Address: Pje. 2 Oriente No. 7, Pob. Rosita O'Higgins, Chillán Marital Status: Married, 2 children Occupation: Electrician. IANSA plant in Cocharcas, Chillán Political Affiliation: Militant of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) and President of the Simón Bolívar Camp Date of Detention: September 23, 1973

Luis Antonio Ibarra Durán, married, father of 2, an IANSA worker and MIR militant, was detained on September 23, 1973, around 9:30 PM at his home in the Rosita O'Higgins neighborhood of Chillán by a patrol of Carabineros and military personnel.

The uniformed officers entered the home and, without presenting a warrant or identification, apprehended Luis Antonio Ibarra Durán in the presence of his wife, Rosa Leal Carrasco, and their two children.

The victim had been detained on two previous occasions. The first was on September 11, 1973; the rush of events had caused the family to forget the exact date of the second detention. What they did remember with certainty was that in both instances, Luis Ibarra had been taken from his workplace at the IANSA (Industria Azucarera Nacional S.A.) plant in Cocharcas, Chillán, to the Carabineros checkpoint on the Pan-American Highway located nearby.

His wife was convinced that the detention was due to the fact that he was a MIR militant and had been president of the Simón Bolívar Camp. For these reasons, she began making various inquiries at facilities for political prisoners and at police and military units, where she was informed that her husband had been taken to the 2nd Carabineros Precinct of Chillán.

Concerned for his situation, she brought him clothing and food on several occasions, which were accepted by the police officers.

Four days after the detention, on September 27, Rosa Leal arrived at the aforementioned police unit with food and clothing; however, the officers indicated that her husband was no longer there and that he would be placed at the disposal of the courts.

Nevertheless, no agency took responsibility for the detention of Luis Antonio Ibarra Durán, and both civil and military courts denied having any case against him. It is possible to associate the situation and fate of the victim with that of Leopoldo López Rivas and Juan Poblete Tropa, who were detained between September 23 and 26, 1973, and taken to the 2nd Carabineros Precinct of Chillán.

The latter corresponds to one of the identified bodies found at the "El Ala" Bridge on the Ñuble River, where Mario Weitzel found the remains of his son Patricio along with 8 other corpses, which were subsequently buried in the Chillán cemetery by order of the Judge of the First Criminal Court of the city.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

His wife filed a writ of amparo (habeas corpus) with the Chillán Court of Appeals on January 20, 1975, registered under case No. 94.419.

Guillermo Herrera Navarrete, Acting President of the Court, issued writs to various agencies requesting information on the detained individual. The Acting Prefect of the Ñuble Carabineros Prefecture, Lieutenant Colonel Luis López Contreras, replied on January 21 that the detention under investigation did not appear in the books of the 2nd Carabineros Precinct of Chillán.

The Acting Warden of the Chillán Prison, Hernán Ortiz Yáñez, responded in the same manner.

On January 23, Army Major (J) Mario Romero Godoy, Military Prosecutor of Ñuble and Chillán, informed the Court that there was no case against the victim.

The responses to the Court's writs led it to reject the amparo in favor of Luis Ibarra Durán in just seven days, on January 27, 1975. On March 4, 1975, case file 7184 was opened in the Third Criminal Court of Chillán for "presumed misfortune" (disappearance), which was closed and dismissed on March 31, 1975.

Faced with the certainty of her husband's detention and the difficulties in clarifying his situation, in 1979 Rosa Leal filed a criminal complaint with the Third Criminal Court for the kidnapping and qualified homicide of Luis Ibarra Durán against the officers of the 2nd Carabineros Precinct of Chillán and the military personnel who participated in his apprehension.

She also requested various investigative steps, the reopening of case file 7184, and for the complaint to be processed by consolidating both files. The outcome of this case is unknown.

Source: (Corporation Report)

He was born on June 13, 1949, the fourth of 7 siblings. He completed his secondary education at the Industrial Lyceum of Chillán, where he learned the specialty of electricity. We met during our student days; I was in my second year of high school. Our courtship lasted approximately 2 years because we were planning to get married.

He did his internship at the Tannery and at the State Railways in electrical maintenance. Later, Luis wanted to continue his studies to improve his life, taking the Baccalaureate exam and applying for the Electronic Engineering program at the University of Concepción, but he could only study for one semester due to political problems.

