Pinochet Watch archives

Welcome to Pinochet Watch, an electronic news service of the Institute for Policy Studies.

IPS will be issuing Pinochet Watch news and action alerts on an as-needed basis as we continue to mobilize support for strong US action in support of the campaign against impunity and the re-opening in the US of the Letelier-Moffitt murder case, focusing on Pinochet.

PINOCHET WATCH editor Stacie Jonas is leaving IPS. For future inquiries about the Pinochet case, please contact IPS Fellow Sarah Anderson at saraha@igc.org or by phone at 202-234-9382, ext. 227.

Pinochet Watch

• WAtch 62 - December 2006
• Watch 61 - 14 June 2006
• Special Update - 30 September 2005
• Watch 60 - 7 June 2005
• Watch 59 - 24 March 2005
• Special Update - 26 February 2005
• Watch 58 - 4 January 2005
• Watch 57 - 26 August 2004
• Watch 56 - 27 July 2004
• Watch 55 - 28 May 2004
• Watch 54 - 12 April 2004
• Watch 53 - 16 October 2003
• Update - 3 September 2003
• Watch 52 - 13 August 2003
• Watch 51 - 18 July 2003
• Watch 50 - 25 June 2003
• Watch 49 - 20 May 2003
• Watch 48 - 17 April 2003
• Watch 47 - 14 March 2003
• Watch 46 - 2 July 2002
• Watch 45 - 7 June 2002
• Watch 44 - 22 May 2002
• Watch 43 - 24 April 2002
• Watch 42 - 12 March 2002
• Watch 41 - 21 February 2002
• Watch 40 - 14 January 2002
• Watch 39 - 7 December 2001
• Watch 38 - 29 October 2001
• Watch 37 - 9 October 2001
• Update - 10 July 2001
• Watch 36 - 20 June 2001
• Update - 7 May 2001
• Watch 35 - 11 April 2001
• Watch 34 - 27 February 2001
• Watch 33 - 30 January 2001
• Watch 32 - 10 January 2001
• Watch 31 - 20 December 2000
• Watch 30 - 1 December 2000
• Watch 29 - 10 November 2000
• Watch 28 - 24 October 2000

• Watch 27 - 4 October 2000
• Watch 26 - 19 September 2000
• Watch 25 - 4 September 2000
• Watch 24 - 15 August 2000
• Watch 23 - 3 August 2000
• Watch 22 - 14 July 2000
• Update - 21 June 2000
• Watch 21 - 19 June 2000
• Watch 20 - 24 May 2000
• Update - 19 May 2000
• Update - 26 April 2000
• Watch 19 - 21 April 2000
• Watch 18 - 31 March 2000
• Update - 20 March 2000
• Update - 2 March 2000
• Watch 17 - 24 February 2000
• Watch 16 - 15 February 2000
• Update - 14 February 2000
• Watch 15 - 7 February 2000
• Watch 14 - 27 January 2000
• Watch 13 - 18 January 2000
• Update - 14 January 2000
• Update - 11 January 2000
• Watch 12 - 7 January 2000
• Update - 21 December 1999
• Watch 11 - 13 December 1999
• Watch 10 - 19 November 1999
• Watch 9 - 5 November 1999
• Update - 13 October 1999
• Update - 8 October 1999
• Watch 8 - 3 October 1999
• Watch 7 - 28 September 1999
• Update - 22 September 1999
• Watch 6 - 10 September 1999
• Watch 5 - 27 August 1999
• Watch 4 - 5 August 1999
• Watch 3 - 22 July 1999
• Watch 2 - 16 July 1999
• Watch 1

The Institute for Policy Studies has been a leading voice in the struggle to bring former Chilean General Augusto Pinochet to justice since it lost two of its colleagues at the hands of agents of the Pinochet regime. Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt were killed in a car bombing at Sheridan Circle in Washington, DC on September 21, 1976. Letelier had been the ambassador to the United States and the Defense Minister under Salvador Allende, the democratically elected socialist president of Chile who died during Pinochet’s bloody coup. He and Moffitt, a 25-year-old development assistant, both worked at IPS at the time of their death.

Since that horrible event, IPS has been involved in ensuring that the memory of Letelier and Moffitt and other victims of Pinochet would not be forgotten. Every year IPS holds a memorial service at Sheridan Circle and a human rights awards program in the name of Letelier and Moffitt; IPS has also cooperated closely with the US and Chilean investigations into their death.