The aforementioned accused provided an investigative statement on pages 4,726 and 7,147, which he rectified and expanded upon on page 9,241, with the content of the latter remaining definitive regarding his actual participation in the investigated events, without prejudice to anything not contradictory to it.

To that effect, he states that at the time the investigated events occurred, he was assigned to the UAT, to which he was transferred after returning from his vacation, as previously, at the beginning of 1987, he was a bodyguard for Major Corbalán.

On the day of the events, it was arranged that some UAT agents would report to Borgoño to provide support to the Brigades of said Barracks, specifically subordinate to Captain Bauer. He was assigned to a team with Mauricio Figueroa –N.O.–, Patricio Acosta, and Carlos Pino –N.O. “El Viejo Horacio”–, having to carry out a mission with another team, commanded by Lieutenant Arturo Sanhueza, which was also composed of the aforementioned lieutenant, Ramírez Montoya, and Pablo San Martín, realizing that the task of this team was to detain a woman whose address was in the Carlos Valdovinos sector.

They waited for her to leave, which happened around 16:00 hours; she took a bus and headed to some apartments in the center, and when she went out into the street again, she was detained by “El Viejo Horacio” and Lieutenant Sanhueza, being transferred to the Borgoño Barracks.

With that, he states, they were complying with the orders given by Captain Bauer, remaining in a state of free availability. Being in that situation and already on the night of that same day, they went to have some snacks at “Pollo Caballo,” in Vivaceta, and while there, they received a request for support by radio from Villa Olímpica and Varas Mena.

With Lieutenant Sanhueza and the driver Ramírez, they headed to Villa Olímpica, noticing that the place was completely covered by police forces and the CNI, having been ordered to “gas” the apartment so that its occupant, who was the person to be detained, would abandon it.

He says he obtained a gas mask and went up the stairs to the second floor, where there were no signs of movement and therefore it was difficult to know the location of the subject who had fired; after checking the rooms, he found that the bathroom was closed; with a kick, he opened the door, and there, near the toilet bowl, the subject was crouched, with a weapon in his hand, and he immediately fired about four shots at him with his service weapon, took him, and removed him from that place, leaving him near a railing.

Once his action in Villa Olímpica was concluded, they went to Varas Mena, where there was nothing left to do, except that he and Lieutenant Sanhueza entered the house from where it was said that some individuals had fled; they checked some ovens where it was also said there could be people hiding, but that was not the case. El Mercurio June 11, 2008

Court of Appeals sentences nine former Army members for illegal exhumation

The sentence implies 270 days of minor imprisonment in its medium degree and the payment of a fine of 14 Monthly Tax Units. SANTIAGO.— The Eighth Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals, in a split decision, sentenced nine former members of the Army for the crime of illegal exhumation of persons who appear on the lists of the forcibly disappeared, and whose bodies were unearthed—in December 1978—from a mass grave at the Peldehue military camp, in the commune of Colina, in the investigation into the so-called “Retiro de televisores” (Removal of Televisions) case.

Judges Cornelio Villarroel Ramírez, Mario Carroza Espinoza, and the participating lawyer Manuel Hasbún Comandari determined the sentence of 270 days of minor imprisonment in its medium degree and the payment of a fine of 14 Monthly Tax Units (UTM) for Hernán Ricardo Canales Varas, José Jaime Darrigrandi Márquez, Eliseo Antonio Cornejo Escobedo, José Nelson Canario Santibáñez, Luis Antonio Fuenzalida Rojas, Darío Ernesto Gutiérrez de la Torre, Fernando Remigio Burgos Díaz, Sergio Antonio Medina Salazar, and Isidoro Custodio Durán Muñoz.

La Tercera September 28, 2003

Three retired non-commissioned officers prosecuted

The judge with exclusive dedication to human rights cases, Juan Carlos Urrutia, notified three retired Army non-commissioned officers yesterday of their prosecution as authors of the crime of illegal exhumation of human remains.

