Date of Birth: 20-04-47, 29 years of age at the time of his detention. Address: Avda. Central 305, San Bernardo, Santiago Marital Status: Married, two children Occupation: IBM Operator Repressive Background: Former youth leader of the CUT, former union leader of the General Treasury of the Republic, member of the Communist Party Date of Detention: August 6, 1976

REPRESSIVE SITUATION

José Eduardo Santander Miranda, married, 2 children, union leader, communist militant, dismissed from the General Treasury of the Republic after September 11, 1973, was detained by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) on August 6, 1976, around 09:30, on Avda.

Central in San Bernardo, while he was on his way to catch a bus to Santiago. The captors were four civilians traveling in a light blue Chevrolet vehicle without license plates, into which the victim was forced.

At the moment of his capture, José Santander shouted to the people who witnessed the events, including his sister Lidia Santander Miranda, Sonia Carroza Silva, and María Toledo Quezada, to notify his spouse that he was being arrested by DINA agents. After being forced into the aforementioned vehicle, he was taken to an unknown destination, and all traces of his person have been lost since then.

Three days later, on August 9, 1976, 5 other union leaders belonging to the Communist Party were detained by the DINA and taken to Villa Grimaldi, from where they disappeared. They are Víctor Hugo Morales Mazuela, José Enrique Corvalán Valencia, Pedro Eduardo Silva Bustos, Jorge Salgado Salinas, and Mario Jesús Juica Vega.

In 1976, in a concerted action, security agencies, mainly the DINA and the Joint Command, proceeded to detain militants and leaders of the Communist Party of Chile, many of whom remain forcibly disappeared. Of those detained in August 1976 alone, 24 communist leaders remain forcibly disappeared.

It should be noted that previously, on December 18, 1973, Santander Miranda had been detained and taken to the General Headquarters of Investigations, being released on the 28th of the same month and year. Even before that date, his home was subjected to raids by Security Services.

His family carried out multiple efforts and inquiries in order to find his whereabouts, but all were fruitless. Judicial proceedings also yielded no results, despite the fact that the respective judicial process for his disappearance contains the statements of the three witnesses who witnessed his detention and detailed how the events occurred.

His family still does not know the fate he met at the hands of his captors.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

On August 6, 1976, a writ of amparo (habeas corpus) was filed on his behalf before the Santiago Court of Appeals, case file 714-76, in which the precise circumstances of the victim's detention were set forth.

Based solely on the negative report from the Minister of the Interior, the appeal was rejected on September 27, 1976, and the records were sent to the Criminal Court of San Bernardo to initiate proceedings regarding the disappearance of José Santander.

At the end of September 1976, the Criminal Court of San Bernardo initiated case file 45.524, a process that was temporarily dismissed, and whose resolution was approved by the Court of Appeals on April 6, 1979.

Previously, on September 1, 1976, a complaint for alleged misfortune was filed before the Criminal Court of San Bernardo, case file No. 45.339, during which witnesses Lidia Santander Miranda, Sonia Carroza Silva, and María Eliana Toledo Quezada testified that they were eyewitnesses to the victim's arrest.

Likewise, negative responses were received from the Ministry of the Interior, International Police, Civil Registry and Identification, the various cemeteries of the capital, DINA, the Legal Medical Institute, the National Executive Secretariat of Detainees (SENDET), and the Intelligence Services of the Carabineros, the Chilean Air Force, and Investigations.

In the respective investigation order carried out by the Investigations Service, the complainant was interviewed and ratified the terms of the complaint, and inquiries made at SENDET, DINA, and direct investigations at the 3 and 4 Alamos camps yielded negative results.

On February 6, 1980, Judge José Rojas Alburquerque realized that case file 45.524, which dealt with the same facts and had been temporarily dismissed, had been processed in that same Court, and proceeded to archive the records of case file 45.339-3 without issuing the proper dismissal resolution.

The Presidente Aguirre Cerda Court of Appeals ordered that the files be returned to the court of origin so that the judge could proceed to issue the corresponding resolution in accordance with the law. However, the magistrate of San Bernardo again ordered the archiving of the case without issuing the pertinent resolution.

On July 24, 1980, a criminal complaint was filed before that same Court for the crime of aggravated kidnapping of José Santander Miranda against the DINA operational group that carried out his detention.

