On September 14, 1973, Juan Francisco FUENTES LIZAMA, 67, an agricultural worker, and Juan de Dios FUENTES LIZAMA, 78, also an agricultural worker, were detained. Both brothers were detained at their home on the Corcovado estate by a patrol composed of civilians and members of the Carabineros of Santa Bárbara.

According to witness accounts, Juan Francisco Fuentes Lizama was shot at the very place of his detention and died instantly. However, nothing is known to this day regarding the whereabouts or fate of the victims.

For the reasons already stated when introducing the events that occurred in this location, this Commission has reached the conviction that the brothers Juan Francisco and Juan de Dios Fuentes Lizama were victims of human rights violations, perpetrated by State agents who are responsible for their disappearance.

Source: (Rettig Report)

A completely irregular situation is taking place in the commune of Curacautín, in La Araucanía, specifically at the Collico school, where the municipality retains a criminal convicted of crimes against humanity as its principal.

This concerns Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, a civilian convicted for his participation in the disappearance of 28 peasants in Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, in the foothills of the Biobío, between September and December 1973.

Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán is the name of the criminal convicted of crimes against humanity who works as the teacher in charge of the Collico rural school in Curacautín. The offender was convicted, along with four Carabineros and nine civilians, as the perpetrator of the kidnapping and disappearance of 28 peasants in Quilaco and Santa Bárbara, in what constitutes one of the most brutal crimes of the dictatorship.

Burgos Belauzarán was sentenced to four years of major imprisonment in its minimum degree, with the accessory penalties of absolute perpetual disqualification from public offices and political rights, and absolute disqualification from holding professional titles for the duration of the sentence; however, he currently appears as the teacher in charge of the Collico rural school, with a salary of more than $2 million.

