Political Affiliation: Member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

MAURICIO SEGUNDO CURIÑANCO REYES

Date of Birth: 38 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Single Occupation: Carpenter Political Affiliation: Socialist Party Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

CARLOS SEGUNDO FIGUEROA ZAPATA

Date of Birth: 25-07-26, 47 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Fundo Paimún, Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Married, 6 children Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Union Counselor for the Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex representing Fundo Raimún. Socialist Party. Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

LUIS ARMANDO LAGOS TORRES

Date of Birth: 50 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Widower, 9 children Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Socialist Party Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

MODESTO JUAN REINANTE RAIPAN

Date of Birth: 18 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Fundo Trafún, Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ERNESTO REINANTE RAIPAN

Date of Birth: 29 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Fundo Trafún, Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ALBERTO SEGUNDO REINANTE RAIPAN

Date of Birth: 39 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Fundo Trafún, Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Married, 4 children Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

JOSE HECTOR BORQUEZ LEVICAN

Date of Birth: 22-01-31, 42 years of age at the time of his detention. Address: Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex Marital Status: Married, four children. Occupation: Lumber worker and administrator of the Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex Political Affiliation: No known political affiliation Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ALEJANDRO ANTONIO TRACANAO PINCHEIRA

Date of Birth: 22 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex Marital Status: Widower, two children Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Linked to the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

MIGUEL JOSE TRACANAO PINCHEIRA

Date of Birth: 25 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Linked to the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ELISEO MAXIMILIANO TRACANAO PINCHEIRA

Date of Birth: 22-10-55, 17 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Linked to the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

LUIS ALFREDO RIVERA CATRICHEO

Date of Birth: 54 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker at the Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex Political Affiliation: No known political affiliation Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

SALVADOR ALAMOS RUBILAR

Date of Birth: 45 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Married, 9 children Occupation: Lumber industrialist Political Affiliation: Socialist Party Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

DANIEL ANTONIO CASTRO LOPEZ

Date of Birth: 68 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Married, 7 children Occupation: Merchant, correspondent for the newspaper "El Clarín" in Temuco. Political Affiliation: Socialist Party Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

On October 10, 1973, between 9:00 PM and 11:00 PM, the following individuals were detained in the Liquiñe sector, within the Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex: Luis Alfredo Rivera Catricheo, lumber worker, no known political affiliation; Eliseo Maximiliano Tracanao Pincheira, lumber worker, linked to the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.); Miguel José Tracanao Pincheira, lumber worker, linked to the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.); Alejandro Antonio Tracanao Pincheira, lumber worker, linked to the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.); Salvador Alamos Rubilar, lumber industrialist, member of the Socialist Party; José Héctor Bórquez Levicán, lumber worker, work foreman at Fundo Trafún, member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.); Alberto Segundo Reinante Raipán, lumber worker, member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.); Ernesto Reinante Raipán, lumber worker, member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement; Modesto Juan Reinante Raipán, lumber worker, member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.); Luis Armando Lagos Torres, lumber worker, member of the Socialist Party; Carlos Segundo Figueroa Zapata, lumber worker, counselor for Fundo Paimún to the Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex Union, member of the Socialist Party; Mauricio Segundo Curiñanco Reyes, carpenter, member of the Socialist Party; Isaías José Fuentealba Calderón, Area Chief at Fundo Trafún, of the Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex, member of the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (M.C.R.); Daniel Antonio Castro López, merchant, correspondent for the newspaper "El Clarín" in Temuco, member of the Socialist Party.

For its part, the report of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation includes the names of the following victims as part of this same repressive situation: Carlos Alberto Cayumán Cayumán; and the 27-year-old teacher from Puerto Fuy, a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), Bernarda Rosalba Vera Contardo.

The detentions were carried out by uniformed personnel who carried a list with the names of the detainees. The apprehending group was composed of military personnel wearing combat uniforms who belonged to the No. 3 Maquehua Helicopter Group of the city of Temuco, of the Chilean Air Force (FACH); some Carabineros officers from the Liquiñe station; and civilians from the area.

They moved in private vehicles, a pickup truck from the Agricultural and Livestock Service (S.A.G.), a police vehicle, an ambulance from the Liquiñe station, and also had the support of a FACH helicopter.

The apprehenders acted in several groups, which met at the Coñaripe junction, near all the locations where the detentions were carried out. From there, they took the road to Villarrica, and around 2:00 AM on October 11, 1973, at the bridge over the Toltén River, they proceeded to kill them and throw their bodies into the water.

Some of the bodies were found days later by a group of people working on the banks of the Toltén River. The bodies were placed in sacks with stones so they would not float; however, some bodies surfaced. This situation was immediately reported to the Carabineros, who, by order of the officer on duty, proceeded to push the bodies back into the river's current.

Among the testimonies obtained is that of Honorinda Lagos Sepúlveda, spouse of Isaías Fuentealba Calderón, Area Chief of the Panguipulli Forestry and Lumber Complex, who points out regarding her husband that he left early on the morning of October 10, 1973, after his driver picked him up, and they traveled from Trafún to Liquiñe, about 14 km away.

Upon returning in the afternoon, at a place called Los Canelales, the victim was detained by Carabineros, who left Isaías Fuentealba's briefcase, which contained documentation from the Lumber Complex, in the driver's possession so that he could deliver it to his spouse.

Part of this testimony indicates that the detainees were taken to the Liquiñe Inn, owned by Tulio García, where they were beaten and kept in a cabin. After that, they were taken out tied up and blindfolded, being transported in vehicles.

For its part, the family of Salvador Alamos Rubilar indicated that the victim had been detained previously, remaining in that condition from September 18 to 28, 1973, for alleged links to a failed ambush on the Neltume station.

