was detained along with his partner, an Argentine national named Clara Haydee Fernández, and her sister, Cecilia Fernández. Luis Elgueta Díaz and Clara Fernández decided to leave Chile for Buenos Aires, where their parents and siblings lived, after noticing that their friends were being detained.

Indeed, in the month of June, six people who knew Luis Enrique were kidnapped and forcibly disappeared. In July 1977, one year after the kidnapping of the Elgueta-Fernández couple, the Elgueta family home in Buenos Aires was raided, and on that occasion, Elgueta Díaz’s sister and sister-in-law were kidnapped.

Both young women were taken to the clandestine detention center "El Atlético," where they were interrogated and told that Luis Elgueta Díaz had been transferred to Chile a few days after his detention "because he had many scores to settle there." The same assertion was made to Mrs.

Ruth Díaz de Elgueta, Luis’s mother, by the kidnappers of her daughter and daughter-in-law; among them was the Chilean DINA agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel, who is currently serving a sentence—among other cases—for the kidnapping of both young women.

The kidnapping and disappearance of Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz is recognized as a typical case of the so-called "Operation Condor." The Rettig Report stated that it was able to reach the conviction that Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz, who was intensely sought in Chile after the DINA operation that annihilated his group of friends in Santiago, was placed at the disposal of DINA agents in Buenos Aires.

The Commission is convinced that his disappearance was the work of State agents, who thereby violated his human rights.

Source: Rettig

T E S T I M O N Y , RUTH ELIANA DIAZ VARGAS DE ELGUETA, CHILEAN WITH IDENTITY CARD No. 2187346, I COME TO PRESENT TESTIMONY REGARDING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MY SON

LUIS ENRIQUE ELGUETA DIAZ,

A 23-YEAR-OLD CHILEAN. A MUSICIAN BY PROFESSION WHO IS PRESUMABLY DEPRIVED OF HIS LIBERTY ACCORDING TO THE EVENTS REFERRED TO BELOW. ON JULY 27, 1976, AT 2:00 AM, INDIVIDUALS WEARING CIVILIAN CLOTHING WHO CARRIED LARGE-CALIBER WEAPONS AND CLAIMED TO BELONG TO THE ARGENTINE ARMY ENTERED HIS RESIDENCE AT AVE.

CHICLANA No. 2861, APT. No. 1, ARGENTINA, VIOLENTLY KIDNAPPING MY SON LUIS ENRIQUE ELGUETA DIAZ, HIS PARTNER CLARA HAYDEE FERNANDEZ RIQUELME, AN ARGENTINE NATIONAL, AND HER SISTER MARIA CECILIA DEL CARMEN FERNANDEZ RIQUELME, WHILE THEY WERE SEMI-NAKED.

SINCE THAT DATE, NOTHING HAS BEEN KNOWN OF THEM DESPITE THE MULTIPLE HABEAS CORPUS PETITIONS I HAVE FILED, BOTH IN ARGENTINA AND IN CHILE, AND WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS. IT IS CERTAIN THAT THEY WERE SUBSEQUENTLY HANDED OVER TO D.I.N.A.

PERSONNEL AND SENT TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP IN CHILE, BASED ON THE EVENTS I WILL POINT OUT BELOW: MY SON HAD ARRIVED IN ARGENTINA ON JULY 2, 1976, EVADING D.I.N.A. PERSECUTION. ALREADY IN JANUARY 1975, WHILE THE UNDERSIGNED WAS LIVING IN THAT COUNTRY, JOINT FORCES FROM BOTH COUNTRIES HAD RAIDED OUR HOME, TAKING MY SON LUIS ELGUETA DIAZ, WHOM THEY RELEASED AFTER MULTIPLE INTERROGATIONS.

IN THE MONTH OF JULY 1977, WE WERE AGAIN RAIDED BY THESE SAME FORCES, TAKING ON THAT OCCASION MY DAUGHTER LAURA RUTH AND MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW SONIA MAGDALENA, WHOM THEY INTERROGATED VIOLENTLY. THEY WERE RETURNED TO MY HOME AFTER 8 HOURS OF DETENTION IN DEPLORABLE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND WITH A RECOMMENDATION THAT THEY LEAVE ARGENTINA.

