Juan Ernesto Ibarra Toledo, a 21-year-old university student and MIR militant, was detained on July 25, 1974. At 15:30 that day, he met with his mother, Lutgarda Toledo, at her workplace on Alameda near the 1400 block.

Later, at 18:00, he was supposed to meet with his friend and MIR comrade Alejandro Sanhueza, an appointment he did not keep, leading to the presumption that DINA agents detained him between those hours.

The day after his detention, at 19:30, the victim was brought by his captors to Alejandro Sanhueza's house in a green pickup truck. There, the 4 DINA agents dispersed: two remained in the vehicle, another took cover behind a bus, and a fourth individual accompanied Juan Ibarra.

Sanhueza's mother, Mrs. Etelvina Toro, recounted that the victim "was in a deplorable state," appeared drugged, "kept his hands in his pockets, which he never took out, he looked very scared, with his eyes wide open; for his part, the man escorting him was of medium height, fat, poorly dressed, with disheveled hair." The agent asked for her son Alejandro.

Upon learning that Alejandro Sanhueza was not at home, the agents grabbed the victim by the arms and took him to the vehicle. A neighbor was able to observe that at the moment he was being loaded into the truck, the victim was shoved and struck in the face. Alejandro Sanhueza had to seek asylum in the Italian Embassy and leave the country to save his life.

Juan Ibarra was taken to the facility at Londres 38, which the DINA used for the political imprisonment and torture of detainees.

Dr. Nelly Barceló, who was detained by the DINA on approximately July 26, 1974, and taken to the Londres 38 facility, stated in her testimony: "I was taken out in a pickup truck along with Alfonso Chanfreau and Juan Ibarra to another DINA facility (the three of us were blindfolded), known as 'La Venda Sexy,' located at the intersection of Irán and Los Plátanos." There, they confronted her with Juan Ibarra, who was the person through whom the DINA had reached her. "The agents forced me to watch the torture of Juan Ibarra Toledo," Dr.

Barceló noted. The following day, they took her back to Londres 38, this time without the victim or Chanfreau. Other survivors of DINA detention have also affirmed that they were at Londres 38 in late July and that the victim was there along with other detainees.

A week after being detained, he called his mother's house to ask that if two of his friends called, they should leave a phone number where they could be reached. He added that he was in a military facility and that if everything went well, he would be released very soon.

He dictated a phone number to his mother (394939), which was later confirmed to correspond to a private number at the Ministry of the Interior, as the Military Intelligence Service later informed his mother.

In February 1977, two individuals dressed in civilian clothes arrived at Mrs. Lutgarda Toledo's house, claiming to belong to the Ministry of the Interior and requesting information about the victim. After being denied any information and being told that he remained in the status of a forcibly disappeared person, the subjects left without the signature they required for some documents.

Furthermore, there was never any contact with Juan Ibarra Toledo after that phone call, and he remains to this day in the status of a forcibly disappeared person.

It should be noted that on April 30, 1974, the Prosecutor of the Santiago Oriente branch of the Universidad de Chile, Mr. Gustavo Reyes Román, informed the Social Work student that he was accused of "observing sectarian and proselytizing conduct and having committed acts detrimental to the normal coexistence of the University Community." On May 2, 1974, the victim presented his defense.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

An Amparo appeal (habeas corpus), case file No. 832-74, was filed before the Santiago Court of Appeals on behalf of the victim, which was rejected by the Court on November 27, 1974, based on reports from the Investigative Police, Carabineros, and the Public Prison stating that Juan Ibarra was not being held.

On August 1, 1974, Lutgarda Toledo filed a complaint for the kidnapping of her son, Juan Ibarra Toledo, before the 7th Criminal Court of Santiago, which was registered under case file No. 76.166.

Mrs. Etelvina Toro testified before the magistrate, and a simple order to investigate was issued to the Investigative Police, who confirmed the complaint through witnesses during October 1974, without finding the victim in their inquiries to hospital and police institutions.

On June 26, 1975, the National Executive Secretariat for Detainees, under the Ministry of the Interior, informed the Judge that it had no information on the victim. The International Police reported similarly.

On December 3, the Minister of the Interior, General Raúl Benavides, indicated to the Judge that Juan Ibarra was not being held by order of his Secretariat.

