Date of Birth: 05-10-56, 17 years old at the time of detention. Address: Calle Armijo N°162, Isla de Maipo Marital Status: Single Occupation: None Political Affiliation: None Date of Detention: October 7, 1973

REPRESSIVE SITUATION

Iván Gerardo Ordóñez Lama, single, 17 years old, with no political affiliation, was detained on the morning of Sunday, October 7, 1973, in the Plaza of Isla de Maipo by Carabineros from the local precinct.

He was arrested in front of numerous witnesses, along with other young men he was with, and they were all subsequently taken to the police station. The other three young men were: Miguel Angel Brant Bustamante, 19 years old; José Herrera Villegas, 17 years old; and Manuel Jesús Navarro Salinas, 20 years old.

From the moment of their detention, the four young men have remained in the status of forcibly disappeared. It should be noted that on that same day, October 7, eleven peasants from the area, workers at the Fundo Naguayán, were detained in their respective homes by Carabineros from the Isla de Maipo precinct and taken to that police facility.

The eleven peasants were: René Astudillo Alvarez, 51 years old, and his sons Omar and Ramón Astudillo Rojas, 20 and 27 years old respectively; the brothers Carlos, Nelson, and Oscar Hernández Flores, 39, 32, and 30 years old; Sergio Maureira Lillo, 46 years old, and his four sons: José, Rodolfo, Segundo, and Sergio Maureira Muñoz, 26, 22, 24, and 27 years old respectively.

Like the four young men detained in the Plaza, these eleven peasants remain in the status of forcibly disappeared. Iván Ordóñez’s mother went to the Isla de Maipo precinct, where she was shown the detention registry books, in which her son’s name did not appear.

Furthermore, the Carabineros denied his detention, suggesting he might have been apprehended by the military. To verify this information, she went to the Army’s Chemical Complex, where a Sergeant Major explained that there were no detainees at that facility but promised to make inquiries, which ultimately never happened.

On the other hand, the families of another of the detained young men were informed by Carabineros that they had all been transferred to the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, information that proved to be false.

According to subsequent investigations, all the detainees remained at the precinct; this facility was the last place where a witness saw them alive. On November 7, 1975, Chile’s delegate to the United Nations, Sergio Diez, declared in his presentation to the Third Committee of the General Assembly that "many of the alleged disappeared have no legal existence," while others "were located in records of the Legal Medical Institute of Santiago." Of the fifteen detainees in Isla de Maipo, eight appear on the lists: one of them, Sergio Maureira Muñoz, as having no legal existence, and the other seven as deceased: 1) Enrique Astudillo Alvarez, entry 3166, date of death: October 7, 1973, at 14:00 hours. 2) Nelson Hernández Flores, entry 3238, date of death: October 11, 1973, at 14:30 hours. 3) Oscar Humberto Hernández Flores, entry 3201, date of death: October 9, 1973, at 12:30 hours. 4) José Manuel Herrera Villegas, entry 3130, date of death: October 6, 1973, at 11:30 hours. 5) José Manuel Maureira Muñoz, entry 3263, date of death: October 11, 1973, at 20:30 hours. 6) Rodolfo Antonio Maureira Muñoz, entry 3332, date of death: October 15, 1973, at 13:00 hours. 7) Segundo Armando Maureira Muñoz, entry 3335, date of death: October 15, 1973, at 16:00 hours. The origin of these lists and those responsible for their creation could never be established. Neither the Ministry of Foreign Affairs nor the Legal Medical Institute took responsibility for them. During the month of November 1978, a Catholic priest received, under the seal of confession, information about a place where numerous human remains were located. Considering the gravity of the matter, a Commission was formed to verify the information before filing a formal judicial complaint. This Commission was composed of Monsignor Enrique Alvear, Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago; Monsignor Cristián Precht, Vicar of Solidarity; Jaime Martínez, Director of the weekly "Qué Pasa"; Abraham Santibáñez, Sub-Director of the magazine "Hoy"; and lawyers Alejandro González and Máximo Pacheco. The Commission met on November 30, 1978, at the site of the discovery, an abandoned lime kiln located in the town of Lonquén, a small village 14 kilometers from the city of Talagante and near the town of Isla de Maipo. There, they were able to confirm the existence of two kilns, approximately nine meters high, in one of which a large number of human remains were found. Once the information was verified, Bishop Monsignor Alvear and lawyers Pacheco and González filed the respective complaint the following day, December 1, with the President of the Supreme Court, Mr. Israel Bórquez, requesting that he report it to the Plenary of that Court. This initiated the judicial investigation that allowed for the determination that the remains found belonged to the fifteen locals detained on October 7, 1973, who were executed by Carabineros and their remains illegally buried in the kilns. Once the investigation was concluded, the victims' families requested the release of the bodies to provide them with a proper burial. The Court Martial ordered the Military Prosecutor to hand over the remains to whoever could legally prove kinship. The Prosecutor ordered "strict compliance with that order," but finally, on the very day the funerals were to take place, he ordered that, given the impossibility of identifying the remains—except for those of Sergio Maureira Lillo—they be buried in the town of Isla de Maipo. On the same day this order was issued, the families had gathered at the Recoleta Franciscana Church to await the remains for a funeral mass, only to learn at that moment that the bodies had been buried by officials of the Legal Medical Service in the Municipal Cemetery of Isla de Maipo in a mass grave, with the exception of Sergio Maureira Lillo, who was buried in an individual grave. The Military Prosecutor also refused to authorize the registration of the deaths in the Civil Registry and Identification Office. This resolution was upheld by the Supreme Court. Days later, a funeral ceremony for the eternal rest of these victims was held at the Santiago Metropolitan Cathedral, without the presence of their remains. Years later, the Lonquén Kilns, which by that date had become a place of pilgrimage, were dynamited.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