DURING THE INTERROGATIONS, BOTH MY DAUGHTER AND MY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW WERE REPEATEDLY TOLD THAT THEY WOULD SUFFER THE SAME FATE AS MY SON LUIS ENRIQUE. THE DAY AFTER THE RAID AND DETENTION OF MY DAUGHTER AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, I RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM THE OFFICER WHO HAD ORDERED THE RAID THE PREVIOUS NIGHT, TO TELL ME THAT HE HAD MANY SCORES TO SETTLE IN CHILE, AND THAT IF THE SAME HAD HAPPENED TO THE GIRLS, IT WAS OUT OF CONSIDERATION FOR MY GREAT SUFFERING AS A MOTHER, BUT THAT I SHOULD COMMIT TO GETTING THEM OUT OF THE COUNTRY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, WHICH I DID A WEEK LATER.

SUBSEQUENTLY, I SUFFERED SEVERAL DETENTIONS BY ARGENTINE POLICE PERSONNEL FOR THE SOLE CRIME OF SEARCHING FOR MY SON, FOR WHICH MY HUSBAND AND I HAD TO EMIGRATE AGAIN TO THE COUNTRY OF MEXICO, WHERE I AM CURRENTLY WITH MY FAMILY, DAY BY DAY TASKED WITH LEARNING ABOUT MY SON AND HIS PARTNER. RUTH ELENA DIAZ DE ELGUETA.

MEXICO, D.F., JULY 25, 1984.

Source: mpf.gob.ar, undated

U. de Chile awards posthumous degrees to State Teachers who were former students of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities

Within the framework of the commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the coup d'état in our country and as part of the reparation gestures made by the University of Chile, in an emotional ceremony, Rector Prof.

Ennio Vivaldi Véjar and our Dean Prof. Carlos Ruiz Schneider awarded posthumous degrees to students of our Faculty who belonged to the Pedagogical Institute, who were forcibly disappeared or victims of political executions.

They are José Modesto Amigo Latorre, State Teacher in Philosophy; Jorge Enrique Espinosa Méndez, State Teacher in Mathematics; José Fernando Romero Lagos, State Teacher in Spanish; and Juan Aniceto Meneses Reyes, State Teacher in History and Geography, who join the 100 posthumous degrees awarded on April 11.

José Modesto Amigo Latorre, a MIR militant, died in 1986, after the "return operation," in a confrontation in Peñaflor. He was a Philosophy student until his detention and subsequent expulsion from the country.

Jorge Enrique Espinosa Méndez, a MIR militant, was detained in June 1974 by DINA agents. He was seen by witnesses at Londres 38. He is in the status of forcibly disappeared and is one of the 119 victims of Operation Colombo.

José Fernando Romero Lagos, a MIR militant, was 22 years old when he was detained by Carabineros and was executed on September 15, 1973, at the Niblinto outpost, Bío-Bío Region. To this day, he remains a forcibly disappeared person.

Juan Aniceto Meneses Reyes, a militant of the Radical Youth, was detained in August 1974 by DINA agents and taken to Londres 38 and subsequently to Cuatro Álamos. He remains in the status of forcibly disappeared.

State Teachers The Public Instruction Law of April 1889 accounted for the characteristics of the training received by students of the Pedagogical Institute, an institution of the University of Chile intended to train secondary education teachers.

Common to all courses were the philosophy of science, theoretical and practical pedagogy, theoretical and practical gymnastics, and general principles of constitutional law, administration, and political economy.

Students were required to frequently perform pedagogical exercises to become accustomed to the art of teaching. They were also required, at least once a month, to present original work related to the subjects studied, as well as to prepare lessons for their colleagues and for State high schools.

Courses were not to exceed ten students. It was established that students should be encouraged to frequently visit museums, theaters, exhibitions, the astronomical observatory, and go on study trips. The student who passes the general examination will receive a diploma from the Supreme Government certifying their title of State Teacher.

First ceremony On April 11, posthumous degrees were awarded to 100 students who were forcibly disappeared or victims of political executions. On that occasion, Dean Prof. María Eugenia Góngora, accompanied by Rector Prof.

Ennio Vivaldi Véjar, awarded the following posthumous and symbolic degrees: Gabriela Edelweiss Arredondo Andrade, Primary Education Teacher. Álvaro Miguel Barrios Duque, State Teacher in English. Alfonso René Chanfreau Oyarce, State Teacher in Philosophy.

Bernardo del Tránsito Cortés Castro, State Teacher in Spanish. Félix Santiago de la Jara Goyenechea, State Teacher in History and Geography. Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz, Primary Education Teacher. Ruth María Escobar Salinas, State Teacher in History and Geography.

