The accused were held in preventive detention, a measure they must serve in one of the Carabineros detention centers determined by the police institution. Investigating judge Alejandro Solís Muñoz issued indictments in four cases of forcibly disappeared persons and political executions whose remains were found illegally buried in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery.

The magistrate prosecuted seven retired members of the Carabineros de Chile for events that occurred in October 1973, which led to the disappearance of a 15-year-old minor and three adults—aged between 18 and 22—in the south-eastern area of Santiago (the current commune of Peñalolén).

Minister Solís ordered the prosecution of former members of the police unit Carlos Contreras Guzmán, Bernardo Pérez Arriagada, Juan Paredes Rodríguez, Pedro Herrera Mossuto, and José Tito Alveal for the abduction of the minor Pedro Pérez Godoy and the aggravated kidnapping of José Ramírez Díaz.

According to the evidence currently in the case file, "Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy, single, born on September 3, 1958, was 15 years, one month, and 22 days old on October 17, 1973, a primary school student with no political affiliation, whose address was located at Manzana 10, Sitio 20, Villa Los Guindos in the commune of Ñuñoa; and José Adrián Ramírez Díaz, single, 20 years old, a street market assistant, with no political affiliation, illiterate, member of a family of eleven siblings, residing at Manzana 17, Pasaje 152, house 6882, Villa Pedro Lagos in the commune of Peñalolén, were walking along a street near their homes on October 17, 1973, together with a friend, José Romilio Sepúlveda Merino. At the moment they reached the intersection of Los Orientales and Ictinos streets, in the commune of Ñuñoa, now Peñalolén, at approximately 3:00 p.m., they were detained without cause, nor any administrative or judicial order, by Bernardo Pérez Arriagada and Carlos Contreras Guzmán, officers belonging to the 13th Carabineros Precinct of Ñuñoa, who were traveling in a grey vehicle and were dressed in civilian clothes. They were taken to the premises of said precinct but could not be admitted because the cells were full, so they were transferred to the Quilín Police Post, a unit dependent on the 13th Precinct. However, there is no record of the victims' entry into said police unit, but there is a record of the departure of Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy, who was removed from the post along with José Ramírez at 1:00 a.m., during the curfew, by Carabinero Bernardo Pérez Arriagada, to a red pickup truck parked outside the police facility where Carabineros Juan Paredes Rodríguez and the aforementioned Contreras Torres were waiting. The latter had received the order to accompany Pérez Arriagada in this procedure from Sub-Officer Major José Tito Alveal, who in turn was under the command of Herrera Mossuto. The young men were forced to climb into the back of the pickup truck. The truck where José Ramírez Díaz and Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy remained deprived of their liberty was driven from the post to the facilities of the Viña Cousiño Macul, where it stopped and the detainees were made to get out; they were forced to walk to the banks of the San Carlos canal. It was at this site that, from a few meters away, they were shot with firearms, as a result of which the multiple wounds received caused their deaths; immediately after, their bodies were thrown into the canal's current, a maneuver that, according to witness Sepúlveda, had been suggested from the very moment of the detention—which had no motive—by Corporal Contreras: 'Let's kill them and throw them into the canal!'" Nevertheless, the victims' remains were found illegally buried in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery and, due to the lack of accurate scientific methods at the time, could not be correctly identified in the proceedings held at the 22nd Criminal Court; in fact, although some of the recovered remains were attributed to the young Pérez Godoy, it was finally confirmed through genetic DNA testing that they belonged to another person, and regarding Ramírez Díaz, the identification of his remains is still pending. Consequently, the death of neither of the detainees has been legally and