Mónica Rosa Manríquez Guerrero
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Background
Mónica Rosa Manríquez Guerrero
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Case summary
Mónica Rosa Manríquez Guerrero was a civilian nurse assigned to the Tejas Verdes Regiment following the 1973 coup, where she provided services for the DINA by attending to political prisoners. In her judicial statements, she described the torture and the grave physical condition of the detainees, providing key testimony regarding the use of electricity and burns within the military facility.
MemoriaViva[1]
; there, they worked shifts at Cuartel N° 2, a “camp for political prisoners”; if there was an emergency, they would call Dr. Orvietto , who would examine the detainees , question them, and prescribe medication.
Source: Case file No. 2.182-98, July 14, 2008
Judicial Statement of Gladys de las Mercedes Calderón Carreño: episode designated “Rebeca María Espinoza Sepúlveda"
Testimony of Gladys de las Mercedes Calderón Carreño (1575) regarding having completed an Army nursing course in 1972, and on September 11, 1973, she was assigned, along with Balbina León, Mónica Manríquez, Pilar González and Marta Bravo , to the Regimiento de Tejas Verdes, under the charge of the physician Orvietto.
At first, they attended to the conscripts, but later, in a field infirmary, they attended to the detainees; she remembers having treated some who had cigarette burns on their arms; they did not have access to the place where they were interrogated, but upon treating them, they realized they were “ mistreated, as they arrived in very poor physical condition...
Dr. Orvietto also treated detainees... I know that some of the detainees were subjected to electric shocks, since the same soldiers who brought them to be treated would tell us not to give them water because they had been subjected to electric shocks... ”.
Source: Case file No. 2.182-98, July 14, 2008
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