h) That this team of interrogators traveled regularly to Pisagua from Iquique in a light aircraft piloted by Army officer Carlos Teodoro De la Barra Daniels (deceased). The reason this group did not have a permanent presence in Pisagua was because they carried out the same practices against detainees at the Telecommunications Regiment, where they were under the command of Pedro Santiago Collado Martí who, according to his own statements, directed the Military Intelligence Service, composed of military personnel and Carabineros, and who had a friendship with Prosecutor Mario Acuña Riquelme, holding meetings he called "colloquial" at least once a week.

THIRTY-FIRST

That the War Council subsequently sentenced prisoners Freddy Taberna Gallegos, José Sampson Ocaranza, Juan Antonio Ruz Díaz, and Rodolfo Fuenzalida Fernández to death. It should be noted that, in principle, Haroldo Quinteros Bugueño and Renato Vargas Contreras were also sentenced to death, which was subsequently modified by the ratifying body.

That the ruling in question was drafted by the Ad-Hoc Auditor of the VI Army Division, Captain Juan Enrique Sinn Bruno, with the concurring vote of the Council members, Major Carlos de la Barra Daniels (President), Captain Sergio Espinoza Davies, Second Lieutenant Patricio Williams Vega, Second Lieutenant Jorge Addinson Smith García, Second Lieutenant Ciro Casanueva Águila, and Second Lieutenant Ricardo Ibarra Ceballos.

Subsequently, it was approved with certain modifications by a resolution dated October 29, 1973, which was issued by Lieutenant Colonel Ramón Larraín Larraín, as Commander and Comptroller of the Pisagua Prisoner of War Camp.

THIRTY-FOURTH

On pages 226, 943, 1,867, 1,870, 2,115, and in the confrontations on pages 2,118 and 2,119, Juan Egidio Beltrán Madariaga testifies, having indicated that between 1973 and 1974 he served as an actuary for the Pisagua Military Prosecutor's Office, assigned in November 1973, sent by General Forestier, Chief of the State of Emergency.

He worked alongside Roberto Araya, who in turn worked with Judge Acuña. He states that both were dependent on Prosecutor Mario Acuña and also on the Military War Judge, Carlos Forestier Hansen. He relates that from the first week of November 1973 onwards, he knew that detainees were taken by military patrols, belonging to all branches of the armed forces, and entered the Telecommunications Regiment and the Logistics Battalion.

In the Logistics Battalion, the Chief was Colonel Valenzuela Solís de Obando. He points out that detainees arrived, mainly at the Telecommunications Regiment, although sometimes also at the Logistics Battalion, and were transferred to Pisagua.

He explains that his job consisted of creating files for the detainees who were already in Pisagua. They traveled between Iquique and Pisagua by light aircraft; they spent more time in Pisagua, staying between 8 or 10 days and only 3 or 4 days in Iquique.

The plane was piloted by Lieutenant Colonel Carlos de la Barra Daniels. He adds that he worked this way until December 1974 and that he spent a little over a year traveling constantly to Pisagua.

This past October 23, two well-known criminals, famous in Iquique for the atrocities they were capable of committing against various political prisoners starting in September 1973, were prosecuted. The principal one is the then-colonel Edmundo Jahnsen Merino James, who as commander of Regiment No. 6 "Tarapacá," known as the Iquique Telecommunications Regiment, turned that military facility into a true hell of torture and mistreatment of political detainees, many of whom were sent to the Pisagua Concentration Camp in poor physical condition due to the torture inflicted.

The other prosecuted criminal is the former Carabinero non-commissioned officer Blas Daniel Barraza Quinteros, a torturer implicated in almost all the murders and disappearances committed by the dictatorship in Iquique.

But the visiting judge Joaquín Billard prosecuted both criminals as authors of the aggravated kidnapping of socialist militants Jorge Marín Rossel and Williams Millar Sanhueza; both prisoners disappeared from the Telecommunications Regiment on September 29, 1973.

