Leandro Llancaleo Calfulén
Agricultor — 30 years old.
Background
Leandro Llancaleo Calfulén
Agricultor — 30 years old.
Case summary
Leandro Llancaleo Calfulén, a 30-year-old farmer and Communist Party militant, was a victim of forced disappearance in 1975 after taking refuge in Mendoza, Argentina, while fleeing political persecution in Chile. His trail was lost in the context of coordinated repressive actions between the security agencies of both countries against Chilean refugees.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
g.2.1) Anti-refugee actions
Upon taking refuge in the Argentine Republic, Chileans persecuted after September 11, 1973, felt they were in danger. As political tensions sharpened in the neighboring country—culminating in the coup d'état of March 24, 1976—paramilitary groups, security groups, or groups directly linked to the Federal Police emerged.
The relations between Chilean and Argentine security agencies and the high degree of cooperation they achieved increased the risk situation for Chilean refugees in Argentina.
During 1975, the trail was lost for Leandro LLANCALEO CALFULEN, a farmer, member of the PC, and Secretary of the Puerto Domínguez Union, who had settled legally in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1974. In Chile, he had been persecuted after September 11, 1973. In 1975, his family definitively lost contact, which had been regular until that date.
The Commission could not reach the moral conviction that the disappearance of Leandro Llancaleo was attributable to agents of the State of Chile.
However, in view of all the background information and the political history of the affected individual, the Commission was able to conclude that Leandro Llancaleo was a victim of forced disappearance in Argentina, within the framework of the situation referred to above.
On January 24, 1975, Sergio Eduardo MONTENEGRO GODOY, a former public official and militant of a leftist group that his family members could not specify, was killed. The victim was detained at the Estadio Nacional after September 11, 1973.
After his release, he was visited on repeated occasions by civilians at his home. In March 1974, he traveled to Argentina as a political refugee under the protection of the United Nations. With money provided by that same organization, and together with two other exiles, he set up a small food business in Buenos Aires.
On the aforementioned day, Sergio Montenegro was shot in his business by two individuals who left without having stolen anything.
The Commission has reached the conviction that Sergio Montenegro died as a victim of a political execution and a violation of his human rights, within the framework of the aforementioned situation; however, it is not possible to affirm the responsibility of Chilean state agents in these events.
MemoriaViva[2]
Relatos de los Hechos
Upon taking refuge in the Argentine Republic, Chileans persecuted after September 11, 1973, felt they were in danger. As political tensions intensified in the neighboring country—culminating in the coup d'état of March 24, 1976—paramilitary groups, security groups, or groups directly linked to the Federal Police emerged.
The relations between Chilean and Argentine security agencies and the high degree of cooperation they reached increased the risk faced by Chilean refugees in Argentina. During 1975, the trail was lost for Leandro LLANCALEO CALFULEN, a farmer, member of the PC, and Secretary of the Puerto Domínguez Union, who had settled legally in Mendoza, Argentina, in 1974.
In Chile, he had been persecuted after September 11, 1973. In 1975, his family definitively lost contact, which had been regular until that date. The Commission could not reach the moral conviction that the disappearance of Leandro Llancaleo was attributable to agents of the State of Chile.
However, in light of all the background information and the political history of the affected individual, the Commission was able to conclude that Leandro Llancaleo was a victim of forced disappearance in Argentina, within the framework of the situation referred to above.
Source: (Rettig Report)
Relatos de los Hechos
"El Mostrador" gained access to the fundamental evidence against the former director of the DINA that led to his indictment as an "Organizer" of "Operation Condor," the operation that allowed for the capture, exchange, and murder of opponents of the dictatorships of the 1970s in the Southern Cone of America.
In the resolution signed by Argentine federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral, of which El Mostrador publishes a full copy, a note dated September 25, 1975, is highlighted as "documentary evidence" against Contreras, in which Pinochet's director of national intelligence thanks the head of Investigations of Paraguay, Pastor Coronel, for "the cooperation provided to facilitate the efforts related to the mission" carried out by Chilean agents in Paraguayan territory.
In the case file, which is being processed in judicial secretariat number 14, headed by Oscar Aguirre, a list of 48 forcibly disappeared Chileans captured in Argentina, prepared by the Association of Relatives of the Forcibly Disappeared of Chile, was incorporated.
Information from the Argentine Ministry of the Interior regarding the disappearance of Chilean citizens Humberto Cordano López, Leandro Llancaleo Calfunquen, Heriberto Del Carmen Leal Sanhueza, Guillermo Roberto Beausire Alonso, Miguel Iván Orellana Castro, Juan Carlos San Martín Zuñiga, and Carlos Patricio Rojas Campos is also considered "documentary evidence." Judicial sources explained that the incorporation of these cases into the one presented by the plaintiff (the disappearance of Cristina Carreño Araya in July 1978) aims to establish the systematic nature of Operation Condor through the actions of DINA agents in Argentina.
Source: El MOSTRADOR – April 21, 2001
Date: 04-21-2001
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=1113
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