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The Chilean 'model'

September 2013
Michael Moffit

'The coup in Chile would somehow be extraordinarily important in my life' wrote Michael Moffit days after the assassination of his wife Ronni and his friend Orlando.

TNI mourns loss of filmmaker activist Saul Landau

September 2013

TNI and Institute for Policy Studies staff and friends are mourning the loss of Saul Landau, an award-winning filmmaker, author, poet, and fearless human rights activist. Saul was an IPS Fellow and TNI Senior Fellow for many years.

Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum

September 2012
Orlando Letelier

Transcript of Orlando Letelier's Speech at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden on September 10, 1976. The same day that he was deprived of his Chilean nationality by decree. 

TNI remembers Orlando Letelier 36 years on

September 2012

In 2012, as the global economic crisis deepens and Occupy Wall Street marks one year,  we remember the visionary work of Orlando Letelier in setting up a programme at TNI for a New International Economic Order.

TNI marks 35th anniversary of assassination of Orlando Letelier

September 2011

TNI

35 years ago, on 21 September 1976 Orlando Letelier, former TNI Director, was killed by a car bomb in Washington DC. TNI remembers his life.

Assassination on Embassy Row: 34 years later

October 2010

Saul Landau

Remembering Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt 34 years after their assassination by Chile's secret police.

A Tale Of Two Extraditions

July 2010

Saul Landau

The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the...

Letelier Case Timeline

April 2010

Letelier Case Timeline: from September 1970 until March 2001.

Dossier Orlando Letelier

December 2009

TNI dossier on Orlando Letelier, first director of TNI.

Tribute to Families of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt

October 2008

This year's program will mark the 32nd anniversary of the September 21, 1976 car bombing that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and American Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Until 9/11, it was the most infamous act of international terrorism ever to...

31st Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards

October 2007

31st Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards.

Letelier Dossier - Photos

September 2007
 

Pinochet’s legacy: no dictator should have legal impunity

December 2006

TNI

The legacy of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet should be a renewed fight against impunity for human rights violations.

Ideology as façade for criminality

October 2006

Saul Landau

Pinochet, under house arrest, faces charges of murder, torture, drug dealing, tax evasion and money laundering.

Terrorism at Sheridan Circle: 30 years ago

September 2006

Saul Landau

When FBI agents interviewed me hours later and asked me who might have done the dirty deed, I replied “DINA.” The agent asked: “Do you know her last name?”

A Christmas miracle in Chile

January 2006

Saul Landau

On December 2005, a miracle occurred in Chile: the judges at Santiago Court of Appeals stripped former dictator General Augusto Pinochet of immunity.