Francisco Letelier

Francisco Letelier is an artist, writer and activist whose imaginative work weaves together history and contemporary experiences. For more than 25 years, Letelier has been bridging continents; planning and creating public art that crosses disciplines and cultures while building dialogues within communities.

Letelier has been involved in projects throughout the Americas and Europe with artists and personalities such as Quincy Jones, Jane Goodall, Jackson Browne, Ariel Dorfman, Claribel Alegria and Tom Hayden. Also known for his lectures, powerful spoken word and writing, Letelier has had recent work published in the Los Angeles Times and other publications throughout the globe. Tom Hayden recently published his article An Exiled Son of Santiago in the Nation, concerning the life and work of Letelier and his family in Chile and the United States.

Francisco is the son of Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean Ambassador to the United States who was brutally murdered in Washington DC by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Letelier’s chronicle of his recent visit to the concentration camp in Patagonia where his father O was held after the 1973 overthrow of the Allende government, The End of the World, appears in the summer issue of Tin House magazine. 

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050418/hayden