On December 1, 1978, the Vicariate of Solidarity, represented by the Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago, Monsignor Enrique Alvear Urrutia, and the Episcopal Vicar, Monsignor Cristián Precht Bañados, presented a complaint to the Supreme Court regarding the discovery of human remains inside two old kilns used for mineral processing on the slopes of the Lonquén hills, in the Department of Talagante.

This information had been provided days earlier by a person to a priest, under the seal of confession. Prior to the presentation to the Supreme Court, the ecclesiastical authorities formed a Commission that went to the indicated site, verifying the truth of the information.

In the presentation, signed by Bishop Monsignor Enrique Alvear, Vicar Monsignor Cristián Precht, and lawyers Máximo Pacheco and Alejandro González, they requested that the Supreme Court "adopt measures to ensure a rapid and exhaustive investigation." The Supreme Court referred the records to the Criminal Court of Talagante to instruct the respective summary, initiating case file 27.123-3.

As a first step, the magistrate went to the site on December 1, located about 3.5 km from the town of Lonquén, confirming the existence of a stone structure approximately 9 meters high by 16 meters wide, containing two kilns, each with an entrance opening of 1 meter by 80 centimeters, and with two pits at the top that showed a large accumulation of dirt and stones.

Upon inspecting one of the entrances and removing some debris, remains, pieces of fabric, and hair were extracted; observation inside revealed the presence of other human remains. In successive excavations, human remains were extracted and sent to the Legal Medical Institute for analysis.

Some shell casings were also found. On December 6, the Plenary of the Supreme Court appointed the Minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Mr. Adolfo Bañados Cuadra, as Minister in Extraordinary Visitation to continue the investigation into the discovery of the Lonquén remains.

Several peasants residing near the kilns were summoned to testify; they stated that a few days after September 11, 1973, Carabineros from the Isla de Maipo precinct informed them of an order prohibiting passage toward the area where the kilns were located, as there was a "hideout for extremists." Other peasants said they had seen military vehicles and heard shots.

Regarding the construction of the kilns themselves, a report from the Investigations Infrastructure Department indicated that part of it was old, over 60 years, while inside one of the kilns there was an iron platform on which a base or slab made of stone and brick joined with lime or plaster had been executed, which was no older than 8 years.

