On December 3, 1974, the married couple Alejandro DE LA BARRA VILLARROEL and Ana María Irene PUGA ROJAS, a political scientist and a teacher and actress, respectively, were killed. Both were members of the MIR, and he was a leader of that organization.

That day, they were ambushed while on their way to pick up their son from the kindergarten he attended at the corner of Calle Pedro de Valdivia and Andacollo. The kindergarten in question had been visited previously by DINA agents, who had been able to locate their victims through that means.

The Commission reached the conviction that Alejandro de la Barra and Ana María Puga were traveling in a car and, upon arriving at the aforementioned intersection, were fired upon without any arrest warrant having been issued and without any resistance on their part. Therefore, it is convinced that they were victims of political execution by state agents, in violation of their human rights.

Ana María Puga Ortiz and Alejandro de la Barra Villarroel