Aliro Segundo Oporto Durán, 17 years old, was forcibly disappeared on November 7, 1973, in the Ralco sector, in the commune of Santa Bárbara (VIII Region). That day, his family had traveled to Los Ángeles to pick up his father, who was being released after having been detained on September 11, 1973.

In the mid-afternoon, Carabineros entered Aliro Oporto’s home, where only he, two of his siblings, and a neighbor were present. Terrified, the young man fled through the back door of the house, which was noticed by one of the uniformed officers, who pursued him and shot at him.

That was the last time he was seen alive. His body was never found. The information gathered by the Commission allowed for the conviction that Aliro Oporto’s disappearance was the result of the actions of State agents.

Source: Valech Commission 2 - 2011

After 23:00 hours on September 28, 1973, Jorge Narváez Salamanca, a 15-year-old third-year high school student at the Mulchén Lyceum and a militant of the FER, the student branch of the MIR, was kidnapped.

The gang that arrived at his home kicked down the front door and held his mother at gunpoint with a machine gun. In that group were civilians and Carabineros, who took the minor from his home; to this day, there is no information regarding his whereabouts.

Jorge Narváez Salamanca’s mother and other witnesses were able to identify among the kidnappers young men from the Mulchén Lyceum itself, such as José Horacio Pacheco Padilla, José Pacheco Padilla (19 years old), Carlos Campos Pérez (18 years old), Rolf During Pholer (19 years old), Alberto Raúl Antonio Tirapegui Silva (20 years old), and Eduardo Antonio Bopp Negrete.

All of them were part of a group of civilians that operated in said commune alongside Carabineros after the Military Coup of September 11, 1973. It was common to see them outside the police station alongside police personnel, among whom was Lieutenant Jorge Maturana Concha.

Four days before his kidnapping and disappearance, specifically on September 24, Jorge Narváez had been detained for a few hours after being apprehended by Carabineros inside his lyceum, following a report by youths belonging to the far-right paramilitary group Patria y Libertad, some of whom participated in his detention days later.

It should be noted that Lieutenant Jorge Maturana Concha and the young Carlos Campos Pérez are also identified as responsible for the arrest and disappearance of Gabriel Valentín Lara Espinoza, 18 years old, a student at the same Mulchén Lyceum.

The event occurred on September 22, 1973, under circumstances similar to those recounted in the case of Jorge Narváez, with whom he shared political militancy within the FER, the student organization of the MIR.

The case of Jorge Narváez Salamanca is one of 40 cases of children and/or adolescents who were forcibly disappeared in Chile; 8 of these cases belong to the Biobío region and are registered in the reports of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Report).

In addition to these 40 disappeared minors, this same Rettig Report identifies 150 children and adolescents who were victims of political execution during the 17 years the military dictatorship lasted, seven of them in Biobío.

The subsequent report on political imprisonment and torture (Valech Commission) was able to identify at least 102 children and adolescents who were detained or kidnapped by State security agencies during the dictatorship.

Furthermore, the same document accounts for fifteen pregnant women who were executed or forcibly disappeared, whose children’s whereabouts remain unknown. Regarding the case of Jorge Narváez Salamanca, there are open proceedings against civilians and former Carabineros officials, with first-instance sentences.

Other detained and forcibly disappeared minors from the Biobío region: Segundo Enrique Cabezas Pérez : He was 14 years old when he was detained along with his older brother, José Hugo, a 22-year-old agricultural worker.

They were detained in their home, located in the El Tránsito neighborhood of Los Ángeles, by personnel from the Investigations police on October 5, 1973. Aliro Segundo Oporto Duran : He was forcibly disappeared on November 7, 1973, at 17 years of age, in the Ralco sector, then the commune of Santa Bárbara.

That day, his family had traveled to Los Ángeles to pick up his father, who was being released after having been detained on September 11, 1973. In the mid-afternoon, Carabineros entered Aliro Oporto’s home, where only he, two of his siblings, and a neighbor were present.

