me personally, i would like to offer the sincere apology, sincere apology for volkswagen plus use of programs that suffered -- amy: the guardian reported similar revelations about higher polluti

proyectando en las embajadas de argentina, venezuela, chile, tambien en el teatro gala y en el teatro letelier... para mas informacion visite la pagina web www. dclatinfilmfestival.org

in westminster did the formal circuitries letelier on the irish border shows he can get to grips with one of the most fundamental issues of great since the foreign secretary compared crossing the irish border to doing between camden and westminster like when you could not meet the stuff thought this is a u.k. government that is prepared to put at jeopardy the good friday agreement does the prime minister's likely work that probably for you thank you for any reason he can't think it like you can't go on now thanks not to raise i'm a only prime minister because of our alliance to a previously paramilitary link protestant political party appeared to say she didn't want bombs in british cities that commitment to the belfast agreement stands and we are committed to belfast agreement and the institutions under the belfast agreement those institutions are not working incidentally but the belfast agreement to end u.k. army slaughter of catholics and ira bombs in london are arguably not in the spirit of u.k. foreign policy today britain defacto supports what damascus calls terrorism it support

extranjero, una bomba colocada por agentes chilenos de la dictadura augusto pinochet, terminÓ con la vida de letelier. 4 dÉcadas despues, las familias, junto a la presidenta de chile, michelle michelle bachelet conmemoran el atentado.bachelet atentado. el departamento de estado desinvolucrÓ documentos del involucramiento de chile con los otros estados. >> han pasado 40 aÑos, se conoce mucho, pero no se conoce todo, me parece que esto contribuye a eliminar esas situaciÓn. >> tenemos memoria, historia, y la evidencia, y es lo mÁs importante de intercambiar los documentos aquÍ. fernando: documentos muestran que el primer acto terrorista en washington de un gobierno extranjero, era solo parte de lo que planeaban las dictaduras. reportero: este gesto de desclasificar es el comienzo de saber ¿quÉ es lo que sabÍa estados unidos de las dictaduras latinoamÉricas? es toda la informaciÓn, regresamos a los estudios. ilia: gracias fernando, vamos a una pausa, y al regresar: >> hemos continuado todavÍa con calor, y las temperaturas van a refrescar en los prÓximos dÍas ¿exactamente cuando? la informa

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

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

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 including its right to enrichment under the condition that this program is placed under strict control by the i.a.e.a. 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 use fewer 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 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 be

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

memorial that was put here by the institute for policy studies to memorialize the assassination of orlando letelier.

it's not just pedestrians take a look at this apartment building this roof will be just blown gosh letelier off the building is just unbelievable such strong winds this isn't rotterdam no the biggest port in europe watched those container ships come tumbling down these are not light containers these are solid metal shipping containers take a look from another angle here all people can do is just sit there and watch and of course film as this goes down. this isn't a mirror now we can move to an electronics store more and more damage just really across. the country in the netherlands here it is this is the electronic store the sign just just toppling over you can see almost anything that's tall or vulnerable to wins is blink being just blown over including trucks that are on the road here you see this semi truck being knocked over there's a code red in the fact in the country that means that drivers are being told to stay away from how doors this is the exact reason why course the dutch they're pros they know about bad weather and even some funny moments here able to soak it in a dixie toilet

children going to be reunited with their parents and the present the box of this are not necessary letelier legal these children when they come in are supposed to be given a number let.

por puÑos >> lo Único que me dijo fue que una niÑa le habÍa pegado en la cabeza, no querÍa hablar, letelier la cabeza, empezÓ a vomitar. lo Único que le quisiera preguntar a ella que tanto coraje le tuvo a mi hija que le pegÓ tan fuerte. >> la muerte de johana a estremecido a la ciudad y la policÍa no ha hecho todavía ningÚn arresto. la lucha republicana sigue todavÍa, santoro estÁ dispuesto a dar un golpe a rodney en michigan. el ex gobernador de massachusetts tiene las intenciones de ganar. mientras rodney y santoro avanzan, obama lo hace a ritmo lento pero seguro. segÚn estadÍsticas obama aumentÓ su apoyo por parte de las mujeres, entre diciembre y febrero el apoyo femenino sobre su manejo de la economÍa el desempleo aumentÓ 10 puntos, hasta 53 unidades. una agencia de naciones unidas alertÓ que farmacias en venden drogas ilÍcitas y medicamentos a los menores de edad, la junta de narcÓticos insta a los gobiernos a clausurar estas boticas virtuales y a confiscar las sustancias requeridas ilÍcitamente por internet e introducidos de contrabando. fuertes vientos derribaron c

mean it's like anybody who says let's go off to war who has never been to war really needs and i think letelier miss and in fact and in fact to that point you know the guy in the bush administration who was most worried about iraq was colin powell i think that completely misunderstands the whole idea of civilian control of our military the military gives us insight they give us counsel but ultimately the policy must rest with civilians and it doesn't bother me in a voluntary military but the lion's share of the people who oppose the lakers will be people who are not in the military that just means they have every fundamental right to be able to participate and i intend to say call them this is temp to call them chicken. just the way in ninety six and then we're going to get half of congress they have served now it's like what five twelve twelve guys twelve twelve percent ok so about forty five guys and you have taken some of these guys are on again reservists and they demand but pretty soon that we should have the right of individuals to use their minds to assess policy and decide what they wan