Virgilio Paz Romero

Virgilio Pablo Paz Romero (born November 20, 1951) is a Cuban exile and militant who was involved in the 1976 assassination of former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C. Paz Romero was one of two people accused of detonating a remote-controlled car bomb that killed Letelier and a colleague in Washington's Sheridan Circle. In May 2016, Chile's Supreme Court asked the United States to extradite Chilean Armando Fernandez Larios, Townley and Paz, all three of whom were linked to the Sept. 21, 1976, car-bombing murders in Washington, D.C. In November 2002, Soria's widow, Laura Gonzalez-Vera, along with the personal representative of Soria's estate, sued Townley seeking damages for Soria's torture and killing.

Paz's family left Santa Clara, Cuba in the mid-1960s when he was 14. In 1966 while his family was in Mexico City awaiting papers to emigrate to the United States, Paz's father died. He settled in a Cuban community in New Jersey with his mother. When he was 16, Paz was the youngest member of the Cuban Nationalist Movement.

On September 21, 1976, Orlando Letelier drove colleagues Michael and Ronni Moffitt to work at the Institute for Policy Studies in his Chevrolet Chevelle. Paz and Jose Dionisio Suarez Esquivel followed in sedan. Paz detonated a bomb placed under Letelier's car as it reached Sheridan Circle on Washington's Embassy Row. The blast killed Letelier and Ronni Moffit.

Paz Romero, his wife, and two sons lived under assumed names in the area of West Palm Beach, Florida since 1980. Taking the name "Francisco Luis (Frank) Baez", Paz Romero was active in the community and owned a landscaping business in Boynton Beach, Florida since 1985. On April 24, 1991, he was captured without incident while driving to work a few days after he was profiled on an episode of America's Most Wanted. The segment featured an age progressed portrait of Paz Romero drawn by forensic artist Karen T. Taylor.

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