The report concludes by indicating that "apparently, this work was executed by throwing the mixture first from the upper opening of the kiln and then the rest of the material, as there is no orderly placement of the elements, which suggests it was executed by non-specialized personnel." Regarding the ballistic analysis of three shell casings found, the Forensic Ballistics section of the Investigations Criminalistics Laboratory reported that the 7.62 NATO casings had been fired by a Swiss-made SIG automatic rifle, caliber 7.62 NATO SG 510-4; all were fired by the same weapon with the indicated characteristics. When the Court was constituted at the Isla de Maipo precinct, it was verified that the 1973 registry books had been sent to the Third Police Station of Talagante for incineration, and regarding weaponry, the records show three SIG SG.510-4 automatic rifles, cal. 7.62 mm. At the Third Police Station of Talagante, information was obtained regarding the existing staff at the Isla de Maipo precinct and the Lonquén outpost, which amounted to 21 officials. The Lieutenant was Lautaro Castro Mendoza. During the process, the list of 63 "allegedly disappeared persons who were located in records of the Legal Medical Institute of Santiago," which was presented along with another list of "alleged disappeared persons with no legal existence" by the Chilean government to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1975, was reviewed. The Court requested the autopsy protocols from the Legal Medical Institute that, according to the list, corresponded to Segundo, Rodolfo, and José Maureira Muñoz. Regarding this, Dr. Claudio Molina, Director of the Institute, declared that "the inaccuracy of the list of 'presumably disappeared persons' is evident at least regarding protocol Nº3332, since the study of the body revealed that it was a woman." He added that he had seen this list in a 1975 publication and that, together with another doctor, he identified the signature as belonging to Dr. Vargas (former Director of the Institute), "but I do not know on what basis this professional endorsed said role." The Judge of the 7th Criminal Court of Santiago was constituted at the Legal Medical Institute at the request of Minister Bañados, and it was verified that none of the people on the list appeared in the Institute’s Index Book; the only thing that coincided between both lists were the data appearing in the "date of death" column with the date of entry in the Registry book. By the date of this proceeding, Dr. Vargas had passed away. In the processing of case 240005-1 of the Maipo-Buin Court, which investigates the disappearances in Paine, it was established that Dr. Vargas's signature was not the one known. Regarding this, the Minister of the Interior, Sergio Fernández Fernández, reported that there was no record that the list of people corresponded to any official communication issued or sent by that Ministry. Meanwhile, the Acting Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Army Colonel Roberto Soto Mackenney, reported that the aforementioned list appeared in volume Nº2 of "The Current Situation of Human Rights in Chile," published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in October 1975. The source of the data contained in said list corresponds to information provided by the Legal Medical Institute of Santiago in 1975. Ultimately, it was not possible to establish responsibilities for the creation of the list. In February 1979, as a result of finding evidence that the remains found belonged to the detainees from Isla de Maipo, proceedings began for the recognition of the clothing found in the kilns. The victims' families appeared, and most of them were able to recognize the clothing their relatives were wearing at the time of their detention. Previously, the anthropometric data of these 15 victims had been delivered to the Court. Summoned to testify, the Carabineros who belonged to the Isla de Maipo precinct staff in September 1973 appeared. Carabineros Captain Lautaro Eugenio Castro Mendoza stated that he gave the order to detain "several subjects of the Maureira family" for being dangerous people linked to the interests of the previous government who were planning to attack the barracks; "other individuals from the sector with the surname Hernández and others whose names I do not remember, until reaching eleven people" were also detained. He himself led the picket and defined the detentions, guided by a list attached to a map found in the house of one of the Maureira family's sons. Once the arrests were finished, they were taken to the barracks where they were interrogated, confirming his suspicions "regarding their dangerousness." Castro adds that, once the interrogation was finished, he himself ordered their transfer to the Estadio Nacional, but before that, one of the detainees informed him in private that there were weapons hidden in an abandoned mine. For this reason, they went to the abandoned mines in Lonquén in a municipal truck and a private pickup truck, with 8 to 10 Carabineros and the detainees. Once they arrived at the sector, they were suddenly attacked with firearms from the hills, to which they responded by firing back, a situation that lasted ten to fifteen minutes. Upon proceeding to look for the detainees, they verified that all of them were dead. All the Carabineros were unharmed. Subsequently, he decided, after consulting with the personnel, to bury the bodies in the kilns to avoid reprisals against them and their families; thus, "the bodies were thrown inside, and immediately afterward I ordered that dirt and debris be thrown over them." When asked about the statements he gave in other proceedings asserting that the detainees had been transferred to the Estadio Nacional, he indicated that he had lied out of fear, since "upon being arrested, all these subjects had a threatening attitude that seemed very serious to me, in the sense that they could take revenge in any way against our own persons and families." Regarding