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| Ivan Navarro (Chile, lives in New York) North Dakota Museum of Art |
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| Briefcase with objects The Briefcase is based upon the killing of three American and one Chilean citizen (who had been stripped of his citizenship and so resided in the United States). It illustrates how Augusto Pinochet directly affected the lives of American citizens and residents during his dictatorship in Chile (which lasted from 1973 to 1989). Ronni Moffit was an American citizen, married and working as a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies. She also worked with Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Ambassador to the United States. He had also been Minister of Exterior Relationships, Minister of Interior Relationships and Minister of Defense under Salvador Allende when Allende was president of Chile from 1970 to 1973. From 1975 to 1976 Orlando Letelier lived in the United States and worked at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC. Moffit and Letelier were both killed on September 21, 1976 on Embassy Row in Washington, DC, when a bomb placed under Letelier’s car exploded. Pinochet had ordered the execution. The attack was carried out by a Cuban anti-Castro terrorist group hired by the Pinochet government. The Dutch government intended to give millions to Pinochet’s government until Letelier had intervened convincing the Dutch that the money was going to a dictatorship that was abusing human rights. Pinochet ordered the assassination of Letelier and Ronni Moffit was caught in the crossfire. Two other American citizens were killed by Pinochet when they were living in Santiago, Chile: Charles Hormann was killed in September 1973. Frank Teruggi was killed in September 1973. This project contains first-source information collected from different media such as television, books, newspapers, web pages, etc. The sculpture utilizes the actual brief case of one of those who were killed. |