It has been established that prisoners Marín and Millar were taken to the regiment's shooting range sector, flogged, and from there sent to a location still undetermined, an act covered up by the report of a supposed escape, a farce widely disseminated by the press of the time, which released military communiqué No. 64 that ordered their capture "with orders to shoot at the slightest attempt at resistance." Well-founded suspicions point to the fact that this act was committed to justify the murder committed against soldier Pedro Prado Ortiz and thus blame the prisoners Marín and Millar.

Jorge Marín Rossel, a 19-year-old socialist militant, was detained on September 11, tortured, and released on the 20th. Detained again on September 28, 1973, this time by Roberto Fuentes Zambrano, alias "el Guatón Fuentes"; by Sergeant Santiago Moreno Zagal, by Carabinero René Egidio Valdivia, and by non-commissioned officer Miguel Aguirre, alias "el Care Palo," he was taken to the VI Army Division headquarters and from there transferred to the Telecommunications Regiment.

William Millar Sanhueza, a 42-year-old socialist militant, was an employee of the railway company. He was detained by the investigative police on September 24, 1973, and transferred to the Telecommunications Regiment.

In the Telecommunications Regiment, both were savagely tortured by "el Guatón Fuentes," by "el Flaco Aguirre," and by the cop Barraza. Another person responsible for these crimes, but not yet prosecuted, is the second-in-command of the regiment, Major Carlos de la Barra Daniels.

This weekend, the First Human Rights Congress of Iquique was held, preparatory to the National Human Rights Congress to be held in Santiago on December 10. Among the central ideas proposed there is undoubtedly the annulment of the Amnesty Law, raising the demand for truth, justice, and punishment for those guilty of these and all crimes committed by the dictatorship.

In the realm of Historical Memory, the construction of a Memorial was proposed in a prominent site in our city, such as the current Plaza Condell, which, completely remodeled, should house said Memorial.

In that same place, it is also proposed to build a Museum of Memory at a lower level, which would perpetuate our city's eternal tribute to these and all martyrs and fighters for the emancipation of the people.

It will be a tribute to these fighters, the best of our people's cause; and at the same time, a stigma of disgrace to these criminals who are today prosecuted not only by Judge Billard, but by the clean conscience of our Homeland.

Source: Diario21.cl, October 29, 2007

Minister Vicente Hormazábal sentences retired Army officers for the application of torture to 35 victims in Iquique and Pisagua

In the civil sphere, Minister Hormazábal Abarzúa upheld, with costs, the claims for damages filed and ordered the state to pay a total sum of $2,570,000,000 (two billion five hundred seventy million pesos) for moral damages to 33 of the victims.

The extraordinary visiting minister for human rights violation cases of the Courts of Appeal of Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta, Copiapó, and La Serena, Vicente Hormazábal Abarzúa, sentenced three retired Army officers for their responsibility in the repeated crime of applying torture to Juan Alberto Araya Álvarez, Nelson Eddy Clery Cabezas, Freddy Beder Alonso Oyanadel, Luis Alberto Caucoto Ortega, Guillermo Ernesto Morales Armas, Héctor Reinaldo Pavelic Sanhueza, Hugo Medardo Bolívar Salazar, Héctor Mateo Taberna Gallegos, Luis Emilio Morales Marino, Alberto Orlando Viveros Madariaga, Juan Enrique Mercado Jordán, Eduardo Bernal Acuña, Haroldo Segundo Quinteros Bugueño, Miguel Belisario Cabrera Riquelme, Ornaldo Jesús Bacian Callpa, Rigoberto Orlando Echeverría Allende, Ángel Gabriel Prieto Henríquez, Francisco Germán Prieto Henríquez, Manuel Evaristo Espinoza Godoy, Juan Luis Gómez Guerrero, Carlos Antonio Lillo Quea, Juan Antonio Prieto Henríquez, Luis Pedro Caroca Vásquez, Manuel Guillermo Jiménez Méndez, Óscar Fernando Pizarro Talamilla, Raúl Ángel Díaz Bravo, José Ramón Steinberg Montes, Vladislav Dusan Kuzmicic Calderón, Juan Rolando Morales Herrera, Luis Rafael Alberto Angulo Córdova, Héctor Francisco Inostroza Núñez, Orlando Herrera Pinto, Luis Segundo González Vivas, Ernesto Paul Montoya Peredo, and Sylvia Amanda Urtubia Bobadilla. These crimes were committed in the city of Iquique and in the town of Pisagua, in various periods between 1973 and 1974.

