Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, married, father of one, a Civil Engineering student at the Universidad Católica and a militant of the MIR, was detained on February 13, 1975, around 11:00 a.m., by DINA agents at his residence located at Calle Los Illanes 95, Las Condes.

One hour earlier, security forces who had been surveilling the house since the previous night arrested the homeowners, Iván Montti Cordero, his 5-year-old son, and Carmen Díaz Darricarrere. Shortly thereafter, at 2:00 p.m., Jaime Vásquez Sáenz arrived at the property and was also detained.

The agents had spent the previous night in a house located across from the aforementioned residence, waiting to capture a person known as "Joaquín" (Jaime Vásquez Sáenz); for this purpose, they had Ingrid Ximena Sucarrat Zamora with them in detention.

All the detainees were taken to the secret facility of Villa Grimaldi, from where the child was transferred to a Carabineros children's home. All the aforementioned individuals remain forcibly disappeared to this day, with the exception of Ingrid Sucarrat, who was released on November 18, 1976, from the Tres Alamos camp.

The following day, three other MIR militants linked to the previous group were detained. They were Roberto Acuña Reyes, who was wounded by gunfire at the time of his arrest; Manuel Edgardo del Carmen Cortez Joo; and Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, all of whom disappeared after their arrest by the DINA.

Ingrid Sucarrat Zamora, an eyewitness to the events, testified in the legal proceedings regarding the disappearance of Eugenio Iván Montti Cordero that while she was detained at Villa Grimaldi, she was taken out on the night of February 12 and moved to a property on Calle Los Illanes located across from No. 95, which belonged to a Carabineros officer.

She spent the night there under the guard of three DINA agents. The following morning, Iván Montti, his son, and Carmen Díaz were arrested first; subsequently, the same occurred with Alan Bruce and Vásquez Sáenz.

Once the operation was completed, all the detainees were taken to Grimaldi, where she saw them until the 24th of that month. In the same case for Montti Cordero, there are statements from former DINA prisoners María Isabel Matamala Vivaldi, Amelia Odette Negrón Larré, Elena María Altieri Missana, Fidelia Herrera Herrera, and Gladys Díaz Armijo, who declare that they were detained by the DINA and taken to Villa Grimaldi, where they were tortured and where they saw the victim and the other people apprehended with him being held in detention, with their feet shackled.

Gladys Díaz adds in her testimony that she had the opportunity to speak with Alan Bruce, who told her, among other things, that he was calm because the head of Villa Grimaldi, Marcelo Moren, was his uncle.

Also recorded in this case are the testimonies of former detainees Juan Patricio Negrón Larré and Oscar Hernán Angulo Matamala, who were detained by the DINA and taken to Villa Grimaldi, where they were held alongside the victim.

In the proceedings regarding the detention and subsequent disappearance of Alan Bruce, there is the testimony of Ricardo Froeden Armstrong, a former detainee, who states that between the second and third week of February 1975, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán was detained at Villa Grimaldi; he adds that at the end of February, he was provisionally transferred to another facility, and at that time the victim was still at that location.

Upon returning to Grimaldi, still in the fourth week of February, Alan Bruce was no longer there. When he asked other detainees about him, he was told that he had been taken out along with 15 other people.

This case also includes the statement of former detainee Claudio Zaror Zaror, who indicated to the Court that he was indeed detained at Villa Grimaldi alongside Alan Bruce, who was being held in a place known as "The Tower."

According to Luz Arce—a former detainee of the DINA in 1974 who, after being pressured and subjected to severe torture, became a collaborator for that organization—she remembers seeing Alan Bruce Catalán at Villa Grimaldi, and that Marcelo Moren was furious because he was his nephew and held a resentment against him for that reason.

She also remembers seeing Alan Bruce's name on the lists of detainees at that facility, to which she had access.

From the various testimonies of Villa Grimaldi survivors, it is concluded that Alan Bruce, like the group of people detained with him, was taken out of Villa Grimaldi in the fourth week of February 1975 and transferred to an unknown destination, and from that date on, they were not seen anywhere else.

The victim's family carried out multiple efforts and inquiries to find his whereabouts, including several consultations with Marcelo Moren Brito, the victim's uncle, who at the time of the arrest was one of the heads of Villa Grimaldi, as evidenced by the testimonies of detainees at that facility who identified the DINA agent as "El Ronco" (The Hoarse One).

Marcelo Moren Brito denied to the victim's family that he knew of his arrest, and he did the same before Judge Servando Jordán López in the case regarding the disappearance of Alan Bruce. It should be noted that the Judge, at the end of Marcelo Moren's statement, remarked that he had a characteristic "hoarse voice," a sign that had been reported by several witnesses.

