36th Anniversary
LETELIER-MOFFITT MEMORIAL PROGRAM
Sunday, September 23, 10–11 am
Sheridan Circle, 23rd and Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC
Speakers:
- José Miguel Insulza, Secretary General, Organization of American States
- Jimena Ryan, cousin of Orlando Letelier
- Alexander Wilde, Senior Scholar, Latin American Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
- Julia Sweig, Senior Fellow and Director for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
- His Excellency Felipe Bulnes, Ambassador of Chile to the United States
Music: Son Cosita Seria
Invocation: Reverend Whit Hutchinson, former pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church
Background
On September 21, 1976, agents of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile detonated a car bomb on Washington, D.C.’s Embassy Row, taking the lives but not the memory of Institute for Policy Studies colleagues Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt.
Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador to the United States, had become one of the most outspoken critics of the Pinochet regime. Moffitt was a 25-year-old IPS development associate. For more than three decades, the pursuit of justice for their murders has been a symbol of hope for victims of tyranny everywhere.
On the Sunday closest to the date of this tragic event, human rights activists, friends, family, and colleagues gather in remembrance of Letelier and Moffitt and to reflect on the ongoing struggle for human rights around the world.
This program will take place outdoors at the site of the assassination and end with a laying of flowers on the Letelier-Moffitt memorial across the street from Sheridan Circle. Please bring flowers.
For more information:
- Call 202-234-9382
- Or visit the Institute for Policy Studies' website