Date of Birth: 30-12-49, 24 years of age at the time of detention. Address: Pasaje Cleopatra 4655, San Miguel Marital Status: Single Occupation: Hairdresser Repressive Status: Militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). Date of Detention: July 18, 1974

REPRESSIVE SITUATION

Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña, single, hairdresser, and MIR militant, was detained by the DINA on the morning of July 18, 1974, in a place and under circumstances that remain unknown. That same day, at approximately 16:45, he arrived at his home as a prisoner, accompanied by two of his captors who were traveling in a late-model white Chevrolet pickup truck.

He remained at the residence for about 20 minutes before returning at 20:00 with the same individuals, who made him retrieve some documents and woolen clothing. On this second occasion, his face was haggard and showed clear signs of having been beaten; the agents even asked his sister, Irma Reyes, to prepare a saltwater solution for him to wash his mouth, which showed hematomas and recent blows.

The following day, at 13:30, he called by telephone to state that they should not inform his friends about his situation and that if they left any message, they should receive it; specifically, he indicated that if "Gustavo" called, they should not worry him with his detention.

He added that he was in a place he could not identify and that he had been pressured to make the call. This was the last time his family had contact with him. Subsequently, they have only had confirmation that he was held in a DINA facility based on the statements of former detainees who were deprived of liberty at Londres 38.

Such is the case of Erika Cecilia Hennings Cepeda, who stated in her testimony that she was detained on July 31, 1974, and transferred to that detention center, where she remained for approximately 17 days. There, she noticed the presence of other prisoners, among whom was Daniel Reyes Piña.

His name appeared on a list of 119 Chileans allegedly killed abroad in clashes between far-left groups or in combat with the Argentine Armed Forces. These lists were released by the magazines LEA in Argentina and O'DIA in Brazil, publications that issued only one edition without a responsible editor and whose addresses listed in the imprint proved to be false.

His family carried out numerous efforts and procedures to find his whereabouts, but they yielded no results, and they still do not know the fate he met at the hands of the DINA.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

On October 10, 1974, his family filed a recurso de amparo (writ of habeas corpus) on his behalf before the Santiago Court of Appeals, case file 1215-74, in which they set forth the circumstances surrounding his detention.

On November 5, the Ministry of the Interior informed the Court that the detainee was not being held by order of any administrative authority and that the Ministry was unaware of his whereabouts. Similar responses were received from the Ministry of Defense, the Combat Aviation Command, and the Headquarters of the State of Siege Zone of the Province of Santiago.

On December 13, 1974, based on the information provided by the administrative and military authorities, the Court rejected the recurso de amparo and resolved to send the records to the First Criminal Court of San Miguel to investigate the disappearance of the affected party.

On January 6, 1975, the First Criminal Court of San Miguel, in compliance with the Court's order, initiated case 41.792. In the investigation order carried out by the Investigations police, the complainant, Saúl Jacobo Reyes Piña, the victim's brother, was interviewed.

He ratified the facts already presented, adding that the first time his brother arrived at the house with the civilian captors, the latter stated that the detention was due to him being identified as a "MIR courier." On April 17, 1975, the First Criminal Court declared itself incompetent to continue hearing the case, remitting the records to the 3rd Criminal Court of San Miguel, which had jurisdiction.

On April 29, the 3rd Court accepted jurisdiction and consolidated the case with process 22.563, which had been initiated in that Tribunal following a complaint for alleged disappearance or kidnapping filed on December 19, 1974.

During its processing, no evidence had been added that contributed to clarifying the facts, except for an official letter to the Puchuncaví Prisoner Camp, which was returned to the Tribunal with the communication that any inquiry regarding detainees must be made to the SENDET.

On July 15, 1975, the SENDET reported that the agency had no records regarding Daniel Reyes Piña. The Tribunal also received a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the "119" case, stating that there was no official record that the persons named in the lists of the aforementioned publications had died abroad.

On October 20, 1975, Judge Berta Rodríguez Monardes temporarily dismissed the case on the grounds that the evidence did not prove the crime under investigation.

On April 29, 1981, the dismissal resolution was submitted for review to the San Miguel Court of Appeals, which, on August 21, 1981, considered the investigation incomplete and ordered the case to return to the summary stage.

In this new phase of the process, a copy of the UPI agency cable regarding the "119" case and the victim's identification extract were received; and on November 6, 1981, the case was again temporarily dismissed because the commission of a crime had not been proven in the records. This time, the dismissal was approved by the Court of Appeals.