Previously, in April 1974, Alan Bruce Catalán was detained by members of a military patrol and taken to the Buin Regiment and then to the Military School. At night, he was taken to the DINA facility at Londres 38, and the next morning he was sent home by order of Marcelo Moren, who was in charge of that facility.

Subsequently, months before the victim's second detention, Marcelo Moren appeared at his home and told his parents that they were looking for him to "arrest him dead or alive."

To this date, the victim remains in the status of disappeared.

Judicial and/or Administrative Actions

On April 8, 1975, his father, Roberto Bruce la Rivera, filed a recurso de amparo (habeas corpus petition) on his behalf before the Santiago Court of Appeals, case file 470-75. During the processing of this petition, negative reports were received from the Emergency Zone Headquarters and, on two occasions, from the Ministry of the Interior, despite the fact that on March 6, 1975, the Diario Oficial published an excerpt of a resolution from the Ministry of the Interior declaring his economic situation to be under intervention and investigation.

Generally, these resolutions were issued at the request of the DINA. Based on the negative reports, the Court rejected the amparo on June 5, 1975. That resolution was appealed to the Supreme Court, which on June 19, 1975, confirmed the appealed resolution and ordered the records to be sent to the 6th Criminal Court of Santiago to investigate the disappearance of the victim.

In compliance with the order of the Supreme Court, on June 27, 1975, case 91.882 was opened. During its processing, Roberto Bruce testified, ratifying the terms of the complaint and providing new information to the Court.

When collected by the Judge, this allowed for the review of the file on the disappearance of Juan Carlos Perelman Ide, which contains the statement of his girlfriend, Gladys Díaz Armijo, who details her forced stay at Villa Grimaldi alongside Alan Bruce and other prisoners who were also forcibly disappeared.

In the investigation order carried out by the Investigative Police and reported on August 20, 1975, the complainant was interviewed and stated that he learned his son was at Villa Grimaldi through a note left at his house by unknown persons.

The official in charge of the investigation went to Villa Grimaldi, located at J. Arrieta 8200, where he obtained no information to locate the victim. The Investigative Police report does not state who was interviewed at that facility.

On November 20, 1975, the Court convened at the Puchuncaví Prisoner Camp, with prior authorization from the National Secretariat of Detainees (SENDET) under the Ministry of the Interior, where it interviewed Ricardo Froeden Armstrong and Claudio Zaror Zaror, who stated they had been detained at Villa Grimaldi alongside Alan Bruce Catalán.

On January 5, 1976, after receiving a report from SENDET stating they had no information regarding the victim, Judge Jorge Medina Cuevas temporarily dismissed the case, on the grounds that the evidence provided to the process did not justify the existence of any crime in the facts presented to the Court. The resolution was approved by the Santiago Court of Appeals on May 19, 1976.

On August 16, 1976, the case was requested by Judge Servando Jordán López, who was investigating cases of forcibly disappeared persons in the Department of Santiago. Days earlier, on August 10, the victim's father filed a criminal complaint before Judge Jordán against the DINA for the crime of kidnapping, specifically identifying Marcelo Moren Brito, alias "El Ronco," as the head of Villa Grimaldi at the time of the victim's kidnapping.

In the main text of the complaint, along with detailing the circumstances of the arrest and the connection to the case of Iván Montti Cordero, the statements of Angela Beatriz Alvarez Cárdenas—who identified Marcelo Moren Brito as the head of Villa Grimaldi during the same period Alan Bruce was detained there—and the statements of María Isabel Matamala Vivaldi and Amelia Odette Negrón Larré are mentioned.

Subsequently, his spouse, Silvia Mónica Gana Valladares, informed the Judge in detail about the family relationship with Marcelo Moren Brito and how he began an intense search in October 1974 to arrest Alan Bruce, expressing his anger "because on the previous occasion he had deceived him."

In October 1979, Army Colonel Marcelo Luis Manuel Moren Brito appeared before the Judge. The Court read the complaint and other related information to him, to which he stated that he is indeed a relative of Carmen Catalán, Alan Bruce's mother, and that he was detained for the first time by members of the Military School and then arrived at Londres 38 late at night, and the next day he sent him home.

Regarding the second detention of Alan, he stated that, as far as he is concerned, he was not at Villa Grimaldi. He pointed out that it is true that he went to speak with his aunt when Bruce was being sought by other security services, so that Alan would speak with him, as it was the most convenient thing to do.

Finally, he declared that according to the information held by the DINA, Alan Bruce was a member of the MIR. Regarding Villa Grimaldi, he stated that it was a "transit place for detainees, for fingerprinting and document control for intelligence analysis." He affirmed that theoretically, he could have been the head on more than one occasion because there was a permanent rotation of intelligence groups.