This is for the unearthing of the bodies of 12 advisors and personal guards of Salvador Allende, who were forcibly disappeared on September 11, 1973. As reported by Radio Cooperativa, the accused are Isidro Custodio Durán Muñoz, Sergio Antonio Medina Salazar, and Fernando Remigio Burgos Díaz. El Mercurio December 28, 2005

Court confirms sentences for those responsible for Operation Albania

The Ninth Chamber of the Court of Appeals, in a unanimous vote, confirmed the sentences handed down last January by the visiting judge Hugo Dolmestch to 15 members of the former CNI, within the framework of the so-called Operation Albania, in which 12 members of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front died.

Thus, its former director Hugo Salas Wenzel will remain sentenced to life imprisonment as the author of the simple homicide of five of the deceased and the qualified homicide of the other seven. Salas is indicated as the direct person responsible for the event, for being the one who gave the order to carry out the operation, which is also known as the “Corpus Christi massacre.” However, the court revoked the acquittal that the judge had issued against three individuals, to whom an effective sentence of five years and one day of imprisonment was applied.

They are César Acuña Luengo, René Valdovinos Morales, and Fernando Burgos Díaz, who had responsibility in the death of Ignacio Valenzuela Pohorecky. Thus, of the 26 prosecuted in this case, eight were released, given that they did not have direct responsibility for the events.

The court, composed of judges Raúl Rocha, Juan Araya, and Mauricio Silva, also resolved to increase to 500 million pesos the compensation for damages of 250 million pesos that Judge Dolmestch had set for the families of the victims.

Operation Albania took place in three different locations in Santiago on June 15 and 16, 1987, and in it, the FPMR militants Recaredo Valenzuela Pohorecky, Patricio Acosta Castro, Juan Henríquez Araya, Wilson Henríquez Gallegos, Julio Guerra Olivares, Esther Cabrera Hinojosa, Elizabeth Escobar Mondaca, Patricia Quiroz Nilo, Hernán Rivera Silva, Ricardo Silva Soto, Manuel Calderón, and José Valenzuela Levy lost their lives.

El Mostrador August 29, 2007

Highest sentence against a retired general for crimes during the dictatorship; Operation Albania: Supreme Court confirms life imprisonment for Hugo Salas Wenzel

The Supreme Court confirmed this Tuesday the life imprisonment for retired general Hugo Salas Wenzel, former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), for his responsibility in the crime of twelve Front members in June 1987, within the framework of Operation Albania.

Salas Wenzel was sentenced as the mastermind of the murders, which were planned as one of the acts of revenge for the attack on Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, which occurred in September 1986. With this resolution, the former head of the repressive agency became the retired general who has received the highest sentence for human rights violations committed during the military dictatorship.

The decision was adopted by the Second (Criminal) Chamber, which also ruled on the sentences that Judge Hugo Dolmestch handed down against fourteen other former uniformed officers who participated in the operation, also known as the Corpus Christi Massacre.

In court, it was explained that since Salas Wenzel began to be tried before the law was modified, simple life imprisonment will be applied to him, which allows him to access some type of benefit after 20 years in prison.

The highest court also decided to increase from 15 to 20 years in prison the sentence against the former operational head of the repressive agency, Álvaro Corbalán Castilla, who is already serving time for other human rights violations perpetrated during the military dictatorship.

Meanwhile, it maintained the 10-year prison sentence against the retired Carabineros commander Iván Quiroz Ruiz, while it increased from 7 years and one day to 8 years in prison the punishment against the former CNI agent Enrique Neira Donoso.

These four former members must serve their punishment in prison along with former agent Manuel Morales Acevedo, who had initially been sentenced to three years in prison, but the Supreme Court increased his punishment to five years and one day.

Meanwhile, former agents Luis Arturo Sanhueza Ross, Rodrigo Pérez Martínez, César Acuña Luengo, Patricio Miquel Carmona, and Fernando Burgos Díaz were sentenced to five years and one day in prison, while Eric Silva Reichart received a five-year prison sentence.