He has held the position since at least 2016. Due to the gravity of this situation, not only because of its illegality but also because of what a conviction for crimes against humanity entails, SUMMARY contact was made with both the DAEM (Municipal Education Administration Department) of Curacautín and the Regional Ministerial Secretariat (Seremi) of Education in La Araucanía, from where they avoided assuming responsibility and announced that the situation is in the hands of a legal team "to reach a resolution." From the municipal education department, they indicated that "the Supreme Court has not yet informed us, and during the current collection of records, the disqualification appeared, which is why the information was sent to the lawyers. I had no idea; I have been in the position for almost a year and I am not from Curacautín either." Patricio Aguilera, director of the DAEM, noted that this rural school is currently in recess, but Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán appears to be earning a salary, as of March 2023, of more than $2 million. In this regard, Aguilera replied that "he is on medical leave, and the leave is paid by the Isapre (health insurance provider). We sent the records to the legal advisors as soon as we received the certificate of disqualification; we immediately referred it to our lawyers." When the Seremi of Education of La Araucanía, María Isabel Mariñanco, was asked about the reason for the continued employment of a human rights violator as the head of a school, she limited herself to holding the employer responsible, avoiding any mention of possible measures to be taken. "In the administrative sphere of the management of educational establishments, personnel hiring is under the responsibility of the employer, which in this case corresponds to the municipality. As the Ministry of Education, we call on municipalities and the local public education service, in their capacity as employers, to provide greater rigor to the processes of reviewing the backgrounds of those who work in educational establishments." For now, the criminal convicted of crimes against humanity, Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, is on medical leave and, according to the DAEM, they are "waiting" for the legal team's review to finalize his dismissal; for the time being, he continues to appear as the teacher in charge of the Collico school. Below, we describe the events in which Burgos Belauzarán participated directly as a perpetrator, committed in Santa Bárbara and Quilaco between September and December 1973: The judicial investigation establishes in detail the various criminal episodes carried out by the uniformed personnel and civilian executors of true extermination raids. Thus, on September 13, 1973, a group of civilians and Carabineros, all armed with firearms and traveling in motorized vehicles, arrived at the home of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, located on the El Rodal plot on the outskirts of Quilaco, proceeding to detain him in the presence of his family members, and then taking him away on foot to an unknown destination, causing him to be forcibly disappeared to this day. On September 14, 1973, Juan de Dios Fuentes Lizama and Juan Francisco Fuentes Lizama were kidnapped from their home located in a hut on the Corcovado estate, on the road to Villacura, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, by Carabineros and civilians, with no knowledge of their fate to this day. On September 16, 1973, Juan de Dios Rubio Llancao and Julio Alberto Rubio Llancao were detained and taken to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station, under the charge of the Unit Chief, then-Lieutenant Planté Aravena Sáez. That same day, Guillermo Purrán Treca went to the indicated police unit seeking protection because he could not return home, as he had missed the bus and the start of the curfew was approaching, but they kept him there as a detainee. At night, these three peasants, plus José María Tranamil Pereira, who had also been detained, were taken out of the police station and transported to the Quilaco bridge where the Carabineros riddled them with bullets; since that date, no news has been known about the four peasants. On September 16, 1973, Sebastián Hernaldo Campos Díaz voluntarily presented himself to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station, as he had been summoned previously, and remained detained; to this day, there is no news of his whereabouts. At noon on September 17, 1973, Elba Burgos Sáez was detained by Carabineros on a public street in the city of Santa Bárbara, was put into a pickup truck, and taken to an unknown destination; since that date, no news of her whereabouts or existence has been known. On the afternoon of September 17, 1973, José Rafael Zúñiga Aceldine, José Secundino Zúñiga Aceldine, and José Gilberto Araneda Riquelme voluntarily went to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station, complying with a summons that Carabineros of the aforementioned police unit had issued to them through a third party, and were admitted to said facility as detainees; since that date, no news has been known about their whereabouts or fate. In the commune of Quilaco, in the early hours of September 20, 1973, a group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at the home of José Felidor Pinto