Héctor Manuel Garay Hermosilla, State Teacher in Primary Education with a minor in Natural Sciences. Carlos Eduardo Guerrero Gutiérrez, State Teacher in History and Geography and Licentiate in Plastic Arts.

Guillermo Hernán Herrera Manríquez, State Teacher in History and Geography. Nelson Adrián Herrera Riveros, Bachelor in Philosophy. Carlos Eduardo Lagos Salinas, State Teacher in English. Sergio Arturo Flores Ponce, State Teacher in Philosophy.

Alonso Lazo Rojas, State Teacher in Spanish. María Cristina López Stewart, State Teacher in History and Geography. Rodrigo Alejandro Medina Hernández, State Teacher in Philosophy. Jécar Antonio Neghme Cristi, State Teacher in History and Geography.

Luis Hernán Núñez Rojas, Licentiate in Philosophy. Rosetta Gianna Pallini González, Primary Education Teacher. Mireya de Lourdes Pérez Vargas, State Teacher in Spanish. Patricia Angélica Quiroz Nilo, Bachelor in Classical Languages.

Agustín Eduardo Reyes González, State Teacher in Philosophy. Sergio Alfonso Reyes Navarrete, State Teacher in History and Geography and Commercial Engineer. Herbit Guillermo Ríos Soto, State Teacher in History and Geography.

Ernesto Guillermo Salamanca Morales, State Teacher in Philosophy. Marcela Soledad Sepúlveda Troncoso, Specialist in Special Education. Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos, State Teacher in Music Education and Public Administrator.

Jacqueline Paulette Drouilly Yurich, State Teacher in Music Education, Social Worker, and Master in Theater Direction. Luis Fernando Fuentes Riquelme, State Teacher in Biology and Science. Mario Ernesto Mujica Barros, Teacher of Mathematics. Héctor Avelino Orellana Rojas, State Teacher in Mathematics. Clara Luz Rubilar Ocampo, State Teacher in Mathematics.

Source: uchile.cl, 12/21/2017

Date: 12-21-2017

CNCA pays tribute to artists who were victims of the dictatorship

Within the framework of the "Month of Memory," the National Council of Culture and the Arts held a tribute to artists who were victims of the military dictatorship, an event where the writer Jorge Montealegre presented his book "Eclipsed Memories.

Mourning and community resilience in political imprisonment." An emotional tribute to artists, cultural workers, and artisans who were victims of the dictatorship took place this Friday, September 9, in Valparaíso, at the Extension Center of the Council of Culture and the Arts (Centex).

The head of the Memory and Human Rights Unit of the National Council of Culture and the Arts, Francia Jamett Pizarro, highlighted the institution's role in observing symbolic reparation policies. "The celebration of commemorations and tributes to victims of human rights violations are part of the values and principles of the Council expressed in the Cultural Policies 2011-2016.

This recognition of the artists who were victims of the dictatorship responds to an institutional commitment that seeks to highlight their lives and their works, and to build new narratives around symbolic reparation," the official stated.

The writer Jorge Montealegre presented his book "Eclipsed Memories. Mourning and community resilience in political imprisonment," where he recounts how artistic and cultural creation, while living in prisoner camps, allowed those who were incarcerated for political reasons to endure the ongoing human rights violations they suffered in a more dignified manner.

The "Month of Memory" cycle, organized by the CNCA, began last Friday, September 2, with a symbolic internal tribute to remember the legacy of Galia Díaz Riffo and Romina Irarrázabal Faggiani, officials who died five years ago in the Juan Fernández plane crash.

Source: cultura.gob.cl, 9/9/2016

Date: 09-09-2016

Arancibia, back in the dock

Convicted for the assassination of Prats and his wife, former DINA agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel will go to trial again today for the kidnapping of two Chilean women in Buenos Aires in 1977. Laura Elgueta Díaz and Sonia Magdalena Díaz Ureta were kidnapped in Buenos Aires on July 12, 1977.

Twenty years later, they recognized one of their captors: Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel. He was in the newspapers. He had just been arrested for the crime of Carlos Prats and his wife. Elgueta was a witness in the oral trial for that event held in 2000 against the member of the DINA—the Pinochet secret police.

