Address by Chilean President Gabriel Boric at the 47th Sheridan Circle Memorial
Channel: Institute for Policy Studies
Date: 25/09/2023

Chilean President Gabriel Boric made these remarks at the 47th Sheridan Circle Memorial of the assassination of Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his Institute for Policy Studies colleague Ronni Karpen Moffitt. This occasion also marked the 50th anniversary of the military coup that toppled democratically elected President Salvador Allende in 1973.

Click here https://youtu.be/rxpoe1WlqBI to view President Boric's full address and additional program speakers: Rep. Jamie Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies Global Economy Director Sarah Anderson, and Francisco and Juan Pablo Letelier. 

Sheridan Circle is the site of the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship. Letelier, an Allende cabinet member and 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. The pursuit of justice for their murders has been a symbol of hope for victims of tyranny everywhere. Cong. Jamie Raskin and others also addressed the gathering.