Pinto, a leader of the Campo Lindo peasant settlement, located on the old Huinquén estate, whom they detained, taking him from his house and transporting him in vehicles to an unknown destination, from which moment there was never any news of his fate, his trail disappearing to this day. In the morning hours of September 20, 1973, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, the group of executioners arrived at the ‘El Huachi’ estate, located 8 kilometers from that commune, and detained José Domingo Godoy Acuña, Julio César Godoy Godoy, and Desiderio Aguilera Solís, transporting them to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station, from where they were taken out at night to an unknown destination, and to this day they have not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. Around noon that day, the same group headed to the village of Loncopangue and also to the vicinity of the Rañiguel estate in the same sector, proceeding to detain Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Bastías Sandoval, and Raimundo Salazar Muñoz, who were loaded onto a truck belonging to the Municipality of Quilaco driven by José Feliciano Gutiérrez Ortiz, known as ‘El Chamo’, to then be taken along the public road that leads to Quilaco to a path that leads to the confluence of the Bío Bío and Quilmes rivers, where they were taken off the vehicle and, guarded by their captors, were led on foot to the banks of the indicated watercourses, at which moment their captors allegedly fired at them with firearms, their bodies falling into the channel of the aforementioned rivers, their actual whereabouts remaining unknown to this day. Also that same day, in the afternoon, the local resident Segundo Marcial Soto Quijón was detained in Quilaco by a group composed of Carabineros and civilians, a date from which they caused him to be forcibly disappeared. In the commune of Santa Bárbara, at approximately 14:00 hours on the same day, September 20, the criminal group detained José Nazario Godoy Acuña in the Los Junquillos sector, who was subsequently transported to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station. Around 22:30 hours on September 20, 1973, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, they arrived at the home of Manuel Salamanca Mella, located on Avenida La Feria without number in Santa Bárbara, where they detained him in the presence of his family members, to then take him to the Carabineros Station. On the same date, the same group went to the boarding house located at Calle Rosas N° 343 in the commune of Santa Bárbara, where they detained José Mariano Godoy Acuña, who was transported to the Station where they were last seen, and to this day they have not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. On the night of September 20, 1973, the same armed group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at the home of Miguel Cuevas Pincheira located at Calle Rosas N° 371 in Santa Bárbara and detained him, in the presence of his family members, spouse, and children, taking him from his house and transporting him to an unknown location, and to this day he has not been seen again, nor is there any news of his whereabouts. On September 23, 1973, in the early hours of the morning, the group of executioners broke into the La Palma smallholding, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, to kidnap the peasants Sergio D’Apollonio Petermann, 48 years old, and his son Carlos Jacinto D’Apollonio Zapata, 22 years old, from their home. They transported Carlos Jacinto to the bridge that connects the communes of Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, over the Bío Bío River, where they placed him on one of the railings and fired at him with firearms, causing him to fall into the riverbed. However, the current dragged his body to one of the banks where, on the morning of the following day, his body was found by family members and acquaintances. They took the corpse to his home and proceeded to hold a wake to then give him a burial, but in the afternoon of that day, the same individuals who had kidnapped him the night before broke in to steal the young man's body and took it away to cause it to be forcibly disappeared to the present day. On the morning of November 3, 1973, at approximately 11:00 hrs., the group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at Plot N° 112 in the Piñiquihue sector of the commune of Quilaco, where they detained José Roberto Molina Quezada, took him from his house, and took him away in a vehicle to an unknown destination, from which moment there was never any news or knowledge of his whereabouts. On the night of Saturday, November 3, they arrived at the home of Gabriel José Viveros Flores located on the outskirts of Loncopangue, proceeding to detain him in the presence of his family members, taking him from his house and taking him away to an unknown destination. Around 16:00 hours on November 7, 1973, under circumstances where Aliro Segundo Oporto Durán, 17 years old, was in a house located in the Raleo sector of the town of Alto Bío Bío, Carabineros personnel arrived to detain him, but the young man fled in the direction of the Bío Bío River, being pursued by the police, one of whom shot him, managing to apprehend him, from which moment all news of his whereabouts or existence is unknown. by Juan Contreras Jara