On December 17, 1980, the summary proceedings of case file 45.339 were reopened, and the complaint was added to those records. A new investigation order carried out by the Intelligence Service yielded no results, as it only involved re-interviewing the complainant and witness Ana Santander Miranda.

The judge requested and reviewed case file 242-77 processed in the Second Military Court, but there is no record of the result of this action in the process. On June 22, 1983, the judge temporarily dismissed the case on the grounds that "the existence of the crime that gave rise to the formation of the summary is not proven in the records." The dismissal order was confirmed by the Presidente Aguirre Cerda Court of Appeals.

It is worth noting part of the report by the Court Prosecutor, Tomás Dahm Guiñez, who states: "In July 1980, the complainant filed a complaint; the judge—referring to José Rojas Albuquerque—did not process it directly, did not indict, did not resolve, but placed 'to process, come with your records.' Why?

This Ministry is unaware; six months pass and the complaint is in negotiation. Case file 45.339 was seen in the First Court, the judge of the instance ordered 'archive it,' and in December 1980, on page 55, a resolution was placed on the complaint ordering the accumulation of the complaint and, beforehand, 'reopen the summary,' handwritten; what summary?

The complaint without processing? And for more than two years the investigation increased by twenty pages, the results totally negative. This Ministry thinks that such a process is an insult to Justice and an offense to those who appear before the Courts to claim it...

How this Ministry would like to request a procedure that would eliminate the shame... but what for?". Despite this, the Prosecutor requested that the consulted resolution be approved.

Regarding administrative efforts, Mirtha de los Angeles Rojas Molina, the victim's spouse, requested information from various Ministers of State and authorities of the military government, efforts that yielded no results.

The Supreme Court sentenced 14 agents of the dissolved National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their responsibility in the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Luis Emilio Recabarren González, Manuel Guillermo Recabarren González, Nalvia Rosa Mena Alvarado, Manuel Segundo Recabarren Rojas, Clara Elena Canteros Torres, Alejandro Rodríguez Urzúa, Daniel Palma Robledo, Carlos Enrique Godoy Lagarrigue, Iván Sergio Insunza Bascuñán, José Eduardo Santander Miranda, Mario Jesús Juica Vega, Víctor Hugo Morales Mazuela, Carlos Mario Vizcarra Cofré, Miguel Nazal Quiroz, Juan Aurelio Villarroel Zárate, and Julio Roberto Vega Vega; and the qualified homicide of Eduardo Canteros Prado. The crimes were committed between April and August 1976, in the province of Santiago.

In a unanimous ruling (case file 71.900-2020), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, María Cristina Gajardo, María Soledad Melo, and Eliana Quezada—revoked the sentence issued by the Eighth Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals in April 2020, which applied the "half-prescription" (gradual statute of limitations) to the accused.

In a replacement sentence, the Supreme Court sentenced former DINA leaders and former Army officers Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo and Jorge Claudio Andrade Gómez to 15 years and one day in prison as authors of 16 counts of qualified kidnapping and 10 years and one day as authors of one count of qualified homicide.

Meanwhile, Rolf Arnold Wenderoth Pozo was sentenced to two terms of 10 years and one day in prison as the author of three qualified kidnappings and one qualified homicide; Juan Hernán Morales Salgado and Gladys de las Mercedes Calderón Carreño were sentenced to 10 years and one day in prison as authors of six qualified kidnappings.

In the case of former agents Sergio Orlando Escalona Acuña, Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, Jorge Iván Díaz Radulovich, and Gustavo Enrique Guerrero Aguilera, a sentence of 5 years and one day in prison was applied as authors of a single case of qualified kidnapping.

Likewise, former agents Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, Orlando del Tránsito Altamirano Sanhueza, and Carlos Eugenio López Inostroza must serve 7 years as accomplices to the 16 qualified kidnappings and 5 years and one day in prison as accomplices to the qualified homicide.

Finally, Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca must serve 7 years as an accomplice to 15 qualified kidnappings and 5 years and one day in prison as an accomplice to the qualified homicide.

The criminals Carlos José Leonardo López Tapia and Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, who had been sentenced in the first-instance ruling issued by Minister Leopoldo Llanos in July 2017 to 20-year prison terms, died during the course of the process. Also deceased are those sentenced in the first instance: Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, Orlando José Manzo Durán, and Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo.

