“If there were tortured people in Chile... there were torturers; we, the survivors, accuse them”

Complete list of members of the CNI Informatics Division Abraham Maluje Juana del C. Acevedo Bravo Eduardo M. Adam Gutíerrez Heinz J. Alarcón Zuñiga Eliana E. Aldea Pezoa Eduardo A. Alvarado Wolf German A.

Alvarez Herrera Miguel a. Alveal Tejos Ana María Alveal Tejos luis Alberto Aqueveque Moya Leticia C. Aracena robert Maritza Arancibia Vera Eliana R. Aranguiz Lucero Patricia Avendaño Parra Carlos E. Baeza Reyes Alex José Bahamondes Urrutia Luis A.

Bucarey Elgueta Pablo E. Cáceres Montero Manuel H. Cáceres Montero Mónica Cáceres Orellana Héctor I. Cancino Aciares Marco A. Cancino rojas Ana María Carrasco Nuñez Ana Celia Carvajal Betancourt Elizabeth Castillo Fernández Cristian Castro Chaud María Teresa Cataldo San Martín Luis J.

Cataldo Tobar Juan S. Ceballos Maulen Gloria Ceron Tobar Floridor Fco. Chaparro Gatica Nidia V. Chavez Santibañez Ricardo Cofre Eyzaguirre Raúl H. Conlledo Espinoza Gonzalo Contreras Olguín Mabel G. Contreras Orellana Robinson Cox roa Lionel Roberto Crisostomo Carrasco Juan Crisostomo Soto Héctor M.

Dettoni Navarro Miguel A. Díaz Oses Luis Eduardo Díaz Silva Verónica L. Droguett Ruiz Iván Alfredo Ducros Cañas Cora María Eaglehurst Salinas Evelyn Elissalde Martiel Martín A. Espinoza Burgos Sandra A.

Espinoza Morales Víctor I. Espinoza Siva Carlos S. Estibill Ramirez gloria A. Fagalde Viveros Miguel A. Fernández Saavedra Alejandro Fierro Ríos Ana Cristina Fischer Vodnizza Lily E. Gallardo Saniueza Cecilia I.

García Moller Karyn Lotty González Parraguez Bernabé Gormaz Velarde Juana del C. Gutíerrez Sepúlveda Victoria Hapette Teuber Eliette E. Herrera Pérez Marcela de Howard Cristi Gustavo L. Iracabal Lobo María C.

Jaramillo Thomas María T. Labarca Brezzo María V. Leal Azocar Zunilda Onofia León Ogaz Rony Alberto Lobos Christiny Ismael López Silva Magda L. Mac Evoy Slater Deborah G. Magallanes Munro Juan M. Martínez Marambio Luz M.

Medina León Luis Marcel Mejías Mejias Luisa Mella González Pamela L. Mendez Soto Patricio A. Molina León Sonia Patricia Moreira Muñoz Samuel Carlos Moreno Belmar Sara Ives Moreno Vega Pedro Antonio Mosler Cox Ingrid Hellen Musac Burgos Tatiana María Narea Ramos María Teresa Ortíz Díaz Zunilda del Carmen Osorio Ramírez Rámon Luis Pacheco Castillo María E.

Parra Espinoza Carmen Nora Perot Plaza Cecilia del Carmen Preisig Salvo Mónica Carmen Puelle Sagrdo Eliana c. Puelle Sagredo Graciela Quintero Soto Berta del Carmen Quispe González Teresa del Carmen Reyes Vargas Carlos Alberto Riquelme Olivares Elsa M.

Rojas Pardo Leonor de las Mercedes Rolin Lara Jaime Eduardo Rubio González Alejandro Sabarots Díaz Miguel A. Salamanca Behm María E. Salas Coccolo Carlos A. Sánchez Espinoza Mauel G. Sánchez Sanjinez Saúl A.

Sanchueza Vega Nora Mónica Sepúlveda Barros Gabriel A. Smith Calderón Iván A. Sobarzo Aguila alejandro F. Solorza Salazar Carmen C. Soto Alvarez Mario H. Soto Cubillos Carlos Rogelio Soto Toledo Sandra Lidia Valdes Valenzuela Patricio Van de Perre Silva Eugenia Vasquez Inostroza Mario L. Vidal Urizar Juan Weisser Rodríguez Ana M. Yañez Aravena Jaime A. Yañez Castro Rodolfo S.

Source: El Siglo, April 8, 1990

50 years after the Military Coup, former agents of the dictatorship continue to appear as officials within the public administration. This time it concerns Gonzalo Javier Conlledo Espinoza, a former member of the National Information Center (CNI), who currently serves as secretary of the Local Police Court in Limache, an administration led by Daniel Morales Espíndola (RN-independent).

Since 2014, the former agent of the CNI Informatics Division—the political police of the Pinochet dictatorship implicated in hundreds of human rights violations—Gonzalo Javier Conlledo Espinoza, has worked under a contract in the Local Police Court of Limache as secretary of the department, earning a salary of $1,547,788 (in May) in the Valparaíso region, according to Transparency records.

