Triple throat-slitting

With the country under a state of siege, on March 28, 1985, Santiago NATTINO ALLENDE, a publicist and member of the Communist Party with no known leadership roles within the organization, was kidnapped on a public street in the upper district of the capital.

The following day, in the early hours of the morning, José Manuel PARADA MALUENDA, who served as Head of the Analysis Department at the Vicaría de la Solidaridad, was kidnapped while taking his daughter to the Colegio Latinoamericano de Integración.

During the same incident, Manuel Leonidas GUERRERO CEBALLOS, a teacher and inspector at the same school and a leader of the Asociación Gremial de Educadores de Chile (Agech), who had been a long-time friend of José Manuel Parada, was also kidnapped.

In both operations, the kidnappers acted with significant resources at their disposal. In the case of Santiago Nattino, they shouted that they were police officers and that they were detaining the victim due to financial problems.

In the other kidnapping, witnesses reported the presence of a helicopter and traffic diversions in the area. This action was brutal, as a teacher who attempted to intervene was shot at point-blank range.

Related to these kidnappings is the case of architecture graduate Ramón Arriagada, who was kidnapped in February of that year and interrogated specifically about the activities of Manuel Guerrero and José Parada.

Both men were conducting an analysis of the structure and operations of the Comando Conjunto, based on information obtained from the confessions of one of its former members, which had been secured shortly before.

Also related is the operation carried out on the night of March 28 at the Agech headquarters located at Calle Londres 75 in the capital—a location where Santiago Nattino received mail and maintained a telephone line, and which Manuel Guerrero frequented in his capacity as a leader of that organization.

Several teachers were taken from that location and held incommunicado until March 29; they later identified their place of detention as the barracks of the Carabineros Directorate of Communications (Dicomcar) located on Calle Dieciocho, the same facility previously used by the Comando Conjunto under the name "La Firma."

Despite intense efforts, there was no news of the kidnapped men until March 30, 1985, when their bodies were found with their throats slit on the road connecting Quilicura to the Pudahuel Airport.

This crime caused deep repercussions both nationally and internationally, leading to an extensive judicial investigation. Government authorities initially explained the crime as the result of a purge among communists.

However, based on the aforementioned evidence and that gathered during the judicial investigation, the Commission has reached the conviction that Manuel Guerrero, José Parada, and Santiago Nattino were victims of political execution by state agents due to their political affiliation and the activities they were conducting, in violation of their human rights.