Minister Miguel Vázquez Plaza sentences 29 former agents of the Comando Conjunto for kidnapping and qualified homicide.

This is due to their responsibility in the kidnapping and qualified homicide of Ricardo Manuel Weibel Navarrete, Juan René Orellana Catalán, Luis Desiderio Moraga Cruz, Ignacio Orlando González Espinoza, and Luis Emilio Gerardo Maturana González, which occurred between October 1975 and June 1976 in Santiago.

The minister in charge of human rights cases at the Santiago Court of Appeals, Miguel Vázquez Plaza, sentenced 29 former agents of the Comando Conjunto for their responsibility in the kidnapping and qualified homicide of Ricardo Manuel Weibel Navarrete, Juan René Orellana Catalán, Luis Desiderio Moraga Cruz, Ignacio Orlando González Espinoza, and Luis Emilio Gerardo Maturana González, which occurred between October 1975 and June 1976 in Santiago.

The magistrate sentenced the agents to the penalties detailed below:

Juan Francisco Saavedra Loyola: 18 years in prison, 13 years in prison, and 3 years in prison.

Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa: 18 years in prison, 13 years in prison, and 3 years in prison. Daniel Guimpert Corvalán: 18 years in prison, 12 years in prison, and 3 years in prison. Antonio Quiros Reyes: 18 years in prison, 6 years in prison, and 540 days in prison.

Raúl González Fernández: 10 years and one day in prison, 10 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison. Roberto Flores Cisterna: 10 years and one day in prison, 5 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison.

Carlos Rodrigo Villarreal: 10 years and one day in prison, 5 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison. Alejandro Sáez Mardones: 10 years and one day in prison, 10 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison.

Jorge Osses Novoa: 12 years in prison, 10 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison. Sergio Díaz López: 12 years in prison, 10 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison. Álvaro Corbalán Castilla: 12 years in prison, 10 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison.

Lenin Figueroa Sánchez: 5 years and one day in prison, 5 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison. Miguel Estay Reyno: 5 years in prison, 5 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison.

Sergio Valenzuela Morales: 5 years in prison, 5 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison. Juan Aravena Hurtuvia: 5 years in prison, 5 years and one day in prison, and 400 days in prison. Ernesto Lobos Gálvez: 5 years and one day in prison, 60 days in prison.

Alejandro Forero Álvarez: 5 years and one day in prison, 60 days in prison. Viviana Ugarte Sandoval: 5 years and one day in prison, 400 days in prison. Andrés Potin Laihacar: 5 years and one day in prison, 400 days in prison.

Emilio Mahias del Río: 5 years and one day in prison, 400 days in prison. Juan López López: 5 years and one day in prison, 400 days in prison. Evaristo Rojas Alruiz: 5 years and one day in prison, 400 days in prison.

Francisco Illanes Saavedra: 5 years and one day in prison, 400 days in prison. Roberto Serón Contreras: 5 years and one day in prison. Otto Trujillo Miranda: 10 years and one day in prison. Robinson Suazo Jaque: 4 years in prison and 60 days in prison.

Pedro Caamaño Medina: 4 years in prison and 60 days in prison. Pedro Zambrano Uribe: 4 years in prison and 60 days in prison. José Alvarado Alvarado: 4 years in prison and 60 days in prison.

Agents Eduardo Cartagena Maldonado, Alex Carrasco Olivos, José Vera Reyes, Juan Huaiquimilla Coñuepan, and Víctor Zuñiga Zuñiga were acquitted.

