Adriana Rivas, whose extradition from Australia has been requested, appears alongside other women—including the so-called "Doctor Hoffman"—among those indicted for the extermination of the Communist Party leadership at the hands of DINA brigades.

A stark account, which includes the actions of military personnel in the exhumation of bodies from Cuesta Barriga under the protection of the Carabineros, and the active participation of, among others, the extraditable Adriana Rivas, former secretary to Manuel Contreras, is included in the indictment by Judge Miguel Vásquez against 53 former agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) in the "Calle Conferencia Dos" case.

Rivas remains in Australia and her extradition has been requested since Thursday, January 16, by the Supreme Court at the request of the visiting judge, who has included her among those indicted in these proceedings for the extermination of the second leadership of the Communist Party in 1976.

In September 2013, the woman who formally served as secretary to the director of the DINA made statements to the Australian broadcaster SBS that caused a stir when she said she defended torture and, furthermore, noted that those years when she belonged to the repressive apparatus were the best of her youth.

Considered an agent of the Brigada Lautaro, the woman indicated in that conversation that torture in her country during the regime of Augusto Pinochet was "an open secret" and described it as a "necessary" technique to "break people."

THE "DOCTOR HOFFMAN" IS ALSO AMONG THE ACCUSED

The resolution considers 10 other women, all identified as participants in the torture of political prisoners—who were later murdered and forcibly disappeared—among them Berta Jiménez, Celinda Aspe, and Gladys Calderón, who allegedly acted by inoculating toxic elements and was known as "Doctor Hoffman."

Part of the document highlights one of the testimonies which established that "Adriana Rivas and Berta Jiménez were operatives" and that although "on paper all the women were secretaries," it is noted that "the truth is that they were operatives" and that "Celinda Aspe was the most operative of the female agents."

ON THE VERGE OF SENTENCING

The process, which is advancing at a rapid pace toward sentencing, indicates that starting on December 13, 1976, DINA brigades captured Fernando Navarro Allendes, Lincoyán Berríos Cataldo, Horacio Cepeda Marinkovic, Fernando Ortiz Letelier, Héctor Véliz Ramírez, and Waldo Ulises Pizarro Molina in various operations.

The case construction carried out by the magistrate indicates that they were all taken to the Simón Bolívar barracks in La Reina, where they were interrogated under torture, then forcibly disappeared, and that minimal remains of some of them were found at illegal burial sites.

THE DETAIL WITH THE LIST OF THE ACCUSED

"I. To (1) Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, (2) Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, (3) Juan Hernán Morales Salgado, (4) Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, (5) Federico Humberto Chaigneau Sepúlveda, (6) Hernán Luis Sovino Maturana, (7) Gladys de las Mercedes Calderón Carreño, (8) Eduardo Antonio Reyes Lagos, (9) Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, (10) José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, (11) Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, (12) Jorge Laureano Sagardía Monje, (13) Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya, (14) Bernardo del Rosario Daza Navarro, (15) Sergio Orlando Escalona Acuña, (16) Jorge Lientur Manríquez Manterola, (17) José Miguel Meza Serrano, (18) Luis Alberto Lagos Yáñez, (19) María Angélica Guerrero Soto, (20) Jorge Iván Díaz Radulovich, (21) Guillermo Jesús Ferrán Martínez, (22) Jorge Segundo Pichunmán Curiqueo, (23) Orfa Yolanda Saavedra Vásquez, (24) Elisa del Carmen Magna Astudillo, (25) Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta, (26) Eduardo Alejandro Oyarce Riquelme, (27) Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo, (28) Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, (29) Emilio Hernán Troncoso Vivallos, (30) Sergio Hernán Castro Andrade, (31) Teresa del Carmen Navarro Navarro, (32) Juan Edmundo Suazo Saldaña, (33) Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, (34) José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo, (35) Carlos Enrique Miranda Mesa, (36) Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, (37) Orlando del Tránsito Altamirano Sanhueza, (38) Gustavo Enrique Guerrero Aguilera, (39) Manuel Antonio Montre Méndez, (40) Guillermo Eduardo Díaz Ramírez, (41) Hiro Álvarez Vega, (42) Celinda Angélica Aspe Rojas, (43) Jorge Hugo Arriagada Mora, (44) Berta Yolanda del Carmen Jiménez Escobar, (45) Carlos Justo Bermúdez Méndez, (46) Eduardo Patricio Cabezas Mardones, (47) Adriana Elcira Rivas González, (48) Carlos Eusebio López Inostroza, (49) Italia Donata Vaccarella Gilio, Camilo Torres Negrier, Joyce Ana Ahumada Despouy, Marilín Melahani Silva Vergara, and José Domingo Seco Alarcón, as co-perpetrators of the crimes of aggravated kidnapping of Fernando Alfredo Navarro Allendes, committed starting December 13, 1976, and Lincoyán Yalú Berríos Cataldo, Horacio Cepeda Marinkovic, Juan Fernando Ortíz Letelier, Héctor Véliz Ramírez, committed starting December 15, 1976.

II: To Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Juan Hernán Morales Salgado, and Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, as co-perpetrators of the crime of aggravated kidnapping of Waldo Ulises Pizarro Molina, committed starting December 15, 1976.

III. To Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Juan Hernán Morales Salgado, Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, Eduardo Antonio Reyes Lagos, Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, Jorge Iván Díaz Radulovich, Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo, Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, Emilio Hernán Troncoso Vivallos, Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, Orlando del Tránsito Altamirano Sanhueza, Carlos Enrique Miranda Mesa, Guillermo Eduardo Díaz Ramírez, Eduardo Patricio Cabezas Mardones, Carlos Eusebio López Inostroza, and José Domingo Seco Alarcón, as co-perpetrators of three crimes of aggravated homicide of Juan Fernando Ortiz Letelier, Horacio Cepeda Marinkovic, and Lincoyán Yalú Berríos Cataldo, perpetrated between December 15, 1976, and December 25, 1976, in the city of Santiago."

Source: La Nacion, February 7, 2014