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Manuel Arenas

Victim of the military dictatorship.

Background

StatusNational Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation Violence Political
DateSeptember 16, 1973
LocationSantiago, RM Metropolitana
AffiliationSin Militancia

Case summary

Manuel Arenas was an infant less than one year old who died on September 16, 1973, in Santiago after sustaining gunshot wounds on a public street. His case was classified as a victim of political violence due to the conviction that his death was linked to the context of widespread repression that followed the coup d'état.

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Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]

All these individuals died between September 11 and the month of December 1973, on public thoroughfares, due to gunshot wounds, as recorded in the respective Medical Death Certificates from the Legal Medical Institute.

Their cases were presented to the Corporation by the Chilean Commission for Human Rights, without further background information other than what was indicated. The investigations carried out by this Corporation were also unable to gather further information regarding these victims.

Although it was not possible to establish the precise circumstances in which these deaths occurred during the respective investigations, the Superior Council considered the existence of common factors among them regarding the time period, hour, location, and, especially, the similar cause of death.

Likewise, it noted that there is an evident analogy with other situations in which the same circumstantial elements are present, which, being better documented, were the subject of individual accounts in this Report.

By virtue of this, it reached the conviction that all these cases were closely linked to the situation of political violence that existed in the country at the time, and especially in the city of Santiago. Consequently, it declared the aforementioned individuals to be victims of political violence.

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How to cite this record

DondeEstan.cl (2026). Manuel Arenas. Retrieved on June 4, 2026, from https://dondeestan.cl/record/manuel-arenas. Original sources: Museum of Memory (https://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=3269).