The DINA Lautaro Brigade was an extermination unit established by Manuel Contreras and led by Army Major Juan Morales Salgado. This brigade operated from the clandestine barracks at Calle Simón Bolívar 8630.

The actions of this group of DINA agents known to date include the capture of the Communist Party leadership in 1976. The brigade operated with a contingent of more than 70 members, whose operational agents carried out the gathering of information, arrests, interrogations/torture, execution, and the disappearance of the detainees' bodies.

For these purposes, they had access to significant infrastructure; in addition to the barracks themselves, they had a varied number of vehicles at their disposal, as well as access to Puma helicopters from the Army Aviation Command (CAE), which operated from Peldehue.

The members of the Lautaro Brigade came from all four branches of the Armed Forces, in addition to having some civilian agents attached to the various branches. Its composition was mostly non-commissioned officers.

The fact that there were at least seven agents from the Navy in this brigade makes it clear that the institution lied when it declared that the Navy withdrew all its personnel from the DINA in 1975. Another characteristic of the Lautaro Brigade was that it had a large number of women, who, as has been discovered, were characterized by their coldness and cruelty in the face of the crimes.

Several of them, due to their knowledge of medicine and nursing, cooperated in the experiments carried out in the chemical laboratory at Michael Townley's house in Lo Curro. Townley constantly attended the Calle Simón Bolívar barracks to experiment on detainees with the gas manufactured by the chemist Eugenio Berrios.

The information that has been recovered as of August 2007 emerged following the investigation into the “Calle Conferencia” case carried out by Judge Víctor Montiglio, who managed to establish the fate of a number of detainees from the Communist Party leadership, including the clandestine Secretary General of the PC, Víctor Manuel Díaz López, as well as Bernardo Araya Zuleta, María Olga Flores Barraza, Mario Zamorano Donoso, Onofre Jorge Muñoz Poutays, Uldarico Donaire Cortés, Jaime Patricio Donato Avendaño, Elisa Escobar Cepeda, Lenín Adán Díaz Silva, Eliana Espinoza Fernández, and Marta Lidia Ugarte Román. To date, it has been established that Víctor Manuel Díaz López was arrested in the early hours of May 12, 1976, at the house located at Calle Bello Horizonte No. 979, in the Las Condes district, days after the arrest of several PC leaders detained in the operation known as the “Ratonera” at Calle Conferencia No. 1587. Víctor Díaz was taken to the Villa Grimaldi torture center and subsequently transferred to “Casa de Piedra,” another DINA torture center located in the Cajón del Maipo, a place where it is known that Augusto Pinochet allegedly visited Víctor Díaz and other PC leaders detained there. At the beginning of 1977, Manuel Contreras gave the order to Juan Morales Salgado to eliminate Víctor Díaz. In compliance with that order, agents Sergio Escalona Acuña and Bernardo Daza Navarro took Díaz from a cell and tied a plastic bag over his head, suffocating him, while Army Lieutenant (nurse) Gladys de las Mercedes Calderón Carreño injected him with cyanide. Subsequently, they proceeded to place the body in plastic bags, tie it up, attach a piece of rail to it, and put it into potato sacks, then tie it with wire to ensure the bindings would not open. The body was transported in vehicles to the Army regiment in Peldehue, where they had other executed individuals brought from Villa Grimaldi and tied in the same way as Víctor Díaz. They loaded the bodies into the Army Aviation Command's Puma helicopter and departed for the coast of the Fifth Region to throw the bodies into the sea. This modus operandi of the Lautaro Brigade agents demonstrates the brutality and dehumanization of all its members. Below is the list of some of the agents of the Lautaro Brigade.