Gonzalo Maas del Valle, José Miguel Morales Morales, and René Valdovinos Morales were sentenced to three years in prison, while Hugo Guzmán Rojas received a punishment of 541 days in prison. The Supreme Court also confirmed the acquittal of 11 agents who participated in the operations and who had already been exonerated by Dolmestch and the Santiago Court of Appeals, among whom are former agents Kranstz Bauer and Jorge Vargas Bories, as well as the former Carabineros prosecutor Luis Acevedo.

Last June, the State Defense Council (CDE) and the relatives of the victims reached a reparation agreement in which the Treasury committed to paying compensation of $300 million to each family group. Plaintiffs celebrate the decision Lawyer Nelson Caucuto, representative of the victims, highlighted that this is the first life sentence for a military officer with the rank of general, which in his opinion reveals “the gravity of the judged events and the importance of this case.” “We have managed to establish the truth of what happened and high criminal sanctions, where there is a life imprisonment sentence and also finally there is reparation. In a single sentence, we have managed to bring together the three aspects that comprise a complex concept such as justice, which are truth, criminal sanction, and reparation,” he maintained. “It seems extraordinary to me to have closed this chapter with these sentences that the highest court has handed down,” he pointed out. June 11, 2008

Court issues sentence against nine retired military officers for the “Retiro de Televisores” case

In a split ruling, the Eighth Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals sentenced nine retired military officers for the crime of illegal exhumation in the case known as the removal of televisions, in which the bodies of victims of the dictatorship were unearthed to make them disappear permanently.

The ruling adopted by judges Cornelio Villarroel, Mario Carroza, and the participating lawyer Manuel Hasbún sets a sentence of 270 days of minor imprisonment in its medium degree, in addition to a fine of 14 UTM, for Hernán Ricardo Canales Varas, José Jaime Darrigrandi Márquez, Eliseo Antonio Cornejo Escobedo, José Nelson Canario Santibáñez, Luis Antonio Fuenzalida Rojas, Darío Ernesto Gutiérrez de la Torre, Fernando Remigio Burgos Díaz, Sergio Antonio Medina Salazar, and Isidoro Custodio Durán Muñoz.

As the resolution details, the bodies unearthed from the Peldehue military facility were detainees at the La Moneda Palace on September 11, 1973, who were then transferred to the Tacna Regiment and later executed by firing squad at the Peldehue military facility, in the commune of Colina.

The ruling maintains that “in accordance with the accusation that has been formulated against the accused, it is necessary to analyze whether the crime of illegal exhumation, given its form of commission and the participation of public agents in it, can be classified as a common act within the criminal perspective; or if, due to its characteristics, it can have the classification of a crime against humanity, insofar as the removal action constituted the last link in a chain that began with the detention of a group of people at the La Moneda Palace on September 11, 1973, of whom the group formed by members of the Security Device and Advisors to the Presidency of the Republic were tied by their feet and hands with wire, loaded onto a military truck, and transferred to the Peldehue military fiscal facility. They were then allegedly executed by firing squad by State agents consisting of Officers and Permanent Staff and finally buried in a dry well into which they were thrown or fell as they were executed, considering that the removal carried out more than five years after said kidnapping and alleged execution constituted the final phase intended to achieve the concealment of the facts.” And it adds that to establish that the crimes are crimes against humanity, the majority vote of the judges states that “analyzed such antecedents, it appears unequivocally that the described behaviors make evident reference to a link within the chain that was part of the systematic and generalized attack against members of the civilian population, in accordance with the plan implemented by the military authority that held power, directed essentially at causing fear through the kidnapping or disappearance of people, behaviors that were carried out by State agents provided with all the power that the de facto situation provided them.” And it adds that “this Court considers that we are facing a crime against humanity, insofar as it offends the most intimate feelings of the human being, such as granting their next of kin the right to a Christian burial or a burial worthy of their condition as a person, and that for this reason, it contradicts the general principles of law and becomes a concern of the international community.” La Nación Friday, August 14, 2009

Supreme Court sentences nine former uniformed officers for Operation Retiro de Televisores

“In the case of crimes against humanity, the imprescriptibility of these illicit acts, which gravely offend fundamental human rights, emerges as a barrier to impunity,” states the ruling of the Supreme Court that confirmed the sentence against the three former officers and six Army non-commissioned officers who illegally exhumed the bodies of those detained on September 11, 1973, at La Moneda.

