Chilean Speech

Jose Miguel Barros, Chile's Ambassador to the U.S. since 1978, will speak to the Harvard Club today at a noontime luncheon sponsored by the Pan-American Society of Boston.

Barros, a career diplomat, will present a political and economic update" on the current situation in Chile, Paul W. Garber '56, the Chilean consul in Boston, said yesterday.

Garber said Barros is also likely to address the Orlando Letelier case, which has been a controversial point in U.S. Chilean relations. Letelier, the Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. under Marxist president Salvador Allende, was assassinated in Washington, D.C., in 1976, allegedly by agents of the Chilean military junta which overthrew Allende three years earlier. Chile has refused to extradite three military officials accused of plotting the killing.

Ramon Latorre, an assistant professor of Physiology who left Chile in 1974, said opponents of Chile's military government would distribute leaflets outside the club.