reliably confirmed; we only know that those deprived of their liberty have not made contact with their relatives, nor carried out administrative procedures before State agencies, and there is no record of them entering or leaving the country," the ruling states. Meanwhile, for the aggravated homicides of Hernán Peña Catalán and Luis Vergara González, Minister Alejandro Solís prosecuted former police officers Juan Veloso Ortiz, Francisco Contreras Torres, and Pedro Herrera Mossuto. Regarding this case, the magistrate has managed to determine that: "On October 15, 1973, Luis Armando Vergara González, married, father of one child, was 22 years old, a laborer, with no political affiliation, and his address was located in Villa Lautaro, Manzana E, Sitio 18, Población Lo Hermida in the commune of Ñuñoa, when he was detained in its vicinity at approximately 9:15 p.m. without legal cause by Carabineros officers belonging to the 13th Precinct of Los Guindos in Ñuñoa, Francisco Contreras Torres and Manuel Veloso Ortiz, who were traveling in a red pickup truck that had been illicitly requisitioned from Miriam Contreras Bell, personal secretary to former President Salvador Allende. Immediately, the captors, together with the detainee, went to the home of Hernán Manuel Peña Catalán, married, father of two children, 20 years old, who worked as a driver, with no political affiliation whatsoever. Although his address was located in Villa El Duraznal, Manzana 7, Sitio 5, Población Lo Hermida in the commune of Ñuñoa, he could not be found by the police at that location. However, after a search deployed in the vicinity of his home, Peña Catalán was detained and, together with Vergara González, they were taken to the premises of the aforementioned Precinct." Both victims were definitively identified by DNA testing performed at the Legal Medical Service after 2003. The accused were held in preventive detention, a measure they must serve in one of the Carabineros detention centers determined by the police institution. Furthermore, Magistrate Solís determined that: "Given the significance of the statements provided by Francisco Fernando Contreras Torres (on October 31, 2003, from pp. 658 to 660 of Volume II, Case File 15.607); Luis Arturo Mora Vera (pp. 880 to 881, dated April 21, 2004, Case File 15.607); Bernardo Segundo Pérez Arriagada (pp. 202 to 203 vta., dated September 9, 2003, pp. 878 to 880, dated November 23, 2010, both Case File 9.731); Juan Gregorio Paredes Rodríguez (pp. 294, dated May 17, 2004, and 236, dated January 5, 2004, both from Case File 9.731); Carlos Alfredo Contreras Guzmán (pp. 883 to 885, dated November 24, 2010, pp. 567, dated March 7, 1980, and pp. 557, dated December 10, 1979, all from Case File 9.731); Pedro Alejandro Lorenzo Mossuto (pp. 709, dated November 13, 2003, pp. 881, dated November 23, 2010, both from Case File 9.731), Juan Manuel Veloso Ortiz (pp. 1059, dated August 18, 2006, from Case File 15.607) and the confrontation proceedings on pp. 283, 284 (without prejudice to 'exhorting them to tell the truth' in a new statement), pp. 269, pp. 304, pp. 305; 306; 329; 727 of Case File 9.731 and 839 of Case File 15.607, let an authorized photocopy of these be made and kept in a Separate File, in custody." Likewise, it is ordered, "Without prejudice to what has been resolved, the investigation shall continue regarding the repressive situation that affected Sergio Alberto Gajardo Hidalgo during the same period in which the illicit acts that are the subject of this resolution were committed."

Source: El Mostrador, December 7, 2012

7 former Carabineros prosecuted for kidnappings and executions of residents

Minister Alejandro Solís (pictured) ordered the preventive detention of former uniformed officers who had problems with long-haired youths and street market workers in the Peñalolén sector in October 1973.

This is the latest resolution by the judge who took on human rights cases in 2002 and is due to retire this month. Investigating judge Alejandro Solís Muñoz submitted 7 retired Carabineros to prosecution for 4 cases of forcibly disappeared persons and political executions that occurred in Peñalolén.

The remains of 3 victims appeared in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery. The judge also ordered the preventive detention of the former uniformed officers.