Source: Vicariate of Solidarity

The civil and military operation sought to cover up the forced disappearance of 119 Chilean men and women through a media montage. In this text, we take stock of the progress in terms of justice and the ways of building memory, understanding these two struggles as fundamental for the construction of a society that leaves no room for oblivion or impunity.

This week marks 45 years since Operation Colombo, or the "Case of the 119," a civil and military operation carried out in 1975 by the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), the purpose of which was to cover up the forced disappearance of 119 Chilean men and women through a media montage.

Considered the first informal action of Operation Condor, the disappearance of these 119 people involved the collaboration of the intelligence services of Brazil and Argentina, which, through publications in fake newspapers, disseminated lists of Chileans—who until that moment were disappeared—claiming they had been murdered in different countries.

Without a doubt, the "Case of the 119" proved to be an impressive operation in terms of the coordination capacity between various civil, military, national, and international actors to falsify reality.

The path, riddled with montages, omissions, and lies, has made the search for justice a tortuous experience for the families, who, based on strength, struggle, and commitment, have managed to build the path of memory long before the criminals were convicted.

In this text, we take stock of the progress in terms of justice and the ways of building memory based on the "Case of the 119," understanding these two struggles as fundamental for the construction of a society that leaves no room for oblivion or impunity.

In this way, memory and justice appear as paths that intersect and dialogue, cemented step by step by the families, companions, and friends of the 119 who have made the struggle their life.

Psychological Warfare: Operation Colombo

From its inception on September 11, 1973, the dictatorship applied, among its criminal acts, the forced disappearance of persons, a practice that, according to various studies, has been considered "the cruelest form of human rights violation, as it prevents family members from processing the respective psychological and material grief, which translates into permanent damage, defined as the chronification of trauma" [1].

This practice, as noted by the Rettig Report, consisted of the apprehension and kidnapping of the person to be taken to some clandestine place of detention, "an action accompanied or followed by concealment measures and official denials" of acknowledging the detention, preventing "the disposal of their remains so that they could not be found" [2].

This formula also implies a complex situation from a legal point of view and the application of justice, or rather, the impossibility of its application. Indeed, as there is no material evidence of the facts, one depends only on the testimonies of the people who were with the prisoner and/or witnesses.

To this, we must add the fact that the detainees were subjected to wartime legislation, which constitutes an illegality that contravenes all international principles and treaties regarding Human Rights.

To address the development of the "Case of the 119," one must understand the psychological warfare strategy deployed by the regime in its desire for the "conquest of the inner space of people, which is penetrated through messages.

Such messages act upon the feelings and thoughts of individuals in order to change their conduct and behaviors" [3], that is, in its attempt to cover up the repressive action and demoralize resistance to the regime by manipulating public opinion and common sense.

It was within the framework of these repressive and extermination policies that in 1975 the DINA, in collaboration with the intelligence services of Brazil and Argentina, carried out the so-called "Operation Colombo." Thus, between May 27, 1974, and February 20, 1975, 100 men and 19 women were kidnapped by the DINA, most of them under 30 years of age, among whom 94 were militants of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), 10 of the Socialist Party (PS), 9 of the Communist Party (PC), 2 of the Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria (MAPU), one of the Communist League, and three with no known militancy.

Faced with the early pressure from family members, the Committee for Cooperation for Peace, and international organizations such as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights [4] denouncing the kidnappings and repeatedly filing recursos de amparo, the intelligence services initiated a macro-media montage with the aim of hiding the criminal actions they had in store for the 119.

Thus, notes began to be published in various national press outlets about the military training that opponents of the regime were allegedly receiving abroad. On June 12, 1975, the evening newspaper La Segunda reported in its headlines: "Two thousand Marxists receive training in Argentina" and "Guerrillas organized against Chile," indicating that among them were opponents who had been reported as disappeared in Chile.

This was followed by a series of publications in the press controlled by the dictatorship denouncing the false subversive plan being devised from abroad by leftist groups.

However, the psychological warfare promoted by the DINA required the cooperation of its Argentine and Brazilian counterparts, who, through fictitious press outlets, announced the death of 119 Chilean men and women.

Thus, on June 25 in Curitiba, Brazil, a newspaper with irregular circulation called O'Día announced that 59 Chilean MIR militants had been killed in clashes with the Argentine police in Salta. Likewise, in Buenos Aires on July 15, the magazine Lea published, through a report on the "Chilean vendetta," that 60 Chilean MIR militants had been murdered in Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, and France by "their own comrades in the struggle." None of these media outlets were published again, and the Brazilian authorities disclaimed any knowledge of the only edition of O'Día.

