Juan Delgado Vial. Juan was a Peruvian national. He had joined the MIR at the sociology school of the Universidad de Chile in the first semester of 1971, shortly after arriving in Chile. At the end of July 1973, he was arrested in Santiago by a military patrol while he and other comrades were distributing flyers to soldiers guarding fuel distribution at a gas station.

These were flyers in which we called on the troops not to fire on the people. Taken to the Tacna regiment, he was tortured and then transferred to the Investigaciones, which released him after 15 days due to efforts by the Peruvian embassy or consulate.

Following party guidance, he left for Argentina in August 1973, along with his girlfriend, who was an Argentine national, to avoid further persecution against him. When the coup occurred, he moved to Buenos Aires and, after a few months, joined the ranks of the PRT.

At the time of his arrest, he was active in a PRT propaganda structure on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. His family, based in Peru, only learned of his arrest following an anonymous call days after the event took place.

As his parents were elderly, there were no family members who could conduct an investigation or file any complaint regarding his case. His case is registered on the official CONADEP list.

Source: Red Charquican

Mónica participated in university political mobilization in the 1970s. Due to persecution by the military government, she went into exile in Mexico in 1976. In her testimony, she recounts in detail the circumstances of the kidnapping of Juan Ramón "El Negro" Delgado Vial, her partner at the time, which occurred on August 19, 1976, while he was working in the Flores neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires.

Juan was a Peruvian national; he had been a militant in the MIR-Chile and later became linked to sectors of the revolutionary left in Argentina. He was a sociologist and had participated in the literacy experience directed by Paulo Freire in Chile and in the campaign developed by the National Directorate of Adult Education (DINEA) in 1975 in Argentina.

Juan remains forcibly disappeared. At the time of the interview, Mónica works in the area of defending women's health and sexual rights.

Source: indice.memoriaabierta.org.ar