The young Carlos Alberto Terán de la Jara, a student, drafting technician, and MIR militant, was detained by DINA agents on December 11, 1974, at a time and place unknown. He was taken to the security facility known as Villa Grimaldi, where he was seen by other prisoners in very poor physical condition as a result of the torture to which he was subjected.

That same day, December 11, his home on Ruiz Tagle street in the capital—a residence for university students from the provinces—was raided by a patrol of heavily armed civilians. The raid focused on the room occupied by the victim, and the residents, all students, were interrogated regarding Carlos Alberto's activities.

The following day, December 12, his friend and office colleague Rafael Araneda Yévenes was detained as he was leaving the Universidad Técnica del Estado, where he had gone to assist with a drawing class. The young Carlos Terán de la Jara knew that Rafael Araneda would be at that university that morning. Both are currently classified as forcibly disappeared.

Terán de la Jara was apparently removed from Villa Grimaldi on December 24, 1974, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then. He was seen there in very poor condition by other DINA prisoners. Mr.

Héctor Hernán González Osorio, detained on December 6, 1974, and transferred to the aforementioned facility, stated in his testimony that he saw other prisoners, among them the "Chico de los Planos" (the "Drafting Boy," as they called Terán de la Jara), who was barbarically tortured.

Mr. Luis Alfredo Muñoz González, detained on December 10, 1974, stated in a sworn declaration that he saw Carlos Terán in Villa Grimaldi, tortured to such an extent that he suffered an internal stomach hemorrhage, was spitting blood from his mouth, and was in an agonizing state; he was also a witness when he was taken from the room they shared.

Mr. Mario Francisco Venegas Jara stated in his testimony that he was detained on December 9, 1974, and transferred to Villa Grimaldi, where he noticed the presence of Carlos Terán de la Jara, who had been left immobilized by the torture; his fellow prisoners had to perform exercises on him to help him recover, and he was eventually able to stand.

Ms. Ofelia Nistal Nistal, detained along with her spouse Héctor González Osorio on December 6, stated in her testimony that in the Villa Grimaldi facility she saw many people, including one they called the "Chico de los Mapas" (the "Map Boy"), whose full name was Terán de la Jara; he was in very bad shape, severely tortured, and was carried out of the room by two agents.

She saw him very little after he arrived as a detainee; on one occasion, the agents asked if any of the detainees could give him an injection; after that, nothing more was heard of him, nor was he seen again.

Carlos Terán worked, as far as she knew, in the "Informations" department of the MIR Central Committee. Finally, in a testimony prepared by female detainees who were at the Pirque Camp in 1976, it is stated that Terán de la Jara was removed from Villa Grimaldi on December 24 in very poor physical condition. One of the detainees treated him for deep burns on his back resulting from torture.

His adoptive family—he was an orphan—carried out numerous efforts to determine his whereabouts, but none yielded any results, and they still do not know the fate he met at the hands of the DINA.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

On May 22, a report of a presumed misfortune was filed with the Seventh Criminal Court, case file 76.977, which details his detention on December 11, the raid on the university residence where he lived, and the apprehension of his friend and fellow MIR militant, Rafael Araneda.

In the respective investigation order, carried out by the Investigative Police, they went to the residence on Ruiz Tagle street and interviewed Ms. Carmen Orellana Miranda, who stated that since 1972 she had provided housing to university students from the Universidad Técnica, including Carlos Alberto Terán de la Jara.

She then denied that the university residence had been raided and said that only in the month of December 1974 did Investigative officials come to ask about him. Despite this last statement, the report from the Investigative Service makes no comment regarding what the declarant said.

Nor is there any record that the Court requested a statement from that agency. Furthermore, negative reports were received from the Minister of the Interior, the Legal Medical Institute, and the various cemeteries of the capital.

On July 6, 1976, after taking a statement from the complainant who ratified her report, Judge Amanda Argandoña Ibacache temporarily dismissed the case on the grounds that, based on the evidence provided, it did not appear that any crime had been committed regarding the victim's disappearance.

On January 25, 1977, the Court of Appeals rejected the consulted resolution, thus adopting the opinion of the Court Prosecutor, who, in addition to pointing out the impossibility that Carlos Terán de la Jara had simply been swallowed by the earth, recommended carrying out a series of investigative steps, including summoning Rafael Araneda to appear before the court.

In this new stage of the summary proceedings, the victim's affiliation extract was added to the case file, and the efforts to locate Rafael Araneda yielded no results. Likewise, International Police reported that Carlos Terán de la Jara had no record of leaving the country.

On October 5, 1977, a complaint for the crime of kidnapping was filed in the same case, stating that the victim was studying textile engineering at the UTE along with his friend Rafael Araneda Yévenes, a program from which they were expelled in 1973, after which both began studying drafting at INACAP and worked together in a design office.

It adds that the victim lived in a university residence on Ruiz Tagle street until approximately October 1974, and that the address to which he moved was unknown. However, said residence was raided on December 11, and from the interrogations carried out on its residents, it is clear that the agents were fully aware of the study and work activities of the victim and his friend Rafael Araneda Yévenes.