After their arrest, the victims were transferred to the Tacna Regiment and, subsequently, executed by firing squad at a military facility in Peldehue, where their remains were buried. Five years later, in December 1978, those sentenced made the bodies disappear in the operation that was called Retiro de Televisores.

The ruling of the highest court thus ratified, by three votes to two, what was resolved by the Santiago Court of Appeals, which, in 2008, imposed 270 days of imprisonment on the former uniformed officers for their responsibility in the events and granted them the conditional remission of the sentence.

Those sentenced are Colonel (R) Hernán Canales Varas (commander of the Tacna Regiment in 1978), retired Brigadier José Darrigrandi Marques (commander of the Army Aviation Command in 1978), Colonel (R) Luis Fuenzalida Rojas (head of Intelligence of the Tacna in 1978), and retired non-commissioned officers Eliseo Cornejo Escobedo, José Canario Santibáñez, Darío Gutiérrez de la Torre, Fernando Burgos Díaz, Sergio Medina Salazar, and Isidro Durán Muñoz.

The majority vote was from judges Jaime Rodríguez, Hugo Dolmestch, and Carlos Künsmüller, while their peers Nibaldo Segura and Rubén Ballesteros were in favor of accepting the figure of the statute of limitations for criminal action.

Likewise, the judges resolved to dismiss the plaintiffs' lawsuit against the Treasury. “The statute of limitations (for civil action) has elapsed in excess,” the ruling notes.

Source: Operation Albania case sentence, January 28, 2005

Court of Appeals sentences nine former Army members for illegal exhumation

The sentence implies 270 days of minor imprisonment in its medium degree and the payment of a fine of 14 Monthly Tax Units. The Eighth Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals, in a split decision, sentenced nine former members of the Army for the crime of illegal exhumation of persons who appear on the lists of the forcibly disappeared, and whose bodies were unearthed—in December 1978—from a mass grave at the Peldehue military camp, in the commune of Colina, in the investigation into the so-called “Retiro de televisores” case.

Judges Cornelio Villarroel Ramírez, Mario Carroza Espinoza, and the participating lawyer Manuel Hasbún Comandari determined the sentence of 270 days of minor imprisonment in its medium degree and the payment of a fine of 14 Monthly Tax Units (UTM) for Hernán Ricardo Canales Varas, José Jaime Darrigrandi Márquez, Eliseo Antonio Cornejo Escobedo, José Nelson Canario Santibáñez, Luis Antonio Fuenzalida Rojas, Darío Ernesto Gutiérrez de la Torre, Fernando Remigio Burgos Díaz, Sergio Antonio Medina Salazar, and Isidoro Custodio Durán Muñoz.

Source: El Mercurio, June 11, 2008

Three retired non-commissioned officers prosecuted

The judge with exclusive dedication to human rights cases, Juan Carlos Urrutia, notified three retired Army non-commissioned officers yesterday of their prosecution as authors of the crime of illegal exhumation of human remains.

This is for the unearthing of the bodies of 12 advisors and personal guards of Salvador Allende, who were forcibly disappeared on September 11, 1973. As reported by Radio Cooperativa, the accused are Isidro Custodio Durán Muñoz, Sergio Antonio Medina Salazar, and Fernando Remigio Burgos Díaz.

Source: La Tercera, September 28, 2003

Court confirms sentences for those responsible for Operation Albania

The Ninth Chamber of the Court of Appeals, in a unanimous vote, confirmed the sentences handed down last January by the visiting judge Hugo Dolmestch to 15 members of the former CNI, within the framework of the so-called Operation Albania, in which 12 members of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front died.

