Orlando Letelier
Orlando Letelier | |
|---|---|
Letelier in 1976 | |
| Minister of National Defense of Chile | |
| In office 23 August 1973 – 11 September 1973 | |
| President | Salvador Allende |
| Preceded by | Carlos Prats |
| Succeeded by | Patricio Carvajal |
| Foreign Affairs Minister | |
| In office 22 May 1973 – 9 August 1973 | |
| President | Salvador Allende |
| Preceded by | Clodomiro Almeyda |
| Succeeded by | Clodomiro Almeyda |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Sergio Orlando Letelier del Solar 13 April 1932 Temuco, Chile |
| Died | 21 September 1976 (aged 44) Washington, D.C., US |
| Manner of death | Assassination by car bomb |
| Party | Socialist Party of Chile |
| Spouse |
Isabel Margarita Morel Gumucio
(m. 1955) |
| Children | 4 |
| Signature | |
Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar (13 April 1932 – 21 September 1976) was a Chilean Marxist and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A member of the Socialist Party of Chile, he fled from the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier accepted several academic positions in Washington D.C. after his exile from Chile. In 1976, agents of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Pinochet regime's secret police, killed him in Washington by a car bomb. The agents had been working in collaboration with members of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, an anti-Castro militant group.