Terrified, the young man fled through the back door of the house, being struck by shots fired by one of the uniformed officers. That was the last time he was seen alive. His body was never found. Víctor Adolfo Ulloa Pino : He was 16 years old when he was detained on September 18, 1973, along with his brother, Juan Eladio, at their home located at Calle Valdivia No. 521 in Los Ángeles.

They were taken to the police station in the same city, interrogated by Captain Fabres, and sent the same day to the Los Ángeles Regiment. According to testimony provided 17 years later by a witness who was a conscript at the Los Ángeles Regiment in September 1973, the Ulloa Pino brothers were kept locked up in miserable conditions in a small guardhouse inside the military compound for approximately 15 days, and were subsequently taken from the site to an unknown destination.

On October 15, 2004, after performing DNA tests on bone fragments found in 1990 at the La Mona estate, near Los Ángeles, the justice system determined that two of them contained the DNA of the Ulloa Pino brothers.

Santos David Melgarejo Rojas, 17 years old, an itinerant merchant, was detained by Carabineros from the Second Precinct of Concepción on January 14, 1979, in the Agüita de la Perdiz neighborhood. Erika del Carmen Riquelme Briones: She was 17 years old and was detained upon arriving from the city of Talca, along with her brother, by police officers from the Carabineros station in the Zañartu neighborhood.

A person who was detained with them and released the following day notified their mother, who had been denied the fact of her children’s detention. Juan Antonio Riquelme Briones: He was 14 years old when he was detained.

They were coming from Talca along with his sister Erika; they were detained by police officers from the Carabineros station in the Zañartu neighborhood. A person who was detained with them and released the following day notified their mother, who had been denied the fact of her children’s detention.

Source: resumen.cl, October 12, 2023

Date: 10-12-2023

Breaking the silence of children and adolescents who were victims of political execution during the civil-military dictatorship 1973-1990 (BOOK)

Testimonies, photographs, letters, and other documents that families and friends provided or wrote specifically for publication are incorporated into the book "Breaking the silence of children and adolescents who were victims of political execution during the civil-military dictatorship 1973-1990," which was produced by the Association of Relatives of Political Executed Persons (AFEP) with the support of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage, through the Culture, Memory, and Human Rights Unit, and the Human Rights Chair of the University of Chile.

The publication, based primarily on the Report of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (1991) and the Report of the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation (1996), seeks to reconstruct each of the victims' lives and stories in a comprehensive and careful manner.

During the research, the archive of the Association of Relatives of Political Executed Persons was accessed, where documents that families have preserved over the years are kept. Illustrations by Álvaro Gómez were also included. The creation process was a complex challenge that involved combining delicacy, respect, and methodological rigor to state a painful and inescapable truth in this work.

Source: cultura.gobierno.cl, April 20, 2023

Date: 04-20-2023

Supreme Court sentences 4 former Carabineros and 10 civilians for the crimes against 28 people in Santa Bárbara and Quilaco in 1973

The highest court confirmed the sentence issued by the Concepción Court of Appeals, which convicted former Carabineros and civilians for their participation in the disappearance of 28 peasants in Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, in the foothills of the Biobío, between September and December 1973.