Without completing the investigation or fulfilling all the decreed proceedings, the Judge resolved on February 26, 1976, to close the summary and, given that "the perpetration of the crime that gave rise to the summary was not completely justified," temporarily dismissed the case. On July 2, 1976, the Court of Appeals approved the resolution of the 7th Criminal Court.

U. de Chile to award posthumous degrees to 104 victims of political execution and disappearance

Symbolic recognition will be directed at former students murdered during the military regime.

Through exempt decree number 0030766 of the Universidad de Chile, authorized by the Comptroller General of the Republic on September 4 of this year, said university was enabled, for the first time in its history, to award posthumous and symbolic degrees to students who were victims of political execution and those who became forcibly disappeared during the military regime.

The official ceremony, which will be led by Rector Ennio Vivaldi, will take place next Monday the 11th, in the Domeyko courtyard of the central building, starting at 12:30.

For Vivaldi, "this initiative has two very profound meanings. On one hand, it is a gesture of reparation for the victims themselves and for their families, who also affectively associate their loved ones with this great institution that is the U. de Chile.

On the other hand, the U. de Chile feels it is fulfilling its moral duty by not granting the dictatorship the terrible objective of, in addition to having cut their lives short, erasing their achievements as students and future professionals for Chile."

The list includes 104 former students of the university who were murdered by State agents between 1973 and 1989.

Among the most remembered cases is that of history student Jécar Nehgme, who also appears as the last victim of Augusto Pinochet's regime. This former leader of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) was found dead on September 4, 1989, on General Bulnes street, just days before the elections that would mark the return to democracy.

After a long judicial process, which was resolved in 2008, it was established that the authors of the murder were the metropolitan chief of the CNI, Brigadier (ret.) Enrique Levy Araneda; Colonel (ret.) Pedro Guzmán Olivares; and Captain (ret.) Luis Sanhueza Ross.

Social organizations valued the gesture. The president of the Association of Families of Political Executed (Afep), Alicia Lira, noted that "it is a great gesture, which we recognize enormously. With this, Rector Vivaldi fulfills a pending task that the Universidad de Chile had, since similar gestures had already been carried out by other universities such as the U. de Santiago and the Austral de Valdivia.

But it is a huge signal for democracy and for a true 'never again' to be fulfilled in Chile." (excerpt) Honoring Ibarra Toledo, Juan Ernesto. Social Work student. Forcibly disappeared. Among them all.

Source: latercera.com 9/8/2017 Date: 09-08-2017

DINA leadership convicted for case of MIR university student

Supreme Court ratified a sentence of 10 years and one day for the qualified kidnapping and disappearance in 1974 of Juan Ibarra Toledo.

The Supreme Court issued a final sentence in the investigation into the qualified kidnapping of Juan Ibarra Toledo, which occurred on July 25, 1974, thereby ratifying the sentence of 10 years and one day of imprisonment against former DINA agents Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, Marcel Moren Brito, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, and Basclay Zapata Reyes.

Juan Ibarra Toledo, a 21-year-old university student and MIR militant, was detained on July 25 by DINA agents and taken to the clandestine detention and torture center Londres 38, where he was last seen, with no knowledge of his whereabouts to this date.

The Second Chamber of the highest court was composed of ministers Milton Juica, Hugo Dolmestch, Carlos Künsemüller, Lamberto Cisternas, and Carlos Cerda.

The resolution was adopted with the dissenting votes of ministers Dolmestch and Cisternas, who were in favor of applying the principle of half-prescription.

Source: La Nación, January 29, 2015 Date: 01-29-2015

Contreras, Krassnoff, and other former DINA members convicted again for kidnapping and disappearance

The visiting minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Leopoldo Llanos, sentenced four former members of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) to ten years and one day in prison without benefits, as reported by Radio Bío Bío.

They are retired military officers Manuel "Mamo" Contreras, Marcelo Moren Brito, Basclay Zapata Reyes, and Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, accused of the qualified kidnapping and subsequent disappearance of a MIR militant during the dictatorship. All four have already received previous convictions for human rights violations and are serving prison sentences at the Punta Peuco Penal Facility.

The victim is Juan Ernesto Ibarra Toledo, who at the time of his detention was 21 years old and a Social Work student at the Universidad de Chile. To this day, it is unknown what happened to his remains.

Source: El Mostrador, April 22, 2014 Date: 04-22-2014