The victims are

• Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy, 15 years old at the time of his detention on October 17, 1973, primary school student, no political affiliation, residing in Villa Los Guindos in the commune of Ñuñoa.
• José Adrián Ramírez Díaz, friend of the former, 20 years old at the time of his detention alongside Pérez Godoy, street market assistant, no political affiliation, illiterate, member of a family of eleven siblings, residing in Villa Pedro Lagos in the commune of Peñalolén.
• Luis Armando Vergara González, married, father of one child, 22 years old at the time of his detention on October 15, 1973, laborer, no political affiliation, and residing in the Lo Hermida neighborhood of the then-commune of Ñuñoa.
• Hernán Manuel Peña Catalán, friend of the former, married, father of two children, 20 years old at the time of his detention on the same day, driver, no political affiliation, and also residing in the Lo Hermida neighborhood.

The individuals prosecuted for the kidnapping of Pérez Godoy and the aggravated kidnapping of Ramírez Díaz are:

• Carabinero (Ret.) Carlos Contreras Guzmán.
• Carabinero (Ret.) Bernardo Pérez Arriagada.
• Carabinero (Ret.) Juan Paredes Rodríguez.
• Sub-Officer (Ret.) José Tito Alveal.
• Lieutenant (Ret.) Pedro Herrera Mossuto.

Meanwhile, for the aggravated homicides of Peña Catalán and Vergara González, the individuals prosecuted are:

• Carabinero (Ret.) Juan Veloso Ortiz.
• Carabinero (Ret.) Francisco Contreras Torres.
• Lieutenant (Ret.) Pedro Herrera Mossuto.

KIDNAPPINGS OF PÉREZ AND RAMÍREZ

According to the case background, Pérez Godoy and Ramírez Díaz were detained in Peñalolén without a judicial order by the prosecuted Pérez Arriagada and Contreras Guzmán, who were dressed in civilian clothes.

They took them to the then-13th Precinct of Ñuñoa and then to the Quilín Police Post. Godoy and Ramírez were taken out of the post in the early morning, in the middle of the curfew, and transported to the Cousiño Macul vineyard by Carabineros Contreras Guzmán, Pérez, and Paredes, where they shot them and threw their bodies into the San Carlos canal.

The three followed orders from Tito Alveal and Herrera. The remains of Pérez Godoy have not yet been identified, and regarding Ramírez Díaz, the recognition of his bones is still pending. Therefore, Judge Solís's resolution indicates that the death of these two victims "has not been legally and reliably confirmed." According to information contained on the Memoria Viva website, Pérez and Ramírez had had problems with these Carabineros for wearing long hair.

Pérez had even suffered a shameful haircut at the hands of the uniformed officers. The two were detained along with a third youth, José Romilio Sepúlveda Merino, who was released because he suffered from scabies. This youth alerted the relatives.

THEY WERE IN "LA PAYITA'S" PICKUP TRUCK

Regarding Vergara González and Peña Catalán, Minister Solís was able to establish that they were detained in Peñalolén by Carabineros Contreras Torres and Veloso Ortiz, who were traveling in a pickup truck illegally seized from Miriam Contreras Bell, personal secretary to former President Salvador Allende, better known as "La Payita." Both were taken to the 13th Precinct, where all trace of them was lost.

In the days following the detentions, the Carabineros denied that they had arrested them, but later claimed that they had released them. Both victims were found in Patio 29 and definitively identified by DNA testing performed at the Legal Medical Service after 2003.

SOLÍS'S LAST RESOLUTION

Meanwhile, court sources reported that the resolution against the 7 former Carabineros will be the last one adopted by Minister Solís, appointed in 2002 as an investigating judge for human rights cases, because he turns 75 on December 27 and must retire.

Minister Solís developed multiple human rights investigations and issued numerous convictions, among which those issued against the former director of the DINA, General (Ret.) Manuel Contreras, stand out.