The Supreme Court issued a final judgment in the investigation into the aggravated kidnappings of José Domingo Godoy Acuña, Julio César Godoy Godoy, Desiderio Aguilera Solís, José Nazario Godoy Acuña, Manuel Salamanca Mella, José Mariano Godoy Acuña, Miguel Cuevas Pincheira, Sebastián Hernaldo Campos Díaz, José Rafael Zúñiga Aceldine, José Secundino Zúñiga Aceldine, José Gilberto Araneda Riquelme, Juan de Dios Rubio Llancao, Julio Rubio Llancao, José María Tranamil Pereira, José Guillermo Purrán Treca, Elba Burgos Sáez, Juan de Dios Fuentes Lizama, Juan Francisco Fuentes Lizama, Sergio D´Apollonio Petermann, Aliro Oporto Durán, Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, José Felidor Pinto Pinto, Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Alberto Bastías Sandoval, Raimundo Salazar Muñoz, Gabriel José Viveros Flores, Segundo Marcial Soto Quijón, and José Roberto Molina Quezada. These crimes were perpetrated in the communes of Santa Bárbara and Quilaco between the months of September and December 1973. In a split decision (case roll 24.143-2019), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, and minister María Teresa Letelier—accepted the appeals for cassation on the merits filed and overturned the appealed sentence, issued by the Concepción Court of Appeals in June 2019, in the part that considered the 10 accused civilians as accomplices to the crimes and, in a replacement sentence, convicted them as perpetrators for having had direct participation in the detentions and kidnappings, as had been dictated by the first-instance ruling of minister Raquel Lermanda. The split decision is explained by the fact that minister Letelier was in favor of maintaining the sentence reductions adopted by the Concepción court. In the final judgment, the following were convicted as perpetrators of the crimes: former Carabineros officer Planté Euclide Aravena Sáez to a sentence of 14 years in prison; former Carabineros Héctor Isaías Echeverría Beltrán and José Heraldo Pulgar Riquelme must serve 11 years in prison; Carlos Santiago Sepúlveda Rivera and the civilian Exequiel del Carmen Celedón Barrera, 10 years and one day; the civilians Sergio Amado Fuentes Valenzuela, Luis Enrique Ricardo Antonio Barrueto Bartning, and Manuel Darío Barrueto Bartning to 6 years of imprisonment; while the civilians Jorge Denis Domínguez Larenas, Jorge Eduardo Valdivia Dames, and José Roberto Valdivia Dames must serve 5 years and one day in prison. Finally, the convicted civilians Eugenio Villa Urrutia, Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, and José Feliciano Gutiérrez Ortiz were sentenced to 4 years in prison, with the benefit of supervised release for the same period. Acquitted due to death are those convicted in the first instance José Burgos Sandoval, José Godoy Godoy, Pedro Segundo Ruiz Pardo, and the implicated and accused Sergio Salazar San Martín and Sergio Alejandro Pino Cabezas. Executions and disappearances The judicial investigation establishes in detail the various criminal episodes carried out by the uniformed officers and civilians who were the executors of true extermination raids. Thus, on September 13, 1973, a group of civilians and Carabineros, all armed with firearms and traveling in motorized vehicles, arrived at the home of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, located on the El Rodal plot on the outskirts of Quilaco, proceeding to detain him in the presence of his relatives, and then taking him away on foot to an unknown destination, keeping him disappeared to this date. On September 14, 1973, Juan de Dios Fuentes Lizama and Juan Francisco Fuentes Lizama were kidnapped from their home located in a hut on the Corcovado estate, on the road to Villacura, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, by Carabineros and civilians, and their whereabouts remain unknown to this date. On September 16, 1973, Juan de Dios Rubio Llancao and Julio Alberto Rubio Llancao were detained and taken to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station, under the charge of the Unit Chief, the then-lieutenant Planté Aravena Sáez. That same day, Guillermo Purrán Treca went to the indicated police unit seeking protection because he could not return to his home, as he had missed the bus and the curfew was about to begin, but they kept him there as a detainee. At night, these three peasants, plus José María Tranamil Pereira, who had also been detained, were taken out of the police station and transported to the Quilaco bridge, where the Carabineros riddled them with bullets; since that date, no news has been known about the four peasants. On September 16, 1973, Sebastián Hernaldo Campos Díaz presented himself voluntarily to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station, as he had been summoned previously, and remained detained; to this date, there is no news of his whereabouts. At noon on September 17, 1973, Elba Burgos Sáez was detained by Carabineros on a public street in the city of Santa Bárbara, was put into a pickup truck, and taken to an unknown destination; since that date, no news of her whereabouts or existence has been known. On the afternoon of September 17, 1973, José Rafael Zúñiga Aceldine, José Secundino Zúñiga Aceldine, and José Gilberto Araneda Riquelme went voluntarily to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station, complying with a summons that Carabineros of the aforementioned police unit had made through a third party, and were entered into said facility as