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Three DINA Agents Sentenced 15 Years for 1976 Murder

6/24/2026

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Paola Plaza González sentenced DINA agents Pedro Espinoza, José Zara and Raúl Iturriaga to fifteen years for Ronni Moffitt’s 1976 murder in Washington, D.C.
The verdict, fifty years after the Chilean car bomb, was hailed by Juan Pablo Letelier as justice and urged U.S. authorities to pursue perpetrators.
The three men trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas, a facility linked to Latin-American human-rights abuses, underscoring U.S. responsibility.

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Paola Plaza González sentenced DINA agents Pedro Espinoza, José Zara and Raúl Iturriaga to fifteen years for Ronni Moffitt’s 1976 murder in Washington, D.C.
The verdict, fifty years after the Chilean car bomb, was hailed by Juan Pablo Letelier as justice and urged U.S. authorities to pursue perpetrators.
The three men trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas, a facility linked to Latin-American human-rights abuses, underscoring U.S. responsibility.