Cuban Pleads Guilty to Bombing Ex-Envoy
<i> Associated Press </i>
WASHINGTON —
A Cuban exile who had been a fugitive for 12 years until his arrest last spring pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to kill a former Chilean diplomat who died in a 1976 car bombing on Washington’s Embassy Row.
Jose Dionisio Suarez Esquivel admitted participating in the conspiracy to murder Orlando Letelier, who died with associate Ronni Moffitt when a bomb exploded beneath their car on Sept. 21, 1976.
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