After that raid, the home of one of Carlos Alberto's UTE study companions was raided that same day, and during that procedure, the agents had the latter in custody as a detainee. It is also noted that the following day Rafael Araneda was detained and later taken to his home, where he was seen with clear signs of having been physically mistreated; this is documented in the kidnapping case being processed in the Ninth Criminal Court, which is investigating the disappearance of Rafael Araneda.

The complaint document was added to the case file, and new reports were requested from International Police and the Ministry of Justice, the responses to which were negative. On January 28, 1978, the case was again temporarily dismissed because the existence of a crime in the disappearance of the victim could not be proven.

When said resolution was consulted with the Court of Appeals, the Public Prosecutor requested to have the case file regarding the disappearance of Rafael Araneda Yévenes available before issuing his report.

When said file was requested from the Ninth Criminal Court, it reported that after reviewing the case entry books, no report of the disappearance of Rafael Araneda Yévenes appeared, nor was there any pending case regarding him.

On May 10, 1978, the Court of Appeals approved the consulted resolution, thus rejecting the opinion of the Court Prosecutor, who had requested to suspend the dismissal order and who also considered, regarding the case of Rafael Araneda, that there had been no interest in a thorough search.

It should be noted that, in fact, in the 9th Major Criminal Court of Santiago, on April 24, 1975, case 13.952 was opened for the presumed misfortune of Rafael Araneda Yévenes, which was expanded to a formal complaint on June 12 of that year.

Source: Vicariate of Solidarity

The Supreme Court issued a ruling in the human rights violation cases known as the "Caravan of Death. Curicó Episode" and "Operation Colombo," cases that were investigated by visiting ministers Patricia González and Hernán Crisosto, respectively.

Operation Colombo

In the second ruling (case file 978.856-2016), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Milton Juica, Haroldo Brito, Lamberto Cisternas, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, and Jorge Dahm—convicted four agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for the crimes of kidnapping Rafael Araneda Yévenes and Carlos Terán de la Jara.

These crimes were perpetrated in December 1974, within the framework of the so-called "Operation Colombo."

In the resolution, the highest court ratified the sentence that condemned agents Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, Basclay Zapata Reyes, and Pedro Espinoza Bravo to 10 years and one day in prison. Likewise, it confirmed that agent Rolf Wenderoth Pozo must serve 5 years and one day in prison.

The investigation established that: "On December 11, 1974, in the morning hours, CARLOS ALBERTO TERAN DE LA JARA, 26 years old, single, university student, MIR militant, was detained on a public street by DINA agents when he went to a 'meeting point,' being taken to the 'Villa Grimaldi' barracks, from where he was taken to a property located on Venecia street, used as a safe house for several members of the MIR, with all traces of him being lost to date, without the prisoner having made contact with his relatives, carried out administrative procedures before State agencies, registered entries or exits from the country, and without his death being confirmed."

Meanwhile, on December 12, 1974, at 10:30 a.m., Rafael Eduardo Araneda Yévenes, 25 years old, university student, MIR militant, was detained at his place of study, at the Renca branch of the National Institute of Professional Training (INACAP), located at Saravia N° 28, by three DINA agent subjects; they asked for him at the Director's office, who took them to the classroom where he was, they detained him, and that same day, around 2:00 p.m., he was taken to his home on San Isidro N°1070; the captors raided the place; the landlady witnessed this event, notifying the victim's family, and also stated that Araneda Yévenes was very mistreated and had difficulty walking. He was seen at the secret detention center of "Villa Grimaldi," from which he was allegedly removed on December 24 of the same year to an unknown destination. His name appeared in a publication of the newspaper "LEA" in Argentina and "O’Dia" in Curitiba, Brazil, where it was reported that his death occurred in a confrontation between "extremists," with all traces of him being lost, without him having made contact with his relatives to date or carried out procedures before State agencies, without registering entries or exits from the country, and without his death being confirmed."

In the civil aspect, the ruling accepted the appeal for annulment and ordered the State of Chile to pay $200,000,000 (two hundred million pesos) to the victims' relatives. Decision adopted with the dissenting vote of Minister Cisternas.

Source: clarin.cl 7/06/2017 Date: 07-06-2017

University grants 39 honorary degrees to political executions and forcibly disappeared victims of the institution

The ceremony, which will take place in the Aula Magna this Friday (6), is one of the most symbolic activities that our University will carry out within the framework of the Commemoration program for the 40th anniversary of the Coup d'État.

After this first delivery of diplomas, a commemorative plaque will be unveiled in the courtyard of the former School of Arts and Crafts, with the names of the victims.

This Friday, September 6, at 11:30 a.m., in a solemn ceremony, our University will grant, by grace and in a posthumous and symbolic manner, professional university degrees to 39 students who were forcibly disappeared or victims of political executions during the military dictatorship.