However, in the Argentine case, the only issue of Lea was edited by the company Codex, linked to the Argentine Ministry of Social Welfare, which was in charge of the leader of the "Triple A," José López Rega [5].

The sole purpose of these publications was for the news to have repercussions in Chile and serve as a reference for the national press. Then, the montage would continue with the publication on July 23, 1975, in the newspaper El Mercurio of the list of 60 murdered MIR militants, citing Lea.

The following day, La Segunda, under the headline "MIR militants exterminated like rats," published the list of 59 dead, alluding to what was published by O'Día. Finally, on the 25th, La Tercera headlined "MIR militants murdered in Argentina mocked Chilean courts," replicating the information.

The cruel montage perpetrated under the logic of psychological warfare was complete. However, the work of the family members, companions, human rights organizations, international press, and the investigations carried out subsequently by Judge Juan Guzmán have exposed this great farce.

The reaction of the family members and companions: Dictatorial injustice, struggle, and memory

From the beginning of the detentions, the family members sought ways to denounce what was happening. In that sense, they turned to the Committee for Cooperation for Peace, which showed itself, with a great sense of humanity and solidarity, as a pillar of support, providing them with legal and spiritual assistance.

Thus, even believing in judicial efforts, multiple recursos de amparo were filed for each of the detainees.

On May 28, 1975, a collective request was successfully presented to the Court of Appeals by 164 family members of forcibly disappeared persons to investigate their whereabouts, which was rejected. Meanwhile, on July 8, the request was replicated in the Supreme Court, meeting the same fate.

By the time the lists were published by the dictatorial press, protection appeals had already been filed for the majority of the 119 in different courts across the country. However, the response of the Judiciary to the disappearances was null, as noted by the Human Rights Commission of the Organization of American States (OAS): "the courts accepted the government's petitions that they could not directly request information from the DINA about the detainees and never constituted themselves in the secret facilities where it was reported the detainees might be found.

Of the thousands of recursos de amparo that were filed, very few were accepted, and in the case of the disappeared, it can be stated that none of them managed to save the life of a disappeared person" (Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile, OAS, 1985).

In this way, the family members and companions, assuming that the judiciary would not act, turned toward organization, struggle, and persistence to denounce and make the disappearances visible. Gathered in the Association of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared (AFDD), multiple actions were undertaken that sought to move public opinion, both nationally and internationally.

Letters were written to the authorities, to the courts, to the International Red Cross; international campaigns were carried out, and the streets were taken.

Upon the publication of the lists of the 119, the human rights groups and the leftist militancy immediately realized the montage. Julio Moreno Fuenzalida, brother of Germán Moreno Fuenzalida, who appears on one of the lists, wrote a letter on July 24, 1975, from his political imprisonment in Ritoque to his mother and sister, in which he stated: "The news of the deaths of Germán, Marcos, and another hundred comrades strikes us brutally [...] Mom, Nany, the pain of our brother's murder does not belong to us; we do not have the right to consider it only ours.

His death is a blow to all workers, peasants, and the poor, because he lived and died for them. It is a blow to all who consider the cause of Socialism, which is also ours, as their own" [7].

Likewise, on July 31, 1975, 95 detainees from the Melinka camp in Puchuncaví, who claimed to have seen a large part of the disappeared from the lists in different detention centers, began the first hunger strike under the dictatorship, denouncing the falsehood of the press publications and demanding truth and justice.

Thus, there were many protests that marked the struggle of the family members and companions of the forcibly disappeared, among which two hunger strikes stand out, carried out in 1977 at the headquarters of ECLAC and in the San Francisco Church; a third in 1978 on the occasion of the Amnesty Decree Law in parishes of Santiago and at the UNICEF office; and the chaining to the former National Congress, then the Ministry of Justice, in 1979.

All these actions did not obtain a response regarding the whereabouts of the disappeared, but they were, however, forging the path of memory that would later unveil the montage. For as Carla Peñaloza indicates, "the early organization of the family members of the victims of human rights violations and the creation of solidarity and denunciation networks that sheltered them favored the construction of a memory of the defeated."

