Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar 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, and 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.
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet.
On September 21, in the year 1976, Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet. This event is recorded as a Historical Events event in the history of September 21, one of 479 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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- This event took place on September 21, 1976 (AD era).
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- Wikipedia source last updated on 9 August 2026.
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