Sofía Cuthbert

Sofía Ester Cuthbert Chiarleoni (Iquique, 28 November 1918 – Buenos Aires, 30 September 1974) was the wife of the Chilean General Carlos Prats, murdered along with him in Argentina by the Chilean secret police DINA, Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, within the framework of Operation Condor.^[1]

Cuthbert in 1969

Biography

She was the daughter 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.

Born in Iquique, a large harbour city in the far north, she married there Carlos Prats on January 19, 1944. They have three daughters- Sofía Ester, who has been ambassador of Chile to Greece, María Angélica and Hilda Cecilia.^[2]

Cuthbert was murdered alongside her husband by a car bomb in Buenos Aires, where they lived in exile, on 30 September 1974.^[3]