1 Acevedo Acevedo, Heriberto del Carmen - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 2 Ahumada Despouy, Joyce Ana - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 3 Altamirano Sanhueza, Orlando del Tránsito - Navy - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 4 Alvarez Droguett, Victor Manuel - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 5 Alvarez Vega, Hiro - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 6 Arriagada Mora, Jorge Hugo - FACH - Civilian Employee (Ret.) 7 Aspe Rojas, Celinda Angélica - Navy - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 8 Benavides Escobar, César Raúl - Army - General (Ret.) 9 Bermúdez Méndez, Carlos Justo - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 10 Bitterlich Jaramillo, Pedro Segundo - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 11 Cabezas Mardones, Eduardo Patricio - FACH - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 12 Calderón Carreño, Gladys de las Mercedes - Army - Officer (Ret.) and nurse 13 Castro Andrade, Sergio Hernán - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 14 Chaigneau Sepúlveda, Federico Humberto - Army - Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) 15 Daza Navarro, Bernardo del Rosario - Navy - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 16 Díaz Radulovich, Jorge Iván - FACH - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 17 Díaz Ramírez, Guillermo Eduardo - FACH - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 18 Escalona Acuña, Sergio Orlando - Navy - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 19 Escobar Fuentes, Jorge Marcelo - Army - Brigadier (Ret.) 20 Ferrán Martínez, Guillermo Jesús - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 21 Garea Guzmán, Eduardo - Army - Civilian Employee (Ret.) 22 Guerrero Aguilera, Gustavo Enrique - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 23 Guerrero Soto, María Angélica - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 24 Gutiérrez Valdés, Pedro Antonio - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 25 Jaime Astorga, Rufino Eduardo - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 26 Jiménez Escobar, Berta Yolanda - Navy - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 27 Krassnoff Martchenko, Miguel - Army - Brigadier (Ret.) 28 Lagos Yáñez, Luis Alberto - FACH - Civilian Employee (Ret.) 29 Lawrence Mires, Ricardo Víctor - Carabineros - Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) 30 López Tapia, Carlos José - Army - Colonel (Ret.) and Army Prof. 31 Magna Astudillo, Elisa del Carmen - Army - Officer (Ret.) 32 Manríquez Manterola, Jorge Lientur - Navy - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 33 Marcos Muñoz, Carlos Segundo - Civilian - attached to the Army 34 Meza Serrano, José Miguel - Navy - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 35 Montre Méndez, Manuel Antonio - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 36 Morales Salgado, Juan Hernán - Army - Colonel (Ret.) and Army Prof. 37 Navarro Navarro, Teresa del Carmen - Navy - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 38 Obreque Henríquez, Manuel Jesús - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 39 Ojeda Obando, José Alfonso - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 40 Orellana de la Pinta, Claudio Orlando - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 41 Oyarce Riquelme, Eduardo Alejandro - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 42 Pacheco Fernández, Claudio Enrique - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 43 Pichunmán Curiqueo, Jorge Segundo - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 44 Piña Garrido, Juvenal Alfonso - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 45 Reyes Lagos, Eduardo Antonio - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 46 Rinaldi Suárez, Carlos Ramón - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 47 Rivas González, Adriana Elcira - FACH - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 48 Riveros Valderrama, René Miguel - Army - Officer (Ret.) 49 Saavedra Vásquez, Orfa Yolanda - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 50 Sagardía Monje, Jorge Laureano - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 51 Sarmiento Sotelo, José Manuel - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 52 Silva Vergara, Marilin Melahani - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 53 Sovino Maturana, Hernán Luis - Army - Captain (Ret.) 54 Torrejón Gatica, Orlando Jesús - Army - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 55 Troncoso Vivallos, Emilio Hernán - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 56 Urrutia Acuña, Luis Arturo - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 57 Vacarella Gilio, Italia Donata - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 58 Valdebenito Araya, Héctor Manuel - Carabineros - Non-commissioned Officer (Ret.) 59 Vilches Muñoz, Ana del Carmen - FACH - Civilian Employee (Ret.)

