The Ghost Who Haunts Our Chile Policy

Abstract

This chapter returns to how the diplomacy of US-Chilean relations is hostage to the Letelier case throughout the 1980s. The Ronald Reagan government is far less interested in pushing for justice, but the Democratic-controlled Congress forces the executive to “certify” that Chile is making progress on the Letelier-Moffitt murders before the United States can normalize relations. US diplomats therefore turn against the Pinochet regime. Isabel Letelier and her four sons continue dealing with the fallout of the assassination.