In dismissing the "half-prescription," the Supreme Court establishes that: "(...) it is necessary to take into consideration that the matter under discussion must also be analyzed in accordance with international Human Rights regulations contained mainly in the Geneva Conventions, which prevent prescription, total or gradual, regarding crimes committed in cases of non-international armed conflicts."

The resolution adds that: "The same conclusion is reached considering both the norms of the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons and those of the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, since, in accordance with that regulation, gradual prescription has the same nature as total prescription."

"From another perspective, legal doctrine on this matter has expressed that its foundations are found in the same considerations of social stability and legal certainty that gave rise to Article 93 of the Penal Code, but that it is intended to produce its effects in those cases in which the realization of the ends provided for prescription does not occur naturally but after a gradual process, that is, when the time necessary to prescribe is about to be fulfilled, which would justify the mitigation of the penalty," it adds.

"However," it continues, "it is evident that that conclusion is for cases that do not present the characteristics of crimes against humanity, since these are imprescriptible. Consequently, for such mitigation to be appropriate, it is necessary that it be a crime in the process of prescribing, which does not happen in this case, so the passage of time does not produce any effect, because social reproach does not diminish with time, which only occurs in cases of common crimes."

The Facts In the first-instance ruling, Minister Leopoldo Llanos Sagristá established that, within the framework of systematic repression against opponents of the military regime, in the months of April and August 1976, a series of arrests of people, all militants of the Communist Party, took place.

On April 29, 1976, in the sector of Santa Rosa and Sebastopol streets in the San Miguel commune, brothers Manuel Guillermo, 22, and Luis Emilio Recabarren González, 29, were detained by DINA agents, along with Nalvia Rosa Mena Alvarado, 20, and her two-year-old son. The child was abandoned near his home at night.

The following day, April 30, at 7:00, Manuel Segundo Recabarren Rojas, 50, was detained shortly after leaving his home in the same sector and as he was preparing to board a public bus.

All detainees were taken to the clandestine detention and torture center 'Villa Grimaldi'; Manuel Guillermo Recabarren González and Manuel Segundo Recabarren Rojas were also seen at the 'Simón Bolívar' facility, and Luis Emilio Recabarren González at 'Cuatro Álamos'. From those facilities, the DINA made them disappear.

On July 23, 1976, around 20:00, at the intersection of Rojas Magallanes and Panamá streets in the La Florida commune, the young Clara Elena Canteros Torres, 21, was detained by DINA agents. She was subdued as she got off public transport.

She was taken to 'Villa Grimaldi' where she was seen by witnesses, and on August 20, 1976, she was taken from that facility along with other detainees Mario Juica Vega and Óscar Ramos. Since then, they have been forcibly disappeared.

At 21:40, Eduardo Canteros Prado, 48, Clara Elena's uncle, a civil engineer, was detained on the public thoroughfare by DINA agents in front of his home located on Panamá street, in the La Florida commune. He was taken to 'Villa Grimaldi'. In 1990, his remains were found at the Las Tórtolas farm in Colina, a facility that belonged to the Army until 1980.

On July 27, 1976, around 17:15, Alejandro Rodríguez Urzúa, 49, was detained by DINA agents from his office located at Mallinkrodt 70, Barrio Bellavista. They took him to the 'Villa Grimaldi' facility.

On August 4, 1976, Daniel Palma Robledo, 61, a businessman, was detained in the morning on Avenida Matta, between San Diego and Arturo Prat streets; after picking up his mail, he bought a newspaper, and as he was leaving, he was detained and taken to an unknown destination, but he was seen at the 'Simón Bolívar' extermination barracks.

On the same day, August 4, at 15:00, the doctor Carlos Enrique Godoy Lagarrigue, 39, was detained. They captured him during his commute between the Parochial Hospital of San Bernardo and his private practice, located at Barros Arana and Arturo Prat streets. He was taken to 'Villa Grimaldi' and, subsequently, to 'Cuatro Álamos', from where he was made to disappear.

On the night of August 4, the surgeon Iván Sergio Insunza Bascuñán, 43, was detained by DINA agents while driving his vehicle. He was taken to 'Villa Grimaldi' and then to 'Cuatro Álamos'.

On August 6, 1976, shortly after leaving his home, around 9:30, the student and Central Única de Trabajadores leader José Eduardo Santander Miranda, 29, was detained by DINA agents; surviving witnesses saw him at the 'Villa Grimaldi' facility.