Her account led to the opening of a new case against the Chilean agent. Today, the second oral trial the man will face in the country will take place. On this occasion, he must answer for the illegal deprivation of liberty of the two Chilean citizens, Elgueta and Díaz.

When testifying before Oral Tribunal number 6, which convicted Arancibia for the murder of Prats, Elgueta recounted that she was kidnapped in 1977 "when I was 18 years old and had no political involvement." She said she understood that her detention was simply because she was the sister of LUIS ENRIQUE ELGUETA DIAZ, who was detained and disappeared in 1976 in Buenos Aires, since they asked her about her brother’s political ties in Chile.

Then, the testimony of her sister-in-law, Díaz, was added to the file, who narrated that in July 1976 she left Argentina—where she had come to escape from Chile—due to the detention of her brother-in-law, but that a year later she returned for a visit so her family could meet her six-month-old daughter.

A few days after arriving in Buenos Aires, about twenty people who claimed to be members of the Joint Army Forces appeared at her mother-in-law's house. And they informed them that she and her sister-in-law had to be taken for a "brief interrogation" for a background check.

The account of both women coincides in describing how they were put into different cars, thrown to the floor, blindfolded, and insulted. They were taken to what they later learned was the clandestine center Club Atlético.

There, they were "received" by other men. By their accent, they perceived they were Chilean. "They insulted them, took their documents and jewelry, and made them descend the stairs by kicking them into a basement where they made them undress, beat them, and groped them," noted prosecutor Miguel Angel Osorio in the request for elevation to trial.

When they asked one of the Chileans why they were there, they replied: "Because Pinochet wants it." Both were interrogated in very harsh terms, and Díaz was tortured. The military was convinced that she was in Buenos Aires "on some important mission." Finally, after eight hours, they were released and threatened to leave the country immediately.

During her interrogation, Elgueta’s blindfold slipped, and she was able to see that there were two men in the room. One was wearing a white trench coat. To release them, they put them in a car and uncovered their faces.

There, both saw the man in the trench coat. Two decades later, when Arancibia’s photo was published in the newspapers because he had been arrested for the murders of Prats and Sofía Cuthbert—which occurred in Buenos Aires in 1974—they recognized him.

Neither had any doubt that he was the man in the trench coat. Elgueta immediately contacted the Prats family to place herself at their disposal, and that is how she ended up as a witness in the trial. Since there was no judicial case in which the kidnappings of the two women were being investigated, Oral Tribunal number 6 ordered the opening of a new file, which was later promoted by lawyer Alcira Ríos.

Now, it will be Oral Tribunal 5 that will judge Arancibia. "It can be stated, without a doubt and as follows from the sentence in the Prats case, that the accused was a secret agent of the DINA organization and that he acted in the Argentine Republic in coordination with Argentine security forces to carry out illicit acts that attacked the freedom and life of people," Osorio noted when requesting the opening of the trial.

Source: pagina12.com.ar, 9/27/2004

Date: 09-27-2004

LUIS ENRIQUE ELGUETA DÍAZ Forcibly Disappeared

Birth

September 26, 1953, Santiago, Chile.

Posthumous distinction

Primary Education Teacher with a minor in Music Education. Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities. 03/29/2018

Militancy

Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).

Detention

July 27, 1976, at the age of 22.

BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE

Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz, son of Ruth Díaz and Luis Elgueta, was the eldest of three siblings. He enjoyed music and had great skills for it, which is why in the early 70s he enrolled to study primary pedagogy with a minor in music at the University of Chile.

His parents were open collaborators of the Popular Unity, and he chose to join the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). After the coup d'état, the Elgueta Díaz family would suffer the first consequences of the repression: his parents were fired from their jobs, and their house was raided repeatedly by State agents.

In April 1974, they decided to leave the country for Argentina, taking their youngest daughter, Laura. Luis traveled between the trans-Andean country and Chile to visit his sister and parents; however, his economic situation pushed him to settle permanently in Buenos Aires with his wife, Llellyta Sierra, with whom he would have a daughter named Paula.

Shortly after, they separated. In January 1975, the Elgueta Díaz home in the neighboring country was raided by the Argentine Federal Police, and his father was detained. Luis was not at the address, but the situation led him to return to Chile in June of the same year to continue carrying out resistance tasks as a MIR militant.

In 1976, Luis began a romantic relationship with Clara Fernández, an Argentine friend of his sister Laura, who was in Chile. In July 1976, when the repressive agencies were closing in on him, he decided to leave for Argentina again.

