On October 3, 1973, three agricultural workers, none of whom had any political affiliation, were executed:

Luis Alberto URBINA DIAZ, 50 years old, agricultural worker at the Fundo Venecia;

Domingo Antonio URBINA DIAZ, 47 years old, agricultural laborer at the Fundo Venecia;

José Antonio MENDEZ VALENZUELA, 24 years old, agricultural laborer from the San Rafael sector.

All three were detained at the Fundo Venecia by Ejército personnel on October 3, 1973, and taken to the Fundo El Culenar in Talca, a facility belonging to the Ejército. At that location, they were executed by their captors and their bodies were buried on-site, without providing any notification to their families.

Their remains were later transferred to the local cemetery. It was not until 1990 that the families were able to identify them.

The incident was reported in the local press the following day, explaining the deaths as a frustrated attempt by three criminals to assault military personnel with bladed weapons.

The official version is not acceptable given the aforementioned background and the following circumstances: it does not seem plausible that armed military personnel would be attacked with bladed weapons; that all three alleged assailants would die while no military personnel were harmed; that armed personnel could not suppress the assault in any way other than by killing them; that their bodies were concealed; and that upon exhumation in 1990, it was determined that at least one of them showed clear signs of having been bound.

The Commission has reached the conviction that these three peasants from Talca were executed by State agents in an act that violates the right to life.