was detained in the Población Lo Herminda de la Victoria, in Cerro Navia. The victim participated in a human rights working group at the Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza Chapel in the neighborhood where he lived.

On two previous occasions, the victim had reported being followed by unidentified individuals who were monitoring the local parish. The Commission formed the conviction that Héctor Pacheco was the subject of a grave human rights violation, consisting of his detention and subsequent disappearance. However, it was unable to determine the authorship of these acts.

Source: Rettig Report

Commemoration of the International Day of the Forcibly Disappeared.

As the municipality of Cerro Navia, we seek to vindicate living memory through the struggle of hundreds of Chilean men and women who were victims of violence by the civic-military dictatorship and whose whereabouts remain unknown to this day.

In our country, according to the report of the Valech II Commission expanded in 2011, more than 3,000 people were recognized as killed or disappeared between 1973 and 1990. Among them is our neighbor Héctor Segundo Pacheco Avendaño, who was detained in the Población Herminda de la Victoria on November 14, 1989.

We reaffirm our unrestricted commitment to the defense and promotion of human rights and hope that an end is put to impunity and that the families of the forcibly disappeared in our country obtain truth and justice.

Source: facebook.com 20/8/2021

Date: 20-08-2021

who was studying philosophy at the Universidad de Concepción at the time of his detention and disappearance. The resolution states that "bearing in mind that the moral damage caused to the plaintiffs by the detention and subsequent disappearance of their brother was proven, a pain of an exceptional nature, the judges increased the amount of compensation, which they prudently set at the sum of $75,000,000 for each of the plaintiffs." Furthermore, it is noted that "when analyzing this formal challenge, it should not be forgotten that the alleged defect appears only when the sentence lacks the considerations of fact and law that serve as its foundation, not when those considerations do not conform to the thesis supported by the claimant. And from the merit of the records, it is possible to verify that the ruling does contain the reflections that led the judges to accept the claim and to establish the amount of the compensation."

Source: radioagricultura.cl 26/12/2018

Date: 26-12-2018

DOCUMENT - UA 459/89 - CHILE: FEAR OF "DISAPPEARANCE": HECTOR SEGUNDO PACHECO AVENDANO

EXTERNAL (for general distribution) AI Index: AMR 22/21/89/e Distr: UA/SC

UA 459/89

November 23, 1989 Fear of disappearance

CHILE

Héctor Segundo PACHECO AVENDAÑO , 54 years old, leader of the "Raúl Silva Henríquez" Base Committee, a local community office of the Chilean Commission for Human Rights. Amnesty International is deeply concerned for the safety of Héctor Pacheco Avendaño, who was reportedly abducted in the early hours of November 14 and whose whereabouts remain unknown.

Reports indicate that men dressed in civilian clothes entered his home in the Población Herminda de la Victoria, a poor neighborhood in Santiago, threatened his family with submachine guns, and took him away.

It is feared that government agents or clandestine groups acting with the connivance of the security forces are responsible for his abduction. In response to a recurso de amparo (habeas corpus petition) filed with the Santiago Court of Appeals on November 15, the security forces denied holding him in detention.

Reports also indicate that he is not in prison. The Vicaría de la Solidaridad has filed a complaint with the courts for "presumed misfortune" (disappearance).

GENERAL INFORMATION

There are more than 700 documented cases of people who have disappeared after being detained in the years following the military coup. Although the pattern of disappearances ceased in 1977, there have been some cases since then, such as that of five men who disappeared in September 1987.

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS: Telegrams/telex/airmail letters: -expressing concern about the alleged abduction and disappearance of Héctor Pacheco and requesting an immediate investigation to clarify his whereabouts; -urging that if he is in detention, his legal status be clarified immediately, that he be treated humanely, and that he be allowed to receive visits from his family and lawyers.

Source: Amnesty International Report - November 23, 1989

Date: 23-11-1989