Like many prisoners, Susana was not allowed to sleep; she was fed leftovers and drowned in a drum filled with trash, water, and excrement. But no physical torment seemed worse to her than the psychological. "They told me they had killed my mother, my nephew; they threatened me sexually.

One day a man arrived who masturbated over me while the others laughed and cheered him on. They took off my blindfold so I could see it."

Six days later, when her family managed to find her and forced the CNI to acknowledge the detention through a recurso de amparo (writ of habeas corpus), lawyer Ambrosio Rodríguez appeared on television to inform the country of the arrest of this "dangerous" member of the resistance.

A little tyrant

Inside the barracks, Susana showed symptoms of a miscarriage, but when she left, the Legal Medical Institute confirmed that, despite everything, her pregnancy had continued. Her son, Salvador Pablo, was born while she was in prison. "The CNI agents entered during the birth. Becerra and the others were celebrating. 'Our son is being born! You’re going to have a little tyrant!' they shouted."

Susana Burgueño remained imprisoned until December 1990, but it was only recently that the Civil Registry erased the information regarding her conviction as a member of "combat groups" from her criminal record.

"It has been very hard for me to rebuild my life," she relates. The CNI took the car she owned with her mother, and since regaining her freedom, she has been unemployed most of the time.

"My son is 18 years old and is doing his Military Service in Punta Arenas." He is a special conscript. One who listens to songs by Sol y Lluvia.

by Alejandra Matus

Source: planB.cl, December 2, 2004

Susana Burgueño has a firm temperament, tempered by adversity, but the other day, while watching the special on the Valech Report on Televisión Nacional, she began to tremble and cry uncontrollably. The man who appeared on the television screens admitting his actions for the CNI and asking for forgiveness was her torturer, back when she was two months pregnant with her first and only child.

Susana has not forgotten the face of that man, identified as Ricardo Guerrero Becerra, nor the scar he has on his lip, because it was the first thing she saw on May 8, 1986, when a hundred carabineros, detectives, and CNI agents surrounded her house and her neighborhood, waiting for her on the streets and rooftops to arrest her. "I was a member of the Frente Patriótico and they considered me an important leader of a group of comrades who had been captured in Maipú," she says.

Agent Guerrero pulled Susana out of the vehicle in which she was arriving at the house with her mother and dragged her by her hair into her home, located on the second floor in the Balmaceda neighborhood in Santiago. "Right away, I found my 8-year-old nephew bleeding from his nose.

My grandmother, over 80, was covered in blood. The house was completely destroyed and turned upside down. In my bedroom, they had piled up a mountain of weapons and explosives. They beat me in front of my mommy, they chambered rounds and pointed their weapons at me, saying they were going to kill me.

Before reaching the stairs, they tripped me and I rolled down 15 steps to the floor. I arrived at the bottom unconscious."

Susana was blindfolded and transported in a black car to the CNI barracks in Borgoño, in the Independencia neighborhood. On the way, she screamed that she was pregnant, "but they didn't pay any attention to me. 'And what do we care?' they told me, while they kicked me and squeezed my nipples. I had just given the news to my mom. She was happy because she was going to be a grandmother."

Source: Plan B, December 2, 2004

Case File 2.182-98: Juan Soto Cerda case a) Exhorted statement of Ricardo del Carmen Guerrero Becerra from pages 191 and 272, who states that in the year 1980 he served as an operative agent for the CNI in the city of Talca, adding that in 1981 it was his duty to carry out the location and subsequent detention of Luis Pincheira Llanos, an operation ordered by CNI Santiago.

The detainee in question was transferred to the city of Santiago, and he later learned that the same person he had detained in Talca had been killed in a confrontation, a fact that caused him surprise since the subject was in the custody of CNI agents in Santiago.

Source: Judiciary, January 29, 2010

The complete list of DINA agents

The complete list of DINA agents (Document delivered by the Army to the Courts of Justice)

The following is the complete list of DINA agents, which was delivered a few years ago by the Army to the Courts of Justice. The text was kept under lock and key for a long period, but time leaked it to human rights lawyers and a journalist specializing in this matter.

This document, which has never been published in print media, has reached Clarín from the desk of a journalist who has followed multiple cases of human rights violations during the dictatorship. The document, therefore, is completely authentic. It concerns more than a thousand agents, some prosecuted, others convicted, and not a few already deceased.

[List of names omitted for brevity]

Source: elclarin.cl, July 8, 2013