On August 9, Víctor Hugo Morales Mazuela, 45, a carpenter and construction worker, union leader, and organization head of a regional branch of the Communist Party, was detained in the morning in the vicinity of the 'Villa México' neighborhood in the Maipú commune and was taken to 'Villa Grimaldi'. Subsequently, he was seen at the 'Simón Bolívar' barracks.

On the same day, August 9, Mario Jesús Juica Vega, 34, a merchant, was detained around noon in the vicinity of Plaza Egaña, in the Ñuñoa commune, and taken to 'Villa Grimaldi', a place where he was seen by numerous witnesses. On August 20, he was taken from that facility along with two other detainees, and since then, the DINA has made them disappear.

On August 11, 1976, at 9:00, while leaving his home located on Chiloé street, between Santa Rosa and Gran Avenida, in the San Miguel commune, the merchant Miguel Nazal Quiroz, 44, was detained by DINA agents. He was taken to 'Villa Grimaldi'.

On the night of the same day, August 11, Carlos Mario Vizcarra Cofré, 31, a bodywork repairman, was detained at his home in Quinta Normal by agents who took him to 'Villa Grimaldi', a facility where witnesses saw him until August 25 of the same year. Subsequently, he was seen at the 'Simón Bolívar' facility.

On August 13, Juan Aurelio Villarroel Zárate, 55, a union leader and photoengraver, was detained around noon while traveling from his home in Conchalí by DINA agents near the Estación Mapocho. He was taken to Villa Grimaldi.

On August 16, 1976, at 11:30, the worker Julio Roberto Vega Vega was detained by DINA agents on Avenida Presidente Balmaceda, between Cueto and Libertad, in the Santiago commune. Several witnesses saw him held both at 'Villa Grimaldi' and at the 'Simón Bolívar' barracks.

Source: resumen.cl, July 30, 2023 Date: 30-07-2023

Court of Appeals acquits six former DINA agents and reduces sentences for 11 others accused of kidnapping and homicide in 1976

The Eighth Chamber of the Court of Appeals acquitted a group of six former DINA agents and reduced the sentences of 11 others, who were granted the substitute penalty of intensive supervised release for a period of five years. "If such substitution is revoked, they must serve the initially imposed sentences," the ruling clarifies.

The crimes were committed in 1976, and today, after decades, three ministers of the appellate court sealed, in the first instance, the fate of the 17 former agents linked to the kidnapping and murder of an equal number of people.

The Santiago Court of Appeals reported that on Friday, April 9, Minister Leopoldo Llanos issued a final first-instance sentence and acquitted six former DINA agents accused as authors and accomplices of the crimes of qualified kidnapping and qualified homicide that occurred during the dictatorship in 1976.

These are Juan Morales Salgado, author of the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Nalvia Mena Alvarado, Clara Canteros Torres, Juan Aurelio Villarroel Zárate, and the qualified homicide of Eduardo Canteros Prado.

Ciro Torres Sáez and Orlando Manzo Durán, accused as authors of the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Manuel Segundo Recabarren Rojas, Alejandro Rodríguez Urzúa, and José Eduardo Santander Miranda. (Orlando José Manzo Durán died on July 8, 2019, and the corresponding resolution regarding him has not yet been issued).

And Jorge Andrade Gómez, accused of being the author of the crime of qualified kidnapping of Daniel Palma Robledo.

In addition, Gladys Calderón Carreño, an accomplice to the crimes of kidnapping and homicide of Eduardo Canteros Prado, was also acquitted. And Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca, also an accomplice to the crime of kidnapping but of Daniel Palma Robledo.

The Court of Appeals also decided to sentence 11 other former agents to various prison terms for being authors of repeated crimes of qualified kidnapping and multiple homicides, granting them the substitute penalty of supervised release.

Likewise, the Court of Appeals indicated that Minister Llanos accepted 37 civil lawsuits for amounts ranging from $50,000 to $100,000,000.

The ruling adds that various cassation and appeal resources were filed against said sentences. However, the Court declared that all cassation resources filed by the defense of the sentenced individuals Claudio Pacheco Fernández and Gustavo Guerrero Aguilera were rejected.