Thus, its former director Hugo Salas Wenzel will remain sentenced to life imprisonment as the author of the simple homicide of five of the deceased and the qualified homicide of the other seven. Salas is indicated as the direct person responsible for the event, for being the one who gave the order to carry out the operation, which is also known as the “Corpus Christi massacre.” However, the court revoked the acquittal that the judge had issued against three individuals, to whom an effective sentence of five years and one day of imprisonment was applied.

They are César Acuña Luengo, René Valdovinos Morales, and Fernando Burgos Díaz, who had responsibility in the death of Ignacio Valenzuela Pohorecky. Thus, of the 26 prosecuted in this case, eight were released, given that they did not have direct responsibility for the events.

The court, composed of judges Raúl Rocha, Juan Araya, and Mauricio Silva, also resolved to increase to 500 million pesos the compensation for damages of 250 million pesos that Judge Dolmestch had set for the families of the victims.

Operation Albania took place in three different locations in Santiago on June 15 and 16, 1987, and in it, the FPMR militants Recaredo Valenzuela Pohorecky, Patricio Acosta Castro, Juan Henríquez Araya, Wilson Henríquez Gallegos, Julio Guerra Olivares, Esther Cabrera Hinojosa, Elizabeth Escobar Mondaca, Patricia Quiroz Nilo, Hernán Rivera Silva, Ricardo Silva Soto, Manuel Calderón, and José Valenzuela Levy lost their lives.

Source: El Mercurio, December 28, 2005

Highest sentence against a retired general for crimes during the dictatorship; Operation Albania: Supreme Court confirms life imprisonment for Hugo Salas Wenzel

The Supreme Court confirmed this Tuesday the life imprisonment for retired general Hugo Salas Wenzel, former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), for his responsibility in the crime of twelve Front members in June 1987, within the framework of Operation Albania.

Salas Wenzel was sentenced as the mastermind of the murders, which were planned as one of the acts of revenge for the attack on Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, which occurred in September 1986. With this resolution, the former head of the repressive agency became the retired general who has received the highest sentence for human rights violations committed during the military dictatorship.

The decision was adopted by the Second (Criminal) Chamber, which also ruled on the sentences that Judge Hugo Dolmestch handed down against fourteen other former uniformed officers who participated in the operation, also known as the Corpus Christi Massacre.

In court, it was explained that since Salas Wenzel began to be tried before the law was modified, simple life imprisonment will be applied to him, which allows him to access some type of benefit after 20 years in prison.

The highest court also decided to increase from 15 to 20 years in prison the sentence against the former operational head of the repressive agency, Álvaro Corbalán Castilla, who is already serving time for other human rights violations perpetrated during the military dictatorship.

Meanwhile, it maintained the 10-year prison sentence against the retired Carabineros commander Iván Quiroz Ruiz, while it increased from 7 years and one day to 8 years in prison the punishment against the former CNI agent Enrique Neira Donoso.

These four former members must serve their punishment in prison along with former agent Manuel Morales Acevedo, who had initially been sentenced to three years in prison, but the Supreme Court increased his punishment to five years and one day.

Meanwhile, former agents Luis Arturo Sanhueza Ross, Rodrigo Pérez Martínez, César Acuña Luengo, Patricio Miquel Carmona, and Fernando Burgos Díaz were sentenced to five years and one day in prison, while Eric Silva Reichart received a five-year prison sentence.

Gonzalo Maas del Valle, José Miguel Morales Morales, and René Valdovinos Morales were sentenced to three years in prison, while Hugo Guzmán Rojas received a punishment of 541 days in prison. The Supreme Court also confirmed the acquittal of 11 agents who participated in the operations and who had already been exonerated by Dolmestch and the Santiago Court of Appeals, among whom are former agents Kranstz Bauer and Jorge Vargas Bories, as well as the former Carabineros prosecutor Luis Acevedo.