the list, he declares that it was signed by him but he does not recognize the signature and handwritten script at the bottom. He reiterates that the detainees were eleven and that he does not know the minors who supposedly also died that day. He was referring to Iván Ordóñez, Miguel Brant, José Herrera, and Manuel Navarro. All the Carabineros who participated in the events were armed with SIG rifles and NATO ammunition. Other Carabineros from the staff also appeared; several of them confirmed Captain Castro’s version, adding that the detainees were tied with trintrollas (a type of cord), that they were lying on the platform of the truck, and that they used their hands and feet to throw stones and material from the hillsides into the kilns. On March 15, 1979, the families of the disappeared from the Maureira, Astudillo, and Hernández families filed a criminal complaint for kidnapping against the Carabineros who participated in the arrest, for forgery of a public document against Lieutenant Castro, and for qualified homicide against whoever might be responsible. The following day, Minister Bañados rejected the processing of the complaint because there was insufficient evidence to affirm that they were indeed the people found in the kilns and that, in the event that the Carabineros were responsible, that Court would lack the jurisdiction to substantiate the process. On April 4, 1979, the Minister in Visitation declared himself incompetent. In the resolution, the Minister points out the following conclusions: -He establishes that the identity of the bodies found corresponds to the 15 detainees from October 7, 1973, in Isla de Maipo. -He presumes that "multiple crimes of homicide were committed, apparently in a single act." -He considers the information given by the Carabineros that the victims were taken as detainees to the Estadio Nacional to be false. -He likewise considers the official information that the bodies entered the Legal Medical Institute during the years 1973 and 1974 to be false. -He establishes as "intrinsically implausible" the version of Captain Lautaro Castro, who explains the death of the detainees as the result of an armed attack caused by unknown persons at night, because "it is impossible to imagine that the opposing projectiles could have impacted, under the conditions already expressed, only the prisoners and not their captors; that from the shootout that occurred there, no trace remained, in any respect; and that, in all cases, the injuries were of such a condition that they caused the instantaneous death of the victims." -He points out that, "in none of the fifteen skeletal remains studied by the Legal Medical Institute were signs of perforations, fractures, or other types of vestiges that could be related to firearm projectiles impacting a living organism found, so the death of the fifteen people must be attributed to other causes." -He considers that the Carabineros acted in the line of duty and that "the Head of the Precinct had direct interference and responsibility in the events, without prejudice to that which may affect those who acted under his command." The records were sent to the Military Justice on April 10, and in the Second Military Prosecutor's Office, case file 200-79 was instructed, under the charge of Prosecutor Gonzalo Salazar Swett. From this stage of the process, it is worth noting the statement of a witness—a brother-in-law of the Hernández brothers—who was also arrested on October 7, 1973, along with them at their home; he maintains having been with the eleven detainees during the journey to the precinct and, upon arriving at this facility, he only remained for about half an hour and was then taken to his home by a Carabinero. The former Carabinero official Pablo Ñancupil Raquileo, discharged in 1977, who served at the Isla de Maipo precinct between 1971 and 1975, also appeared. He points out that he was in charge of the detention of the Maureiras and the Astudillos, ordered personally by Lieutenant Castro; he does not remember having apprehended the Hernández brothers. He adds that in the respective searches of the homes, they did not find weapons or documents that would allow them to be classified as "dangerous." Regarding this, Lieutenant Castro had previously stated that he had been guided by a list and a map of the barracks found in the house of one of Sergio Maureira’s sons to carry out the other detentions. The former Carabinero Ñancupil adds that about two days after the arrest, he saw, in a room of the police facility intended for storage, "more than 10 and fewer than 25 people," lying on the floor with their hands tied behind their backs, among whom he recognized those detained by him and also three of the young men apprehended in the plaza, whom he names by their surnames: Brant, Ordóñez, and Navarro. He also points out that he did not participate in the transfer of the detainees from the precinct and does not know the fate they met, although he says that, as a result of people's comments that the detainees were not appearing, he heard a Carabinero say: "How are they going to appear... if we killed them." On July 2, 1979, the Military Prosecutor issued an indictment against Lautaro Castro Mendoza, Juan J. Villegas Navarro, Félix Sagredo Aravena, Manuel Muñoz Rencoret, Jacinto R. Torres González, David Coliqueo Fuentealba, José Belmar Sepúlveda, and Justo Romo Peralta, as authors of the crime of unnecessary violence causing the death of all those detained on October 7, 1973. On August 16, a sentence was issued that dismissed the case totally and definitively in favor of the defendants, by virtue of the 1978 Amnesty Decree Law; this resolution was appealed and confirmed by the Court Martial on October 22, 1979. On the other hand, the Military Prosecutor ordered their remains to be buried apart from their families, despite the multiple pieces of evidence that exist in the process. The death of the young Iván Gerardo Ordóñez Lama was never registered in the Civil Registry.