Reduction of sentences

The Eighth Chamber of the court, presided over by Minister Juan Cristóbal Mera and composed of Minister Mireya López and lawyer Cristián Lepín, indicated that the sentence imposed on Ricardo Lawrence Mires as the author of the crimes of qualified kidnapping is reduced to three years and one day of minor prison in its maximum degree, absolute perpetual disqualification for political rights, absolute disqualification for public offices and positions during the time of the sentence, and payment of the costs of the case.

The same applies to Jorge Andrade Gómez, Juan Morales Salgado, Ciro Torré Sáez, Sergio Orlando Escalona, and Gladys Calderón Carreño, all as authors of the crimes of qualified kidnapping.

The Court reported that, meeting the legal requirements, each of the convicted individuals is granted the substitute penalty of intensive supervised release for a period of five years, and they must also comply with the requirements of Article 17 of Law 18.216.

"If such substitution is revoked, they must serve the initially imposed sentences, which will be counted from the time they present themselves or are apprehended, with the time they were deprived of liberty, as referred to in the ruling under review, serving as credit," the ruling specifies.

Finally, it is noted that the final and partial dismissals decreed due to the death of Orlando Guillermo Inostroza Lagos, Eduardo Antonio Reyes Lagos, Rufino Eduardo Jaime Astorga, Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Marcelo Luis Morén Brito, Bernardo del Rosario Daza Navarro, Guillermo Jesús Ferrán Martínez, Eugenio Jesús Fieldhouse Chávez, and José Mario Friz Esparza, respectively, are approved.

Source: elmostrador.cl 12/4/2020 Date: 12-04-2020

DINA agents sentenced for the murder of 17 PC members in 1976

The minister on extraordinary visit for Human Rights violation cases of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Leopoldo Llanos Sagristá, sentenced 19 former members of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their responsibility in the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Iván Sergio Insunza Bascuñán, Carlos Enrique Godoy Lagarrigue, Daniel Palma Robledo, Manuel Segundo Recabarren Rojas, Manuel Guillermo Recabarren González, Luis Emilio Recabarren González, Nalvia Rosa Mena Alvarado, José Eduardo Santander Miranda, Mario Jesús Juica Vega, Miguel Nazal Quiroz, Clara Canteros Torres, Juan Aurelio Villarroel Zárate, Víctor Hugo Morales Mazuela, Julio Roberto Vega Vega, Carlos Mario Vizcarra Cofré, and Alejandro Rodríguez Urzúa; and the qualified homicide of Eduardo Canteros Prado. These illicit acts were perpetrated at Villa Grimaldi and the Simón Bolívar Barracks in 1976.

In the ruling (case file 2182-1998), the minister sentenced former army officers Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Carlos José Leonardo López Tapia, Jorge Claudio Andrade Gómez, and former carabineros officer Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires to 20-year prison terms as authors of the 16 qualified kidnappings and another 20-year prison term for the qualified homicide of Canteros Prado.

Meanwhile, former officer Juan Hernán Morales Salgado and agent Gladys de las Mercedes Calderón Carreño must serve 18 and 15 years and one day in prison, respectively, for their responsibility as authors of six qualified kidnappings.

Former officers Rolf Arnold Gonzalo Wenderoth Pozo, Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, and Orlando José Manzo Durán were sentenced to 15 years and one day in prison as authors of three qualified kidnappings.

For former troop agents Sergio Orlando Escalona Acuña, Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, Jorge Iván Díaz Radulovich, and Gustavo Enrique Guerrero Aguilera, Minister Llanos determined sentences of 10 years and one day in prison for their responsibility as authors of one qualified kidnapping.

Former agents Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, Orlando del Tránsito Altamirano Sanhueza, Carlos Eugenio López Inostroza, and Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca were sentenced as accomplices to the 16 cases of qualified kidnapping, all of whom must serve 5 years and one day in prison for the kidnappings and 7 years for the homicide of Eduardo Canteros Prado.

The Facts During the investigation stage, the visiting minister managed to establish the following facts: «The DINA maintained, from the end of 1975 and at least throughout the year 1977, the "Simón Bolívar" Barracks, located at Simón Bolívar street No. 8.630, La Reina commune, a facility where the brigade called "Lautaro" operated, whose main function, in addition to repressive tasks of detaining political dissidents, was the protection of the Director of the DINA, Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, and his family.