Last June, the State Defense Council (CDE) and the relatives of the victims reached a reparation agreement in which the Treasury committed to paying compensation of $300 million to each family group. Plaintiffs celebrate the decision Lawyer Nelson Caucuto, representative of the victims, highlighted that this is the first life sentence for a military officer with the rank of general, which in his opinion reveals “the gravity of the judged events and the importance of this case.” “We have managed to establish the truth of what happened and high criminal sanctions, where there is a life imprisonment sentence and also finally there is reparation. In a single sentence, we have managed to bring together the three aspects that comprise a complex concept such as justice, which are truth, criminal sanction, and reparation,” he maintained. “It seems extraordinary to me to have closed this chapter with these sentences that the highest court has handed down,” he pointed out.

Source: El Mostrador, August 29, 2007

Court issues sentence against nine retired military officers for the “Retiro de Televisores” case

In a split ruling, the Eighth Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals sentenced nine retired military officers for the crime of illegal exhumation in the case known as the removal of televisions, in which the bodies of victims of the dictatorship were unearthed to make them disappear permanently.

The ruling adopted by judges Cornelio Villarroel, Mario Carroza, and the participating lawyer Manuel Hasbún sets a sentence of 270 days of minor imprisonment in its medium degree, in addition to a fine of 14 UTM, for Hernán Ricardo Canales Varas, José Jaime Darrigrandi Márquez, Eliseo Antonio Cornejo Escobedo, José Nelson Canario Santibáñez, Luis Antonio Fuenzalida Rojas, Darío Ernesto Gutiérrez de la Torre, Fernando Remigio Burgos Díaz, Sergio Antonio Medina Salazar, and Isidoro Custodio Durán Muñoz.

As the resolution details, the bodies unearthed from the Peldehue military facility were detainees at the La Moneda Palace on September 11, 1973, who were then transferred to the Tacna Regiment and later executed by firing squad at the Peldehue military facility, in the commune of Colina.

The ruling maintains that “in accordance with the accusation that has been formulated against the accused, it is necessary to analyze whether the crime of illegal exhumation, given its form of commission and the participation of public agents in it, can be classified as a common act within the criminal perspective; or if, due to its characteristics, it can have the classification of a crime against humanity, insofar as the removal action constituted the last link in a chain that began with the detention of a group of people at the La Moneda Palace on September 11, 1973, of whom the group formed by members of the Security Device and Advisors to the Presidency of the Republic were tied by their feet and hands with wire, loaded onto a military truck, and transferred to the Peldehue military fiscal facility. They were then allegedly executed by firing squad by State agents consisting of Officers and Permanent Staff and finally buried in a dry well into which they were thrown or fell as they were executed, considering that the removal carried out more than five years after said kidnapping and alleged execution constituted the final phase intended to achieve the concealment of the facts.” And it adds that to establish that the crimes are crimes against humanity, the majority vote of the judges states that “analyzed such antecedents, it appears unequivocally that the described behaviors make evident reference to a link within the chain that was part of the systematic and generalized attack against members of the civilian population, in accordance with the plan implemented by the military authority that held power, directed essentially at causing fear through the kidnapping or disappearance of people, behaviors that were carried out by State agents provided with all the power that the de facto situation provided them.” And it adds that “this Court considers that we are facing a crime against humanity, insofar as it offends the most intimate feelings of the human being, such as granting their next of kin the right to a Christian burial or a burial worthy of their condition as a person, and that for this reason, it contradicts the general principles of law and becomes a concern of the international community.”

Source: Lanacion.cl, June 11, 2008

Supreme Court sentences nine former uniformed officers for Operation Retiro de Televisores

“In the case of crimes against humanity, the imprescriptibility of these illicit acts, which gravely offend fundamental human rights, emerges as a barrier to impunity,” states the ruling of the Supreme Court that confirmed the sentence against the three former officers and six Army non-commissioned officers who illegally exhumed the bodies of those detained on September 11, 1973, at La Moneda.

After their arrest, the victims were transferred to the Tacna Regiment and, subsequently, executed by firing squad at a military facility in Peldehue, where their remains were buried. Five years later, in December 1978, those sentenced made the bodies disappear in the operation that was called Retiro de Televisores.

