Todas Las Manos at The Martin Luther King Main Library Washington DC
Todas Las Manos: Commemorating 50 Years Since the Military Coup in Chile Exhibit Dates: September 9-October 22, 2023 Exhibit Location: MLK Library, Floor 1, Great Hall, East On the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile, a panel discussion will examine the importance of culture as a tool for building solidarity and advancing justice. This program is held in conjunction with the exhibition of Todas Las Manos , a five-part mural installation created by Francisco Letelier and artists from the Latin American Youth Center, on view in the Great Hall of the MLK Library. This public art project celebrates the pursuit of human rights and global justice and commemorates the 1976 assassination in Washington of former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier (the artist's father) and Ronni Karpen Moffitt by agents of the Chilean dictatorship. Letelier and Moffitt were colleagues at the Institute for Policy Studies. In the half century since the Chilean coup, Chilean exiles have crea
