Five weeks before I was born, a handful of blocks away from my parents’ apartment on Conneticut Avenue in Northwest Washington D.C., terrorists detonated a car bomb. The bomb killed Chilean national Orlando Letelier and his assistant, American Ronni Moffitt. This act of terrorism was a part of Operation Condor, a campaign of political repression carried out jointly by the military and intelligence services of eight South American nations, which took place with support by the United States. No one is certain of the total number of victims of the campaign, but all estimates confirm that thousands were killed.