detainees; since that date, no news has been known about their whereabouts or destination. In the commune of Quilaco, in the early hours of September 20, 1973, a group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at the home of José Felidor Pinto Pinto, a leader of the Campo Lindo peasant settlement, located on the old Huinquén estate, whom they detained, taking him from his house and carrying him away in vehicles to an unknown destination; from that moment on, there was never any news of his destination, and his trail has disappeared to this date. On the morning of September 20, 1973, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, the group of executioners arrived at the 'El Huachi' estate, located 8 kilometers from that commune, and detained José Domingo Godoy Acuña, Julio César Godoy Godoy, and Desiderio Aguilera Solís, transporting them to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station, from where they were taken out at night to an unknown destination, and to this date, they have not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. Around noon that day, the same group headed to the Loncopangue village and also to the vicinity of the Rañiguel estate in the same sector, proceeding to detain Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Bastías Sandoval, and Raimundo Salazar Muñoz, who were loaded onto a Quilaco Municipality truck driven by José Feliciano Gutiérrez Ortiz, known as 'El Chamo', to then be taken along the public road leading to Quilaco to a path that leads to the confluence of the Bío Bío and Quilmes rivers, where they were taken off the vehicle and, guarded by their captors, were led on foot to the banks of the indicated watercourses, at which moment their captors allegedly fired at them with firearms, their bodies falling into the channel of the mentioned rivers; their actual whereabouts remain unknown to this date. Also that day, in the afternoon, the local resident Segundo Marcial Soto Quijón was detained in Quilaco by a group made up of Carabineros and civilians, a date from which they made him disappear. In the commune of Santa Bárbara, at approximately 14:00 hours on the same day, September 20, the criminal group detained José Nazario Godoy Acuña in the Los Junquillos sector, who was subsequently transported to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station. Around 22:30 hours on September 20, 1973, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, they arrived at the home of Manuel Salamanca Mella, located on Avenida La Feria without number in Santa Bárbara, where they detained him in the presence of his relatives, to then take him to the Carabineros station. On the same date, the same group headed to the boarding house located at Calle Rosas No. 343 in the commune of Santa Bárbara, where they detained José Mariano Godoy Acuña, who was transported to the station where they were last seen; to this date, they have not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. On the night of September 20, 1973, the same armed group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at the home of Miguel Cuevas Pincheira, located at Calle Rosas No. 371 in Santa Bárbara, and detained him in the presence of his relatives, spouse, and children, taking him from his house and transporting him to an unknown place; to this date, he has not been seen again, nor is there any news of his whereabouts. On September 23, 1973, in the early hours of the morning, the group of executioners broke into the La Palma smallholding, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, to kidnap from their home the peasants Sergio D'Apollonio Petermann, 48 years old, and his son Carlos Jacinto D'Apollonio Zapata, 22 years old. They transported Carlos Jacinto to the bridge that connects the communes of Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, over the Bío Bío river, where they placed him on one of the railings and fired at him with firearms, causing him to fall into the riverbed. However, the current dragged his body to one of the banks, where his body was found hours later the next morning by relatives and acquaintances. They took the corpse to their home and proceeded to hold a wake to then bury him, but in the afternoon of that day, the same individuals who had kidnapped him the night before broke in to steal the young man’s body and took it away to make it disappear to the present. On the morning of November 3, 1973, at approximately 11:00 hrs., the group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at Plot No. 112 in the Piñiquihue sector of the commune of Quilaco, where they detained José Roberto Molina Quezada, took him from his house, and took him away in a vehicle to an unknown destination; from that moment on, there was never any news or knowledge of his whereabouts. On the night of Saturday, November 3, they arrived at the home of Gabriel José Viveros Flores, located on the outskirts of Loncopangue, proceeding to detain him in the presence of his relatives, taking him from his house and taking him away to an unknown destination. Around 16:00 hours on November 7, 1973, under circumstances where Aliro Segundo Oporto Durán, 17 years old, was in a house located in the Raleo sector of the town of Alto Bío Bío, Carabineros personnel arrived to detain him, but the young man ran in the direction of the Bío Bío river, being pursued by the police, one of whom shot at him, managing to apprehend him; from that moment on, all news of his whereabouts or existence is unknown.

