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Chilean Judge Sentences Three Former Secret Police Agents Over 1976 DC Murder

Chilean Judge Sentences Three Former Secret Police Agents Over 1976 DC Murder

Is this long-overdue justice or a wrongful conviction built on zero evidence?
Chilean Judge Sentences Three Former Secret Police Agents Over 1976 DC Murder
Above: A memorial plaque at the site where Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt died in Washington, D.C. Image credit: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin


Chile has finally convicted these agents five decades after the murder. The real scandal is that the U.S. has trained the killers, knew the attack was coming, and is still ignoring Chile's extradition requests for a key conspirator. Washington has yet to deliver justice.

This is a travesty of justice: a captured judiciary wielding old crimes as political weapons, keeping elderly retired officers behind bars long after any honest sentence would have ended. And all that has been done without a single piece of evidence.

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