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Jorge Enrique Vasquez Escobar

Trabajador — 22 years old.

Background

StatusNational Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation Violation of Human Rights
DateSeptember 22, 1973
LocationMaipu, Santiago, RM Metropolitana
Age22 years old
OccupationTrabajador
AffiliationSin Militancia

Case summary

Jorge Enrique Vásquez Escobar was a 22-year-old worker with no political affiliation who was detained by Carabineros at his home on September 22, 1973. He was taken to sand pits in Maipú, where State agents extrajudicially executed him with bursts of gunfire, outside of any legal process.

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Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]

All of them died that day, between 4:00 and 15:00 hours, on a public thoroughfare, due to multiple gunshot wounds, as recorded in the respective Medical Death Certificates from the Legal Medical Institute.

According to statements made by family members and a survivor, that dawn, while the aforementioned individuals were sleeping in their respective homes in the Lo Valledor Norte neighborhood, then part of the Maipú commune, they were detained by carabineros from the Cerrillos sub-precinct.

As recounted by the survivor, that night the carabineros loaded the five of them onto a truck that took them directly to some sand pits located in Lo Errázuriz, where they were forced to get out and stand in a row in front of one of the pits, and were then fired upon in bursts.

The survivor related that they realized they were going to be killed and that he, instinctively, crouched down and threw himself into the pit. He sustained 13 bullet wounds to his body. His family rescued him from that place the following day and took him to an emergency center. The others died at the same location, and their bodies were retrieved by their families the following day.

Considering the evidence gathered and the investigation conducted, the Superior Council reached the conviction that Luis Armando Arias Ramírez, José Delimiro Fierro Morales, Mario Alejandro Valdés Chávez, and Jorge Enrique Vásquez Escobar were detained by State agents for the purpose of executing them outside of any legal process.

For this reason, it declared them victims of human rights violations.

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Judicial Case Files[2]

Episodio Jorge Oyarzún Escobar y otros

Politically Executed
Judge/Minister
  • Hernan Crisosto
Case roles
  • 11-2014
  • 118-2017
  • 43113-17
Region
  • Metropolitana De Santiago
Convicted in this case
  • Absolucion De Todos Los Acusados

References

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How to cite this record

DondeEstan.cl (2026). Jorge Enrique Vasquez Escobar. Retrieved on June 4, 2026, from https://dondeestan.cl/record/jorge-enrique-vasquez-escobar. Original sources: Museum of Memory (https://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=3244), Judicial Case Files (https://expedientesdelarepresion.cl/causa/episodio-jorge-oyarzun-escobar-y-otros/).