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Calle Conferencia: Military officers confess to the crime against PC leader Víctor Díaz

Investigating Judge Víctor Montiglio indicted seven former uniformed officers for the kidnapping and homicide of the father of AFDD leader Viviana Díaz. Seven former uniformed officers were indicted this Friday for their responsibility in the kidnapping of former Communist leader Víctor Díaz Osorio, father of the leader of the Association of Relatives of Forcibly Disappeared Detainees (AFDD), Viviana Díaz.

The decision was adopted by the investigating judge for the Calle Conferencia case, Víctor Montiglio, after the defendants confessed to their participation in the kidnapping and subsequent homicide of the member of the Communist Party (PC) leadership.

The resolution affects Colonel Juan Morales Salgado, officer Guillermo Ferrán Martínez, Lieutenant Gladys Calderón, and Non-commissioned Officer Eliana Magna Astudillo, all retired from the Army. Also indicted by the magistrate were former Carabineros Lieutenant Ricardo Lawrence and retired Navy personnel Sergio Escobar and Bernardo Daza Navarro.

All the accused will remain in prison in different military units, where they had been admitted earlier this week by order of Judge Montiglio. Within the framework of this investigation, Lawrence had acknowledged that Díaz was visited by the late former dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte while the former remained detained in a detention center known as "la casa de piedra" in the Cajón del Maipo.

The Calle Conferencia case refers to the operation in which the repressive organs of the military regime dismantled the leadership of the PC, which was operating in clandestinity. In the action carried out in the first days of May 1976, engineer Jorge Muñoz – then husband of the late communist leader Gladys Marín –, Mario Zamorano, Uldarico Donaire, Jaime Donato, and Díaz were arrested, and they have remained forcibly disappeared ever since.

Source: El Mostrador; January 26, 2007

For the first time, Marines appear in the crime against Communist leader Víctor Díaz

The investigation by Judge Víctor Montiglio and the Investigative Police's Special Affairs and Human Rights Brigade determined that the house on Calle Simón Bolívar was the final destination for several communist prisoners whose bodies were later thrown into the sea.

Marines (IM) who operated with the DINA in what was identified as the “Lautaro extermination brigade” that functioned in a house on Calle Simón Bolívar at Ossandón in the La Reina district, commanded by then-Army Major Juan Morales Salgado, participated in the assassination of communist leader Víctor Díaz López, father of the vice president of the Association of Relatives of Forcibly Disappeared Detainees, Viviana Díaz.

The participation of the “cosacos” (Marines) Bernardo Daza and Sergio Escalona, DINA agents still in the months following May 1976 when Víctor Díaz was kidnapped as part of the “ratonera” installed at Calle Conferencia 1587 in Santiago, is another of the new pieces of evidence that emerged from the indictment issued on Friday by Judge Víctor Montiglio against seven members of the hitherto little-known Lautaro brigade.

Yes or no This contradicts the claim that the Navy withdrew all its personnel from the DINA in 1975, as has been permanently reported by the institution. Daza and Escalona, who were a non-commissioned officer and an officer respectively, both retired, are new names regarding the better-known Navy agents who collaborated with the DINA and later with the Joint Command.

Another new element arising from Judge Montiglio's ruling is that the house that the “Lautaro extermination brigade” – as it is known in some judicial cases – occupied on Calle Simón Bolívar, and which today borders a school, served as the final destination for several prisoners who are now forcibly disappeared, including some communist leaders.

Until now, for example, it was unknown that Víctor Díaz was murdered in that place using cruel methods. From Montiglio's ruling, it is clear that the order to kill Víctor Díaz was given by the brigade chief, Morales Salgado.

Although the Lautaro Brigade was under the command of Major Morales, it obeyed the orders of DINA operational chief Manuel Contreras directly. It was a group dedicated to “special missions” and also operated as being responsible for Contreras's security.

In the investigations of Minister Montiglio, described by human rights organizations and lawyers as “one of the few judges who is really still investigating,” he managed to identify a new group of former agents linked to the tasks of prisoner extermination, thanks to the collaboration of the Special Affairs and Human Rights Brigade of the Investigative Police.