Source: La Nación, December 7, 2012

Family of forcibly disappeared youth won criminal and civil lawsuit against former Carabineros and the Chilean State

Héctor Vásquez Sepúlveda was detained by Carabineros from the 13th Precinct of Ñuñoa in October 1973 for his participation in a fight inside a soccer field in the La Faena neighborhood. Since that day, the family still does not know his whereabouts; there is no death certificate, nor information about his entry or exit from the country.

Two former Carabineros, Francisco Fernando Contreras Torres and Pedro Alejandro Lorenzo Herrera Mossuto, were sentenced to seven years in prison in February 2016, "for their participation as perpetrators in the crime of aggravated kidnapping committed against Héctor Manuel Humberto Vásquez Sepúlveda, starting on October 18, 1973," according to the Supreme Court ruling published today.

Pedro Herrera's defense requested a reduction of the sentence due to his previously unblemished conduct, but the Second Chamber of the Court dismissed the request last Thursday, December 29. The final document also confirms the compensation that the Chilean Treasury must pay to the victim's family: $500 million for moral damages.

The case dates back to October 7, 1973, when a soccer fight broke out on a field in the La Faena neighborhood, which at the time corresponded to the commune of Ñuñoa and currently to Peñalolén. Days later and without any judicial order, between the 15th and 18th of that same month, members of the Civil Commission—led by Pedro Herrera Mossuto, accompanied by subordinates Francisco Contreras Torres and Juan Manuel Veloso Ortiz—from said precinct, detained youths from the sector who participated in the fight.

Two of them were executed and thrown into the San Carlos Canal. Another detainee was Héctor Vásquez Sepúlveda, whom members of the commission came to look for at his home dressed in civilian clothes. As Judge Mario Carroza related during the investigation stage of the case, the visitors knew Vásquez as they were teammates in "Deportivo Cordillera" pickup games, and after a conversation, they left together for the police unit, under the pretext that he had to provide a statement.

The Carabineros walked to one of the corners of the future disappeared person's house and flagged down a bus. There, they met by chance Héctor Vásquez's mother and sister, to whom they explained that he only had to provide a statement regarding the fight from days earlier.

Hours later, seeing that he did not arrive, the detainee's mother went to the 13th Precinct, but there they told her that her son had never entered the unit: "Finally, despite all her efforts, she never finds him, and from that moment on there is no more news of his person, nor is there any record of his exit or entry into the country, and much less is his death recorded in the civil registry," says the ruling pronounced by Ministers Milton Juica, Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, Lamberto Cisternas, and Jorge Dahm.

Source: theclinic.cl, January 3, 2017

Supreme Court confirms ruling that convicted (ret.) Carabineros for abduction of a minor, kidnapping, and homicide

Events occurred in Peñalolén in 1973. The repressors were traveling in a pickup truck that had been illicitly requisitioned from Miriam Contreras Bell, personal secretary to former President Salvador Allende.

The Supreme Court rejected the appeals in cassation filed against the sentence that convicted four retired Carabineros officers from the staff of the then-13th Precinct of Los Guindos for their responsibility in the crimes of abduction of a minor, aggravated kidnapping, and homicide, illicit acts perpetrated in October 1973 in the current commune of Peñalolén.

In a unanimous ruling (case file 20.937-2018), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, and lawyer (i) María Cristina Gajardo—confirmed the challenged sentence, issued by the Santiago Court of Appeals, which sentenced Juan Gregorio Paredes Rodríguez to 10 years and one day in prison as the perpetrator of the aggravated homicide of José Adrián Ramírez Díaz; plus 3 years and one day in prison for the abduction of the minor Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy.

Meanwhile, Francisco Fernando Contreras Torres must serve a single sentence of 10 years and one day in prison as the perpetrator of the aggravated kidnapping of Héctor Manuel Peña Catalán and Luis Armando Vergara González; Pedro Alejandro Lorenzo Herrera Mossuto must serve a single sentence of 7 years as the perpetrator of the aggravated kidnapping of Héctor Manuel Peña Catalán and Luis Armando Vergara González; and Bernardo Segundo Pérez Arriagada was sentenced to 7 years in prison as the perpetrator of the aggravated homicide of José Adrián Ramírez Díaz.