The minister's investigation established:

a) That there existed a de facto group that operated clandestinely between the years 1975 and 1976, composed mainly of agents who belonged to the Air Force Intelligence Directorate (DIFA), as well as the Carabineros de Chile, the Navy, and the Army, with the collaboration of civilians, whose main objective was the repression of the Communist Party Youth, for which they proceeded to detain several of its members.

b) That the aforementioned group used the following for detentions and torture: the Cerrillos Hangar; Nido 20, a secret detention and torture center located at Calle Santa Teresa No. 037, at the 20th stop of Gran Avenida; Nido 18, a secret facility located at Calle Perú No. 9053, La Florida, Santiago, which was used exclusively for torture; La Prevención or Remo Cero, which were dungeons located inside the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, all during the year 1975; and La Firma, at the beginning of 1976, when said group moved its operations to the back of the property under the charge of the Carabineros de Chile, located on Calle Dieciocho, opposite No. 229, which had belonged to the former newspaper Clarín, and was named La Firma.

c) That the operational conduct of the group, regarding persons illegally deprived of their liberty and kept in secret facilities, was to obtain information from them under psychological and physical torture, achieving the collaboration of some of them, to the point that some were assimilated as operational agents of the group, which provided greater effectiveness in the chain detention of communist militants, who were then forcibly disappeared, with parts of the remains of some of them being found over the course of the years.

d) That on November 7, 1975, at approximately 10:00 PM, Ricardo Manuel Weibel Navarrete was detained at his home at Río Maule No. 1893, in the Recoleta commune, by subjects dressed in civilian clothes; he was kept deprived of liberty at the facility called La Prevención or Remo Cero, located inside the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, the last place where he was seen alive, and subsequently, his remains were found on the grounds of Fuerte Arteaga, Peldehue.

e) On June 8, 1976, in the Estación Central sector, Juan René Orellana Catalán met with Luis Emilio Gerardo Maturana González, both militants of the Communist Youth in hiding due to the political persecution they were subject to, with the purpose of receiving money for the party from the hands of Maturana González, who was in charge of distributing it; at that moment, he was detained by agents of the group referred to in letter a), kept in the facility called La Firma, and was subsequently executed at Cuesta Barriga, where remains consisting of teeth and a removable prosthesis were found.

f) That on October 20, 1975, in the early morning hours, Luis Desiderio Moraga Cruz was detained at his home at Pasaje Tokio No. 5862, Población Juanita Aguirre, in the Conchalí commune, Santiago, by subjects dressed in civilian clothes; he was kept in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, inside which was the facility called La Prevención or Remo Cero, where he provided the statement found on page 5532, this being the last place where he was seen alive.

g) That on December 4, 1975, in the early morning hours, Ignacio Orlando González Espinoza was detained at his home at Calle Soberanía No. 1220, Santiago, by subjects dressed in civilian clothes; he was kept deprived of liberty at the facility called La Prevención or Remo Cero, located inside the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, the last place where he was seen alive, and subsequently, he was executed on the grounds of Fuerte Arteaga, Peldehue, where his remains were found.

h) On June 8, 1976, in the Estación Central sector, Luis Emilio Gerardo Maturana González met with Juan René Orellana Catalán, both militants of the Communist Youth in hiding due to the political persecution they were subject to, with the purpose of handing over party money to Orellana Catalán for himself and for him to distribute to other party militants, as Maturana González was in charge of distributing it; at that moment, he was detained by operational agents of the group described in letter a), and was kept in the facility called La Firma, from where his trail was lost.

In the civil aspect, the State was ordered to pay a total compensation of $1,180,000,000 to the victims' families.

Source: pjud.cl, October 9, 2019

The Seventh Chamber sentenced eight members of the so-called Comando Conjunto for their responsibility in the consummated crimes of qualified kidnapping of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Gallardo and Alonso Fernando Gahona Chávez. These crimes were committed starting on August 28 and September 8, 1975, respectively, in the Metropolitan Region.

The Santiago Court of Appeals sentenced eight members of the so-called Comando Conjunto for their responsibility in the consummated crimes of qualified kidnapping of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Gallardo and Alonso Fernando Gahona Chávez. These crimes were committed starting on August 28 and September 8, 1975, respectively, in the Metropolitan Region.

In a unanimous ruling (case file 3,321-2021), the Seventh Chamber of the appellate court—composed of Minister Jorge Zepeda, Minister Elsa Barrientos, and Minister Alejandro Aguilar—sentenced Otto Silvio Trujillo Miranda, in the criminal aspect, to 10 years and one day in prison as a co-author of the qualified kidnappings of Rodríguez Gallardo and Gahona Chávez, plus 541 days in prison for illicit association.