In the ruling (case file 21-2012, Volume A), the visiting minister sentenced Pedro Santiago Collado Martí to 15 years in prison as the author of the crime regarding 29 victims. Meanwhile, Conrado Vicente García Giaier must serve 13 years in prison for his responsibility in the case of 13 victims, and Arturo Alberto Contador Rosales 8 years of imprisonment for his responsibility in the case of eight victims.

In the ruling, Minister Hormazábal Abarzúa established the following facts:

a) That starting on September 11, 1973, countless people from Iquique, sympathizers, supporters, or members of the Communist, Socialist, or MAPU political parties, were detained, being accused in some cases of specific acts, such as organizing plans to poison the city's water, assaulting barracks, belonging to paramilitary groups, kidnapping children of military personnel, organizing, carrying out, and participating in clandestine meetings, stockpiling weapons, seizing basic public services, communications, and the port by force of arms, among others, without any accusation other than their sympathy, closeness, or membership in a left-wing political party that, at the time, was constituted and functioning within the institutional legality of the country, or of being a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). b) That all these people, men and women, of different ages, a universe composed of adolescents to middle-aged people, by orders of General Ernesto Carlos Joaquín Forestier Haensgen (deceased), commander-in-chief of the VI Army Division and head of the State of Siege zone of the Tarapacá Province, were taken, in the case of men, to the Sixth Army Division or the First Carabinero Police Station of Iquique, and that part of their detention invariably ended at the Telecommunications Regiment of the time, a place where they were placed in what could be called courtyards, and then separated by political affiliation or other reasons, into containers, "pigsties" (a place where the military raised pigs), or oases (a sector where there was vegetation), all were asked for their data by Army personnel, with a portion of these people being interrogated in a sector of the unit located on a second floor, presumably in the building corresponding to the infirmary, and a number of them tortured in various forms and intensities, depending on the political importance the military regime attributed to them, and then, taking into account that same imputed political relevance, they were sent to Pisagua immediately or after a few days, normally in trucks, at early or late hours of the day, guarded by personnel from the same branch of the Armed Forces. c) That, in the case of women, their passage was through the Logistics Battalion, being controlled by Army personnel. Next, they were sent to the Buen Pastor, guarded by nuns, they had to share with prisoners for common crimes, and then they were sent to Pisagua, where they were kept detained on the second floor of a theater under armed guard. d) That the Pisagua Prisoner Camp was directed by Lieutenant Colonel Ramón Caupolicán Larraín Larraín (deceased), comptroller and commander of the Prisoner of War Camp and Military Garrison of Pisagua, who in turn received direct and peremptory orders from Ernesto Carlos Joaquín Forestier Haensgen. The camp guards were formed by a contingent led by a captain, who was assisted by two or more lower-ranking officers, lieutenants or second lieutenants, and by the respective enlisted troops. Larraín ordered the entry of the detainees and under his command, direct or delegated to the officers guarding the camp, sessions that the victims called "general softening up" were executed, consisting of beatings of all kinds, on various parts of the body, with greater or lesser force, "tasks" executed by the contingent on duty, with certain Carabinero or Army officers standing out and the officers in charge of the guard repeating these tasks. e) That, when the Camp began to function, the prisoners were placed by political importance or by parties on different floors of the prison, the lowest being called "catacombs," cells that were in the worst conditions of habitability and overcrowding. As time went by, the prisoners themselves