Ángel Daniel Espinoza Valenzuela
Comerciante — 21 years old.
Background
Ángel Daniel Espinoza Valenzuela
Comerciante — 21 years old.
Case summary
Ángel Daniel Espinoza Valenzuela was a 21-year-old merchant, with no political affiliation, who was detained by Carabineros on September 12, 1973, in the commune of Quinta Normal. On September 14, 1973, he was extrajudicially executed by state agents, dying on a public street due to multiple gunshot wounds.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
Miguel Antonio Díaz León died that day at 13:00 hours, on a public thoroughfare, due to a cervicothoracic gunshot wound with an exit wound, along with craniocerebral constriction, as recorded in the Medical Death Certificate from the Legal Medical Institute.
Angel Daniel Espinoza Valenzuela died on the indicated day at 7:00 hours, on a public thoroughfare, due to multiple thoraco-abdominal gunshot wounds, as recorded in the Medical Death Certificate from the Legal Medical Institute.
According to eyewitnesses, on September 12, 1973, around 10:00 hours, Miguel Díaz and Angel Espinoza were detained at a home in the Radal neighborhood, in the Quinta Normal commune, by Carabineros officers, who transported them to the neighborhood police station.
Days later, their bodies were found at the Legal Medical Institute.
Considering the evidence gathered and the investigation carried out by this Corporation, the Superior Council reached the conviction that Miguel Antonio Díaz León and Angel Daniel Espinoza Valenzuela were extrajudicially executed by State agents while they were in detention, an act that constitutes a violation of human rights.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=224