Meanwhile, Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa and Juan Francisco Saavedra Loyola must serve 5 years and one day in prison as co-authors of the qualified kidnapping of Rodríguez Gallardo.

In the case of Fernando Zúñiga Canales, Sergio Fernando Contreras Mejías, Emilio Mahias del Río, and Gonzalo Eduardo Hernández de la Fuente, they must serve 5 years and one day in prison as co-authors of the kidnapping of Rodríguez Gallardo; and Juan Luis Fernando López López, 5 years and one day in prison as the author of the kidnapping of Gahona Chávez.

Finally, for illicit association, Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa and Fernando Patricio Zúñiga Canales were sentenced to 5 years and one day in prison.

"That the absence in this criminal proceeding of the existence of resolutions in which the cited defendants were subjected to prosecution in order to be accused once the summary was closed and the case elevated to plenary, just as Article 403 of the Code of Criminal Procedure expressly required, and the fact that, given such defects, the court only analyzed evidentiary background to prove the crime and the participation of the convicted persons in the final judgment, violates the principle of congruence that assists every defendant, regarding the knowledge of being subjected to prosecution, then accused in the bill of indictment, and then having the case elevated to plenary, as circumstances proper to such resolutions that are not only factual but also legal," the appellate court reasons.

"Consequently, with the exception of the accused Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa, Fernando Patricio Zúñiga Canales, and Otto Silvio Trujillo Miranda, regarding the crime of illicit association, in practice, only the court knew and resolved, to determine the crime and for the conviction decision, upon issuing the final judgment of the first instance," it adds.

The resolution adds: "That, consequently, in the old criminal procedure, there existed the principle of congruence that every criminal process had to comply with in order to guarantee the right to defense and loyalty in the process, according to the elements contained in its legal structure, since the convicted person can only be so in accordance with the imputation and charges of the court through which they were incorporated into the criminal proceeding as a subject thereof."

"That, by virtue of the considerations exposed, the court will disagree with the sentencing judge and will acquit the convicted persons cited in the second paragraph of the first consideration of this ruling for the crime of illicit association, because no one may be convicted of a crime unless the court judging them acquires the conviction that the crime object of the accusation was committed and that the accused had a culpable participation therein, punishable by law," it states.

Likewise, the ruling records: "That, regarding the convicted persons Trujillo Miranda, Zuñiga Canales, López López, Saavedra Loyola, Contreras Mejías, Mahias del Río, Hernández de La Fuente, and Muñoz Gamboa, the mitigating factor of an irreproachable prior conduct, provided for in Article 11 No. 6 of the Penal Code, is accepted, in accordance with their affiliation records in which they do not register prior criminal records, documents that are added to the files on pages 9,728, 9,812, 9,749, 9,753, 9,761, 9,766, 9,768, and 9,803, respectively."

Therefore, it is resolved that

"I.- The appealed judgment dated April 7, 2021, is revoked insofar as it convicted the accused Sergio Fernando Contreras Mejías, Emilio Mahias del Río, Gonzalo Eduardo Hernández de La Fuente, Juan Francisco Saavedra Loyola, and Juan Luis Fernando López López for the crime of illicit association, and in its place, the aforementioned defendants are acquitted of responsibility for that crime.

II.- The same judgment is revoked insofar as it sentenced Otto Silvio Trujillo Miranda to the penalty of twelve years of major imprisonment in its medium degree as a co-author of the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Gallardo and Alonso Fernando Gahona Chávez, perpetrated in the city of Santiago starting on August 28, 1975, and September 8, 1975, respectively, and in its place, it is decided that he is sentenced to the penalty of 10 years and one day of major imprisonment in its medium degree and the legal accessories of absolute perpetual disqualification for public offices and political rights and absolute disqualification for professional titles for the duration of the sentence, and to the payment of the costs of the case.

III.- The judgment is also revoked insofar as it sentenced Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa and Juan Francisco Saavedra Loyola to the penalty of eight years of major imprisonment in its minimum degree as co-authors of the crime of qualified kidnapping of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Gallardo, committed in the city of Santiago starting on August 28, 1975, and in its place, it is declared that they are sentenced to the penalty of five years and one day of major imprisonment in its minimum degree and the legal accessories of absolute perpetual disqualification for public offices and political rights and absolute disqualification for professional titles for the duration of the sentence, and to the payment of the costs of the case.