After this, he returned to Chillán and began his active political life as a militant in the MIR, where he carried out different activities that led him to have contact with the people and to be in solidarity with all those who needed it.

Subsequently, various "land occupations" took place, which led him to serve as president of the Simón Bolívar Camp, where we later formed our home. We got married and went to live in this camp; in time, Rosita, the eldest of my daughters, was born.

At that time, he began working at IANSA, working in electrical maintenance. Some time later, I became pregnant with Jacqueline. In the 6th month of pregnancy, the tragic month of September 1973 arrived in our lives, during which we had to endure many worries simply for thinking differently from the military regime that would be imposed for a long time in our history.

Here begins our long and fateful September 1973. In the early hours of September 12, Luis Antonio was detained for the first time. That morning we went to look for him at the 2nd Precinct; he was very beaten.

On September 20, they came looking for him at our home located in the Simón Bolívar Camp. We were not there; we were at my parents' house. Between 9:00 and 10:00 PM, military and Carabineros arrived to detain him.

The next day I went to the 2nd Precinct; they told me he was there and that I should bring him food and clothing. Two days passed, and on the third day, they told me he was not in the books and that they had released him the night before.

It was false, because there were witnesses who saw that they had taken him out at night. I went back the next day; they said he was not there, that he could be at the regiment, but he was not there either.

Our search began in hospitals, checkpoints, nearby towns, cities, and islands. Legal procedures were carried out: Writs of Amparo, "presumed misfortune" filings, but we have had no answers.

Luis Antonio was a man who loved his freedom, a tireless worker in the struggle, in solidarity with the settlers, and he always thought of a fairer society for all.

Source: His wife, (Extracted from the book Historical Memory of the Forcibly Disappeared of Ñuble)

In the resolution (case file 6-2017 and accumulated cases), Minister Aldana Fuentes indicted retired Carabineros General Jeldres Rodríguez as the perpetrator of the qualified homicides of Patricio Lautaro Weizel Pérez and Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna; the qualified kidnappings of Ricardo Troncoso León, Arturo Lorenzo Prat Martí, José Gregorio Retamal Velásquez, Robinson Ramírez del Prado, Leopoldo López Rivas, and Mario Fernando Moreno Castro; and the aggravated kidnapping of Juan Mauricio Poblete Tropa.

The minister on special assignment for human rights violation cases for the Courts of the jurisdictions of Concepción and Chillán, Carlos Aldana Fuentes, issued an indictment against retired Carabineros General Patricio Enrique Jeldres Rodríguez for his responsibility in two consummated crimes of qualified homicide, six consummated crimes of qualified kidnapping, and one consummated crime of aggravated kidnapping.

These crimes were perpetrated between September and December 1973 in the commune of Chillán.

In the resolution (case file 6-2017 and accumulated cases), Minister Aldana Fuentes indicted the Carabineros lieutenant at the time of the events, Jeldres Rodríguez, as the perpetrator of the qualified homicides of Patricio Lautaro Weizel Pérez and Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna; the qualified kidnappings of Ricardo Troncoso León, Arturo Lorenzo Prat Martí, José Gregorio Retamal Velásquez, Robinson Ramírez del Prado, Leopoldo López Rivas, and Mario Fernando Moreno Castro; and the aggravated kidnapping of Juan Mauricio Poblete Tropa.

Furthermore, he indicted the civilian Juan Antonio Sepúlveda Peña as an accomplice in the aggravated kidnapping of Troncoso León.

In the resolution, the visiting minister establishes the following facts:

a) Case file 7-2017: "On October 1, 1973, around 11:00 AM, while Ricardo Troncoso León, a photographer and theater director, pseudonym 'Gonzalo Román', was at his home located in the El Tejar neighborhood, Pasaje Sur No. 387 in the city of Chillán, with his wife and minor daughter, a patrol of Carabineros from the Second Precinct of Chillán arrived, commanded by a Lieutenant, in a jeep with the Carabineros logo and accompanied by a civilian nicknamed 'El vuela poco', named Juan Antonio Sepúlveda Peña.

They proceeded to raid the home and detain him without a competent judicial or administrative warrant, transporting him to the facility of said institution. He remained there in that capacity, and the family was informed on the 3rd of the same month and year that he had been transferred to the Regiment, where such a fact was denied, and his whereabouts or destination have remained unknown from that date until now."

b) Case file 9-2017: "At 10:00 PM on October 1, 1973, a Carabineros patrol dedicated to detaining people opposed to the military regime arrived at the home of Patricio Lautaro Weitzel Pérez, located at Pabellones Pizarro, street six, house four, commune of Chillán.