On July 27, the home where they lived was raided, and Luis Elgueta, Clara Fernández, and her sister Cecilia Fernández were detained. The kidnapping of Luis was part of "Operation Condor." The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation recognizes him as a victim of forced disappearance.

In 2018, 16 former Argentine and Uruguayan military officers were convicted for the disappearance of 105 foreign nationals.

Source: encuentroporlamemoria.facso.uchile.cl

Victims of Chile: Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz

Case description

Your Honors: it is now appropriate to address what happened to another Chilean citizen, Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz. A student at the University of Music of Santiago and a musician by profession, he was a member of the MIR.

At the time of the events, he was 23 years old. His parents were Ruth Díaz Vargas and Luis Elgueta Estevan; his younger siblings were Carlos and Laura Ruth. Following the coup d'état in Chile, Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz’s parents were dismissed from their jobs and their home raided by Chilean State agents due to their public support for the Popular Unity government.

In April 1974, they had to go into exile in Argentina, along with their youngest daughter, and settled in the San Cristóbal neighborhood of the Federal Capital. Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz had a permanent transition between Chile and Argentina.

For economic reasons, he followed his parents and settled in our country with his then-wife, Llellyta Ángela Sierra Fuentes, with whom he had a daughter named Paula Alejandra Elgueta Sierra. Some time later, the marriage separated.

In the Federal Capital, the persecution of the Elgueta family did not cease. In January 1975, their home was violently raided by the Argentine Federal Police, and Luis Elgueta Estevan, Luis’s father, remained detained for one day.

Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz was not present, but the PFA showed significant interest in him. Some time later, between the months of May and June 1975, he returned to Chile. In January 1976, Laura Elgueta Díaz, Luis Enrique’s younger sister, took a summer trip to her country along with her Argentine friends, Clara Haydée and her sister Cecilia María del Carmen Fernández Riquelme, and José Luis Aguirre, a fellow student of Cecilia’s.

Following this trip to Chile, Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz began a relationship with Clara Fernández Riquelme, and they began living together in that country. Towards the end of June 1976, Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz noticed that their lives were in danger, as fellow political activists were not arriving at meetings.

Therefore, he gave the phone number of an aunt of the Fernández Riquelme sisters to his comrade Sergio Manuel Fuenzalida Loyola so that, if necessary, he could locate him in Argentina. Then, he undertook exile with his relatives and entered Argentina on July 2, 1976.

Chilean security forces kidnapped Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz’s political action group. Between June 24 and 28, 1976, they kidnapped Oscar Eduardo Avello Avello, Orlando Patricio Guarategua Quinteros, José Hinojosa Aráoz, Miguel Hernán Ovalle Narváez, Héctor Manuel Contreras Rojas, and Sergio Manuel Fuenzalida Loyola, all of whom remain disappeared.

Your Honors: here we must highlight that the Rettig Report established that DINA agents kidnapped José Hinojosa Aráoz on June 26, who was ultimately held captive in Villa Grimaldi, the last place where he was seen.

Hinojosa was a member of the Chilean Christian Left and was politically related to the members of that MIR group. This allows us to conclude that the DINA was behind the entire group kidnapped between June 24 and 28, 1976.

The last of this group to be captured was Fuenzalida Loyola, a point of particular relevance to interpret why, some time later, to kidnap Luis Elgueta, the repressive forces went to a specific address.

We will refer to this later. Your Honors: we have already mentioned how, after the coup d'état in Argentina, operations to kidnap MIR members in Argentina began systematically and immediately. In this debate, it was proven that on the night of July 27, 1976, repressive forces went to the house of the aunt of the Fernández Riquelme sisters and, under illegal duress, forced her to indicate the house where her nieces lived, telling her that they were not looking for them, that they were interested in the Chilean.

Thus, they managed to identify the address where Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz lived with Clara and Cecilia María del Carmen Fernández Riquelme, located at Chiclana 2861, ground floor, Apt. 1, San Cristóbal neighborhood of the Federal Capital.

At two in the morning, a group of people in civilian clothes who identified themselves as members of the Argentine Army, among whom were members of the Argentine Federal Police, entered the apartment violently, carrying large-caliber weapons.

After beating the occupants, they proceeded to take them out of the home semi-naked and lead them to the cars parked on the street. The kidnapping occurred in the jurisdiction of Area V, then in charge of Jorge Alberto Muzzio, Subzone Federal Capital, then in charge of Jorge Carlos Olivera Róvere.