IV.- Pronouncement is omitted regarding Eduardo Enrique Cartagena Maldonado due to his death occurring after the issuance of the judgment.

V.- By virtue of the provisions of Articles 408 No. 5 and 418 of the Code of Civil Procedure in relation to Article 93 No. 1 of the Penal Code, the sentenced person Eduardo Enrique Cartagena Maldonado is partially and definitively dismissed, given the death certificate added on page 10,570.

VI.- The cited judgment is confirmed in all other appealed aspects.

VII.- The resolutions on pages 1,265, 6,670, 8,962, and 9,530, which partially and definitively dismiss the case regarding Guillermo Bratti Cornejo, Roberto Fuentes Morrison, Jorge Cobos Martínez, César Palma Ramírez, and Freddy Ruiz Bunger, are approved."

In the civil aspect, the Seventh Chamber accepted the exception of res judicata opposed by the State and, consequently, resolved that "(...) this same judgment is revoked insofar as it upheld the lawsuit filed against the State of Chile regarding the civil plaintiff Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Gallardo," confirming it in all other aspects.

Decision agreed upon with the dissenting vote of Minister Zepeda Arancibia, only insofar as he was in favor of: "Revoking the appealed judgment in the part that rejects a chapter of the civil lawsuit filed by Yuri and Evelyn Gahona Muñoz, on page 7,761, children of the victim Alonso Fernando Gahona Chávez, and accepting it insofar as the civil plaintiffs request symbolic reparation measures from the civil defendant, the State of Chile, in relation to the victim Alonso Fernando Gahona Chávez"; and for "Dismissing the exception of res judicata opposed by the defendant State of Chile, in relation to the civil lawsuit filed by the civil plaintiff Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Gallardo."

Comando Conjunto

In the first-instance ruling, the visiting minister Miguel Vázquez Plaza established the following facts:

"a) That, during the time of operation of the Aviation Prosecutor's Office based at the Air Force War Academy, in the Las Condes commune, Santiago, in 1974, the main objective of that Prosecutor's Office was the repression of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).

To the operational repression activities carried out by officials of that prosecutor's office, for greater effectiveness of the strategies to follow, civilians were added to the Air Force with characteristics of belonging to and being sympathizers of the National Party of the time and/or Patria y Libertad, strengthening and increasing their number over time.

They developed intelligence work, organizing themselves into two groups, which located, monitored, and followed the victim(s), and also participated in the planning of detention operations, becoming involved on occasions in detentions, torture, and the execution of their victims.

b) That, with the cessation of the operation of the Aviation Prosecutor's Office, the leaderships, with all the existing organization for operational repression, continued their activity outside the legal order, now in pursuit of the directives of the Communist Party and the Communist Youth, both of its Central Committee and its different Regionals, occupying for those purposes different properties, such as the house in Apoquindo, a hangar at the Cerrillos Airport, and others that had been seized from militants of persecuted political parties, such as those called Nido 18 and Nido 20, all of which were constituted as clandestine detention centers, to then have the La Prevención prison enter the scene, built inside the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, and finally the property on Calle Dieciocho assigned to the Carabineros, which corresponded to the property of the former newspaper El Clarín, being named La Firma.

c) That, to the operational political repression tasks developed by the Air Force and civilians, in the period of their repressive activities at the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, La Prevención prison, which was called 'Remo Cero', Carabineros, the Navy, and the Army were added to these operational activities, this illegal organization being known subsequently as the 'Comando Conjunto'.

d) That, on the morning of August 28, 1975, around 08:00 hours, in a neighborhood in the southern sector of Santiago, on the way from his house to work, the member of the Communist Party of Chile, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Gallardo, political alias 'Quila' or 'Quilaleo', was detained.