Screenshot of the Active Transparency site of the Municipality of Limache

The information was confirmed to Resumen by councilman Joel González, who stated: "in 2019 it was discovered that he was part of the CNI Informatics Department. In 2021 this began to be known by human rights organizations, and complaints began to arise from the municipal council, where we stated that we find the situation unacceptable."

Gonzalo Javier Conlledo Espinoza was one of the 117 agents of the Informatics Division of the CNI, the intelligence organ of Pinochet's military dictatorship that engaged in hundreds of human rights violations through torture, kidnapping, forced disappearance, rape, and murder.

The now-official of the Local Police Court of Limache belonged to that organization, and various sectors of the Valparaíso region are calling for his removal from said municipality.

As early as 2020, relatives of the forcibly disappeared of the Chilean military-business dictatorship urged Mayor Morales to dismiss Conlledo Espinoza from the municipality, a situation that remains unaddressed to this day.

Regarding the hiring of the former CNI agent, councilman Joel González explains that the mayor responded that, "according to what the Comptroller's Office explains, by not having an ongoing legal process or an administrative investigation, the municipality does not have the authority to dismiss him."

Although Conlledo Espinoza reportedly does not have pending judicial cases, the municipality forwarded—as reported by the councilman—all background information to the region's Court of Appeals, which is following human rights violation cases, because "he may have relevant information to accelerate certain processes in cases that today are not advancing precisely due to the lack of evidence.

We think it is important that he be summoned to testify."

Currently, the former CNI agent works within the Local Police Court of Limache, in addition to being a member, at least as indicated on his Facebook account, of National Renewal (Renovación Nacional), the same party as Mayor Daniel Morales Espíndola.

Continuing with former agents of the dictatorship within public offices, it is worth remembering the case of Carlos Celis Ficca, also part of the CNI, who works as support staff for Republican Party deputy Juan Irarrázaval Rossel, for a salary of $1,413,667.

An even more serious case is occurring in Curacautín, where the municipality reportedly keeps a person convicted of crimes against humanity as the director of a rural school. This is Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, a civilian sentenced for his participation in the disappearance of peasants in Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, in the foothills of the Biobío, between September and December 1973.

Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán was convicted as the perpetrator of the qualified kidnapping of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, José Felidor Pinto Pinto, Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Alberto Bastias Sandoval, and Raimundo Salazar Muñoz.

Thus, 50 years after the Coup d'État, agents of the organizations that instilled terror and violated human rights during the Pinochet regime have found a place within municipalities and even Congress.

by J Murieta and Juan Contreras Jara

Source: resumen.cl, June 14, 2023

Former CNI agent hired in Limache Local Police Court: Reportedly working for the municipality since 2014

Furthermore, according to transparency data, the former CNI agent received a salary of more than $1,500,000 during the month of May and is working as secretary of the commune's Local Police Court.

Gonzalo Javier Conlledo Espinoza is the name of the former agent of the Informatics Division of the National Information Center (CNI)—the police force that replaced the DINA and was involved in human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet—who serves as secretary of the Local Police Court of Limache.

According to a transparency request made by Resumen, the official works under a contract with a salary of $1,547,788—as of May—in the Valparaíso Region.

Although his collaboration with the court dates back to 2021, according to the commune's councilman, Joel González, the former agent has reportedly worked in the municipality since 2014 in the Municipal Works Department.

"In 2021 he entered the Local Police Court, but in 2014 he entered the municipality as a Public Works inspector in the Municipal Works Department," maintained González.

Facts that only came to light in 2019, according to the municipal authority, when a list was circulated in which Conlledo's name appears as part of the CNI Informatics Division.

In fact, according to data from Memoria Viva and documents compiled by the Nizkor Team—responsible for creating a documentary site that provides information on human rights violations in Latin America—and Derechos Human Right, Conlledo was one of the 117 agents who worked in the CNI in that division.

Municipality "When we took office on the council, we made it known to the mayor (Daniel Morales Espíndola, RN) and we had a meeting with the municipality's lawyer," however, the councilman explains that since there is no judicial process against the former CNI agent and since "the CNI is not considered an illicit association and there was no administrative investigation," the municipality stated that there were no justifications to dismiss him, which, according to González, was ratified by the Comptroller's Office.

Despite this, the councilman explains that the municipal government forwarded—between 2021 and 2022—the background information to the Court of Appeals of the region, which is following human rights violation cases, "in case they considered it relevant to summon him to testify."

The councilman also pointed out that several human rights organizations grouped in the commune, and members of civil society, gathered outside the municipality with megaphones expressing their repudiation upon learning of the situation in 2021.

"When the information began to spread in the community in 2021, it became unsustainable for the municipality not to open itself to debate, especially based on the intentions that some councilmen and I had."

In fact, González specified that when the demonstrations began, Conlledo took "a fairly long leave of six months" which, although it would be "risky to say it is because of (the demonstrations), coincides precisely when the issue begins to generate public opinion."

However, to date, the councilman assures that there is still no response from the ministers of the Court, nor confirmation of other actions taken by the municipality.

Source: eldesconcierto.cl, June 14, 2023