Case No. 30.383-2003: Qualified homicide case of Juan Ramón Olivares Pérez and Rubén Eduardo Orta Jopia

46.- Statements by Rinoldo Alismer Rodríguez Hernández on page 922, in which he states that he belonged to the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), being assigned to the "Rojo" (Red) group, which was under the command of Army Officer Oscar Andrade, nicknamed "Pestañita." In the group, his duties were related to the MIR, and he always performed investigative tasks and, on some occasions, participated in raids, but he was never involved in confrontations with armed groups.

The officers in command of the group were several, as they rotated. In addition to Oscar Andrade, there were Enrique Sandoval, Aquiles González, a Police Commissioner nicknamed "El Cuervo," Jorge Barraza from the Investigations police, an Army Officer with the surname Hernández, and Carlos Herrera Jiménez, nicknamed "Bocaccio." Regarding the personnel, there was Juan Salazar, who was a Carabineros Non-Commissioned Officer, another with the surname Correa, the Chief of Staff was a Carabineros official nicknamed "Don Pepe," José Ubilla, who was also from the Carabineros, Corporal Juan Barra, and the rest were Army personnel; in total, there were about 25 or 30 officials in the group. There were other groups in the barracks, which had color designations and depended on a Brigade; among the officers who were in command, he recalls Manuel Provis, a Colonel with the surname Smith, and the last one in command was Álvaro Corbalán. During the period he was at the CNI's Borgoño barracks, he worked in the group that investigated the MIR, which later changed its name from Rojo to Azul upon merging with the Azul group. Regarding the confrontation that occurred on Av. Santa María near the Borgoño barracks on November 7, 1980, he remembers a similar situation that occurred in the early evening hours; while he was the Non-Commissioned Officer on duty, he heard shots and there was a lot of agitation in the barracks, so he went up to a sector where they had elevated surveillance points, being able to see that there were vehicles and movement of people on Av. Santa María, before the Manuel Rodríguez bridge. As the Non-Commissioned Officer on duty, he had to record the events he witnessed, since his job was the security of the barracks, and it was the responsibility of the group participating in the events to report to their superiors. He knew that members of the "Rojo" group participated in the confrontation, as he saw José Ubilla, Juan Salazar, Juan Barra, and Oscar Andrade moving near the scene. In addition, there were some members of the Special group that was in charge of Captain Francisco Zúñiga. He saw these officials at the scene, but he is unaware of their participation. His operational name was "Diego Vivanco," but at the Carabineros Non-Commissioned Officers School, they nicknamed him "Papito," and almost all the officials knew him by this nickname.

Source: Judiciary, May 16, 2017