In this way, the judge and the Investigative Police officials allowed for the elucidation of a series of aspects of the repression of the Communist Party in 1976 that had remained unknown until now. Black females One of them is the participation of two women from the National Intelligence Directorate from the Army ranks not located until now: Gladys Calderón, who was a lieutenant in 1976, and the then-non-commissioned officer Elisa del Carmen Magna Astudillo.

One of them, presumably Calderón, participated in the kidnapping of Víctor Díaz, identified by a witness as “a woman who gave orders” with “very violent” behavior. With the new evidence discovered, the arrests could continue this week and the number of indicted individuals would increase, some of them also former agents whose identities were not known to date.

The other individuals indicted by Montiglio, all as authors of the kidnapping and homicide of Víctor Díaz, are former Carabineros Lieutenant Colonel Guillermo Lawrence Mires and retired Army Non-commissioned Officer Guillermo Ferrán Martínez.

The judge also indicted them for the crime of homicide, in addition to kidnapping, even though Víctor Díaz's body never appeared because it was allegedly thrown into the sea immediately after his execution.

In the Calle Conferencia operation that accounted for the first clandestine leadership of the PC, Jorge Muñoz Poutays, husband of the late communist leader Gladys Marín, among others, were also kidnapped.

Source: La Nación, January 29, 2007

The complete list of DINA agents

The complete list of DINA agents (Document delivered by the Army to the Courts of Justice)

The following is the complete list of DINA agents, which was delivered a few years ago by the Army to the Courts of Justice. The text was kept under lock and key for a long period, but time leaked it to human rights lawyers and a journalist specializing in this matter.

This document, which has never been published in a print medium, has reached Clarín from the desk of a journalist who has followed multiple cases of human rights violations during the dictatorship. The document, therefore, is completely authentic. It concerns more than a thousand agents, some indicted, others convicted, and not a few already deceased. [List of names omitted for brevity]

Source: elclarin.cl, July 8, 2013

Case File No. 2.182-98 Episode “Conferencia C” or “Conferencia 1”

3.- Statements of Elisa del Carmen Magna Astudillo, from page 131 of the separate volume “Conferencia 1,” dated January 25, 2007, through which she reports that she served at the Simón Bolívar barracks; a place where detainees left the barracks “packaged” in potato sacks tied with wire. 7.- Accounts of Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta from pages 1588 and 1597 of the separate volume “Conferencia 1,” through which he maintains that he served in the Lautaro Brigade at the Simón Bolívar barracks, which, approximately in April 1976, was joined by the brigades of Captains Germán Barriga and Ricardo Lawrence; groups that instructed them about anti-subversive warfare; with innumerable detainees arriving. At Simón Bolívar, he remembers Elisa Magna, with whom he went to leave bagged bodies at a mine shaft in Cuesta Barriga; a barracks where everyone stood guard, except for the officers, and where the women generally remained on gate guard duty. The detainee Víctor Díaz always remained inside the premises with free movement, although he slept in the gym locker rooms. 14.- Declaration of Elisa del Carmen Magna Astudillo from page 131 of the separate volume “Conferencia 1,” in which she mentions Gladys Calderón as a member of the Lautaro brigade at the Simón Bolívar barracks, adding that she believes she administered the lethal injections because she was a nurse and managed a first aid kit. 23.- Declaration of Elisa del Carmen Magna Astudillo from page 131 of the separate volume “Conferencia 1,” in which she maintains that, in mid-1976, several agents arrived at Simón Bolívar in charge of officers Germán Barriga and Lawrence. They would leave and arrive with detainees, blindfolded and tied, and leave them on the side of the gym. From time to time, she saw bagged corpses in the warehouse, in groups of four, which were removed in vehicles by Morales, Lawrence, and their teams.

Source: Judiciary, December 30, 2018

Santiago Court confirms ruling that sentenced 30 DINA agents for the qualified kidnapping of a pregnant young woman

The appellate court confirmed the sentence that sentenced 30 agents of the defunct National Intelligence Directorate for their responsibility in the crime of qualified kidnapping of Reinalda del Carmen Pereira Plaza.