Source: resumen.cl, May 10, 2023

Date: 05-10-2023

Supreme Court convicted retired Carabineros and civilians for kidnappings in Biobío in 1973 (excerpt)

The Second Chamber overturned the appealed sentence on its own motion in the part that considered the civilians as accomplices to the crimes and, in a replacement sentence, convicted them as perpetrators, for having had direct participation in the detentions and kidnappings.

The Supreme Court accepted the filed appeals in cassation and issued a final judgment in the investigation into the qualified kidnappings of José Domingo Godoy Acuña, Julio Godoy Godoy, Desiderio Aguilera Solís, José Nazario Godoy Acuña, Manuel Salamanca Mella, José Mariano Godoy Acuña, Miguel Cuevas Pincheira, Sebastián Hernaldo Campos Díaz, José Rafael Zúñiga Aceldine, José Secundino Zúñiga Aceldine, José Gilberto Araneda Riquelme, Juan de Dios Rubio Llancao, Julio Rubio Llancao, José María Tranamil Pereira, José Guillermo Purrán Treca, Elba Burgos Sáez, Juan de Dios Fuentes Lizama, Juan Francisco Fuentes Lizama, Sergio D´Apollonio Petermann, and Aliro Oporto Durán; and of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, José Felidor Pinto Pinto, Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Alberto Bastías Sandoval, Raimundo Salazar Muñoz, Gabriel José Viveros Flores, Segundo Marcial Soto Quijón, and José Roberto Molina Quezada. Crimes perpetrated in the communes of Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, respectively, between September and December 1973. In a split decision (case file 24.143-2019), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, and minister María Teresa Letelier—overturned the appealed sentence, issued by the Court of Appeals of Concepción, on its own motion, in the part that considered the civilians as accomplices to the crimes and, in a replacement sentence, convicted them as perpetrators, for having had direct participation in the detentions and kidnappings. In the final judgment, the following were convicted as perpetrators of the crimes: Planté Euclide Aravena Sáez to a sentence of 14 years in prison; Héctor Isaías Echeverría Beltrán and José Heraldo Pulgar Riquelme must serve 11 years in prison; Carlos Santiago Sepúlveda Rivera and Exequiel del Carmen Celedón Barrera, 10 years and one day; Sergio Amado Fuentes Valenzuela, Luis Enrique Ricardo Antonio Barrueto Bartning, and Manuel Darío Barrueto Bartning to 6 years of imprisonment; meanwhile, Jorge Denis Domínguez Larenas, Jorge Eduardo Valdivia Dames, and José Roberto Valdivia Dames must serve 5 years and one day in prison. Finally, the convicted individuals Eugenio Villa Urrutia, Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, and José Feliciano Gutiérrez Ortiz were sentenced to 4 years in prison, with the benefit of supervised release for the same period. police and judicial Supreme Court convicted retired Carabineros and civilians for kidnappings in Biobío in 1973 The Second Chamber overturned the appealed sentence on its own motion in the part that considered the civilians as accomplices to the crimes and, in a replacement sentence, convicted them as perpetrators, for having had direct participation in the detentions and kidnappings. By Jorge Guzmán B. October 22, 2022, at 09:42 The Supreme Court accepted the filed appeals in cassation and issued a final judgment in the investigation into the qualified kidnappings of José Domingo Godoy Acuña, Julio Godoy Godoy, Desiderio Aguilera Solís, José Nazario Godoy Acuña, Manuel Salamanca Mella, José Mariano Godoy Acuña, Miguel Cuevas Pincheira, Sebastián Hernaldo Campos Díaz, José Rafael Zúñiga Aceldine, José Secundino Zúñiga Aceldine, José Gilberto Araneda Riquelme, Juan de Dios Rubio Llancao, Julio Rubio Llancao, José María Tranamil Pereira, José Guillermo Purrán Treca, Elba Burgos Sáez, Juan de Dios Fuentes Lizama, Juan Francisco Fuentes Lizama, Sergio D´Apollonio Petermann, and Aliro Oporto Durán; and of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, José Felidor Pinto Pinto, Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Alberto Bastías Sandoval, Raimundo Salazar Muñoz, Gabriel José Viveros Flores, Segundo Marcial Soto Quijón, and José Roberto Molina Quezada. Crimes perpetrated in the communes of Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, respectively, between September and December 1973. In a split decision (case file 24.143-2019), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, and minister María Teresa Letelier—overturned the appealed sentence, issued by the Court of Appeals of Concepción, on its own motion, in the part that considered the civilians as accomplices to the crimes and, in a replacement sentence, convicted them as perpetrators, for having had direct participation in the detentions and kidnappings. In the final judgment, the following were convicted as perpetrators of the crimes: Planté Euclide Aravena Sáez to a sentence of 14 years in prison; Héctor Isaías Echeverría Beltrán and José Heraldo Pulgar Riquelme must serve 11 years in prison; Carlos Santiago Sepúlveda Rivera and Exequiel del Carmen Celedón Barrera, 10 years and one day; Sergio Amado Fuentes Valenzuela, Luis Enrique Ricardo Antonio Barrueto Bartning, and Manuel Darío Barrueto Bartning to 6 years of imprisonment; meanwhile, Jorge Denis Domínguez Larenas, Jorge Eduardo Valdivia Dames, and José Roberto Valdivia Dames must serve 5 years and one day in prison. Finally, the convicted individuals Eugenio Villa Urrutia, Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, and José Feliciano Gutiérrez Ortiz were sentenced to 4 years in prison, with the benefit of supervised release for the same period. "That, in relation to the denounced defect, it should be kept in mind that to analyze the degree of participation that—among others—corresponded to the accused Luis Barrueto Bartning, Manuel Barrueto Bartning, and Sergio Fuentes Valenzuela, in the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Manuel Salamanca, José Domingo Godoy Acuña, José Nazario Godoy Acuña, and José Mariano Godoy Acuña; and to the accused Jorge Domínguez Larenas in the crime of qualified kidnapping of Sergio D’Apollonio Petermann, the second-instance sentence, in its 57th finding, referred to the functional theory of the act and analyzed the requirements of co-perpetration, after which it concluded in reasoning 59° that the conduct of all the civilians who intervened in the events could only be considered as complicity," the ruling states. The resolution adds that: "To arrive at such a conclusion, the trial judges estimated that although the accused collaborated with the detention of each of the victims, 'the control of the kidnapping act always remained with the police officers, insofar as the collaborative action of these subjects lasted only until the detainees were in the hands of the public official, police authority, or at the Station or Post to which the detainees were taken, so that what was acted and decided by said Carabineros officials, in terms of causing their disappearance to this day of each of the detained victims, is not an action over which these accused could have had control. Such a factual circumstance is even recognized in the thirty-sixth finding of the first-instance sentence when, analyzing the participation of Planté Euclide Aravena Sáez, it mentions that 'he organized a group of civilians to provide collaboration with the officials of his unit and that he had the most complete and absolute authority over these and the civilians under his command...'" (excerpt)