This brigade was led by Army Major Juan Morales Salgado, who was also the head of the barracks, and who was under the strict supervision of the Director of the DINA, who was also his direct evaluator;

In 1975, a restructuring of the Brigades and operational groups that had "Villa Grimaldi" as their barracks took place, merging the groups in charge of Army Captains Germán Barriga Muñoz and Carabineros Captain Ricardo Lawrence Mires, and integrated by numerous agents belonging to different branches of the Armed Forces and Carabineros, whose designation would have been the "Delfín" (or "Mehuín," according to other versions) brigade or group.

The purpose of this brigade was the repression of the Communist Party, carrying out tracking and detention tasks of leaders and militants of that Party, which were verified throughout the year 1976; In this way, during said period, the capture of dozens of Communist Party militants proceeded, many of them members of successive leaderships that were constituted as the previous ones were being dismantled by the aforementioned repressive organization.

The detainees were taken to the "Terranova" or "Villa Grimaldi" barracks, where they were interrogated under torture. Some of them were subsequently taken, still deprived of liberty, to the "Simón Bolívar" barracks—to which the "Delfín" or "Mehuín" brigade moved in May or June 1976—which became the main operations center of the aforementioned brigade, and from where operational groups went out to carry out detentions, in addition to transferring the Communist Party detainees who were at "Villa Grimaldi";

To fulfill the functions described above, the so-called "Delfín" or "Mehuín" brigade incorporated members of the "Lautaro" brigade, led by Juan Morales Salgado, into its repressive activities. In said barracks, the detainees were interrogated under torment, losing track of them and ignoring their current whereabouts; however, there is evidence that several of these people were put to death, their bodies being removed and buried clandestinely; and others were thrown into the sea from helicopters; without their remains being recovered yet;

Under these circumstances, the detentions of the following people, all Communist Party militants, took place: a. MANUEL GUILLERMO RECABARREN GONZÁLEZ, 22, and LUIS EMILIO RECABARREN GONZÁLEZ, 29, were detained, along with NALVIA MENA ALVARADO and her two-year-old son, Luis Emilio Recabarren Mena, by DINA agents in an operation carried out on April 29, 1976, in the sector of Sebastopol and Santa Rosa streets.

The minor was left abandoned near his home at night. The following day, the father of the first two, MANUEL SEGUNDO RECABARREN ROJAS, 50, was apprehended at 07:10, as he was leaving his home at Cantares de Chile No. 6271, bus stop 16 of Santa Rosa, San Miguel commune, as he was preparing to board a bus.

All detainees were taken to "Villa Grimaldi"; Manuel Guillermo Recabarren González and Manuel Segundo Recabarren Rojas were also seen at the "Simón Bolívar" facility, and Luis Emilio Recabarren González at "Cuatro Álamos," with the current whereabouts of the victims unknown.

b. CLARA ELENA CANTEROS TORRES, 21, a militant of the Communist Youth, detained on July 23, 1976, around 20:00 on the public thoroughfare at the intersection of Panamá and Rojas Magallanes streets in the La Florida commune, as she got off public transport.

Hours later, her uncle Eduardo Canteros Prado was detained. She was taken to "Villa Grimaldi" where she was seen by witnesses, and on August 20, 1976, she was taken from that facility along with other detainees Mario Juica Vega and Óscar Ramos. To date, her whereabouts are unknown.

c. EDUARDO CANTEROS PRADO, 48, civil engineer, detained on July 23, 1976, around 21:40, on the public thoroughfare, in front of his home located at Panamá street No. 8807, in the La Florida commune, by DINA agents traveling in three cars, being taken to "Villa Grimaldi." In 1990, his remains were found at the Las Tórtolas farm in Colina, a facility that belonged to the Army until 1980.

d. ALEJANDRO RODRÍGUEZ URZÚA, 49, was detained on July 27, 1976, around 17:15 from his office located at Mallinkrodt 70, Barrio Bellavista; they took him in his "Chevrolet" brand vehicle, "Chevy" model, year 70, license plate DY-821, light blue color.

They took him to the "Villa Grimaldi" facility; that same day at night, his office was raided, from which various documents and valuables were stolen, including $2,000 and an address book.

e. DANIEL PALMA ROBLEDO, 61, businessman, was detained on August 4, 1976, in the morning, on the public thoroughfare, on Avenida Matta, between San Diego and Arturo Prat streets; after picking up his mail, he bought a newspaper, and at the moment of leaving, he was detained and taken along with the vehicle in which he was traveling, a "Renoleta," model 4 S, light blue, year 1972, license plate VI-552 of the Ñuñoa commune, a vehicle that was subsequently found in the possession of DINA agents.