By Nicolás Arraño Moreno. History graduate from the University of Chile and member of the Memory and Future Training Center. Nephew of Germán Moreno Fuenzalida, MIR militant, health union leader, and law student at the University of Chile, victim of Operation Colombo. (Excerpt)

Source: elsoberano.org 23/07/2020 Date: 23-07-2020

Supreme Court issues convictions against former DINA agents and retired officer for kidnapping and homicide

The Supreme Court convicted former agents of the National Intelligence Directorate and a retired Army officer for their responsibility in the crimes of aggravated kidnapping and homicide, respectively.

In the first ruling (case file 44.226-2017), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Milton Juica, Carlos Künsemüller, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, and lawyer (i) María Cristina Gajado—ratified the sentence issued for the aggravated kidnapping of Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña, which sentenced César Manríquez Bravo, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, Pedro Alfaro Hernández, and Ciro Torré Sáez to 10 years in prison for their responsibility in the events.

During the investigation stage, the visiting minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, established that: "On July 18, 1974, in the morning hours, Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), left his home, located at Calle Cleopatra No. 655 in the commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, after which he was detained, without legal basis, by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) [...] (being) transferred on two occasions to his home by his captors, one of them Pedro René Alfaro Fernández, for the purpose of removing some objects from the property. Subsequently, Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña was locked up, without legal basis, in the clandestine detention and torture center of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), called 'Yucatán' or 'Londres 38,' located at Calle Londres No. 38 in the commune of Santiago, under the charge of Marcelo Luis Manuel Moren Brito, Major of the Chilean Army—currently deceased—without any evidence that he survived his captivity, his fate remaining unknown to this date, that is, whether he was executed and, if so, in what manner, on what date, and the place where his remains were buried. That, during the period in which the victim Daniel Reyes Piña was locked up in the aforementioned detention and torture center, the Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade, upon which the clandestine detention centers and the operational groups of the DINA depended [was in charge]."

Homicide of an adolescent in Peñalolén

In the second ruling (case file 825-2018), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Milton Juica, Lamberto Cisternas, Andrea Muñoz, Jorge Dahm, and lawyer (i) Ricardo Abuauad—sentenced retired Army officer Carlos Matus Rojas to 3 years and one day in prison, with the benefit of supervised release, for the homicide of Jorge Pardo Aburto.

In this case, the investigation carried out by the visiting minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Mario Carroza, managed to establish the following facts:

• On September 4, 1985, at about 13:15, while a national protest was taking place, a military patrol from the Army Telecommunications School of Chile, commanded by then-Lieutenant Carlos Matus Rojas and composed of a non-commissioned officer and two conscript soldiers, arrived at a Cema Chile property, located at Av. Grecia No. 6740, Peñalolén commune, with the purpose of guarding the facility, which, according to a prior report, was being attacked by a mob;
• The aforementioned military personnel acted with their respective firearms; the officer in charge and the non-commissioned officer did so with anti-riot shotguns, and the conscripts with FAL rifles. All of them took up fixed positions at different points of the facility, with the express instruction from the patrol leader to fire into the air to deter the people and, in case of imminent danger, to fire directly at the protesters. While this was happening, Lieutenant Matus moved freely within the guarded facility, entering and leaving it on more than one occasion;
• Meters from the place, precisely on Av. Grecia, between the perpendicular streets Calle Ictinos and Pasaje 8, the 16-year-old minor named Jorge Pardo, together with his friend Leonardo Osorio, were observing what was happening at the open center, but upon seeing a Carabineros bus at the location, they decided to leave. At that moment, Leonardo Osorio saw that one of the soldiers, the patrol leader, went outside the open center and positioned himself on Av. Grecia in a position to fire the FAL rifle he was carrying. With it, he managed to fire three shots in different directions, one of them directed toward the place where the boys were, thus impacting the projectile into Jorge Pardo's body and causing an entry and exit wound, compatible with the weapon used. In view of this, his friend, helped by residents, took him on foot to the San Roque Church clinic, near the place, from where he was transferred to the Posta 4 emergency center, and upon arrival, due to the severity of his wounds, he was referred to the Hospital Salvador, where he passed away at 15:10.

Source: adprensa.cl 28/06/2018 Date: 28-06-2018

Chile – Operation Colombo: Former DINA agents convicted for disappearance of MIR militant in 1974.

The visiting minister for human rights violation cases of the San Miguel Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, convicted four agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their responsibility in the aggravated kidnapping of Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña, a victim of the so-called "Operation Colombo" whose last known whereabouts was the clandestine detention center of Londres 38.

In the ruling (case file 4-2005), the visiting minister sentenced former Army officers Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko and César Raúl Manríquez Bravo, former Carabineros officer Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, and former Carabineros non-commissioned officer Pedro René Alfaro Fernández to 10 years in prison as perpetrators of the crime perpetrated starting on July 18, 1974.

