Sofía Ester Cuthbert Chiarleoni (

Iquique Iquique () is a port city and commune in northern Chile, capital of both the Iquique Province and Tarapacá Region. It lies on the Pacific coast, west of the Pampa del Tamarugal, which is part of the Atacama Desert. It has a population of 191, ...

, 28 November 1918 –

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, 30 September 1974) was the wife of the Chilean General

Carlos Prats Carlos Prats González (; February 24, 1915 – September 30, 1974) was a Chilean Army officer and politician. He served as a minister in Salvador Allende's government while Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army. Immediately after General August ...

, murdered along with him in Argentina by the

Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional ( en, National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the secret police of Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The DINA has been referred to as "Pinochet's Gestapo". Established in November ...

, within the framework of

Operation Condor Operation Condor ( es, link=no, Operación Cóndor, also known as ''Plan Cóndor''; pt, Operação Condor) was a United States–backed campaign of political repression and state terror involving intelligence operations and assassination of op ...

. She was the daughter of the marriage of William Cuthbert Lister and Sofía Chiarleoni Méndez. She completed her studies at the Iquique English College where she graduated with the title of Executive Bilingual Secretary. In Iquique, she married Carlos Prats on January 19, 1944. They had three daughters- Sofía Ester, who has been ambassador of Chile to Greece, María Angélica, and Hilda Cecilia. She was murdered alongside her husband by a car bomb in

, where they lived in exile, on 30 September 1974.30 de septiembre de 1974, a 42 años: CARLOS PRATS y SOFÍA CUTHBERT

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