Daniel Palma Robledo was seen at "Simón Bolívar."

f. CARLOS ENRIQUE GODOY LAGARRIGUE, 39, doctor, was detained on August 4, 1976, at 15:00, by DINA agents during his commute between the Parochial Hospital of San Bernardo and his private practice, located at Barros Arana and Arturo Prat streets; he was apprehended along with his "Citroën" AX-330 vehicle, green, license plate LOG-11 of Calera de Tango, by DINA agents, and was taken to "Villa Grimaldi" and, subsequently, to "Cuatro Álamos."

g. IVÁN SERGIO INSUNZA BASCUÑÁN, 43, surgeon, was detained on August 4, 1976, at night, while driving his "Renault" 4 S vehicle from the year 1969, lead-colored; he was also carrying a term deposit from a financial institution, which was cashed in Viña del Mar on September 3, 1976, by third parties. He was taken to "Villa Grimaldi" and then to "Cuatro Álamos."

h. JOSÉ EDUARDO SANTANDER MIRANDA, student and Central Única de Trabajadores leader, who had worked at the General Treasury of the Republic, was detained upon leaving his home, approximately at 9:30, on August 6, 1976, by DINA agents who forced him into a vehicle; witnesses saw him at the "Villa Grimaldi" facility.

i. VÍCTOR HUGO MORALES MAZUELA, 45, carpenter and construction worker, union leader, and organization head of the West Santiago Regional of the Communist Party, was detained on August 9, 1976, in the morning, in the vicinity of the "Villa México" neighborhood in the Maipú commune and was taken to "Villa Grimaldi." Subsequently, he was seen at the "Simón Bolívar" barracks.

j. MARIO JESÚS JUICA VEGA, 34, merchant, was detained on August 9, 1976, around noon, in the vicinity of Plaza Egaña, in the Ñuñoa commune, and forced into a vehicle and taken to "Villa Grimaldi," a place where he was seen by numerous witnesses; on the 20th of the same month and year, he was taken from that facility along with two other detainees.

k. MIGUEL NAZAL QUIROZ, 44, merchant, was apprehended on August 11, 1976, at 9:00, while leaving his home located on Chiloé street, between Santa Rosa and Gran Avenida, at bus stop 9, San Miguel commune, by DINA agents who took him to "Villa Grimaldi."

l. CARLOS MARIO VIZCARRA COFRÉ, 31, worker, bodywork repairman, was detained on August 11, 1976, at night in the Quinta Normal commune, by DINA agents who took him to "Villa Grimaldi," a facility where witnesses saw him until August 25 of the same year; he was even seen repairing a DINA vehicle. Subsequently, he was seen at the "Simón Bolívar" facility.

m. JULIO ROBERTO VEGA VEGA, 61, worker, was detained on August 16, 1976, at 11:30, on the public thoroughfare on Avenida Presidente Balmaceda between Cueto and Libertad, by DINA agents. Several witnesses saw him held both at "Villa Grimaldi" and at the "Simón Bolívar" barracks.

n. JUAN AURELIO VILLARROEL ZÁRATE, 55, union leader, photoengraver, detained on August 13, 1976, around noon by DINA agents who took him to "Villa Grimaldi," where he was seen by several witnesses. That day at 11:30, he took a public bus at the stop near his house located at Juan General Gambino street No. 4584, in the Conchalí commune, and got off at Estación Mapocho with the intention of going to an aunt's house in the Cerrillos commune.

The consequences of these detentions are that the aforementioned people—with the exception of Eduardo Canteros Prado—are in the status of disappeared, since, while deprived of liberty, they have not made contact with their relatives; nor have they carried out administrative procedures before State agencies or private organizations, nor do they register entries or exits from the country, and their death is not recorded either.

Regarding Eduardo Canteros Prado, it was established through expert evidence that his death was caused by violent means, and given the circumstances surrounding his detention and clandestine confinement, it can be established that it was due to the action of third parties.»

Source: resumen.cl July 22, 2017 Date: 22-07-2017