On October 6, 1973, the following individuals were executed by resolution of an alleged Consejo de Guerra (War Council) held in Calama:

-Luis BUSH MORALES, 36 years old, Bolivian, agronomist, socialist militant; detained on October 5 by carabineros, who took him that same day to the Calama Jail.

-Francisco Gabriel VALDIVIA, 34 years old, laborer, President of the Union of the Empresa Nacional de Explosivos (ENAEX), socialist militant; who was detained at his home in Calama on October 4, 1973, by local carabineros and taken to the Jail. He had previously been detained for one day on September 20.

-Andrés ROJAS MARAMBIO, 38 years old, driver for the Servicio Nacional de Salud, socialist militant; detained on October 5, 1973, by carabineros of Calama at his home and taken to the Jail.

The three aforementioned individuals were sentenced to death by a Consejo de Guerra which, according to official versions, took place in Calama on October 6, 1973, on charges of participating in an attempted sabotage of the DUPONT explosives plant belonging to the company ENAEX. The official version was published in the regional press.

This Commission did not obtain a copy of the respective proceedings or the sentence. The executions were carried out on the same day the Council allegedly took place, and the remains of the executed were not returned to their families until two years later, when they were informed of the location where they were buried and were permitted to exhume them.

The Commission reached the conviction that the deaths of Luis Bush, Francisco Valdivia, and Andrés Rojas were the result of a trial conducted outside of all legality, constituting a violation of their human rights, especially the right to a fair trial and the right to life, thereby compromising the responsibility of State agents.

It bases its conviction on the background information already noted regarding the Consejos de Guerra and specifically the following:

-Only one day elapsed between the date of detention and the execution, which accounts for the impossibility of having conducted an adequate investigation and judicial process, had one existed;

-Various testimonies account for the visible consequences of the duress to which the executed were subjected during that brief period of time, for which reason any eventual confessions they may have made would lack validity;

-The accused did not have the right to be assisted by a lawyer, and their families were not informed that they would be subjected to a Consejo de Guerra, so they were unable to provide them with legal counsel and learned of their sentences and executions through radio reports.