Without a competent judicial or administrative warrant, they entered said home and proceeded to detain him, together with his fellow students from the Escuela Normal de Chillán, Arturo Lorenzo Prat Martí and José Gregorio Retamal Velásquez, transporting them to the Second Carabineros Precinct of Chillán, where they were subjected to interrogations and torture by the aforementioned Carabineros operational group, led by Lieutenant Patricio Jeldres Rodríguez.

Their bodies were found in the bed of the Ñuble River, at the height of the El Ala Bridge.

Subsequently, on December 24, 1973, a young woman arrived at the watchmaking shop owned by Mr. Mario Weitzel Trincado – father of Patricio Lautaro Weitzel Pérez – to repair a wristwatch. Upon realizing that it belonged to his son Patricio Lautaro – a forcibly disappeared person since September 1973 – after assisting her, he proceeded to follow her at a distance, arriving at the El Ala Bridge sector over the Ñuble River, on whose bank he found the bodies of six people floating in the water, among them that of his son Patricio.

He left him half-buried in the same place while he complied with reporting it to the court on December 26, 1973. A criminal case was formed, and the judge constituted himself at the aforementioned place the following day, ordering the removal of the corpse and its transfer to the morgue for the corresponding autopsy, and then ordered its delivery to the relatives, who gave him a burial.

Regarding the victims Arturo Lorenzo Prat Martí and José Gregorio Retamal Velásquez, since the date of their detention – October 1, 1973 – and their transfer to the Second Carabineros Precinct of Chillán, no certain news of their whereabouts or location is known."

c) Case file 11-2017: "Around 10:00 AM on September 25, 1973, Robinson Enrique Ramírez del Prado, President of the Central Única de Trabajadores (CUT) of Chillán, was detained by a group of Carabineros without a competent judicial or administrative warrant, in the presence of his boss (Juan León Bernier) and coworkers at his workplace, the 'El Cóndor' tannery, located at Av.

Collin No. 866, Chillán. He was seen entering the Second Precinct by his cousin Gerardo Pradenas del Prado, who at the time was a Carabineros officer at the same precinct, and they were confronted personally to determine the degree of kinship between them. Subsequently, the victim entered a cell, this being the last time he was seen.

At 1:00 PM on September 26, 1973, at his shoe repair shop located at Av. Brasil and Av. Libertad in the city of Chillán, Leopoldo López Rivas, a militant of the Communist Party, was detained by a group of Carabineros without a competent judicial or administrative warrant, in the presence of his assistant (Vicente Vidal Méndez).

He was transported to the Second Precinct of Chillán, and his detention at said police facility was acknowledged by the Carabineros on guard when checking the entry log before Mrs. Rosario Peña Espinoza, who went to that place at 3:00 PM that same day.

Likewise, it is proven that both detainees – Robinson Ramírez del Prado and Leopoldo López Rivas – were subjected to intense and cruel torture, remaining in poor physical condition. In that state, they were taken out of the aforementioned police unit and loaded into a vehicle by Carabineros personnel – along with the also detained Luis Ibarra Durán and Juan Poblete Tropa – a date from which – September 25 and 26, 1973 – no news regarding their whereabouts or location is known."

d) Case file 15-2017: "Around 11:45 PM on September 23, 1973, while Juan Mauricio Poblete Tropa was sleeping at his parents' house, Carabineros led by Lieutenant Patricio Jeldres Rodríguez, supported by military personnel, arrived and took him out violently without a judicial or administrative warrant.

He was taken to the Second Carabineros Precinct of Chillán, where he was visited by his mother, María Sabina Poblete Tropa, who observed that he was very mistreated due to the duress received. On September 27, 1973, as his mother was going to the Precinct to leave lunch for her son, she noticed that they were loading him into a van.

When she asked about his destination, she was informed that he would be taken to the Regiment, a place where they denied having received him.

From that day on, the family lost all news of his whereabouts, until they received information from Mr. Mario Weitzel Trincado, who handed over items found on a headless corpse that was in the vicinity of the 'El Ala' Bridge on December 24, 1973, next to the body of his son Patricio Lautaro Weitzel Pérez.