At dawn, a neighbor notified the Elgueta Díaz family, who immediately went to the apartment and witnessed the horrific scene left after the procedure: the apartment had been completely ransacked and absolutely destroyed.

Over the years, his family filed countless complaints and took steps with various national and international organizations, all with negative results, and it is unknown to this day whether Elgueta was kept captive in Argentina or transferred to Chile.

Ruth Díaz Vargas de Elgueta was detained on different occasions along with other Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who were trying to find out the fate of their loved ones. One year after the kidnapping of Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz and the Fernández Riquelme sisters, the Elgueta Díaz family was again violated by State terrorism.

Laura Ruth Elgueta Díaz and her sister-in-law Sonia Magdalena Díaz Ureta, Carlos’s wife, were illegitimately deprived of their liberty. The Argentine Federal Police commissioner, José Benito Fioravanti, was at the head of the armed group that broke into their home along with Arancibia Clavel, a DINA agent in Argentina.

They were taken to the clandestine detention center Club Atlético. Upon arriving at that place, Chilean agents were present, and in the torture room, they were interrogated about the political activity of Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz and his connection to the MIR.

Commissioner Fioravanti told her that he no longer had her brother and that after having "busted him," alluding to the torture to which he was subjected, he was handed over to Chile, as he had scores to settle there.

The Elgueta Díaz family had to gradually depart into exile in Mexico and could not return to their country until many years later. According to the description we have made, taking into account the particular characteristics of the events that harmed Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz and the special context in which they occurred, we understand it is proven that the kidnappings were executed under the framework of regional repressive coordination provided by the illicit association called "Operation or Plan Condor." Evidence The elements that prove these facts are varied.

In this debate, Laura Elgueta referred to the persecution experienced by her parents after the coup d'état in Chile. Thus, they had to go into exile and settled in the Federal Capital, San Cristóbal neighborhood.

She also referred to the fact that her brother Luis Enrique was a member of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), explained his relationship with Clara Fernández, and highlighted that he had a permanent transition between Argentina and Chile, about which she provided details.

Ruth Díaz Vargas clarified that her son had temporary residency in Argentina and, in her presentation to the UNHCR, noted that his last entry was on 7/2/1976 by land, through the province of Mendoza. Laura Elgueta indicated that in 1975, when the family was already settled in Argentina, their home was again violated.

She explained how personnel from the Immigration Department of the Argentine Federal Police, under the command of Juan Carlos Gattei, "el gato," carried out a brutal operation, and the excuse was an alleged report that a "people's prison" was operating there.

After telling Ruth Díaz Vargas that it was evidently a mistake, they took Luis Segundo Elgueta Estevan into custody, who was released the following day. While Luis Elgueta Estevan was detained, Laura recounted, they asked him many questions, were interested in his sons, and in particular in Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz, who at that time was residing in the family home but was not present at the time of the operation.

She also gave details about the reconstruction carried out regarding the six disappearances that occurred in Chile of comrades related to the political activity developed by Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz. This must be related to the Rettig Report, where, as we already anticipated, the political link that existed between these people and their subsequent disappearances is explained, one of them being Sergio Fuenzalida.

It must also be related to the records sent by international letter rogatory of the Condor Chile case, where the statements of Ximena Subercaseaux Sommerhoff are found. And on this point, two mentions provided in the debate by Laura Elgueta are significant.

The first, that her brother told her he had given an indirect telephone contact to Fuenzalida, so that he could eventually locate him. The second, that she learned that, with him being disappeared, Chilean security forces carried out a raid on Fuenzalida’s house, from which they only removed one book.

And in that book, the phone number of the maternal aunt of the Fernández sisters was found. Your Honors: This explains why the security forces that carried out the kidnapping operation in Buenos Aires went first to the house of the maternal aunt of the Fernández Riquelme sisters, to then force her to lead them to the house where her nieces were with Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz.

Laura Elgueta explained that her home was a few meters from that of her brother and the Fernández sisters, so they learned of the kidnapping hours later through a neighbor, a circumstance ratified by Ruth Díaz Vargas.

In addition, Laura Elgueta added that upon going to the apartment, several neighbors told them what happened, that everyone was terrified, and that they mentioned that her brother was screaming for them not to do anything to the girls.