Source: resumen.cl, October 21, 2022

Date: 10-21-2022

The 3 new cases of disappeared and executed persons from the Bío Bío region that are in the report

Thirty new cases of forcibly disappeared and politically executed persons nationwide were qualified in the latest report of the Presidential Advisory Commission, which reviewed new submissions regarding forcibly disappeared persons, politically executed persons, political prisoners, and torture victims.

Of these, three correspond to the Bío Bío region. Here we present them to you. Heriberto Gangas Silva, 32 years old, died on March 18, 1977, in the Concepción hospital, VIII Region, as a result of cancerous cachexia.

He was a leader of the MIR. Three years before his death, on January 31, 1974, the affected person was detained by military personnel at his home in Hualpencillo, Talcahuano. He remained deprived of liberty on Isla Quiriquina, where he was a victim of cruel torture, and was subsequently transferred to the Talcahuano Prison.

The affected person was subjected to a War Council and sentenced to 5 years in prison for violating Article 8 of the Arms Control Law. On January 8, 1976, he was granted conditional release, subject to the supervision of the Patronato de Reos.

At that date, he was suffering from testicular cancer. The information gathered by this Commission—especially the fact that the affected person was a victim of cruel mistreatment; that his illness manifested during his imprisonment; and the short period of time that elapsed between his release (January 1976) and his death (March 1977)—allowed for the conviction that the death of Heriberto Gangas Silva was related to the political imprisonment of which he was a victim.

Camilo del Rosario Lara Garrido, 24 years old, disappeared in October 1973 in the city of Talcahuano. He was part of his company’s union. In 1999, a mass grave was discovered in Concepción, VIII Region, which became known as “the basement.” The investigation carried out on the occasion of said discovery revealed the existence of autopsy No. 638, which corresponded to Camilo Lara.

The document indicates that he died on October 1, 1973, as a result of multiple gunshot wounds, and that his body was found on the bank of the Bío Bío river. The information gathered by this Commission allowed for the conviction that there was intervention by State agents in the death of Camilo del Rosario Lara Garrido.

Aliro Segundo Oporto Durán, 17 years old, was forcibly disappeared on November 7, 1973, in the Ralco sector, in the commune of Santa Bárbara (VIII Region). That day, his family had traveled to Los Ángeles to pick up his father, who was being released after having been detained on September 11, 1973.

In the mid-afternoon, Carabineros entered Aliro Oporto’s home, where only he, two of his siblings, and a neighbor were present. Terrified, the young man fled through the back door of the house, which was noticed by one of the uniformed officers, who pursued him and shot at him.

That was the last time he was seen alive. His body was never found. The information gathered by the Commission allowed for the conviction that Aliro Oporto’s disappearance was the result of the actions of State agents.

Of these situations, two correspond to forcibly disappeared persons and the third to a victim of political violence. Thus, the number of cases of forcibly disappeared persons in the Bío Bío region increases to 161.

Source: tribunadelbiobio.cl, 8/29/2011

Date: 08-29-2011

Human rights criminal reportedly remains director of a rural school in Curacautín

Seven months have passed since the Supreme Court sentenced Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán in the context of the kidnapping and disappearance of 28 peasants in Quilaco and Santa Bárbara. Despite the time that has elapsed since the country’s highest court’s pronouncement, the criminal reportedly remains the teacher in charge of a rural school in Curacautín.

