Cuban Emigre Sentenced in Slaying of Diplomat
<i> Reuters</i>
WASHINGTON —
A Cuban emigre was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in jail for his part in the 1976 car-bomb killing of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier on Washington’s Embassy Row.
Judge Aubrey Robinson sentenced Virgilio Paz Romero, 39, to the maximum term allowed under a plea-bargain agreement.
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