They removed them from the house and put Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz, Clara, and Cecilia Fernández Riquelme into different cars, violently and semi-naked. The details of the operation are also accredited by the presentations of Haydee Riquelme de Fernández, mother of Clara and Cecilia, in CONADEP file no. 3701 corresponding to Clara Haydee Fernández Riquelme.

Document 1. Furthermore, in this trial, Laura Elgueta Díaz declared that Cecilia Fernández was the girlfriend and fellow student at the Estrada secondary school of José Luis Aguirre, who was kidnapped on August 17, 1976.

Both were, along with a person nicknamed "Quique," linked to the Guevarist Youth, as can be seen from the cited CONADEP file N° 3700. This document also records that "Quique" was kidnapped on July 30 or 31 of the same year.

Aguirre and "Quique" remain disappeared. Your Honors: we have already mentioned the relevance of the secret document of September 15, 1976, prepared by Alberto Baldomero Obregón, Commissioner Inspector of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Argentine Federal Police, which among other things is significant to ratify the persecution of the MIR in Argentina and the joint work with Chilean intelligence forces in that objective.

Document 2. That document is particularly relevant for the analysis of the facts now examined, since it makes express reference to the participation of the Argentine Federal Police in the kidnapping of Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz and the Fernández Riquelme sisters.

Precisely, within the section titled "Red September – Revolutionary Leftist Movement – Guevarist Youth," the document mentions the detention of a person responsible for the group and, along with this person, an element of the Guevarist Youth who operated in the southern sector, in the secondary schools "Estrada" and "Normal N° 8." Indeed, Cecilia Fernández and Aguirre attended the "Estrada" school, and both, along with "Quique," were from the Guevarist Youth.

Likewise, the existence of the Red September group is referred to by Ximena Subercaseaux Sommerhoff in her testimony in the Condor Chile case. The document signed by Obregón adds that thanks to the intelligence carried out, detentions subsequently occurred in Chile.

We understand that this is nothing more than a temporal modification of the facts, in pursuit of the document’s objective, that is, to receive a reward for the work performed, since the kidnappings that occurred in Chile were earlier, and it is from the intelligence tasks carried out later that the PFA managed to locate Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz in Argentina.

In any case, these references are more than demonstrative of the coordination that existed under the framework of Condor. Finally, we must refer to the kidnappings of Laura Ruth Elgueta Díaz and Sonia Magdalena Díaz Ureta, carried out in July 1977.

Let us remember that for his participation in this event, DINA agent Arancibia Clavel was convicted in case no. 862 of Federal Oral Tribunal N° 5, a sentence incorporated into this trial [1]. That ruling specifies that when interrogating Díaz Ureta and Laura Elgueta, Arancibia insistently asked them about Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz.

This was confirmed in this trial by Laura Elgueta, who stated that her interrogators had a long list of questions. She explained that Commissioner Fioravanti told her that they knew everything, that they already had information, and that she only had to answer with the truth.

Laura Elgueta also highlighted that at a certain moment, Fioravanti, out of control, shouted at her that Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz was heavily tortured and handed over to Chile. And that hours after her release, it was precisely Fioravanti who, by phone, told Ruth Díaz Vargas that her son Luis Enrique was no longer in Argentina, as he had been sent to Chile.

This is corroborated by the documents containing the statements of Ruth Díaz Vargas, dated February 8, 1979, and July 25, 1984, found in the aforementioned CONADEP file N° 3700; and with her statements given in the trial of case no. 862, also incorporated into this debate.

Document 3. Subsequently, the Elgueta Díaz family had to go into exile in Mexico. Your Honors: The death of Olivera Róvere and the limitations of the procedural object prevent us from making a formal accusation for the kidnapping and disappearance of Luis Enrique Elgueta Díaz, as well as what happened to his comrades and the other members of his family.

However, these facts, which were demonstrated in this trial, constitute direct proof of the repressive coordination carried out under the framework of Condor. ([1] Case no. 862 “Arancibia Clavel, Enrique Lautaro s/ Kidnapping (case: Elgueta- Díaz Ureta),” Federal Oral Criminal Tribunal no. 5 of the City of Buenos Aires, sentence of 11/20/2000.)

Source: mpf.gob.ar, undated

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Illapu Group; 44 years ago, our dear brother and comrade Luis Enrique Elgueta Diaz, "Negro Kiko," was torn from the warmth of his home in Buenos Aires. In your name and in that of the victims of Operation Condor, as yesterday, today and tomorrow, we will continue to demand truth and justice!!!

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