Emilio Daroch, president of the UTE-Usach Solidarity Corporation and initiator of this project, explained that this University was a place where the dictatorship applied violence with the greatest force over the years, especially at its beginning on September 11, 1973, and until the end of the 1980s.

This initiative makes sense as a way to redress people who, during their participation as students in the university community, suffered the consequences of the dictatorship, such as the emblematic cases of Gregorio Mimica in 1973 and the student leader Mario Martínez, murdered in the late 80s.

Mimica was detained in September 1973 along with more than a thousand people during the raid on the UTE. They were taken to the former Estadio Chile (now Víctor Jara) and shortly after he was released, but when he arrived home, he was immediately detained again by a military patrol that took him back to the School of Arts and Crafts, where he was interrogated.

His whereabouts were unknown for 37 years until his remains were found in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery in April 2011.

The story of Mario Martínez's death, on the other hand, happened 13 years after the Coup d'État, when he was Secretary of Finance of the Student Federation of the University of Santiago and was investigating the presence of dictatorship security agents infiltrated on campus. On August 4, 1986, his body was found on the coast of Santo Domingo.

"Without a doubt, a wound is reopened," maintains Daroch, but "there remains a feeling that a little justice is being done. We feel deeply moved to deliver these symbolic degrees and show that this dream could be fulfilled."

At the ceremony, it will be their relatives who receive the diplomas. "We were in constant contact with the families of some disappeared colleagues, but there were two or three cases where we could not find anyone," lamented Emilio Daroch, who explained that this Friday's will be the first delivery of degrees, as there are records of more victims of political executions or disappearances during the period. "This process has not closed; these are the cases that could be accredited, but we still need to refine the details and look for information that in many cases was not found at the University. We hope to carry out another graduation like this one later on."

The list of students who will receive their degrees posthumously is composed of Rafael Araneda Yévenes, Jorge Aravena Mardones, Jaime Buzzio Lorca, Ricardo Campos Cáceres, Claudio Contreras Hernández, Renzo Contreras Jorquera, Juan Elías Cortés Alruiz, Manuel Cortéz Joo, Alfonso Díaz Briones, Antonio Elizondo Ormaechea, Óscar Fuentes Fernández, Luis González Mella, Francisco González Ortiz, Patricio Guarategua Quinteros, René Lucero Muñoz, Zacarías Machuca Muñoz, Rafael Madrid Gálvez, Juan Bosco Maino Canales, Adolfo Mancilla Ramírez, Agustín Martínez Meza, Mario Martínez Rodríguez, Gregorio Mimiça Argote, Eugenio Montti Cordero, Leopoldo Muñoz Andrade, Ramón Núñez Espinoza, Eduardo Ojeda Disselkoen, Fernando Olivares Mori, Pedro Oyarzún Zamorano, Michelle Peña Herreros, José Peña Maltés, José Manuel Ramírez Rosales, Enrique Reyes Manríquez, Hugo Ríos Videla, Ricardo Rioseco Montoya, Carlos Santibáñez Romero, Carlos Terán de la Jara, Jaime Vásquez Sáenz, Jecas Nehgme Cristi, and Francisco Viera Ovalle.

The act, which will be presided over by Rector Juan Manuel Zolezzi, will take place in the University's Aula Magna on Friday the 6th at 11:30 a.m. Subsequently, a commemorative plaque will be unveiled in the courtyard of the former School of Arts and Crafts.

Source: usach.cl 3/16/2017 Date: 03-16-2017

MEMORIAL BOOK OF THE UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DEL ESTADO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE CHILE (excerpt)

MEMORIAL BOOK OF THE UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DEL ESTADO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE CHILE Report of the University Reconciliation Commission of 1991, updated 40 years after the 1973 coup d'état. when I was getting up, they called from the university to warn me that a group of people in civilian clothes had assaulted the UTE radio station, destroyed the antenna, and machine-gunned the transmission room.

Later we learned that it was people from the Navy, from the unit they had in Quinta Normal. [ ] The students met and agreed to stay at the UTE. Enrique Kirberg, Rector of the Universidad Técnica del Estado 5.

CARLOS ALBERTO TERAN DE LA JARA CARLOS MASCAREÑA DIAZ CLAUDIO ENRIQUE CONTRERAS HERNÁNDEZ DAGOBERTO CORTES GUAJARDO GASTÓN VIDAURRÁZAGA MANRÍQUEZ GERMAN CARCAMO CARRASCO GREGORIO MIMIÇA HECTOR LEPE MORAGA

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Tribute to all members of the Universidad Técnica del Estado and Santiago (USACH)

This memorial consists of three engraved metal plaques and 87 olive trees that pay tribute to professionals, administrative staff, and students of the Universidad Técnica del Estado (UTE) and the University of Santiago (USACH) who were victims of the dictatorship.

The work was an initiative of the UTE-USACH Solidarity Corporation, in collaboration with the authorities and the Student Center of the University of Santiago, and was inaugurated on March 9, 2018.

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