In this episode of the "Operation Colombo" judicial case, the now-deceased Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda and Marcelo Morén Brito had also been prosecuted.

During the investigation stage, Minister Cifuentes managed to establish the following facts:

"1st.- That on July 18, 1974, in the morning hours, Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), left his home, located at Calle Cleopatra No. 4.655 in the commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, after which he was detained, without legal basis, by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), an organization that, at that time, was in charge of Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Colonel of the Chilean Army, currently deceased; 2nd That, that same day, Reyes Piña was transferred on two occasions to his home by his captors, one of them Pedro René Alfaro Fernández, for the purpose of removing some objects from the property; 3rd That, subsequently, Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña was locked up, without legal basis, in the clandestine detention and torture center of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), called 'Yucatán' or 'Londres 38,' located at Calle Londres No. 38 in the commune of Santiago, under the charge of Marcelo Luis Manuel Moren Brito, Major of the Chilean Army, currently deceased, without any evidence that he survived his captivity, his fate remaining unknown to this date, that is, whether he was executed and, if so, in what manner, on what date, and the place where his remains were buried; 4th That, during the period in which the victim DANIEL ABRAHAM REYES PIÑA was locked up in the aforementioned detention and torture center, the Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade, upon which the clandestine detention centers and the operational groups of the DINA depended, was in charge of César Manríquez Bravo, Major of the Chilean Army; 5th That, furthermore, in the indicated temporal context, the following served in the aforementioned detention center: Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, Lieutenant of the Chilean Army; Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, Lieutenant of the Chilean Carabineros, and Pedro René Alfaro Fernández, fulfilling operational functions, such as detentions and/or interrogations, and 6th That the name of Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña appeared on a list of persons, published in the national press, after appearing on a list published in the magazine Lea of Argentina, dated July 15, 1975, in which it was mentioned that Reyes Piña had died in Argentina, along with other persons belonging to the MIR, due to internal disputes, news that had its origin in DINA maneuvers with the aim of hiding the true fate of the victim."

Source: resumen.cl 21/07/2017 Date: 21-07-2017

Operation Colombo: Minister Marianela Cifuentes convicts former DINA agents for the aggravated kidnapping of Daniel Reyes Piña.

The visiting minister for human rights violation cases of the San Miguel Court, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, convicted four agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their responsibility in the aggravated kidnapping of Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña, a victim of the so-called "Operation Colombo" whose last known whereabouts was the clandestine detention center of Londres 38.

It should be noted that the visiting minister sentenced Pedro Alfaro Fernández, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, César Manríquez Bravo, and Ciro Torré Sáez to 10 years in prison as perpetrators of the crime perpetrated starting on July 18, 1974.

The following facts were established

1st.- That on July 18, 1974, in the morning hours, Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), left his home, located at Calle Cleopatra No. 4.655 in the commune of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, after which he was detained, without legal basis, by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), an organization that, at that time, was in charge of Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Colonel of the Chilean Army, currently deceased; 2nd That, that same day, Reyes Piña was transferred on two occasions to his home by his captors, one of them Pedro René Alfaro Fernández, for the purpose of removing some objects from the property; 3rd That, subsequently, DANIEL ABRAHAM REYES PIÑA was locked up, without legal basis, in the clandestine detention and torture center of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), called "Yucatán" or "Londres 38," located at Calle Londres No. 38 in the commune of Santiago, under the charge of Marcelo Luis Manuel Moren Brito, Major of the Chilean Army—currently deceased—without any evidence that he survived his captivity, his fate remaining unknown to this date, that is, whether he was executed and, if so, in what manner, on what date, and the place where his remains were buried; 4th That, during the period in which the victim Daniel Reyes Piña was locked up in the aforementioned detention and torture center, the Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade, upon which the clandestine detention centers and the operational groups of the DINA depended, was in charge of César Manríquez Bravo, Major of the Chilean Army; 5th That, furthermore, in the indicated temporal context, the following served in the aforementioned detention center: Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, Lieutenant of the Chilean Army; Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, Lieutenant of the Chilean Carabineros, and Pedro René Alfaro Fernández, fulfilling operational functions, such as detentions and/or interrogations, and 6th That the name of Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña appeared on a list of persons, published in the national press, after appearing on a list published in the magazine Lea of Argentina, dated July 15, 1975, in which it was mentioned that Reyes Piña had died in Argentina, along with other persons belonging to the MIR, due to internal disputes, news that had its origin in DINA maneuvers with the aim of hiding the true fate of the victim.