were made to build pavilions to continue housing people, which were not finished, a period in which some of them enjoyed certain privileges due to their skills, fundamentally manual, such as cooks, diver-gatherers, furniture makers, waiters, etc., although they did not stop noticing the physical effects that the beatings caused on their companions, the same period in which the visit of some journalists was received who, under the guise of the International Red Cross, and despite the renovation ordered by Commander Larraín, managed to record and inform the world about the existence of the Camp, a video that was converted into a document that is available for viewing. f) That only a portion of the accused detained in Pisagua were subjected to a War Council, which were held in the school of that town. There were councils for the Socialist, Communist, or multi-party groups, formed by various officers specially called for that purpose, with Mario Sergio Acuña Riquelme (deceased) serving as prosecutor and Ramón Larraín Larraín and Carlos Forestier Haensgen, interchangeably, as the ratifying body for the sentences ordered by the Council. A large percentage of prisoners were sentenced informally, that is, without a written sentence or at least without them receiving one, often they were sentenced solely on the merit of their confessions obtained through torture, and having to travel by their own means to the places of serving their sentences, remaining imprisoned or relegated until their term, reduction of sanction, or conversion to exile. g) That, along with the "collective softening up" sessions, there were individual interrogations, with the purpose of obtaining the aforementioned confessions, in which a determined and permanent group under the command of Prosecutor Mario Acuña Riquelme, integrated, among others, by Roberto Fuentes Zambrano (deceased), René Valdivia Castro (deceased), Miguel "Chile" Aguirre Álvarez (deceased), and Blas Daniel Barraza Quinteros (deceased), interacted on some occasions with officers in charge of the custody of the Prisoner Camp, who applied torture that left the victims with physical and/or psychological sequelae, as accounted for by the expert reports carried out according to the Istanbul Protocol by the Legal Medical Service. h) That this team of interrogators traveled regularly to Pisagua from Iquique in a light aircraft piloted by Army officer Carlos Teodoro De la Barra Daniels (deceased). The reason this group did not have a permanent presence in Pisagua was because they carried out the same practices against detainees at the Telecommunications Regiment, where they were under the command of Pedro Santiago Collado Martí who, according to his own statements, directed the Military Intelligence Service, composed of military personnel and Carabineros, and who had a friendship with Prosecutor Mario Acuña Riquelme, holding meetings he called "colloquial" at least once a week. i) That, in general terms, the torture consisted of blows to the body using rifle butts, hands, feet, placing detainees naked or semi-naked on the floor and walking on them, sleep deprivation, exposure to the sun for hours and to the cold of the night without clothing, climbing and descending hills through "point and elbow" exercises, throwing them inside drums down slopes, electricity to certain parts of the body, submerging the head in water (submarino), blows to the ears (teléfono), mock executions, interrogations in which a firearm was left by their side, hanging by their extremities with the purpose of obtaining the stretching of the body for prolonged periods, rape, sexual abuse, keeping them on scarce food rations, and the constant threat of being executed themselves or their family members, among others.

Source: pdju.cl, November 7, 2023

Minister Sergio Troncoso sentences retired Army officers to life imprisonment for aggravated kidnapping in Iquique and Pisagua

"That, for what has been considered, this judge deems it normatively inappropriate to apply an amnesty to crimes against humanity, because jus cogens norms are at stake for which the criminalization of these illicit acts is mandatory, and this has been repeatedly resolved by the higher courts of justice."