After days of insistent requests for statements regarding the situation of the human rights criminal in charge of a rural school, the Curacautín Municipal Education Department (DAEM) remained silent regarding the situation, while the Araucanía Regional Ministerial Secretary (Seremi) of Education explained that there is an official process underway that seeks to clarify the permanence of Burgos Belauzarán as teacher in charge of the Collico school; that is, his exit from public administration has not yet been finalized. "From the Superintendency, it has been indicated to us that a complaint was filed ex officio and that, currently, the response provided by the Municipal Education Department is being reviewed," replied the Araucanía Seremi of Education, María Isabel Mariñanco. The Seremi added that: "in relation to this case, from the Regional Secretariat of Education in La Araucanía, from the very first moment, we have been in contact with the sponsor of the Collico Basic School of Curacautín to support the handling of this situation. In this context, we requested the Superintendency of Education in the region to—from its oversight role in the educational field—carry out the investigative management that allows us to know the details of the situation reported in the educational establishment." The above allows us to deduce that, despite the seven months since the Supreme Court’s conviction against Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán for human rights violations and the accessory penalty of perpetual absolute disqualification for public offices and positions, the criminal has not yet been dismissed as teacher in charge of the Collico rural school in Curacautín. 50 years after one of the most brutal crimes of the Chilean civil-military dictatorship, such as the kidnapping and disappearance of 28 peasants in Quilaco and Santa Bárbara, and the conviction against one of its perpetrators, the educational institutions in La Araucanía have still not removed him from their ranks as teacher in charge, a position he has held at least since 2016. After the news became known during the first days of May, the director of the Curacautín DAEM, Patricio Aguilera, informed RESUMEN that the situation was in the hands of a legal team "to reach a resolution." More than 10 days after said statement, the situation reportedly remains the same, which, according to Seremi María Isabel Mariñanco, motivated the official request from the Superintendency of Education. For now, Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, who according to the DAEM was on leave, meaning his salary of more than $2 million would be paid by "the Isapre," would continue to appear as part of the public education administration team in Curacautín. Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán was convicted as a perpetrator of the aggravated kidnapping of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, José Felidor Pinto Pinto, Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Alberto Bastias Sandoval, and Raimundo Salazar Muñoz. The episodes of executions and disappearances in Quilaco and Santa Bárbara. The judicial investigation establishes in detail the various criminal episodes carried out by the uniformed officers and civilians who were the executors of true extermination raids against peasants in the area. Thus, on September 13, 1973, a group of civilians and Carabineros, all armed with firearms and traveling in motorized vehicles, arrived at the home of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, located on the El Rodal plot on the outskirts of Quilaco, proceeding to detain him in the presence of his relatives, and then taking him away on foot to an unknown destination, keeping him disappeared to this date. On September 14, 1973, Juan de Dios Fuentes Lizama and Juan Francisco Fuentes Lizama were kidnapped from their home located in a hut on the Corcovado estate, on the road to Villacura, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, by Carabineros and civilians, and their whereabouts remain unknown to this date. On September 16, 1973, Juan de Dios Rubio Llancao and Julio Alberto Rubio Llancao were detained and taken to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station, under the charge of the Unit Chief, the then-lieutenant Planté Aravena Sáez. That same day, Guillermo Purrán Treca went to the indicated police unit seeking protection because he could not return to his home, as he had missed the bus and the curfew was about to begin, but they kept him there as a detainee. At night, these three peasants, plus José María Tranamil Pereira, who had also been detained, were taken out of the police station and transported to the Quilaco bridge, where the Carabineros riddled them with bullets; since that date, no news has been known about the four peasants. On September 16, 1973, Sebastián Hernaldo Campos Díaz presented himself voluntarily to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station, as he had been summoned previously, and remained detained; to this date, there is no news of his whereabouts. At noon on September 17, 1973, Elba Burgos Sáez was detained by Carabineros on a public street in the city of Santa Bárbara, was put into a pickup truck, and taken to an unknown destination; since that date, no news of her whereabouts or existence has been known. On the afternoon of September 17, 1973, José Rafael Zúñiga Aceldine, José Secundino Zúñiga Aceldine, and José Gilberto Araneda Riquelme went voluntarily to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station, complying with a summons that Carabineros of the aforementioned