After forensic genetic examinations, a GMI laboratory report, and an integrated expert report were carried out, incorporated into page 1767 and following of September 23, 2019, it was established with an identification probability of at least 99.99997% that the left femur labeled 62 belongs to the indicated victim, that is, Juan Mauricio Poblete Tropa, ordering on page 1992 the corresponding death registration at the Civil Registry Service, for cause of death: indeterminate."

e) Case file 5-2018: "Around 12:00 midnight on October 1, 1973, Mario Fernando Moreno Castro, a leader of the Socialist Party, was at his home on Calle Cabildo No. 441, Chillán Viejo (a home he shared with his wife Rosa Elba Salinas Farías and their 3-year-old daughter, who were not at the place at that time).

He realized that his home was being raided by Carabineros officers and chose to flee through the back fence of the property, passing through the interior courtyards of his neighbors. When he was passing through the intersection of Juan Martínez de Rozas and Cabildo streets, he was assisted by Mrs.

Mónica Muñoz Orellana, who saw him walking in the middle of the street, carrying a white handkerchief on his shoulder. Mario told her that he was escaping from the raid on his home and that he was heading to turn himself in to the Carabineros of the 2nd Precinct.

Given the circumstances of the time and the prevailing curfew, Mrs. Mónica had him enter the restaurant where she worked ('Sociedad Mutualista Bernardo O’Higgins'), located on the corner of Juan Martínez de Rozas and Cabildo, half a block from Moreno Castro's home, where he remained hidden all night.

Around 6:00 AM, Mario Moreno Castro left the restaurant, again expressing his intention to turn himself in at the 2nd Carabineros Precinct of Chillán, not without first leaving his belongings so they could be delivered to his wife.

At the moment Mrs. Mónica Muñoz Orellana opened the door, she encountered a Carabineros jeep, maintaining a dialogue with the Carabinero Troncoso (deceased), whom she knew, since the restaurant served as a boarding house for Carabineros in the area, asking him what they were doing there so early.

Carabinero Troncoso pointed out that 'A little bird had escaped from them, but it was nearby.' After the Carabineros patrol left, Mario Moreno Castro left the place, a moment from which he has never been seen alive again, to date.

On the morning of October 2, 1973, when Rosa Elba Salinas Farías returned home after her shift at the Chillán Hospital, she realized that her home had been raided, being informed by neighbors that her partner had been detained that early morning by a Carabineros patrol in a place near her home, so she went in search of him to the 2nd Carabineros Precinct of Chillán, where she was informed at first that Mario Moreno was detained in that police facility, but subsequently the same Carabineros officers denied that information."

f) Case file 6-2017 and accumulated cases: "At 5:00 PM on September 18, 1973, a Carabineros patrol composed of Herminio Fernández Mercado (deceased), Juan Francisco Opazo Guerrero (deceased), Márquez Rodolfo Riquelme Echeverría (deceased), and Pedro Loyola Osorio (deceased) arrived at the home of Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna, located at Pabellón Manuel Rodríguez, No. 107, commune of Chillán.

They entered without a competent judicial or administrative warrant, violently searching the home in search of Jorge Cortez Luna (the victim's older brother), who was not at the place, and proceeded to detain the brothers Gabriel Marcelo and Pedro Eduardo Cortez Luna, whom they transported to the Second Carabineros Precinct of Chillán.

There, Pedro Cortez Luna was released by order of Lieutenant Patricio Enrique Jeldres Rodríguez because they had been fellow students at the Liceo de Hombres in Chillán, with Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna remaining detained in said police unit.

After many searches by his family, his mother learned on October 18, 1973, that in the facilities of the Legal Medical Service of Chillán there was a body that presented as the cause of death 'craniocerebral perforation, ballistic projectile, action of uniformed contingent,' according to the medical death certificate issued on September 20, 1973, which was buried in the common grave of the Chillán cemetery.

Exhumed, the body was verified to correspond to the victim Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna, who had died on September 19 of the same year, at the Maipón street level crossing, upon reaching the Chillán Railway Station."

Finally, Minister Aldana resumed the processing of case file 8-2017 (accumulated to 6-2017), in which Jeldres Rodríguez is indicated as the perpetrator of the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Gustavo Domínguez Jara, Wilson Becerra Cifuentes, and Tomás Domínguez Jara. These crimes were committed starting October 11, 1973, in the commune of Chillán.

Source: pjud.cl 5/18/2022

Date: 05-18-2022