The extraordinary visiting minister for human rights violation cases of the Court of Appeal of La Serena, Sergio Troncoso Espinoza, sentenced, with costs, the retired Army colonel Conrado Vicente García Giaier to the penalty of life imprisonment, with the accessory penalties of absolute perpetual disqualification for public offices and positions, political rights, and professional titles, as the author of the repeated crime of aggravated kidnapping of Artemio Rufino Salinas Valdivia, Gerardo Enrique Soudre Rojas, José Alejandro González Carreño, Damián Ernesto Rojas Gallardo, Carlos Aldo Valdivieso Martínez, Juan Adolfo Guillermo Petersen Gallardo, Luis Alberto Tapia Hidalgo, Patricio Alberto Polanco Polanco, Odesa Raquel Flores Tiayna, Alfonso Pedro Araya Pallero, and Eddie Omar Márquez Cortez. These crimes were committed in the town of Pisagua after September 11, 1973.

In the ruling (case file 21-2012, Volume B), Minister Troncoso Espinoza sentenced, with costs, the former Army brigadier Pedro Santiago Collado Martí to the penalty of life imprisonment, with the accessory penalties of absolute perpetual disqualification for public offices and positions, political rights, and professional titles, as the author of the crime of applying torture to the victim Luis Fernando Fuentes López and the repeated crime of aggravated kidnapping of Agusto Samuel Ahumada Gallardo, Enrique Silva Olivares, Mario del Carmen Magne Castillo, Artemio Rufino Salinas Valdivia, Rigoberto Ernesto Pizarro Prado, Ricardo Enrique Torres Morales, Ignelia Patricia Fuentes Rojas, Gerardo Enrique Soudre Rojas, José Alejandro González Carreño, Damián Enrique Villegas Castillo, Damián Ernesto Rojas Gallardo, Carlos Aldo Valdivieso Martínez, Juan Ernesto García Justiniano, Pedro Segundo Aguilera Sanquea, Juan Adolfo Guillermo Petersen Gallardo, Luis Alberto Tapia Hidalgo, Patricio Alberto Polanco Polanco, Odesa Raquel Flores Tiayna, Alfonso Pedro Araya Pallero, Jorge Ramón Zúñiga Poblete, and Eddie Omar Márquez Cortez. These crimes were committed in Iquique and Pisagua, after September 11, 1973.

"That, having issued an indictment in this process, in accordance with the provisions of Article 424 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Court has already decided that there was no merit to decree the dismissal, which is why the reasoned order required by law was issued, so that this is more than sufficient to dismiss the request for dismissal made by the defense attorney for Conrado García.

Furthermore, the background information on which the incident petitioner bases his arguments relates to events that occurred regarding certain victims and that are situated in the repressive actions developed inside the Telecommunications Regiment, without covering the set of charges that have been formulated against him in the present case.

Moreover, what was established in the cited ruling is only one more piece of evidence that can be refuted with the evidence presented in the current process, which will be analyzed later in this sentence. Therefore, the request will be rejected, with costs," the ruling states.

The resolution adds that: "The most violent era of the entire repressive period corresponds to the first months of the de facto government, it being possible to indicate by way of example that, of the 3,197 victims of executions and forced disappearances identified by the Rettig Report, 1,823 occurred in the year 1973, and that 67.4% of the testimonies qualified by the Valech Commission refer to having been detained between September and December 1973 (18,364 people out of a total of 22,824 detentions).

From all of the above, it follows that the events that this investigation deals with, if effective, would undoubtedly correspond to crimes against humanity, by including acts of torture perpetrated in a context of systematic or generalized oppression against a civilian population, typical of such a category of illicit acts."

"That, for what has been considered, this judge deems it normatively inappropriate to apply an amnesty to crimes against humanity, because jus cogens norms are at stake for which the criminalization of these illicit acts is mandatory, and this has been repeatedly resolved by the higher courts of justice," it adds.

"Consequently, as it is mandatory for all State bodies to give strict application to the norms and principles of International Human Rights Law, which exclude any possibility of benefiting those responsible for crimes against humanity with the institution of amnesty, the allegations formulated in that sense by the Defense of Pedro Collado Martí will be dismissed, with costs," it concludes.

In the case, Minister Troncoso Espinoza decreed the acquittal of Collado Martí of the charges formulated against him as the author of the crime of applying torture to Encina Encina.