Source: tribuna.cl October 22, 2022

Date: 10-22-2022

Teachers' Union on convicted teacher working in Curacautín: "There must be no space for human rights violators"

The municipality of Curacautín, in the Araucanía Region, allegedly hired as a teacher at the Collico rural school a man convicted for his participation in the disappearance of 28 peasants in Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, during September and December 1973. "It implies the direct non-compliance with a judicial sentence," maintained the union leader.

The national president of the Teachers' Union (Colegio de Profesores), Carlos Díaz , referred to the controversial integration of a teacher convicted of crimes against humanity during the dictatorship, in a rural school dependent on the municipality of Curacautín , which was made known during this day.

Díaz described the situation as "very serious" and labeled the teacher, Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán , as a " criminal of the dictatorship ," although he backtracked by saying that he was referring mainly to the conviction against him . "This situation is very serious, because it implies the direct non-compliance with a judicial sentence that established the absolute and perpetual disqualification from public offices and duties," maintained Díaz.

According to the media outlet Resumen , the municipality of Curacautín, in the Araucanía Region, allegedly hired as a teacher at the Collico rural school Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, who was convicted for his participation in the disappearance of 28 peasants in Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, during September and December 1973 .

In that vein, the union leader added that the situation " deeply violates the minimum justice that the families of the victims and the entire society deserve in the face of crimes against humanity ." "In schools, there must be no space for human rights violators," he asserted.

Burgos Belauzarán was sentenced to four years of major imprisonment in its minimum degree, with absolute perpetual disqualification from public offices and duties. In addition to the absolute disqualification from practicing professional titles for the duration of the sentence.

After being asked regarding future legal actions by the union if the situation does not change, Díaz assured that " we do not rule out any measure in this regard , we are collecting all the records regarding the case," he pointed out. According to the media outlet, the teacher has appeared as the teacher in charge at the establishment since 2016. He currently has a salary of more than $2 million .

Source: cnn.chile.com 5/10/2023

Araucanía Seremi of Education confirmed dismissal of criminal against humanity who directed rural school in Curacautín

For years, the convicted criminal against humanity, Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, worked in the DAEM of Curacautín , appearing as the director of a rural school, before being dismissed from the public system.

Burgos is one of the civilians sentenced in the context of the disappearance of 28 peasants in Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, in the foothills of the Biobío, during the first three months after the start of the Coup d'État.

After days of insistence and the silence of the Municipal Education Department, communications from the Seremi of Education confirmed to Resumen that the individual convicted of crimes against humanity, Juan Carlos Burgos Belauzarán, was finally dismissed from the DAEM of Curacautín, in La Araucanía .