His apprehenders on that occasion were Carabineros; they detained him along with his 17-year-old son, Salvador. Alamos Rubilar was tortured. His arrest on October 10, 1973, was carried out by military personnel in the presence of his daughter, Mirta Alamos, who noted that there were more detainees in the vehicle into which they loaded her father, tied by his hands and feet.

The victim's spouse, Mrs. Elcira Figueroa, immediately began searching for him in various places such as the Valdivia Logistics Battalion, the Public Jail, the Military Prosecutor's Office of Temuco, etc.

On one occasion, while interviewing the Military Prosecutor, a high-ranking officer who was present intervened, telling her that the operation was carried out by "Black Beret" Commandos from Colina, so the local military authorities had nothing to do with it, adding: "it is better to mourn and grieve for the dead."

All the aforementioned victims, executed outside of any legal process by State agents who violated their right to life and then hid their bodies, preventing their families from giving them a dignified burial, remain in the status of forcibly disappeared.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS

There is no knowledge that any judicial proceedings have been carried out. Eliseo Maximiliano Tracanao Pincheira appears in the report of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, and in a sworn statement by his mother, Mrs.

Margarita del Carmen Valenzuela González, as Eliseo Maximiliano Tracanao Valenzuela. This surname had to be rectified, because the young man is actually registered in the Civil Registry by his grandmother with the surnames Tracanao Pincheira.

Source: Corporation Report

The Santiago Court of Appeals confirmed this Friday the 18-year prison sentence against retired Colonel Hugo Alberto Guerra Jorquera for the kidnapping of 11 peasants who were executed in 1973 but whose bodies were never found, judicial sources reported.

The peasants were from the town of Liquiñe and worked at a local lumber complex. The appeals court rejected an appeal filed by Guerra Jorquera to invalidate the sentence imposed by Judge Alejandro Solís in January 2006, which is currently the harshest sentence handed down for human rights violations.

The retired Army colonel was also ordered to pay 250 million pesos (about 480,000 dollars) as compensation, by virtue of a civil lawsuit filed against him by five relatives of the victims. According to the Rettig Report, which documented human rights violations during the regime of the late dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), the agricultural workers were detained in a joint operation by the Carabineros police of the Liquiñe station, Army personnel, and civilians.

The peasants were taken to the Villarrica bridge, over the Toltén River, where they were executed and their bodies were never found. Among the executed are the brothers Modesto, Ernesto, and Alberto Reinante Raipán, all three workers and members of the Panguipulli lumber complex union.

The plaintiff lawyer, Nelson Caucoto, celebrated the ruling because, as he said, it confirms the crimes and establishes exemplary punishments against the accused.

Source: August 3, 2007 El Mostrador Date: 08-03-2007

Judge Solís handed down the highest penalty to date in human rights cases

The magistrate sentenced a retired Army lieutenant colonel to 18 years of major imprisonment in its maximum degree for the aggravated kidnapping of 11 peasants in Liquiñe. Minister Alejandro Solís handed down this Thursday the highest penalty known for a case linked to human rights violations during the military regime headed by General (R) Augusto Pinochet.

The magistrate sentenced retired Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Alberto Guerra Jorquera to 18 years of major imprisonment in its maximum degree as the perpetrator of repeated crimes of aggravated kidnapping, in the so-called "Liquiñe episode." The ruling is based on the repression suffered starting October 10, 1973, by a group of 11 peasants who sympathized with the Popular Unity (UP), in the Andean foothills sector of the Tenth Region of Los Lagos.

Among the victims are Salvador Álamos Rubilar, José Héctor Bórquez Levican, Daniel Antonio Castro López, Carlos Alberto Cayuman Cayuman, Mauricio Segundo Curiñanco Reyes, Carlos Figueroa Zapata, Isaías José Fuentealba Calderón, Luis Armando Lagos Torres, Ernesto Juan Reinante Raipan, Modesto Juan Reinante Raipan, and Luis Alfredo Rivera Catricheo.

The retired Army officer was also ordered to pay a total sum of $250 million as compensation, by virtue of a civil lawsuit filed against him by five relatives of the victims. The beneficiaries, with $50 million each, will be Miguel Ángel and Isaías Julián Fuentealba Lagos, as well as Héctor Hernán, Hugo Raúl, and Didier Antonio Figueroa Arraigada.

Additionally, the owner of the Liquiñe Hot Springs, a civilian identified as Luis Osvaldo García Guzmán, was convicted and, as the perpetrator of the aggravated kidnapping of Luis Armando Lagos Torres, received a sentence of five years and one day.

Source: January 26, 2006 El Mostrador Date: 01-26-2006

Individual involved in Liquiñe case prosecuted

The investigating judge, Juan Guzmán Tapia, resolved this evening to prosecute Luis Osvaldo García Tapia as the perpetrator of aggravated kidnapping for the case of Luis Armando Lagos Torres, 50 years old—a worker at the Panguipulli lumber complex—a Socialist militant detained in Curranco in 1973.

Luis Lagos was detained in 1973 along with 15 other people in the south, in the so-called "Caravanita Chica," in the Ninth Region.

The 16 disappeared

Salvador Alamos Rubilar José Héctor Bórquez Livican Daniel Antonio Castro López Carlos Alberto Callumán Callumán Mauricio Segundo Curiñaco Reyes Carlos Figueroa Zapata Isaías José Fuentealba Calderón Luis Armando Lagos Torres Alberto Segundo Reinante Raipán Ernesto Juan Reinante Raipán Modesto Reinante Raipán Luis Rivera Catricheo Alejandro Antonio Tracanao Pincheira José Miguel Tracanao Pincheira Eliseo Maximiliano Tracanao Valenzuela Bernarda Rosalba Vera Contardo

Source: El Mostrador – May 23, 2001 Date: 05-23-2001