In the investigation of the case, substantiated by investigating judge Leopoldo Llanos, the following facts were established: "Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy, single, 15 years old, primary school student, no political affiliation, whose address was located at Manzana 10, Sitio 20, Villa Los Guindos of the commune of Ñuñoa; and José Adrián Ramírez Díaz, single, 20 years old, street market assistant, no political affiliation, illiterate, member of a family of eleven siblings, residing at Manzana 17, Pasaje 152, house 6882, Villa Pedro Lagos of the commune of Peñalolén, on October 17, 1973, were walking along a street near their homes, together with a friend, José Romilio Sepúlveda Merino. At the moment they reached the intersection of Los Orientales and Ictinos streets, in the commune of Ñuñoa, now Peñalolén, at approximately 3:00 p.m., they were detained without cause, nor any administrative or judicial order, by officers belonging to the 13th Carabineros Precinct of Ñuñoa (...) The young men were forced to climb into the back of the pickup truck. The truck where José Ramírez Díaz and Pedro Hugo Pérez Godoy remained deprived of their liberty was driven from the post to the facilities of the Viña Cousiño Macul, where it stopped and the detainees were made to get out; they were forced to walk to the banks of the San Carlos canal. It was at this site that, from a few meters away, they were shot with firearms." In the case of Vergara and Peña, it was established that "on October 15, 1973, Luis Armando Vergara González, married, father of one child, 22 years old, laborer, no political affiliation, and whose address was located in Villa Lautaro, Manzana E, Sitio 18, Población Lo Hermida of the commune of Ñuñoa, was apprehended without legal cause in its vicinity, at approximately 9:15 p.m., by two Carabineros officers belonging to the 13th Precinct of Los Guindos of Ñuñoa, who were traveling in a red pickup truck that had been illicitly requisitioned from Miriam Contreras Bell, personal secretary to former President of the Republic Salvador Allende. Immediately, the captors, together with the detainee, went to the home of Hernán Manuel Peña Catalán, married, father of two children, 20 years old, who worked as a driver, with no political affiliation whatsoever. Although his address was located in Villa El Duraznal, Manzana 7, Sitio 5, Población Lo Hermida of the commune of Ñuñoa, he could not be found by the police at that location. However, after a search deployed in the vicinity of his home, Peña Catalán was detained and, together with Vergara González, they were taken to the premises of the aforementioned Precinct."

Source: elciudadano.cl, November 25, 2021

The pickup game that ended with four forcibly disappeared persons and one homicide in 1973

A few weeks after the coup, a group of Carabineros took revenge for a fight at a soccer match in the La Faena neighborhood. On International Human Rights Day, we tell this story that is part of the podcast Ñuñoa tiene memoria, which narrates stories of places where dictatorship crimes occurred in the commune.

In September 1973, two soccer teams from the La Faena neighborhood faced each other on the San Carlos field. The pickup game was between neighbors of the barrio: on one side was the Unión Victoria team, made up of residents from the west of Ictinos Street; on the other, the Club Deportivo Cordillera, made up of those who lived to the east.

The ball rolling across the dirt field kept the eight players per side distracted from the enormous crisis that was being experienced at that time. None of them yet knew that the country's cruel destiny would intersect with the outcome of that match.

On International Human Rights Day, at El Desconcierto we remember this story that is part of the Ñuñoa tiene Memoria Podcast by Ñuñoa tu Radio in co-production with the Corporación Estadio Nacional, Memoria Nacional, which tells the stories of places in the commune where there were human rights violations during the dictatorship, but in many cases are not recognized today.