Regarding his 7-month tenure on the DAEM staff as the teacher in charge, despite the conviction against him in the capacity of perpetrator of the qualified kidnapping of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, José Felidor Pinto Pinto, Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Alberto Bastias Sandoval, and Raimundo Salazar Muñoz, the Seremi of Education added to Resumen that, "we hope that the measure adopted serves to comply with the foundations of municipal administration and for the benefit of the educational community." Last May, this media outlet published information that revealed that one of the 10 civilians convicted last October by the Supreme Court , for his participation in the disappearances of 28 peasants , was in charge of a rural establishment, the Collico School. The criminal against humanity was in charge of said school for 7 years and in October 2022, he was convicted, after almost 50 years. This was the profile of the director of the rural establishment, dependent on the municipality of Curacautín, from where, after the first publication, they did not respond to the demands of this media outlet. It was the Superintendency of Education that informed that they had filed an official letter to review the issue, while the Seremi commented that they were supporting the DAEM in the procedure, a legal review that ended up yielding results 7 months later. The episodes of executions and disappearances in Quilaco and Santa Bárbara The judicial investigation establishes in detail the various criminal episodes carried out by the uniformed personnel and civilian executors of true extermination raids against peasants in the area. Thus, on September 13, 1973, a group of civilians and Carabineros, all armed with firearms and traveling in motorized vehicles, arrived at the home of Cristino Humberto Cid Fuentealba, located on the El Rodal plot on the outskirts of Quilaco, proceeding to detain him in the presence of his family members, and then taking him away on foot to an unknown destination, causing him to be forcibly disappeared to this day. On September 14, 1973, Juan de Dios Fuentes Lizama and Juan Francisco Fuentes Lizama were kidnapped from their home located in a hut on the Corcovado estate, on the road to Villacura, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, by Carabineros and civilians, with no knowledge of their fate to this day. On September 16, 1973, Juan de Dios Rubio Llancao and Julio Alberto Rubio Llancao were detained and taken to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station, under the charge of the Unit Chief, then-Lieutenant Planté Aravena Sáez. That same day, Guillermo Purrán Treca went to the indicated police unit seeking protection because he could not return home, as he had missed the bus and the start of the curfew was approaching, but they kept him there as a detainee. At night, these three peasants, plus José María Tranamil Pereira, who had also been detained, were taken out of the police station and transported to the Quilaco bridge where the Carabineros riddled them with bullets; since that date, no news has been known about the four peasants. On September 16, 1973, Sebastián Hernaldo Campos Díaz voluntarily presented himself to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station, as he had been summoned previously, and remained detained; to this day, there is no news of his whereabouts. At noon on September 17, 1973, Elba Burgos Sáez was detained by Carabineros on a public street in the city of Santa Bárbara, was put into a pickup truck, and taken to an unknown destination; since that date, no news of her whereabouts or existence has been known. On the afternoon of September 17, 1973, José Rafael Zúñiga Aceldine, José Secundino Zúñiga Aceldine, and José Gilberto Araneda Riquelme voluntarily went to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station, complying with a summons that Carabineros of the aforementioned police unit had issued to them through a third party, and were admitted to said facility as detainees; since that date, no news has been known about their whereabouts or fate. In the commune of Quilaco, in the early hours of September 20, 1973, a group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at the home of José Felidor Pinto Pinto, a leader of the Campo Lindo peasant settlement, located on the old Huinquén estate, whom they detained, taking him from his house and transporting him in vehicles to an unknown destination, from which moment there was never any news of his fate, his trail disappearing to this day. In the morning hours of September 20, 1973, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, the group of executioners arrived at the ‘El Huachi’ estate, located 8 kilometers from that commune, and detained