"The feeling in Chile is one of astonishment. Armando Fernandez Larios, an iconic former agent of the DINA, Augusto Pinochet's secret police (1973-1990), with five extradition requests from Chilean courts for human rights violations during the dictatorship, was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On January 27 the agency reported his capture, along with 41 other Chilean nationals, on charges of homicide, although the raid took place in October 2025."
"Fernandez is wanted in Chile for the murder of the U.S. citizen Ronni Moffitt and for the July 1976 assassination in Santiago de Chile of Spanish citizen and United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) official Carmelo Soria, committed by a DINA brigade. Francisco Ugas, the plaintiff's lawyer in the case, tells EL PAIS that several witnesses indicate that Fernandez was at the site of Soria's detention, where the diplomat was brutally tortured."
Armando Fernandez Larios, a 76-year-old former major and elite agent of the DINA, was arrested in Fort Myers, Florida, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a raid in October 2025 that the agency reported on January 27. He had five extradition requests from Chilean courts for human rights violations during the Pinochet dictatorship and had lived in the United States for nearly four decades. Fernandez participated in the 1976 Washington bomb attack that killed Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt and is wanted in Chile for Moffitt's murder and the July 1976 assassination of ECLAC official Carmelo Soria. Witnesses indicate Fernandez was present at the DINA detention site in Lo Curro where Soria was tortured. Lawyers describe him as a trusted man of Manuel Contreras and Pinochet who began participating from the assault on La Moneda Palace on September 11, 1973.
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