In the civil sphere, the visiting minister granted the claims for damages and ordered the state to pay a total compensation of $2,100,000,000 for moral damages to the plaintiffs, broken down into $50,000,000 in favor of Jorge Patricio Encina Encina; $80,000,000 to each of the plaintiffs Ahumada Gallardo, Silva Olivares, Pizarro Prado, Fuentes Rojas, González Carreño, Rojas Gallardo, Valdivieso Martínez, Polanco Polanco, Varela Barbagelata, and Flores Tiayna; $100,000,000 to each of the plaintiffs Magne Castillo, Salinas Valdivia, Fuentes López, Torres Morales, Soudre Rojas, Villegas Castillo, Aguilera Sanquea, Guillermo Petersen Gallardo, Araya Pallero, Zúñiga Poblete, and Márquez Cortez, and $150,000,000 to Tapia Hidalgo.

Softening up In the resolution, Minister Troncoso Espinoza established the following facts: "1.- That starting on September 11, 1973, countless people from Iquique, sympathizers, supporters, or members of the Communist, Socialist, or MAPU political parties, were detained, being accused in some cases of specific acts, such as organizing plans to poison the city's water, assaulting barracks, belonging to paramilitary groups, kidnapping children of military personnel, organizing, carrying out, and participating in clandestine meetings, stockpiling weapons, seizing basic public services, communications, and the port by force of arms, among others, without any accusation other than their sympathy, closeness, or membership in a left-wing political party that, at the time, was constituted and functioning within the institutional legality of the country, or of being a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement, MIR. 2.- That all these people, men and women, of different ages, a universe composed of adolescents to middle-aged people, by orders of General Ernesto Carlos Joaquín Forestier Haensgen (deceased), commander-in-chief of the VI Army Division and head of the State of Siege zone of the Tarapacá Province, were taken, in the case of men, to the Sixth Army Division or the First Carabinero Police Station of Iquique, and that part of their detention invariably ended at the Telecommunications Regiment of the time, a place where they were placed in what could be called courtyards, and then separated by political affiliation or other reasons, into containers, 'pigsties' (a place where the military raised pigs), or oases (a sector where there was vegetation inside the Regiment), all were asked for their data by Army personnel, with a portion of these people being interrogated in a sector of the military unit located on a second floor, presumably in the building corresponding to the infirmary, and another number of them tortured in various forms and intensities, depending on the political importance the military regime attributed to them, and then, taking into account that same imputed political relevance, they were sent to Pisagua immediately or after a few days, normally in trucks, at early or late hours of the day, guarded by personnel from the same branch of the Armed Forces. 3.- That, in the case of women, their passage was through the Logistics Battalion, being controlled by Army personnel. Next, they were sent to the Buen Pastor, guarded by nuns, they had to share with prisoners for common crimes, and then they were sent to Pisagua, where they were kept detained on the second floor of the local theater under armed guard. 4.- That the Pisagua Prisoner Camp was directed by Lieutenant Colonel Ramón Caupolicán Larraín Larraín (deceased), comptroller and commander of the Prisoner of War Camp and Military Garrison of Pisagua, who in turn received direct and peremptory orders from Ernesto Carlos Joaquín Forestier Haensgen. The camp guards were formed by a contingent led by a captain, who was assisted by two or more lower-ranking officers, lieutenants or second lieutenants, and by the respective enlisted troops. Larraín ordered the entry of the detainees and under his command, direct or delegated to the officers guarding the camp, sessions that the victims called 'general softening up' were executed, consisting of beatings of all kinds, on various parts of the body, with greater or lesser force, 'tasks' executed by the contingent on duty, with certain Carabinero or Army officers standing out and the officers in charge of the guard repeating these tasks. 5.