Word: chileanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuban offices in Jamaica, Barbados, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Mexico; in an abortive attempt in July to snatch a Cuban consul in Yucatán, the terrorists instead killed a visiting Cuban fisheries expert. More shockingly, CORU apparently arranged the bombing-murder in Washington last month of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier (TIME...
Driving slowly through the drizzle on Washington's Sheridan Circle one morning last week, former Chilean Ambassador to Washington Orlando Letelier, 44, passed by the stately stone mansion that had been his official residence for nearly two years. A few hundred yards farther along his route, a blast of orange flame engulfed Letelier's light blue Chevelle, blowing away the sheet-metal on the door on the driver's side, smashing the windows and floor and jamming the roof up as if a tent pole had been rammed into it. Parts of the shattered car rained down...
...economist at the Institute for Policy Studies, a self-styled radical think tank where the Moffitts also worked, Letelier had begun calling for unity among opponents of "fascism in Chile." Early in September, he had spoken out against the junta at a benefit concert in Manhattan for Chilean refugees. Just before that concert, the junta revoked his citizenship, accusing him of "grave crimes against the essential interests of the state." Eleven days afterward, he was dead...
...Chilean government quickly denied any connection with Letelier's murder. "The evil attack," said Santiago's pro-junta daily El Mercuric, would be "used to revive the campaign of hate and lies against Chile" at the United Nations General Assembly, which convened last week. But opponents of the regime noted that Letelier's killing was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent Chilean exiles who posed problems for the junta. In September 1974, General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, predecessor as army chief of staff of the tough current junta boss, General Augusto Pinochet Uguarte, was assassinated...
...this end, it can be hoped that the tragic and violent deaths of Orlando Letelier and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt will mark the beginning of the end of the Chilean junta and the diminishing of the American imperialism which created it three years ago and continues to nourish it to this...