Source: darioconstitucional.cl 19/07/2017 Date: 19-07-2017

579 MIR militants murdered or forcibly disappeared during the dictatorship remembered

It was one of the political parties that had the highest number of disappearances and political executions. A political-cultural act will be held on Saturday, August 15, at 11:00, at the MIR memorial located in the General Cemetery.

This Saturday, August 15, marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR).

In that context, the Casa de Miguel Solidarity Network will hold an act at the General Cemetery memorial, located in the vicinity of the Manuel Rodríguez Mausoleum, in Patio 33.

The MIR was one of the groups most punished by the repression of the dictatorship, which outlawed all leftist groups. According to figures from the entity organizing the activity, there are 579 victims of forced disappearance and executions.

The organizers will install a commemorative plaque with the names of all of them because "they are in our memory and because the political project for which they fought—for a more just, inclusive, dignified, and solidary society—remains valid," they indicated in a statement.

The activity will begin at 11:00, an occasion on which they will bring the remains of former militants Juan Antonio Trujillo Lucero and Santiago Morales Inostroza, who will rest next to the remains of Luciano Cruz Aguayo, one of the founders of the MIR, who died in 1971.

It is, according to the invitation, the first transfer to the memorial, an occasion on which a political-cultural act will be held.

The MIR was founded, among others, by the physician Miguel Enríquez, who was its Secretary General from 1967 until his death on October 5, 1974, in the commune of San Miguel, after confronting agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA).

PRESS RELEASE

In the framework of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), on Saturday, August 15, 2015, at 11:00, the remains of our comrades JUAN ANTONIO TRUJILLO LUCERO and SANTIAGO MORALES INOSTROZA will be transferred to the MIR Memorial located in the General Cemetery of Santiago (entering via Avda.

La Paz, next to the Manuel Rodríguez Mausoleum).

Likewise, in this political-cultural act, we will pay tribute to the 579 MIR militants who were murdered or forcibly disappeared during the dictatorship. For this, we will install a plaque with their names, because they are in our memory and because the political project for which they fought—for a more just, inclusive, dignified, and solidary society—remains valid.

Today they all live in the struggles of the people! CASA DE MIGUEL Solidarity Network

Source: villagrimaldi.cl 06/10/2011 Date: 06-10-2011

Disappearance of MIR hairdresser Daniel Reyes to be investigated by Judge Manuel Bustos

By Lucía Sepúlveda

Manuel Bustos Meza, judge of the Third Criminal Court of San Miguel, was recently designated by the Supreme Court as a special judge to investigate the disappearance of two forcibly disappeared persons.

One of them is Daniel Abraham Reyes Piña, 24 years old, single, hairdresser, MIR militant, detained by the DINA on the morning of July 18, 1974, in circumstances that are unknown. That afternoon, around five o'clock, he arrived at his home located at Pasaje Cleopatra 4655, in the commune of San Miguel, as a prisoner, accompanied by two of his captors traveling in a late-model white Chevrolet pickup truck.

He remained at the residence for about 20 minutes before returning at 20:00 with the same individuals, who made him retrieve some documents and woolen clothing. On this second occasion, his face was haggard and showed clear signs of having been beaten.

The agents asked his sister, Irma Reyes, to prepare a saltwater solution for him to wash his mouth, which showed hematomas and recent blows. The final call: The day after the detention, the young hairdresser simulated cooperating with the DINA, calling his sister at 13:30 and reciting what the agents told him: that she should not inform his friends of his detention and that if they left any message, she should receive it.

Specifically, he indicated that if "Gustavo" called, they should not worry him with his detention. But upon concluding, he said that he was in a place he could not identify and that he had been pressured to make that call.

This was the last opportunity his family had contact with him. Subsequently, they have only had confirmation that he was held in a DINA facility based on the testimonies of former detainees who survived their time at Londres 38.

Erika Hennings states in her testimony that she was detained on July 31, 1974, and transferred to that detention center, where she remained for about 17 days. There, she noticed the presence of other prisoners, among whom was Daniel Reyes Piña.

Daniel Reyes appeared on a list of 119 Chileans supposedly killed in Argentina and Brazil, assembled by the DINA as part of a publicity montage to cover up the disappearance of these people. His family carried out numerous efforts and procedures to find his whereabouts, without any result, and still does not know the fate he really met at the hands of the DINA.

Source: archivochile.com (no date)