Luis Carlos Jiménez Cortés, married, two children, technical draftsman, member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), remains in the status of forcibly disappeared as of September 15, 1973, after leaving his home located in the Bellavista sector, Calle Salvador Donoso 137, Santiago, during curfew hours.

From that date on, his mother, Mrs. Olga Cortés Bruna, carried out countless efforts to determine his whereabouts, all without positive results. She visited prisons, penitentiaries, military prosecutor's offices, the Estadio Nacional, Estadio Chile, the National Executive Secretariat of Detainees (SENDET), police stations, etc.

Mrs. Olga Cortés was detained on December 28, 1974, and was released in May 1975. After many years without information regarding the circumstances of the victim's disappearance, a leader of the MIR from that time, Patricio Rivas, declared that he had known Luis Carlos Jiménez Cortés in the University Brigade of the MIR at the U. de Chile, and that starting in 1971, the victim began working actively in that political organization in the northern zone of the capital.

The witness adds that on September 11, 1973, around 5:00 PM, he received a phone call from the victim. On September 12, Patricio Rivas sent him a note through Diana Aron Svigilsky, who was disappeared after being detained on November 18, 1974.

On September 13, 1973, the declarant received a response from the victim. Patricio Rivas stated that in December 1973, following the detention of Bautista Van Schouwen Vasey (forcibly disappeared since December 13, 1973), the MIR leadership conducted an evaluation of the events that had occurred in the country since the Coup d'État.

On that occasion, and in relation to the disappearance of Luis Carlos Jiménez Cortés, it was reported that he disappeared after leaving his house in the Bellavista neighborhood, under circumstances in which he was heading to a meeting point with another militant.

Patricio Rivas notes that he remembers that, apparently through Anselmo Rodríguez Plaza (forcibly disappeared as of December 12, 1974), who was the head of a MIR structure, it was reported that the victim did not arrive at the prearranged meeting place. Luis Carlos Jiménez Cortés has been missing since September 15, 1973.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

Given the scarce information available and the repression by security agencies against the victim's mother and other close relatives, no judicial actions were filed in this regard. When the case was reported to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the military government informed them that the victim "has no legal existence." The anthropometric data of Luis Carlos Jiménez Cortés were attached to case file 4449-AF, which is being processed in the 22nd Criminal Court of Santiago, regarding the illegal burial of unidentified persons in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery.

In September 1991, the judge ordered the excavation of 108 graves, exhuming 125 bodies. At the end of 1992, they were awaiting the forensic identification reports from the Legal Medical Institute.

Source: (Corporation Report)

The figure of the draftsman, graphic humorist, and comic artist Luis Jiménez Cortés, who worked for the iconic magazines "Cabrochico" and "Icarito," among others, and who was detained and subsequently forcibly disappeared by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, resurfaces with a book that compiled his history and his work at the hands of writer Jorge Montealegre. "Luis Jiménez Cortés is a name that should be on the front line.

It is a right of someone who has been denied many times. His story is that of a John Doe. A person without a name. Or a person with many names, but without a body to represent them," the author explained to justify the investigation he decided to undertake while preparing his book "History of Graphic Humor in Chile." "I found Luis Jiménez, a forcibly disappeared draftsman.

I knew of imprisoned, exiled, and exonerated draftsmen; but I had not heard of one who was disappeared. Why didn't the draftsmen remember him?" adds the poet in the introduction to "Apariciones y desapariciones de Luis Jiménez" (Apparitions and Disappearances of Luis Jiménez).

In the compilation, which was presented this Wednesday at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, unpublished works by Luis Jiménez appear, in addition to others published in various magazines such as El Musiquero, El Pingüino, La Firme, Cabrochico, and Icarito.

Luis Jiménez Cortés, linked to the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), was detained at age 25 on the street, near his home in Santiago Centro, on September 15, 1973, and his remains have still not been found 37 years after his arrest.

Source: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, La Nacion

Date: 06-15-2011

The story of the only draftsman forcibly disappeared during the dictatorship

Writer Jorge Montealegre dedicated himself to tracking the history of the only Chilean draftsman who was forcibly disappeared. A difficult search: there were no witnesses to his disappearance, almost no one remembered him, and he became one of the 48 identification errors of Patio 29.

But he was able to reconstruct a story that became the book "Apariciones y desapariciones de Luis Jiménez," which he presented on Wednesday, June 15, at the Museum of Memory. A story that has no final point.

Source: theclinic.cl 6/10/2011

Date: 06-10-2011

Apariciones y Desapariciones de Luis Jiménez Written by Marco Rauch on June 07, 2011

Pía Barros, director of Editorial Asterión, and Ricardo Brodsky, Executive Secretary of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book Apariciones y desapariciones de Luis Jiménez , an investigation directed by Jorge Montealegre about the only graphic humorist and comic artist who remains disappeared following the 1973 coup d'état.

The event will take place on Wednesday, June 15, at 7:00 PM in the auditorium of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights , Matucana 501, corner of Catedral, Metro Quinta Normal (Line 5). The venue has parking.

Source: web.archive.org