He had been located previously by State repressive agents and, until the morning of his detention, was being monitored and followed by an investigation team of Air Force officials, who communicated by means of the mobile equipment they carried to a second team consisting of civilians who acted under the perimeter security coverage of a group of agents, who continued with the tracking of the victim when he boarded a bus, and who proceeded to his detention.

e) That a third team of civilians operated very close to the team that carried out the detention, approximately fifty meters away, in order to provide them with coverage in their actions and ensure the physical integrity of the apprehenders.

f) That, on the day of his detention, Rodríguez Gallardo remained handcuffed and blindfolded in a building on Calle Bulnes, Santiago, to be taken in the afternoon to a hangar at the Cerrillos Airport, where he was tortured, and during the long time he remained a prisoner, he was kept chained by his hands and feet, being transferred to different illegal detention centers and continuously tortured, described on page 3293 by the prisoner of 'Nido 1', Juan Bautista Sepúlveda Arancibia, as 'a skeleton with clothes and his face a skull with skin', his trail being lost at Remo Cero.

g) That, on September 8, 1975, around 19:00 hours, an operational team composed of two officials of the Chilean Air Force and a collaborator, a former militant of the Communist Youth and former political prisoner at the Air War Academy, when they were circulating at the height of the 26th stop of Gran Avenida, the latter recognized Alonso Fernando Gahona Chávez, a communist militant, with the alias 'Yuri', giving notice to his companions, with whom, carrying firearms, they proceeded to approach and detain him (which was observed by a co-worker of the detainee who was circulating through the sector at a short distance), transferring him to the detention facility known as Nido 20, located at Calle Santa Teresa No. 037, La Florida, his whereabouts or destination remaining unknown to date."

Source: pjud.cl, April 7, 2022

The Supreme Court rejected the cassation appeals filed by the defenses of the former agents of the so-called Comando Conjunto against the sentence that convicted 27 of them for their responsibility in the crimes of simple kidnapping and qualified homicide of Ignacio Orlando González Espinoza and Juan René Orellana Catalán; and in the qualified kidnappings of Ricardo Manuel Weibel Navarrete, Luis Desiderio Moraga Cruz, and Luis Emilio Gerardo Maturana González, all militants of the Communist Party.

The crimes were perpetrated between October 1975 and June 1976, in the city of Santiago.

The so-called Comando Conjunto was a repressive apparatus created by the dictatorship under the tutelage of the Air Force (Fach) and the participation of agents from the Army, the Navy, the Carabineros, and civilian fascists, which operated mainly between the years 1975 and 1977, and whose reason for being was to compete in repressive and criminal tasks with the absolute power held by the DINA under the tutelage of the Army and the direction of Pinochet and Contreras.

In a unanimous ruling (case file 32,012-2022), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, Minister María Teresa Letelier, and Minister Jean Pierre Matus—confirmed the challenged sentence, issued by the Santiago Court of Appeals, which sentenced former Fach officer Juan Francisco Saavedra Loyola and former Carabineros officer Manuel Agustín Muñoz Gamboa to penalties of 18 years in prison, plus 13 years, and plus 3 years in prison, each.

Former Navy officer Daniel Luis Enrique Guimpert Corvalán was sentenced to penalties of 18 years, plus 12, and plus 3 years in prison.

Former Army officers Álvaro Julio Federico Corbalán Castilla and Sergio Antonio Díaz López, and former Navy officer Jorge Aníbal Osses Novoa, were sentenced to penalties of 12 years in prison, plus 10 years and one day, plus 400 days in prison each.

Agents Raúl Horacio González Fernández and Alejandro Julio Segundo Sáez Mardones were sentenced to two terms of 10 years and one day in prison, and plus 400 days in prison each.

Agents Roberto Alfonso Flores Cisterna and Juan Carlos Hernán Rodrigo Villarreal were sentenced to penalties of 10 years and one day, plus 5 years and one day, plus 400 days in prison each.

Civilian fascist Otto Silvio Trujillo Miranda was sentenced to 10 years and one day in prison. Agent Lenin Figueroa Sánchez was sentenced to two terms of 5 years and one day, plus 400 days in prison.

Agents Sergio Daniel Valenzuela Morales and Juan Atilio Aravena Hurtuvia were sentenced to penalties of 5 years and one day in prison, plus 5 years, plus 400 days in prison.

