On October 13, 1973, José Alberto FUENTES, 44 years old, a small-scale industrialist with no political affiliation, was apprehended by Carabineros in Temuco at the hotel where he resided and was taken to the 2nd Police Station. His family members state that his detention was subsequently denied. He has remained forcibly disappeared since that moment.

Given that in this case there is evidence that he was detained at a Carabineros facility; that there has been no news of him since that date; and that, having consulted the Carabineros of Chile regarding this case, they reported that all documentation from that period had been legally incinerated; this Commission has formed the conviction that José Fuentes is a victim of a forced disappearance at the hands of State agents, who gravely violated his rights.