The Court showed him photographs of Villa Grimaldi, and the individual recognized them as corresponding to that facility, adding that there was a place there called "The Tower." At the end of agent Moren's appearance, the Judge noted that the declarant has a characteristic "hoarse voice."

The Judge added to the investigation the statements of Angela Beatriz Alvarez Cárdenas, in which she explains that at Villa Grimaldi, an agent with a hoarse voice spoke to her, and that she later learned it was Marcelo Moren and that he was the uncle of the prisoner Alan Bruce.

The Court also reviewed the case of René Roberto Acuña Reyes and the kidnapping case of Eugenio Iván Montti Cordero, noting those parts relevant to the statements of witnesses Ingrid Jimena Sucarrat Zamora, María Isabel Matamala Vivaldi, Amelia Odette Negrón Larré, Gladys Díaz Armijo, Elena María Altieri Missana, Juan Patricio Negrón Larré, Oscar Hernán Angulo Matamala, Fidelia Herrera Herrera, and Hugo Ernesto Salinas Farfán.

All of them state they were with the victim at Villa Grimaldi. The Carabineros witness, Captain Ximena Manterola Miranda, testified regarding the 5-year-old son of Iván Montti Cordero, who was sent by the DINA to a children's home of that institution.

On April 28, 1980, Judge Servando Jordán sent the records to the Second Military Prosecutor's Office for consolidation into case 553-78, initiated following a criminal complaint against General Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda and other DINA agents. The plaintiffs appealed this resolution to the Court of Appeals, which confirmed the appealed resolution.

During the processing of this complaint, General Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, in his capacity as former Director of the DINA, responded by official letter to the Military Prosecutor's Office on September 25, 1985.

In this response, he reaffirmed concepts he had previously stated before Judge Servando Jordán: Villa Grimaldi was not a DINA detention center; it was only a transit facility where detainees were fingerprinted to be released or placed at the disposal of the Minister of the Interior; Osvaldo Romo Mena was only an informant for some DINA agents, and nothing more was heard of him afterward; Marcelo Moren Brito performed intelligence functions as an analyst.

Without any investigative actions being taken for four years, on November 20, 1989, Army Lieutenant Colonel Enrique Ibarra Chamorro, Military Prosecutor General, requested the application of the Amnesty Decree Law (D.L. 2.191) for this case, because the process had the exclusive purpose of investigating alleged crimes that occurred during the period between September 11, 1973, and March 10, 1978, and because, during the 10 years of processing, it had not been possible to "determine the responsibility of any person." On November 30, 1989, the request was accepted by the 2nd Military Court, which dismissed the case totally and definitively—which was still in the summary stage—due to "the criminal responsibility of the persons allegedly involved in the reported facts being extinguished." The plaintiffs appealed this resolution to the Court Martial, which confirmed the ruling in January 1992. A complaint appeal (Recurso de Queja) was then filed before the Supreme Court of Justice, which, as of December 1992, had not yet issued its resolution.

(Complete details of this complaint are developed in the case of Eduardo Alarcón Jara, detained on July 30, 1974).

Former agent Osvaldo Romo Mena, who remained in hiding for 17 years, was located in Brazil in July 1992 and, after being detained for a few months, was expelled from that country and arrested upon his arrival in Chile on November 16, 1992.

Romo, who has testified in several cases regarding forcibly disappeared persons and has been indicted in six, has acknowledged his status as a DINA agent and the participation of that organization in his departure from the country. He and his family group were provided with false identity documents; his was under the name Osvaldo Andrés Henríquez Mena.

Source: Vicaría de la Solidaridad

In the cases of agents Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda and Marcelo Moren Brito, the capital's appellate court ordered that the records be returned to the first-instance judge, Leopoldo Llanos, so that he may issue their dismissal due to death.

The Santiago Court of Appeals ratified the first-instance sentence issued in the investigation known as "Villa Grimaldi. Main Volume," which investigated the disappearance of 19 people and one qualified homicide, crimes perpetrated inside the illegal detention center located in the commune of Peñalolén.

In a unanimous ruling, the Sixth Chamber of the appellate court—composed of judges Mauricio Silva Cancino, Mario Rojas, and Jessica González—ratified the effective prison sentences for 11 members of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their responsibility in the qualified kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac-Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson; and for the homicide of Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

The sentence ratified the penalties against:

1- Pedro Espinoza Bravo: 20 years in prison for his responsibility in the homicide of Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno; and 20 years in prison for the kidnappings of Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac-Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson.

2- Rolf Wenderoth Pozo: 15 years in prison for his responsibility as an accomplice in the homicide of Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno; and 20 years in prison for the kidnappings of Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac-Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson.

3- Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko: 20 years in prison for the kidnappings of Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac-Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson.

4- Fernando Lauriani Maturana: 20 years in prison for the kidnappings of Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac-Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson.