Source: Corporation Report

Testimonies, photographs, letters, and other documents that families and friends provided or wrote especially for publication are incorporated into the book "Breaking the silence of girls, boys, and adolescents who were political executions during the civil-military dictatorship 1973-1990," which was produced by the Association of Relatives of Political Executions (AFEP) with the support of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage, through the Culture, Memory, and Human Rights Unit, and the Human Rights Chair of the University of Chile.

The publication, based mainly on the Report of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (1991) and the Report of the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation (1996), seeks to reconstruct in a comprehensive and careful way each of the lives and stories of the victims.

During the investigation, access was granted to the archive of the Association of Relatives of Political Executions, where documents that families have preserved over the years are kept. Illustrations by Álvaro Gómez were also included.

The creation process was a complex challenge that involved combining delicacy, respect, and methodological rigor to state a painful and inescapable truth in this work.

Source: cultura.gobierno.cl 20/4/2023 Date: 04-20-2023

Lonquén: The Carabineros massacre of 15 peasants

On October 7, 1973, at 9:45 p.m., a group of eleven peasants from the town of Isla de Maipo was detained by Carabineros officers. The police officers did not carry arrest or search warrants for the homes of these individuals.

Numerous witnesses saw how they were beaten and loaded into a white pickup truck owned by the proprietor of the Fundo Naguayán—where the homes of the three families were located—and how they were tied up and laid face down on the floor of the vehicle.

They were the agricultural workers: Enrique Astudillo Álvarez (51), Omar Astudillo Rojas (20), Ramón Astudillo Rojas (27), Carlos Hernández Flores (39), Nelson Hernández Flores (32), Oscar Hernández Flores (30), Sergio Maureira Lillo (46), José Maureira Muñoz (26), Rodolfo Maureira Muñoz (22), Segundo Maureira Muñoz (24), and Sergio Maureira Muñoz (27).

The Carabineros officers stood on their backs. They were paraded through the streets of the town to intimidate the entire population. Finally, they were taken to the police station.

The same fate befell four young men who had been detained that same day in the town square: Miguel Brant Bustamante (22), Manuel Navarro Salinas (20), Iván Ordóñez Lama (17), and José Herrera Villegas (17).

The families were deceived by government authorities. They were informed that the detainees had been transferred to the Estadio Nacional in the capital. In 1974, the relatives filed a writ of amparo. When questioned by the courts, local authorities merely stated that "all had been transferred on October 8, 1973, to the Estadio Nacional." This was completely false.

The SENDET (National Detainee Service) contradictorily indicated that it "did not have, and had never had, information about them."

Sergio Diez—today a senator for Renovación Nacional—who was then a delegate of the Augusto Pinochet Ugarte dictatorship to the OAS, lied to the entire world in 1975, stating: "these people had no legal existence," while other "Lonquén detainees had been admitted to the Legal Medical Institute in October 1973."

On November 29, 1978, an informant provided the Catholic Church with the exact location of the ill-fated remains of the peasants and young men: lime kilns in the town of Lonquén, 14 kilometers from the town of Talagante.

The Vicar of Solidarity, Cristián Precht, and the Bishop of Santiago, Enrique Alvear, decided to verify the information by going to the site along with journalists—Jaime Martínez (Qué Pasa) and Abraham Santibáñez (Revista Hoy)—and lawyers Máximo Pacheco (PDC) and Alejandro González.

The press reported: "In an old stone structure, about twelve meters high, attached to the slope of a hill, inside which there are two silos of two and a half meters, were the bodies (...) In the other, covered with stones from above and with an exit at its lower part, also walled up, were human remains, a skull, torn clothes (...)".

It was a precise and painful blow to the conscience of thousands of Chileans. A wound open to this day, unspeakable. An image of pain and human misery, of limitless horror and brutality that human history will remember forever.

Pinochet and his lackeys could do nothing to hide the horrendous crime. The bishop informed Israel Bórquez, president of the Supreme Court and a collaborator of the regime, who referred the background information to the Talagante Court. Judge Juana Godoy was appointed to initiate the investigation.