The ruling of the highest court thus ratified, by three votes to two, what was resolved by the Santiago Court of Appeals, which, in 2008, imposed 270 days of imprisonment on the former uniformed officers for their responsibility in the events and granted them the conditional remission of the sentence.

Those sentenced are Colonel (R) Hernán Canales Varas (commander of the Tacna Regiment in 1978), retired Brigadier José Darrigrandi Marques (commander of the Army Aviation Command in 1978), Colonel (R) Luis Fuenzalida Rojas (head of Intelligence of the Tacna in 1978), and retired non-commissioned officers Eliseo Cornejo Escobedo, José Canario Santibáñez, Darío Gutiérrez de la Torre, Fernando Burgos Díaz, Sergio Medina Salazar, and Isidro Durán Muñoz.

The majority vote was from judges Jaime Rodríguez, Hugo Dolmestch, and Carlos Künsmüller, while their peers Nibaldo Segura and Rubén Ballesteros were in favor of accepting the figure of the statute of limitations for criminal action.

Likewise, the judges resolved to dismiss the plaintiffs' lawsuit against the Treasury. “The statute of limitations (for civil action) has elapsed in excess,” the ruling notes.

Source: La Nación, August 14, 2009

Fernando Burgos Diaz “El Chaman”, Murderer in the Corpus Christi Massacre

At the beginning of February 2018, the Comisión FUNA 2020 carried out a denunciation action that exposed one of the most sordid cases of former security agents of Pinochet’s fascist tyranny and his henchmen.

After several months of investigation, they were able to reach Huelquén inside BUIN, where in the “El Consistorial” Road sector, specifically in plot 5, hides “EL COSTILLA” or “Jhonny Galaz,” a genocidal, operational agent, and torturer of the DINA and the CNI.

In this plot, he developed his “Family SME: TEMAZCAL PORTALES DE LUZ,” where the now “CHAMAN REMIGIO,” together with his wife and children, offered different spiritual “services” that they are surely still doing under another name.

FERNANDO REMIGIO BURGOS DIAZ, RUT 7.454.331-6, Real Name and RUT of this murderer from Traiguén, joined the army in 1973, then was assigned to the DINA and then to the CNI; in the latter, he became a bodyguard for Álvaro Corbalán Castilla and was part of the UAT (Anti-Terrorist Unit).

It must be clear that not just any agent was assigned to this select CNI unit. In 1978, he participated in the “Retiro de televisores” operation, which consisted in this case of unearthing and making disappear the skeletal remains of people who on September 11, 1973, were at the La Moneda Palace with President Allende.

In 1987, already being part of the CNI’s UAT, he was part of the teams that kidnapped and murdered 12 women and men, combatants of the FPMR, known as “Operation Albania.” In this case, this experienced agent actively participated in the kidnapping of Ester Angélica Cabrera Hinojosa, “la Chichi,” from Block 1 of the Villa Portales.

That same day, after handing over Esther Cabrera at the CNI’s Borgoño Barracks, together with “el Huiro,” alias of agent Luis Sanhueza Ross, they went to the Villa Olímpica, where fellow FPMR member Julio Guerra Olivares was resisting capture.

Burgos recounts in his statement that after bombarding the apartment where Julio Guerra was with tear gas, he decided to end the operation quickly, putting on a gas mask, entering the apartment, and beginning to search the different rooms.

Upon reaching the second floor, he found the bathroom door closed; with a kick, he opened the door and saw Julio crouched among the sanitary fixtures; without hesitation, he fired 4 times at his head, then took him out and left the body on the railing where “el Huiro” fired again in a cowardly manner at the already lifeless body.

Like “El Costilla” or “Chaman Remigio,” there are hundreds of state agents who live under a cloak of impunity, where without the action of the Comisión Funa, they would continue to enjoy a life invented to hide their crimes. If you know of a dictatorship agent hiding somewhere… contact the Comisión FUNA 2020.

Source: murosyresistencia.cl, June 15, 2023