5- Gerardo Godoy García: 20 years in prison for the kidnappings of Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac-Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson.

6- Ricardo Lawrence Mires: 20 years in prison for the kidnappings of Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac-Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson.

7- Basclay Zapata Reyes: 15 years and one day in prison for the kidnappings of Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac-Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson.

8- Manuel Carevic Cubillos: 15 years and one day in prison for the kidnappings of María Isabel Joui Petersen, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, and César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña.

9- Raúl Iturriaga Neumann: 15 years and one day in prison for the kidnappings of María Isabel Joui Petersen, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, and César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña.

10- César Manríquez Bravo: 15 years and one day in prison for the kidnappings of Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Sergio Carreño Aguilar, and Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich.

11- Orlando Manzo Durán: 10 years and one day in prison for the kidnapping of Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich.

Regarding civil damages, the ruling confirmed that the State of Chile must pay a total compensation of $1,850,000,000 (one billion eight hundred and fifty million pesos) to the plaintiff family members, in amounts ranging from $50,000,000 (fifty million pesos) to $150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million pesos), as detailed in the sentence.

In the cases of agents Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda and Marcelo Moren Brito, it is ordered that the records be returned to the first-instance judge, Leopoldo Llanos, so that he may issue their dismissal due to death.

Source: elmostrador.cl, September 16, 2015

Date: 09-16-2015

Universidad Católica awarded posthumous degrees to student victims of the Military Government

The educational institution recognized students, faculty, and professionals who were victims of the dictatorship.

The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile paid tribute to 28 members of the university—students and professors—who were victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.

At the event held in the Aula Magna of the San Joaquín Campus, attended by nearly 200 people, posthumous degrees were awarded to the families and friends of 10 executed students, and faculty and professionals who were victims of human rights violations were also remembered.

Rector Ignacio Sánchez stated that they collaborated and worked together with the Student Federation to carry out a "symbolic act of reparation and reconciliation" where they commemorated and awarded posthumous degrees.

The ceremony was preceded by a mass officiated by the university's Vice-Grand Chancellor, Father Cristián Roncagliolo, which was concelebrated by several priests who played a prominent role in the defense of human rights during the dictatorship.

The 28 people who received the posthumous degree were:

• Diana Frida Aaron Svigilsky.
• Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson.
• Jenny del Carmen Barra Rosales.
• Leopoldo Raúl Benitez Herrera.
• Patricio Biedma Schadewaldt.
• Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán.
• Carmen Cecilia Bueno Cifuentes.
• Mauricio Jean Carrasco Valdivia.
• Ignacio Orlando González Espinoza.
• Luis Enrique González González.
• José Eduardo Jara Aravena.
• Juan Alberto Leiva Vargas.
• José Patricio del Carmen León Gálvez.
• Enrique López Olmedo.
• Víctor Eduardo Oliva Troncoso.
• Jaime Ignacio Ossa Galdames.
• Alicia Viviana Ríos Crocco.
• Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ayraya.
• Eugenio Ruiz-Tagle Orrego.
• Enrique Antonio Saavedra González.
• Jilberto Patricio Urbina Chamorro.
• Omar Roberto Venturelli Leonelli.
• Héctor Patricio Vergara Doxrud.
• Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos.
• María Teresa Eltit Contreras.
• Ángel Gabriel Guerrero Carrillo.
• Samuel del Tránsito Lazo Maldonado.
• Ernesto Igor Ríos Céspedes.

Source: 24horas.cl, 9/05/2013

Date: 09-05-2013

Alan Bruce, MIR militant and forcibly disappeared. The family history of Moren Brito and the nephew he tortured and murdered at Villa Grimaldi

Last week, Judge Alejandro Solís indicted 13 former DINA agents for the homicide of 20 people in the first months of 1975. Among them is Colonel (Ret.) Marcelo Moren Brito and the painful history that part of his maternal family has had to live through following the death of the military officer’s nephew.

Moren even shared a bedroom with his nephew while he was studying in Santiago. This is the most intimate account from the wife and son of the murdered MIR militant.

No one remembers very well what day the vow began, but for many years Carmen Catalán did not cut her hair.

—I am going to cut it the day Alan walks through that door —she would say, pointing toward the entrance of #6683 Avenida Colón, Las Condes, from which hung a bell that served as a doorbell.

Until then, the house was a meeting place, with open doors and celebrations.

Perhaps that is why it was hard for Carmen to understand that, from one moment to the next, nothing remained of that but memories and the echo of past conversations colliding against the concrete walls.

—I am only going to cut my hair when Alan returns —Carmen would repeat—. I was sure that one day he would appear, with his mustache and his black hair, his jeans, and his height of over 1.80 meters.

