died that day at 16:35 hours, due to acute anemia caused by a complicated penetrating wound to the right side of the thorax, as stated in the Medical Death Certificate from the Legal Medical Institute.

Gonzalo Muñoz, a militant of the Partido Comunista, had been held at the Centro de Readaptación Social de Valparaíso since February 8, 1985, prosecuted by the Military Prosecutor's Office of Valparaíso for violation of the Arms Control Law.

According to witness statements, on November 19, 1985, he was attacked by a group of high-risk common inmates, and one of them seriously wounded him with a bladed weapon. His death occurred while he was being transported to a medical facility.

The perpetrator of the injuries, according to the judicial investigation conducted, was sentenced to 12 years of major imprisonment in its medium degree for the crime of homicide.

The death of Gonzalo Muñoz occurred in a context of confrontations and verbal incidents between common inmates and those prosecuted for political reasons inside the penal facility. The former complained of favoritism received by political prisoners, and the latter, in turn, demanded minimum conditions of space and security for themselves, specifically that they be separated from high-risk common inmates.

Two days before his death, a hunger strike by political prisoners in that facility and others in the country had ended, as a means of pressuring for their demands. A protection appeal had also been filed weeks earlier for the same purpose, which had been rejected.

Days after the death of Gonzalo Muñoz, the Gendarmería proceeded to adapt the penal facility in order to keep those imprisoned for political reasons separated from the rest of the prison population. Similar measures were adopted in other prison facilities in the country.

Considering the gathered background, the Superior Council reached the conviction that the conditions of insecurity in which political prisoners were held at that time in the country's penal facilities decisively influenced the death of Gonzalo Rodrigo Muñoz Aravena, as these conditions allowed or favored acts of violence against them by the common prison population, without the authorities adopting the necessary measures to prevent it.

For this reason, it declared him a victim of political violence.