Civilian fascists Andrés Pablo Potín Lailhacar, Viviana Lucinda Ugarte Sandoval, and Emilio Mahias del Río, and agents Juan Luis Fernando López López, José Evaristo Rojas Alruiz, and Francisco Segundo Illanes Miranda, were sentenced to penalties of 5 years and one day in prison, plus 400 days in prison.

Ernesto Arturo Lobos Gálvez and Alejandro Jorge Forero Álvarez were sentenced to penalties of 5 years and one day in prison, plus 60 days in prison.

Roberto Francisco Serón Cárdenas was sentenced to 5 years and one day in prison. Robinson Alfonso Suazo Jaque, Pedro Ernesto Caamaño Medina, Pedro Juan Zambrano Uribe, and José Hernando Alvarado Alvarado were sentenced to 4 years, plus 60 days in prison each.

The also convicted Antonio Benedicto Quiros Reyes and Miguel Arturo Estay Reyno died during the course of the process.

In the judicial investigation and first-instance ruling, Minister Miguel Vásquez Plaza established that there existed a de facto group that operated clandestinely between the years 1975 and 1976, composed mainly of agents who belonged to the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, as well as the Carabineros de Chile, the Navy, and the Army, with the collaboration of civilians, whose main objective was the repression of the Communist Party Youth, for which they proceeded to detain several of its members.

This group, called the Comando Conjunto, used various facilities for detentions and torture: the Cerrillos Hangar; Nido 20, a secret detention and torture center located at Calle Santa Teresa No. 037, at the 20th stop of Gran Avenida; Nido 18, a secret facility located at Calle Perú No. 9053, La Florida, Santiago, which was used exclusively for torture; La Prevención or Remo Cero, which were dungeons located inside the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, all during the year 1975; and La Firma, at the beginning of 1976, when said group moved its operations to the back of the property under the charge of the Carabineros de Chile, located on Calle Dieciocho, opposite No. 229, which had belonged to the former newspaper Clarín, and was named La Firma.

The operational conduct of the group consisted of detaining people with the modality of kidnapping, keeping them captive in secret facilities, and subjecting them to interrogation and torture, both physical and psychological, to obtain information and break their will, achieving the collaboration of some of them, to the point that some were assimilated as operational agents of the group, which provided greater effectiveness in the chain detention of communist militants, who were then forcibly disappeared; of some of them, over the course of the years, part of their remains were found.

On November 7, 1975, at approximately 10:00 PM, Ricardo Manuel Weibel Navarrete was detained at his home on Calle Río Maule in the Recoleta commune by subjects dressed in civilian clothes; he was kept deprived of liberty at the facility called La Prevención or Remo Cero, located inside the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, the last place where he was seen alive, and subsequently, his remains were found on the grounds of Fuerte Arteaga, Peldehue.

On October 20, 1975, in the early morning hours, Luis Desiderio Moraga Cruz was detained at his home on Pasaje Tokio in the Población Juanita Aguirre, in the Conchalí commune, Santiago, by subjects dressed in civilian clothes; he was kept in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, inside which was the facility called La Prevención or Remo Cero, this being the last place where he was seen alive.

On December 4, 1975, in the early morning hours, Ignacio Orlando González Espinoza was detained at his home on Calle Soberanía in the Santiago commune by subjects dressed in civilian clothes; he was kept deprived of liberty at the facility called La Prevención or Remo Cero, located inside the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment in Colina, the last place where he was seen alive, and subsequently, he was executed on the grounds of Fuerte Arteaga, Peldehue, where his remains were found.

On June 8, 1976, in the Estación Central sector, Luis Emilio Gerardo Maturana González met with Juan René Orellana Catalán, both militants of the Communist Youth in hiding due to the political persecution they were subject to, with the purpose of handing over party money to Orellana Catalán for himself and for him to distribute to other party militants, as Maturana González was in charge of distributing it; at that moment, they were detained by operational agents of the aforementioned Comando Conjunto, and were kept in the facility called La Firma, from where their trail was lost.

Subsequently, Orellana Catalán was executed at Cuesta Barriga, where his remains were found.

Source: resumen.cl, April 26, 2024