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... > social science subjects > sociology > social change > activism and social justice > political and social movements (Latin America and Caribbean) > Orlando Letelier
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Orlando Letelier  

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  • Orlando Letelier was a Chilean diplomat who was closely identified with the democratically elected Marxist regime of Salvador Allende. He is best known in the United States for the manner of his death: Three years after the overthrow of the Allende regime, he was killed in Washington by Chilean intelligence officials as part of a hemisphere-wide effort to erase the remnants of the Allende regime and to silence its critics abroad. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Letelier, Orlando (1932–1976)]

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