José Domingo Godoy Acuña, Julio César Godoy Godoy, and Desiderio Aguilera Solís, transporting them to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station, from where they were taken out at night to an unknown destination, and to this day they have not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. More or less at noon that day, the same group headed to the village of Loncopangue and also to the vicinity of the Rañiguel estate in the same sector, proceeding to detain Luis Alberto Cid Cid, Luis Bastías Sandoval, and Raimundo Salazar Muñoz, who were loaded onto a truck belonging to the Municipality of Quilaco driven by José Feliciano Gutiérrez Ortiz, known as ‘El Chamo’, to then be taken along the public road that leads to Quilaco to a path that leads to the confluence of the Bío Bío and Quilmes rivers, where they were taken off the vehicle and, guarded by their captors, were led on foot to the banks of the indicated watercourses, at which moment their captors allegedly fired at them with firearms, their bodies falling into the channel of the aforementioned rivers, their actual whereabouts remaining unknown to this day. Also that same day, in the afternoon, the local resident Segundo Marcial Soto Quijón was detained in Quilaco by a group composed of Carabineros and civilians, a date from which they caused him to be forcibly disappeared. In the commune of Santa Bárbara, at approximately 14:00 hours on the same day, September 20, the criminal group detained José Nazario Godoy Acuña in the Los Junquillos sector, who was subsequently transported to the Santa Bárbara Carabineros Station. Around 22:30 hours on September 20, 1973, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, they arrived at the home of Manuel Salamanca Mella, located on Avenida La Feria without number in Santa Bárbara, where they detained him in the presence of his family members, to then take him to the Carabineros Station. On the same date, the same group went to the boarding house located at Calle Rosas N° 343 in the commune of Santa Bárbara, where they detained José Mariano Godoy Acuña, who was transported to the Station where they were last seen, and to this day they have not been seen again, nor is there any news of their whereabouts. On the night of September 20, 1973, the same armed group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at the home of Miguel Cuevas Pincheira located at Calle Rosas N° 371 in Santa Bárbara and detained him, in the presence of his family members, spouse, and children, taking him from his house and transporting him to an unknown location, and to this day he has not been seen again, nor is there any news of his whereabouts. On September 23, 1973, in the early hours of the morning, the group of executioners broke into the La Palma smallholding, in the commune of Santa Bárbara, to kidnap the peasants Sergio D’Apollonio Petermann, 48 years old, and his son Carlos Jacinto D’Apollonio Zapata, 22 years old, from their home. They transported Carlos Jacinto to the bridge that connects the communes of Santa Bárbara and Quilaco, over the Bío Bío River, where they placed him on one of the railings and fired at him with firearms, causing him to fall into the riverbed. However, the current dragged his body to one of the banks where, on the morning of the following day, his body was found by family members and acquaintances. They took the corpse to his home and proceeded to hold a wake to then give him a burial, but in the afternoon of that day, the same individuals who had kidnapped him the night before broke in to steal the young man's body and took it away to cause it to be forcibly disappeared to the present day. On the morning of November 3, 1973, at approximately 11:00 hrs., the group of Carabineros and civilians arrived at Plot N° 112 in the Piñiquihue sector of the commune of Quilaco, where they detained José Roberto Molina Quezada, took him from his house, and took him away in a vehicle to an unknown destination, from which moment there was never any news or knowledge of his whereabouts. On the night of Saturday, November 3, they arrived at the home of Gabriel José Viveros Flores located on the outskirts of Loncopangue, proceeding to detain him in the presence of his family members, taking him from his house and taking him away to an unknown destination. Around 16:00 hours on November 7, 1973, under circumstances where Aliro Segundo Oporto Durán, 17 years old, was in a house located in the Raleo sector of the town of Alto Bío Bío, Carabineros personnel arrived to detain him, but the young man fled in the direction of the Bío Bío River, being pursued by the police, one of whom shot him, managing to apprehend him, from which moment all news of his whereabouts or existence is unknown.

Source: resumen.cl 7/21/2023