- That, when the Camp began to function, the prisoners were placed by political importance or by parties on different floors of the prison, the lowest being called 'catacombs,' cells that were in the worst conditions of habitability and overcrowding. As time went by, the prisoners themselves were made to build pavilions to continue housing people, which were not finished, a period in which some of them enjoyed certain privileges due to their skills, fundamentally manual, such as cooks, diver-gatherers, furniture makers, waiters, etc., although they did not stop noticing the physical effects that the beatings caused on their companions, the same period in which the visit of some journalists was received who, under the guise of the International Red Cross, and despite the renovation ordered by Commander Larraín, managed to record and inform the world about the existence of the Camp, a video that was converted into a document that is available for viewing. 6.- That only a portion of the accused detained in Pisagua were subjected to a War Council, which were held in the school of that town. There were councils for the Socialist, Communist, or multi-party groups, formed by various officers specially called for that purpose, with Mario Sergio Acuña Riquelme (deceased) serving as prosecutor and Ramón Larraín Larraín and Carlos Forestier Haensgen, interchangeably, as the ratifying body for the sentences ordered by the Council. A large percentage of prisoners were sentenced informally, that is, without a written sentence or at least without them receiving one, often they were sentenced solely on the merit of their confessions obtained through torture, and having to travel by their own means to the places of serving their sentences, remaining imprisoned or relegated until their term, reduction of sanction, or conversion to exile. 7.- That, along with the 'collective softening up' sessions, there were individual interrogations, with the purpose of obtaining the aforementioned confessions, in which a determined and permanent group under the command of Prosecutor Mario Acuña Riquelme, integrated, among others, by Roberto Fuentes Zambrano (deceased), René Valdivia Castro (deceased), Miguel 'Chile' Aguirre Álvarez (deceased), and Blas Daniel Barraza Quinteros (deceased), interacted on some occasions with officers in charge of the custody of the Prisoner Camp, who applied torture that left the victims Agusto Ahumada Gallardo, Enrique Silva Olivares, Mario Magne Castillo, Artemio Salinas Valdivia, Rigoberto Pizarro Prado, Luis Fuentes López, Ricardo Torres Morales, Ignelia Fuentes Rojas, Gerardo Soudre Rojas, José González Carreño, Damián Villegas Castillo, Damián Rojas Gallardo, Carlos Valdivieso Martínez, Juan García Justiniano, Pedro Aguilera Sanquea, Juan Petersen Gallardo, Luis Tapia Hidalgo, Jorge Encina Encina, Patricio Polanco Polanco, Óscar Varela Barbagelata, Odesa Flores Tiayna, Alfonso Araya Pallero, Jorge Zúñiga Poblete, and Eddie Márquez Cortez, with physical and/or psychological sequelae, as accounted for by the expert reports carried out according to the Istanbul Protocol by the Legal Medical Service. 8.- That this team of interrogators traveled regularly to Pisagua from Iquique in a light aircraft piloted by Army officer Carlos Teodoro De la Barra Daniels (deceased). The reason this group did not have a permanent presence in Pisagua was because they carried out the same practices against detainees at the Telecommunications Regiment, where they were under the command of Pedro Santiago Collado Martí who, according to his own statements, directed the Military Intelligence Service, composed of military personnel and Carabineros, and who had a friendship with Prosecutor Mario Acuña Riquelme, holding meetings he called 'colloquial' at least once a week. 9.- That, in general terms, the torture consisted of blows to the body using rifle butts, hands, feet, placing detainees naked or semi-naked on the floor and walking on them, sleep deprivation, exposure to the sun for hours and to the cold of the night without clothing, climbing and descending hills through 'point and elbow' exercises, throwing them inside drums down slopes, electricity to certain parts of the body, submerging the head in water (submarino), blows to the ears (teléfono), mock executions, interrogations in which a firearm was left by their side, hanging by their extremities with the purpose of obtaining the stretching of the body for prolonged periods, rape, sexual abuse, keeping them on scarce food rations, and the constant threat of being executed themselves or their family members, among others."

Source: pdju.cl, January 2, 2025