A few years earlier, they had held the last of the great family parties: the wedding of Alan to his girlfriend of more than 5 years, Mónica Gana. In the house of the bride’s parents—a few blocks further north, at Colón #6571—an orchestra had been set up and a banquet so large that no one could distinguish the menu by the end of the day.

They ate the leftovers from the celebration for the next three days. That September 17, 1971, of celebration is one of the memories the family treasures most. Back then, in the midst of the laughter and dancing, no one intuited that it would be that black-and-white photo, with Alan dressed in a black suit and a white flower on his lapel, that would later circulate and pass through many hands, asking for justice with the phrase: “Where are they?”

Alan Bruce was detained in February 1975. He was 24 years old, was studying Civil Engineering at the Universidad Católica, and had a year-and-a-half-old son who bore his same name. Last week, the minister in charge of human rights cases, Alejandro Solís, indicted 13 former DINA agents, including its former director, General (Ret.) Manuel Contreras, and Colonel (Ret.) Marcelo Moren Brito, for the homicide and aggravated kidnapping of 20 people in the first months of 1975.

Among the victims is Alan. And to the story of terror and death that the dictatorship forged, another, more intimate one is added, which is in Judge Solís’s indictment, but which has also circulated within the Bruce family for more than 37 years: the testimonies indicating that Moren Brito—Alan’s uncle—tortured and murdered him, showing off his cruelty at Villa Grimaldi, tearing his maternal family in two.

Forever.

Marcelito

In December 2007, at the Cordillera prison, where former DINA chiefs serve their sentences, Colonel (Ret.) Maximiliano Ferrer Lima got into a fight with Moren Brito and, according to the report that remained as testimony—prepared by prison authorities—Ferrer confronted Moren, telling him that he had “strangled his own nephew with a wire and, to be sure, immediately put his head in a plastic bag,” as noted in a report by the newspaper La Nación.

This was a version that the family already knew and that weighed heavily on the hearts of Carmen Catalán and Roberto Bruce until the day they died. “My grandfather was a gentleman; he would never say a bad word, but it pained him to have given shelter to a criminal.

He always said it had been a mistake,” says Alan Bruce (40), an environmental and commercial engineer, who stopped seeing his father when he was less than two years old.

The kind treatment of Marcelo Moren Brito existed from the time the former DINA agent was born. His mother, María Elena Brito, was the sister of Inés Recabarren Brito, the grandmother of the murdered MIR leader.

Moren was received with open arms at the house on Colón when he had to leave Temuco, the city where he lived, to come to study at the Escuela Militar. “My grandparents loved him; my grandfather Roberto was even his tutor at the Escuela Militar.

He was the one who signed his papers. They made a good space for him in the house,” says Alan. In fact, in one of the bedrooms of the large house in Las Condes, they added a bed next to Alan’s, who was a teenager at the time, to install another for the new tenant.

While Moren Brito lived in the Bruce house, his bed was pushed against his “nephew’s.” They shared the same bedroom, family parties, meals, and several afternoons.

When the dictatorship entered Chile with blood, Don Roberto used to say that Moren Brito had been a beaten child, attempting an explanation for the criminal behavior he would later adopt, but he, who had also been a military officer and reached the rank of lieutenant (before retiring from the institution), also knew what the situation was like from the inside.

In fact, before he died, he commented on it in an interview: “I knew the training the military men have; that’s why I told him (Alan) that when they went out into the street, it would be a slaughter. He didn’t listen to me; on the contrary, he told me that they were being trained for that. It was just as I told him.”

Alan had already been detained once before his disappearance. In April 1974, a group of military men arrived at his house. Although Alan was not there, they held his wife and his year-and-a-half-old son, who was sleeping in his crib, at gunpoint.

—If your husband is not here, then we are taking the child —said a military man, before violently taking the little one into his arms.

While the military men waited in the garden, Mónica called her husband, who worked doing freight and was at his grandmother’s house in Recoleta.

—Tell them to leave the child. If they are looking for me, I will turn myself in —Alan replied on the other end of the phone.

After that episode, he was disappeared for about four days. Upon his return, he said that he had been taken to the Buin Regiment, then to the Escuela Militar, and later to Londres 38.

“When he returned, he told me that they had beaten him and that Moren Brito had kept him for several days at Londres, trying to reduce the bruises because he was embarrassed for his uncles to see him like that.”

But the embarrassment lasted only a short time, and everyone understood that the military men were not playing. A few months after that episode, in October 1974, after Miguel Enríquez was gunned down in San Miguel, the family remembers an event that froze their speech and that Mónica Gana details as if it were yesterday.

Moren Brito arrived at the very house where they had given him shelter when he was at the Escuela Militar. “With bloodstained hands, he shouted that he had killed Enríquez, while ringing the doorbell of the front door. He was shouting as if he were deranged; he was like a madman,” says Mónica.

