56 years old, married, employee, forcibly disappeared on August 14, 1974, in Osorno. Alfredo Busch Oyarzún was detained that day by Carabineros officers at the border with the Argentine Republic, in the Pajaritos sector of the Puyehue Pass, in the commune of Río Negro, Osorno.

He has been missing ever since. According to statements from his relatives, until September 11, 1973, Alfredo Busch, a member of the Communist Party, worked as the Head of the Maintenance Department of the San Miguel Municipality.

After the military coup, his home was raided on several occasions by military personnel and unidentified individuals who were looking for him. Other relatives, also communist militants, moved to reside in Buenos Aires.

On August 12, 1974, fearing for his personal safety, he traveled to the town of Río Negro, contacting various people with the intention of leaving the country. Eyewitnesses stated that, on August 14, Alfredo Busch managed to cross the Chilean border in the Pajaritos sector of the Puyehue Pass, thanks to the help of local guides.

However, a Carabineros patrol followed him in vehicles, managing to detain him and taking him back into national territory. Those who witnessed this event stated that they saw the uniformed officers, while holding Alfredo Busch, enter a forest in the area before he disappeared.

Considering the information received and the investigation carried out by this Corporation, the Superior Council reached the conviction that Alfredo Erardo Busch Oyarzún was made to disappear while he was detained by state agents. By virtue of this, he was declared a victim of human rights violations.

Source: (Corporation Report)

Please correct my uncle's name; his name was Eduardo, not Erardo, and although we waited for him for years until we truly knew what had happened to him. He was an adorable man, with a unique smile. When he disappeared, I was 8 years old, but we always had the hope that he might have crossed into Bariloche.

Please, in the name of those of us who knew him as a person and not as a disappeared person, correct the spelling error. Thank you for your page. I am Argentine, the daughter of an exiled Montonera, but I never stopped thinking about that smiling uncle whom my aunt loved until her last breath; his daughters and my grandmother searched until all possibilities were exhausted.

Today he has a plaque in the plaza of his town; he was a spectacular man and I only knew him for a minimal part of my life. Thank you for keeping him present in this way. mariel pereyra niece of Alfredo Eduardo Busch. 1.10.10 Memoriaviva reviewed the records, and his names are Alfredo Erardo

Source: Mariel Pereyra

This Monday, September 8, the National Association of Public Employees (ANEF) will hold a ceremony to inaugurate a memorial in honor of the public officials who were forcibly disappeared and killed during the dictatorship.

The tribute will be attended by government authorities, social organizations, and human rights organizations. “This is done with all the respect that preserving the memory of our country holds for us as an association.

On this occasion, we want to immortalize our officials and leaders, who also bequeathed to us their ethics and union struggle and who were murdered in the worst period of our history. And in remembering our fallen comrades, we also make a call for life and peace,” commented the general secretary of ANEF, Bernardo Jorquera.

Joining the ANEF leaders who announced the memorial was Deputy Tucapel Jiménez—son of the ANEF union leader of the same name, who was murdered by Army agents in 1982—as well as the leader of the Association of Relatives of Political Executions, Alicia Lira.

There are more than 380 cases that will appear on a plaque at the ANEF headquarters, which will be inaugurated on Monday, September 8, at 11:00 AM. The list was provided to the union by the Ministry of the Interior, and includes President Salvador Allende Gossens and Tucapel Jiménez. “This inauguration dignifies the working class and the union movements,” said Alicia Lira, who is the widow of a Treasury official murdered in the first days after the Military Coup. “These acts of keeping memory alive, of remembering the fallen, are important because memory is fragile and it is good to keep it alive. We want young people to never again live through that dark history that we went through as a country, and that is why it is important to remember the fallen and seek truth and justice, with the purpose that these things never happen again,” affirmed Deputy Jiménez.

Source: cronicadigital.cl 5/9/2014

Date: 05-09-2014