What happens on the field does not stay on the field There were only a few days left until the coup d'état led by Augusto Pinochet. However, in this sector of the capital, which at that time belonged to Ñuñoa, the concern was how Unión Victoria could overcome the difference with Deportivo Cordillera.

The enthusiastic soccer players were young. The youngest was 15 years old, the oldest 22. A kick or simply a mockery—time has made these details diffuse—strained the atmosphere, and the insults led to punches.

Héctor Vásquez Sepúlveda, a resident of La Faena who switched from Unión Victoria to Cordillera, got into a fight with Francisco Contreras Torres, who belonged to his former team and was a Carabinero from the 13th Precinct "Los Guindos" (current 18th Precinct of Ñuñoa).

The intensity of the fight rose. Juan Manuel Veloso Ortiz, also a Carabinero from the 13th Precinct, a coworker and teammate of Francisco Contreras, joined the brawl to support him. On the opposing side, Hernán Peña Catalán, Luis Vergara González, José Ramírez Díaz, and Pedro Pérez Godoy got involved.

The San Carlos field was the scene of a pitched battle, although nothing different from what happens in hundreds of matches that occur every weekend in the neighborhoods of Santiago. "What happens on the field stays on the field," some commented after the fight, but it was not so. "The match was between them, two teams, a normal pickup game.

My dad's team was winning and, I don't know, they got annoyed and started throwing punches. My dad hit him, because he was good with his fists. Then the coup d'état happened and the cop took it upon himself to go look for him.

I think that was an abuse of power," recalls José Barahona Ulloa, son of Héctor Vásquez. Abuse of power Laborer Luis Vergara González was heading to his house in Villa Lautaro a few minutes after 9:00 p.m., the time set by the Military Junta for the curfew that day, October 15, 1973.

A little over a month had passed since the bombing of La Moneda and with it the seizure of power by the Armed Forces. Luis was a few blocks from his house when a red pickup truck approached him, which until a few weeks earlier had belonged to Miria Contreras Bell, personal secretary to the late President Salvador Allende.

But the 22-year-old worker did not know that and only saw a vehicle from which Francisco Contreras, the policeman with whom he had fought on the San Carlos field, got out. Together with another Carabinero, they subdued him to take him into custody.

The car quickly started moving: he would not be the only one. A couple of streets away, in Villa El Duraznal, was the house of Hernán Peña, a 20-year-old driver who had also participated in the pickup game.

At his home, they only found his two children and other relatives, so the police decided to "sweep" the neighborhood until they found him. They took him too. The destination was the "Los Guindos" Precinct. "They were detained in a civilian car, which curiously had been taken from, had been confiscated from, the secretary of President Allende.

It belonged to La Payita," relates Alejandro Ancalao, doctor of history and head of the Heritage Department of the Municipality of Ñuñoa, an agency that is investigating the victims of the dictatorship in the commune. "Is 'Beto' there?" Ancalao narrates that two days later the police repeated the routine with Pedro Pérez Godoy, who was a 15-year-old boy, and José Adrián Ramírez Díaz, who was a 20-year-old youth, a seventh-grade student who worked as a street market assistant.

They were detained on Ictinos Street. These two youths were taken to the same place as their teammates from Deportivo Cordillera; however, it was already collapsed due to the number of detainees, so they were transferred to the Quilín Police Post, dependent on the 13th Carabineros Precinct.

At 1:00 a.m., they were taken out of the police facility and transported in "La Payita's" red pickup truck to the facilities of the Viña Cousiño Macul. The vehicle stopped before a panoramic view of Santiago under curfew.

Carabineros, under the instructions of Lieutenant Pedro Herrera Mossuto, made the amateur soccer players from the La Faena neighborhood get out and forced them to walk to the banks of the San Carlos canal.

In that place, the officers took out their firearms and shot them. The wounds caused the death of José Ramírez, while Pedro Pérez's whereabouts remain unknown to this day. "Is 'Beto' there?" was heard only hours later on October 18, 1973, in front of Héctor Vásquez's house.

