21 years old, married, worker, forcibly disappeared on October 6, 1973, in Santiago. Guillermo Alberto Bravo Rivas was detained that day by Carabineros, around 20:30 hours, on a public street in Santiago.

He has remained disappeared since that date. According to statements from his spouse and witnesses, Guillermo Bravo was detained along with other people at the exit of a soda fountain located at the intersection of Calle San Diego and Inés de Aguilera, currently Santa Isabel, by officials from the Sixth Carabineros Precinct.

The following day, his spouse and his father went to the police station, where they acknowledged his detention, but informed them that he had already been released. Approximately fifteen days later, a witness who survived the events recounted to the family members that he and Guillermo Bravo had been detained and taken to the Sixth Carabineros Precinct, from where they were taken out blindfolded along with other people and brought to a place where they could hear running water and there were branches.

There, they were taken out of the vehicle and shot. Considering the background information received and the investigation carried out by this Corporation, the Superior Council reached the conviction that Guillermo Alberto Bravo was made to disappear by State agents who held him in detention. Consequently, it declared him a victim of human rights violations.

Source: (Corporation)

I am the great-niece of a disappeared person, GUILLERMO BRAVO RIVAS. For my family, it is a wound that does not heal. I saw my great-grandfather die crying out to see my great-uncle, weeping, suffering; that pain was passed on to my generation.

We fought against the dictatorship with fury, with rage, with impotence, from all the pain of our family. Without knowing it, I met one of the torturers who appears on the list on this page. I shared the same table with him, without knowing his status; he hid it from his family as well.

Most of them fought against Pinochet. The impact when I found out was great; I could not believe it, a murderer by my side knowing my whole life of pain. He never told me. I did not know what to do with this shocking information.

I let time pass, I distanced myself from him, I never confronted him. The only thing I can say is that life made him pay. He still lives with pain and will go to the grave with the sadness of losing a son, his firstborn, two years ago in the most atrocious way, in a crash of his motorcycle against a vehicle; he burned to death.

It was tremendous, he left children, he was young and he was his pride and his first son. Well, that is how it is paid; if it was not through justice, the universe took it upon itself to put him in a cell of pain.

He still has not recovered from the loss; furthermore, his wife has cancer, which she has been fighting for years, but life reminds him of it every time. He lives overwhelmed by pain; neither his money nor his status managed to distance him from the punishment of many who suffered from his torture.

Source: Erika Bravo Aedo.