police unit had made through a third party, and were entered into said facility as detainees; since that date, no news has been known about their whereabouts or destination. In the commune of Quilaco, in the early hours of September 20, 1973, a group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at the home of José Felidor Pinto Pinto, a leader of the Campo Lindo peasant settlement, located on the old Huinquén estate, whom they detained, taking him from his house and carrying him away in vehicles to an unknown destination; from that moment on, there was never any news of his destination, and his trail has disappeared to this date. On the morning of September 20, 1973, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, the group of executioners arrived at the 'El Huachi' estate, located 8 kilometers from that commune, and detained José Domingo Godoy Acuña, Julio César Godoy Godoy, and Desiderio Aguilera Solís, transporting them to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station, from where they were taken out at night to an unknown destination, and to this date, they have not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. Around noon that day, the same group headed to the Loncopangue village and also to the vicinity of the Rañiguel estate in the same sector, proceeding to detain Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Bastías Sandoval, and Raimundo Salazar Muñoz, who were loaded onto a Quilaco Municipality truck driven by José Feliciano Gutiérrez Ortiz, known as 'El Chamo', to then be taken along the public road leading to Quilaco to a path that leads to the confluence of the Bío Bío and Quilmes rivers, where they were taken off the vehicle and, guarded by their captors, were led on foot to the banks of the indicated watercourses, at which moment their captors allegedly fired at them with firearms, their bodies falling into the channel of the mentioned rivers; their actual whereabouts remain unknown to this date. Also that day, in the afternoon, the local resident Segundo Marcial Soto Quijón was detained in Quilaco by a group made up of Carabineros and civilians, a date from which they made him disappear. In the commune of Santa Bárbara, at approximately 14:00 hours on the same day, September 20, the criminal group detained José Nazario Godoy Acuña in the Los Junquillos sector, who was subsequently transported to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros station. Around 22:30 hours on September 20, 1973, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, they arrived at the home of Manuel Salamanca Mella, located on Avenida La Feria without number in Santa Bárbara, where they detained him in the presence of his relatives, to then take him to the Carabineros station. On the same date, the same group headed to the boarding house located at Calle Rosas No. 343 in the commune of Santa Bárbara, where they detained José Mariano Godoy Acuña, who was transported to the station where they were last seen; to this date, they have not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. On the night of September 20, 1973, the same armed group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at the home of Miguel Cuevas Pincheira, located at Calle Rosas No. 371 in Santa Bárbara, and detained him in the presence of his relatives, spouse, and children, taking him from his house and transporting him to an unknown place; to this date, he has not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. On September 23, 1973, in the early hours of the morning, the group of executioners broke into the La Palma smallholding, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, to kidnap from their home the peasants Sergio D'Apollonio Petermann, 48 years old, and his son Carlos Jacinto D'Apollonio Zapata, 22 years old. They transported Carlos Jacinto to the bridge that connects the communes of Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, over the Bío Bío river, where they placed him on one of the railings and fired at him with firearms, causing him to fall into the riverbed. However, the current dragged his body to one of the banks, where his body was found hours later the next morning by relatives and acquaintances. They took the corpse to their home and proceeded to hold a wake to then bury him, but in the afternoon of that day, the same individuals who had kidnapped him the night before broke in to steal the young man’s body and took it away to make it disappear to the present. On the morning of November 3, 1973, at approximately 11:00 hrs., the group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at Plot No. 112 in the Piñiquihue sector of the commune of Quilaco, where they detained José Roberto Molina Quezada, took him from his house, and took him away in a vehicle to an unknown destination; from that moment on, there was never any news or knowledge of his whereabouts. On the night of Saturday, November 3, they arrived at the home of Gabriel José Viveros Flores, located on the outskirts of Loncopangue, proceeding to detain him in the presence of his relatives, taking him from his house and taking him away to an unknown destination. Around 16:00 hours on November 7, 1973, under circumstances where Aliro Segundo Oporto Durán, 17 years old, was in a house located in the Raleo sector of the town of Alto Bío Bío, Carabineros personnel arrived to detain him, but the young man ran in the direction of the Bío Bío river, being pursued by the police, one of whom shot at him, managing to apprehend him; from that moment on, all news of his whereabouts or existence is unknown.

Source: resumen.cl, 5/22/2023