The youth from Deportivo Cordillera was taking a shower, and his siblings received the two Carabineros dressed in civilian clothes who were asking for him, Francisco Contreras and Juan Manuel Veloso. The officers were known to the family because they lived in the neighborhood.

It seemed like a simple visit from neighbors. When Héctor came out of the shower, they asked him to accompany them because he had to provide a statement at the precinct regarding the fight at the soccer match.

The police took him away on a public bus, where they casually ran into the youth's mother, who became worried when she saw the scene. The Carabineros told her not to worry, that they only had to take his testimony and he would be back home soon.

Since that day, Beto is a forcibly disappeared person, just like Luis Vergara and Hernán Peña, of whom there was no more information since their kidnapping. Héctor Vásquez's girlfriend at the time, Mercedes Ulloa Almonacid, who was expecting a child with him when he was kidnapped, recalls: "I found out because his sister told me that he had been lost, that some people had taken him, but they didn't even know if they were Carabineros because they weren't dressed as Carabineros; that he had been lost and then two, three, or four days passed (...) His sister started looking for him later.

A week passed and he didn't appear. They had told us that his mother had seen him." 13th Carabineros Precinct during the dictatorship Historian Alejandro Ancalao explains that the case of the youths from the La Faena neighborhood brings to light that the crimes of the dictatorship were against the entire population and not just directed at a political sector. "The objective was not only political people, with political participation, but the entire society.

To implant terror, fear, in the entire society, and that was done indiscriminately," he argues. The head of the Heritage Department of the Municipality of Ñuñoa adds that many of these abuses were carried out thanks to "the henchmen, those who accuse or denounce neighbors due to problems between them, and we end up with cases of forcibly disappeared persons who had absolutely no political relationship, but were simply due to the arbitrariness of public officials." "Between 1973 and 1990, all the precincts in the country were places of detention.

All of them. There is not one that did not have detainees, that did not have forcibly disappeared persons within them, or that did not have torture within one. All are recognized, and some were destroyed in the final days of the dictatorship to be able to erase some cases," the expert concludes based on official reports.

In 2017, the Supreme Court sentenced former Carabineros Francisco Contreras Torres and Pedro Herrera Mossuto to seven years in prison for the disappearance of Héctor Vásquez. Furthermore, in 2021, the highest court determined 10 years and one day in prison for officer Juan Paredes Rodríguez for the aggravated homicide of José Adrián Ramírez Díaz and the abduction of the minor Pedro Pérez Godoy; another 10 years and one day for Francisco Contreras Torres for the aggravated kidnappings of Hernán Peña and Luis Vergara, the same crime for which it sentenced Pedro Herrera Mossuto to 7 years in prison. Likewise, Bernardo Pérez Arriagada was sentenced to 7 years in prison for the murder of José Adrián Ramírez Díaz. Héctor Vásquez's son, José Barahona, maintains that "it was little that they gave the cop" and says almost 50 years after the event: "I have little hope that he is alive; what I have hope for is that his bones might appear." Despite the sentences, those close to the victims and neighbors of the precinct know very little information about the case. For example, Mercedes Ulloa states that she knew the other victims besides Héctor Vásquez, her boyfriend at the time. "But I didn't know that the same thing had happened to them, that they had taken them, that they had killed them," she says. Ñuñoa tiene memoria is a work by Edgar Pfennings de la Vega on the script and research, Felipe Zenteno on the music, and Rodrigo Montanter and Fernando Pereira on the sound. Other sites in the commune that are remembered in this podcast are the current 18th Precinct "Los Guindos," the old Campus Oriente of the University of Chile, and the Investigations Barracks at Obispo Orrego No. 241, in addition to the partially recognized Estadio Nacional and José Domingo Cañas.

Source: eldesconcierto.cl, December 11, 2022