—The next one is going to be your son! It’s going to be your son! —he bellowed, while Mrs. Carmen Catalán and part of her family waited inside the house.

To Mónica—and the others—it became clear: “Then we all knew that we could not appeal to the fact that he was a relative or to the closeness of so many years. It was impossible to deal with a monster.”

Villa Grimaldi

On February 13, 1975, around 11 in the morning, Alan Bruce was detained for the second time. This time at a house in Las Condes. He was taken to Villa Grimaldi.

The Memoria Viva website records that among the subsequent testimonies, one was heard from Luz Arce, “a former detainee of the DINA in 1974 who, after being pressured and subjected to severe torture, became a collaborator for that organization.

She remembers having seen Alan Bruce Catalán at Villa Grimaldi, and that Marcelo Moren was furious because he was his nephew and he held a resentment against him for it. She also remembers having seen Alan Bruce’s name on the lists of detainees at that facility, to which she had access.”

The director of the Legal Medical Service, Dr. Patricio Bustos, who also passed through that torture camp, says that he did not coincide with Alan Bruce, but that it was a frequent topic of conversation among the prisoners. “Everyone said that el Ronco (the Hoarse One), as they called Moren Brito because of his voice, had been capable of torturing his own nephew on the grill.

That made us realize whose hands we were in,” narrates Bustos.

The family began a pilgrimage for justice in 1975, with various lawsuits.

“One day my grandmother even confronted Moren Brito,” says Alan Bruce Gana, today, days after Judge Solís’s indictment, and says that after everything they lived through, she closed the doors of her house in Las Condes. “She didn’t want to receive anyone anymore.

You couldn’t trust anyone. She never stopped wearing black clothes, and only at the end, years before she died, did she understand that my father would never cross the door again. Then she said she would be satisfied if they gave her something; anything that would allow her to bury him and have someone to pray to,” comments Alan, who after his father’s disappearance and a brief stay in Buenos Aires with his mother, returned to Chile in the arms of his grandfather, who went to get him so he could grow up with them, while his mother made a journey through Argentina and the United States, which brought her back in the late 80s.

“For us, the wound does not close as long as there is no paper that says that Moren Brito tortured and killed my father on such a date and a sentence is set,” says Alan, tearing up over a story that would have that closure in formal terms, but which will hardly have a final point for the family. “There are people who believe that the issue of the disappeared is a struggle of a few, an old story, but it is not like that.

I always ask myself the same question: what would everything be like if he were here; would he still be married to my mom, how many things in my life would have changed. That is a daily question, it is not from another era,” he says.

His grandmother, Mrs. Carmen, left waiting for justice to be served. When she died of a stroke in the late 90s, she was 75 years old and still dressed in mourning.

In the mid-80s, Carmen Catalán stopped waiting for a miracle. That was when her vow ended. Her hair had grown to her knees.

Source: elmostrador.cl December 13, 2012

Date: 12-13-2012

13 former DINA agents indicted for the disappearance and death of 20 people at Villa Grimaldi

The judge issued the indictment this Tuesday against 13 former members of the DINA for the crimes of kidnapping and aggravated homicide against 20 people. The magistrate indicted the former DINA members, noting that they correspond to crimes against humanity committed “by a criminal organization […]

The judge issued the indictment this Tuesday against 13 former members of the DINA for the crimes of kidnapping and aggravated homicide against 20 people.

The magistrate indicted the former DINA members, noting that they correspond to crimes against humanity committed “by a criminal organization that had as its sole objective to repress opponents, whom it considered political enemies, the very President of the Republic, Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, using as means of destruction firearms, explosives, and other suitable means,” says the magistrate’s extensive resolution.

In a list headed by the former director of the DINA, General (Ret.) Manuel Contreras, Judge Solís mentions one by one the victims of these serious crimes committed during the military regime.

Judge Solís indicts Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda for the aggravated kidnappings of Alan Bruce Catalán and Iván Carreño Aguilar and for the aggravated homicides of Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, and the homicides of Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Marcelo Luis Moren Brito for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, Iván Carreño Aguilar, and the homicides of: Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Basclay Humberto Zapata Reyes for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and the aggravated homicides of: Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and for the homicides of: Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Rolf Gonzalo Wenderoth Pozo for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and the aggravated homicides of: Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Orlando Manzo Durán, as author of the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and the aggravated homicides of: Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Fernando Eduardo Lauriani Maturana for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and the aggravated homicides of: Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and the aggravated homicides of: Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Ricardo Lawrence Mires for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, Iván Carreño Aguilar, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, Juan René Molina Mogollones, René Roberto Acuña Reyes, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, and the homicides of: Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson and Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno.