A 29-year-old woman, five months pregnant, who was arrested on December 15, 1976, in the current Macul district and taken to the clandestine detention barracks located at Calle Simón Bolívar No. 8800, La Reina district, from where her trail was lost.

The Santiago Court of Appeals confirmed the sentence that sentenced 30 agents of the defunct National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their responsibility in the crime of qualified kidnapping of Reinalda del Carmen Pereira Plaza.

A 29-year-old woman, five months pregnant, who was arrested on December 15, 1976, in the current Macul district and taken to the clandestine detention barracks located at Calle Simón Bolívar No. 8800, La Reina district, from where her trail was lost.

In the sentence (case file 3.023-2019), the Sixth Chamber of the appellate court – composed of ministers María Rosa Kittsteiner, María Paula Merino, and Paula Rodríguez – ratified the sentence that sentenced Pedro Espinoza Bravo, Juan Morales Salgado, and Ricardo Lawrence Mires to 10 years in prison as authors of the crime.

Meanwhile, as co-authors, Gladys Calderón Carreño, Juvenal Piña Garrido, Héctor Valdebenito Araya, Sergio Escalona Acuña, Jorge Manríquez Manterola, María Angélica Guerrero Soto, Orfa Saavedra Vásquez, Elisa Magna Astudillo, Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo, Claudio Pacheco Fernández, Emilio Troncoso Vivallos, Teresa Navarro Navarro, José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo, Gustavo Guerrero Aguilera, and Jorge Arriagada Mora must serve 7 years in prison.

In the case of José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, José Miguel Meza Serrano, Jorge Iván Díaz Radulovich, Jorge Segundo Pichunmán Curiqueo, Sergio Hernán Castro Andrade, Carlos Enrique Miranda Mesa, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, Orlando del Tránsito Altamirano Sanhueza, Guillermo Eduardo Díaz Ramírez, Bertha Yolanda del Carmen Jiménez Escobar, Carlos Eusebio López Inostroza, and Joyce Ana Ahumada Despouy, they must serve 4-year sentences as accomplices.