In December 1978, the remains were sent to the Legal Medical Institute. The plenary of the Supreme Court appointed Judge Adolfo Bañados as a visiting minister, who ordered autopsies and ballistic examinations to be carried out and consolidated the cases in which the disappearance of persons or alleged misfortune had been reported.

He interrogated the relatives of the "forcibly disappeared" peasants.

The police officers involved: Lautaro Castro Mendoza—head of the Isla de Maipo police station—and Carabineros Juan Villegas Navarro, Félix Sagredo Aravena, Manuel Muñoz Rencoret, Jacinto Torres González, David Coliqueo Fuentealba, José Belmar Sepúlveda, and Justo Romo Peralta, provided the courts with the version that they had "taken the highly dangerous detainees to the Lonquén kilns in order to unearth weapons they had hidden, and that then—at the site—they had suffered an armed attack by unknown persons, with the peasants being killed in the shootout.

Fearing reprisals, they had decided to hide the bodies in the abandoned kilns."

In April 1979, Minister Bañados had to declare himself incompetent due to the prevailing legislation that grants immunity to uniformed personnel and hands over criminal cases in which they are involved to the Military Justice system.

However, before leaving the case, he established the responsibility of these police officers for the events. His resolution states: "The version (...) to try to explain the death of their prisoners, not only contradicts the merits of the case in multiple aspects and details, in particular, of course, regarding the number of victims, but is intrinsically implausible (...) in none of the remains were there signs of perforations, fractures, or other types of traces that could be related to firearm projectiles impacting a living organism, so the death of the fifteen people must be attributed to other causes."

The case then passed to the "Second Military Court," which charged the Carabineros officers as "authors of the crime of unnecessary violence causing death." After a short process, the case was definitively dismissed by means of the Amnesty Law issued by Pinochet, legislation under which the eight Carabineros had requested to be covered. Subsequently, the "Court Martial" confirmed that resolution.

The murderer Lautaro Castro was promoted to the rank of Captain.

One year after the bodies of the peasants and young men were found, the remains were handed over to their families. The bodies were transported by officials of the Legal Medical Institute to Isla de Maipo and buried immediately—except for Sergio Maureira Lillo—to avoid the presence of their relatives, depositing them in a common grave.

The relatives, aggrieved once again by the military authorities, filed a complaint with the Court Martial—which was obliged to accept it—against military prosecutor Gonzalo Salazar Sweet for "lack and abuse committed by not complying with the order to hand over the bodies." He was given a written censure.

In January 1980, the Supreme Court decided to overturn it, considering that the prosecutor "did not commit any fault. It was the judges themselves who imposed it on him who indicated the procedure he used."

A complaint was filed again with the justice system for the death of the peasants of Isla de Maipo. This case was handled by visiting minister Héctor Solís, who could not continue his investigation. The minister of the San Miguel Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes, continued the investigation, concluding it on September 12, 2016, when she issued a first-instance sentence.

The minister convicted the 7 Carabineros who detained the fifteen peasants; the former Carabineros were convicted of the crime of aggravated kidnapping: Lautaro Castro Mendoza, head of the patrol, to a sentence of 20 years in prison for his responsibility as an author.

David Coliqueo Fuentealba, Justo Ignacio Romo Peralta, Félix Héctor Sagredo Aravena, Jacinto Torres González, and Juan José Villegas Navarro were sentenced to 15 years in prison. Pablo Ñancupil Raguileo was sentenced to 900 days in prison.

The case went to the second instance, the San Miguel Court of Appeals, which confirmed the sentence on May 16, 2017. On June 16, 2018, the Supreme Court confirmed the sentence that convicted 6 former Carabineros, given that the head of the Carabineros, Lautaro Castro, had died before the conviction.

On February 18, 2010, the acting visiting minister of the San Miguel Court of Appeals, Héctor Solís, announced the identification of 13 of the 15 bodies whose remains were found in 1978, finally allowing for a burial to take place, with the remains being withdrawn from the Legal Medical Service on March 26.

On March 27, a public wake was held in the Civic Courtyard of the Isla de Maipo Municipality, and on Sunday the 28th, the solemn burial of the victims took place in the Isla de Maipo Parish Cemetery.

The Lonquén Kilns were demolished to erase all traces and footprints of memory, to impose oblivion definitively.

By Arnaldo Pérez Guerra

Source: prensaopal.cl, October 7, 2020

Date: 10-07-2020