Gerardo Ernesto Urrich González for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña.

Manuel Carevic Cubillos for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña.

Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neuman for the aggravated kidnappings of: Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, María Isabel Joui Petersen, Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña.

Regarding the victims, Judge Solís describes one by one the activities of the forcibly disappeared and murdered.

Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, 24 years old, single, of Chilean-British nationality, an engineer by profession, worked at the Stock Exchange and studied Economics. No known political militancy. He was detained on November 2, 1974, upon arriving in Chile from Argentina.

He was held at the following detention centers: “José Domingo Cañas,” “Villa Grimaldi,” and “Venda Sexy”; his trail has been lost since June 2, 1975, to date.

Alan Roberto Bruce Catalán, 24 years old, was married and had a son. He had studied Civil Engineering at the Universidad Católica and was a member of the MIR. Detained on February 13 or 14, 1975, from a property on Calle Illanes, along with Montti and Carmen Díaz, he was apprehended by Marcelo Moren Brito, who transferred them to Villa Grimaldi, where they remained until the end of February 1975.

According to other detainees, Marcelo Moren Brito personally tortured and killed Alan Bruce.

Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz, 27 years old, married, had a daughter. He was a member of the MIR and studied Civil Construction at the Universidad Técnica del Estado. They were detained along with other people on February 13, 1975, by members of the DINA.

They were seen by various witnesses at Villa Grimaldi. The name of Jaime Enrique Vásquez Sáenz appeared on a list published in the press regarding the death of Chilean extremists abroad, “Operation Colombo” or “List of the 119.”

Manuel Antonio Carreño Navarro, 53 years old, married, seven children. Militant of the Communist Party. He was detained on August 13, 1974, by armed civilians, Villa Grimaldi.

Iván Sergio Carreño, 16 years old, detained on August 13, 1974, along with his father; he was seen held at Villa Grimaldi.

María Teresa Eltit Contreras, 22 years old, a Secretarial student at the Departamento Universitario Obrero Campesino (DUOC). She was detained on December 12, 1974, by DINA agents. She was seen at Villa Grimaldi. Her name appeared on a list published in the press regarding the “death of Chilean extremists abroad.”

María Isabel Joui Petersen, 19 years old, married. She was a member of the MIR and had studied Economics at the Universidad de Chile. She was detained along with her husband on December 20, 1975, by members of the DINA; she was seen at the “La Venda Sexy” and “Villa Grimaldi” facilities, and disappeared since then.

Her name appeared on a list published in the press regarding the “death of Chilean extremists abroad.”

Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, 24 years old, married. She studied Social Work at the Universidad de Chile and was a member of the MIR. She was detained along with her spouse Marcelo Salinas Eytel on October 30, 1974, by members of the DINA.

She was seen at José Domingo Cañas, Villa Grimaldi, and Cuatro Álamos, from where she disappeared. Her name appeared on a list published in the press regarding the “death of Chilean extremists abroad.”

Juan René Molina Mogollones, 29 years old, married, had three children, worked as an employee, and was a member of the MIR. He was detained on January 29, 1975, at 5:00 PM, at the intersection of Avenida Portugal and Avenida Matta.

He was seen at Villa Grimaldi, where he remained isolated in “La Torre.” From there, he was taken to an unknown destination on February 20. His name appeared on a list published in the press regarding the “death of Chilean extremists abroad.”

Alejandro Juan Ávalos Davidson, 31 years old, single. He was a professor at the Universidad Católica and a member of the Communist Party. He was detained on November 20, 1975, by DINA agents. He remained held at Villa Grimaldi, the place from which his trail was lost in February 1976.

On March 21, 1990, his skeletal and dental remains were found, along with those of two other people, inside the “Las Tórtolas” estate, at kilometer 35 of Route 57, on land belonging to the Compañía Minera Disputada de Las Condes.

René Roberto Acuña Reyes, 22 years old, single. He was a member of the MIR and a student. He was detained on February 14, 1975, at his home by members of the DINA. He was seen at Villa Grimaldi. Since then, he has been disappeared. His name appeared on a list published in the press regarding the “death of Chilean extremists abroad.”

Carlos Alberto Carrasco Matus, 21 years old. He was performing his mandatory military service when he was called to join the DINA. He served as a guard at Cuatro Álamos. He was detained on March 14, 1975, in Conchalí by members of that organization. He was seen held at Villa Grimaldi.

Hugo Daniel Ríos Videla, 21 years old, was married and had a son. He was a member of the MIR and studied at the Universidad Técnica del Estado. Detained on February 14, 1975, by members of the DINA. He was seen at Villa Grimaldi. His name appeared on a list published in the press regarding the “death of Chilean extremists abroad.”