The appellate court adopted the evidence that allowed investigating judge Miguel Vázquez Plaza to establish the responsibility and participation of the then-State agents convicted in the kidnapping and disappearance of the medical technologist. “That, in this course, the reasoning in the reviewed sentence is shared, in order to establish the participation of the convicted persons, insofar as the evidentiary background outlined in the appealed sentence... constitutes a set of judicial presumptions which, given their multiplicity, gravity, precision, and concordance, and for meeting the legal requirements provided for in Article 488 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, allow for the accreditation of the participation attributed to them as co-authors... and which is complemented by the reasoning in the foundations...” it is detailed. The resolution adds: “At this point, it should be specified that the participation as co-author attributed to Juan Morales Salgado is fully framed within the provisions of Article 15 No. 1 of the Penal Code, since he acted under the direct orders of Manuel Contreras and was in charge of the Simón Bolívar barracks at the time of the events, corresponding to him in said capacity to coordinate the operational work of the brigades that acted under his command, especially in relation to the dismantling of the Communist Party, allocating personnel under his command for this purpose, directing the investigation work and receiving the corresponding reports, arranging for the entry and retention of detainees in the unit, as well as the interrogations and torture to which they were subjected and, where appropriate, their death and disappearance, it being established that he was present during the interrogation and torture of the victim of these records, which determines that he intervened in an immediate and direct manner in the events, so his conduct implies a functional contribution to the global result, maintaining, together with the other perpetrators, the co-dominion of the act.” “For its part, the attribution of responsibility as a co-author... imputed to the defendant María Angélica Guerrero Soto, is established by virtue of her confession... which is corroborated by the merit of the background information indicated in the sentence appealed, to which is added the reasoning in the motivation...” the ruling adds. “That, in the same sense – it continues – it adheres to what is indicated in the sentence under study, insofar as the indications indicated... gather the necessary force to configure judicial presumptions, which, given their multiplicity, gravity, precision, and concordance, allow for the accreditation of the participation attributed to them as accomplices... to which are added the reasonings of the ruling.” For the appellate court, in this instance: “(…) as indicated, it has been sufficiently demonstrated that all the accused were part of an organized structure under subordination and dependency, in which those who exercised management duties and operational personnel coexisted, dedicated both to investigation and to the arrest, custody, interrogation, torture, and, where appropriate, death and disappearance of the detainees, in which is observed, on the one hand, the division of roles typical of co-authorship, since all of them made a functional contribution to the execution of the crime, each of them having the co-dominion of the act and, on the other, a facilitation of the means with which the crime is committed, thus cooperating in the act of another, by prior or simultaneous acts, which is what characterizes complicity.” “In that understanding, contrary to what the defenses indicate in their appeals, it is convenient to specify that the convicted persons are not punished merely for belonging to the institution, but for the conduct displayed by each one in relation to the events that concern the victim of these records, Ms. Reinalda Pereira Plaza, which also leads to discarding the intervention of those accused with respect to whom, despite having been established that they were part of the same institution and performed functions in the property located at Simón Bolívar No. 8800 in La Reina, their punishable participation has not been proven in any of the forms provided for by law.” It concludes. Arrest and disappearance In the appealed ruling, investigating judge Miguel Vázquez Plaza established the following facts: “a) That the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), on an unspecified date, but during the first half of 1976, occupied and enabled a property at Calle Simón Bolívar No. 8800, La Reina district, consisting of a country house, which was conditioned for its purpose of confinement... in which the Lautaro brigade operated under the charge of Major Juan Morales Salgado and which was occupied as a secret and clandestine place of confinement; to said premises, people were taken as detainees to be interrogated under the use of various physical coercion techniques, especially regarding those who had or had had political militancy adhering to the Communist Party. b) That likewise, in the second half of 1976, the DINA groups in charge of officers Germán Barriga and Ricardo Lawrence moved to said premises, together with their operational agents, who were fundamentally concerned with investigating, locating, raiding, pursuing, repressing, and dismantling the members of the Communist Party, especially its leadership, for which provisional facilities were enabled... where interrogations and torture were carried out, using coercion with various methods. c) That Reinalda del Carmen Pereira Plaza, pregnant with her first child, 5 months pregnant, a medical technologist and communist militant... was arrested at 29 years of age, at approximately 8:30 PM, while waiting for public transport, by security agents on December 15, 1976, at the corner of Calle Exequiel Fernández and Rodrigo de Araya, Ñuñoa district, currently Macul district... The arrest was materialized in the presence of witnesses who were in the various surrounding commercial establishments... d) That Reinalda del Carmen Pereira Plaza was taken to the secret Simón Bolívar detention barracks, where she was seen together with other prisoners who, in turn, had been arrested by the same brigades under the same operational policy between December 13 and 15, 1976... In this place, Reinalda was harshly beaten, tortured, illegitimately coerced, and then made to disappear, with no news of her whereabouts to date. e) That the Chilean government of the time, given the search efforts made by her relatives, reported that the affected person registered an exit ‘on foot’ through the Los Libertadores border crossing between Chile and Argentina on December 21, 1976, an official version that was judicially established as false... f) That the victim of these records was arrested on public roads like thirteen other people in similar circumstances; eleven belonging to the Communist Party and two to the MIR and, where the information provided by the Military Government was similar and erroneous, demonstrating a large-scale operation that obeyed a policy of investigation, persecution, and dismantling of the Communist Party and not an isolated event. g) That all the aforementioned persons, including the victim, were arrested to be interrogated and tortured by reason of their political militancy and in order to obtain information about their party activities and the identification of other members of the Communist Party in clandestinity; coercion that did not cease until the required information was obtained or until the victims lost consciousness.”

Source: pjud.cl, March 4, 2022