Agustín Alamiro Martínez Meza, 27 years old, was married and had two children. An engineer in Mechanical Execution by profession and a member of the MIR. Detained on January 1, 1975, by members of the DINA. He was seen at Villa Grimaldi. His name appeared on a list published in the press regarding the “death of Chilean extremists abroad.”

Juan Rodrigo Mac Leod Treuer, 29 years old, married. He was linked to the MIR. He worked as an employee in a fishing company. He was detained while visiting his spouse, who was held at Tres Álamos. He was seen detained at Villa Grimaldi.

María Julieta Ramírez Gallegos, 65 years old, was married and a mother of two children. Housewife. No known political militancy. She was detained while visiting her daughter, who was held at “Tres Álamos.” She was seen detained at “Villa Grimaldi.”

Luis Jaime Palominos Rojas, 24 years old, was single. Student and member of the MIR. He was detained on December 9, 1974, by members of the DINA, who transferred him to “Villa Grimaldi,” where he was severely tortured.

He was seen there by several witnesses, from where he was taken to an unknown destination on December 24, 1974. His name appeared on the list published in the press regarding the “death of Chilean extremists abroad.”

Marta Silvia Adela Neira Muñoz, 29 years old, member of the MIR, detained on December 9, 1974, at Bascuñán Guerrero and Antofagasta by DINA agents, transferred to the facility known as Venda Sexy.

César Arturo Emiliano Negrete Peña, 25 years old, leader of the MIR, detained on December 9, 1974, by DINA agents and seen by witnesses at “Venda Sexy” and “Villa Grimaldi.”

Humberto Juan Carlos Menenteau Aceituno. Leader of the MIR, detained by the DINA at the end of 1974 and taken to “Villa Grimaldi.” He participated along with two other leaders in a televised public statement and a press conference in which they called on their fellow members to end the armed struggle.

They then continued to be detained for a few months at Villa Grimaldi, separated from the rest of the prisoners, until they regained their freedom in September 1975. While in that situation, Humberto Menenteau was detained again on November 19, while he was at his parents’ house, and José Carrasco the following day at the home of some friends.

On December 1, 1975, his death occurred, and his body was identified by his relatives on December 10 at the Legal Medical Institute, having been found in the vicinity of Buin. He showed signs of having been tortured before his death.

Previously, and while they were still detained, the DINA disseminated information through the press that the MIR had sentenced the participants in the statement and the press conference to death.

Source: rebelion.org, 12/06/2012

Date: 12-06-2012

Ferrer accused Moren of murdering his nephew at Villa Grimaldi

Inside the Cordillera prison in Peñalolén, things are heating up among the former DINA agents. The former agent and subsequent former chief of the secret service of the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE), Maximiliano Ferrer Lima, confronted the former chief of Villa Grimaldi, “el Ronco” Marcelo Moren Brito, and his wife during a visit, accusing him of murdering his own nephew, Alan Bruce Catalán, in that place by strangling him with a wire and putting a plastic bag over his head.

A method similar to how the DINA killed the clandestine Communist leaders Víctor Díaz and Marta Ugarte.

Ferrer’s accusation against Moren (both hold the rank of retired colonel) is contained in a Gendarmerie report dated December 18, 2007, addressed to judges investigating human rights violation cases. The institution drafted the document with this background information because it is information that has been unknown until now in all the existing trials. “The inmate Ferrer Lima states that he has no objections to giving this statement before a Court minister,” states the text signed by the sub-inspector and warden of the prison, Sergio Prado Lobos.

Alan Bruce, a forcibly disappeared person, was arrested by the DINA on February 13, 1975, in the Las Condes commune in Santiago and transferred to Villa Grimaldi, where Moren Brito was in charge.

In the brawl, which according to the report took on violent proportions, Ferrer also lashed out at Moren’s wife, who took part in the fight to defend her husband. A Gendarmerie non-commissioned officer who reprimanded Ferrer “to maintain composure with the lady, wife of inmate Moren Brito,” also suffered Ferrer’s fury.

The report adds that on the day of the altercation, Ferrer, in addition to shouting at Moren and his wife about the crime of Alan Bruce, began to destroy objects, including some water faucets in the prison.

This harsh confrontation is in addition to those that occurred in the final months of 2007 between the former second-in-command of the DINA, Brigadier (Ret.) Pedro Espinoza, and the former chief of this repressive organization, General (Ret.) Manuel Contreras.

According to previous Gendarmerie reports, Espinoza has also been involved in fights with other former agents serving sentences at that facility.

For this confrontation, Ferrer Lima was punished by the Gendarmerie, with visits prohibited for a few days. Ferrer is serving an eight-year prison sentence at that facility for the crime of union leader Tucapel Jiménez, while Moren is doing so as a convicted author in several cases.

Source: January 4, La Nación