On August 6, 1974, DINA agents arrested MIR militant María Angélica ANDREOLI BRAVO at her home in the district of Las Condes. That same day, the same group of agents also arrested MIR militant Muriel DOCKENDORFF NAVARRETE at her home.

Both women were forcibly disappeared while in the custody of the DINA and were seen by numerous witnesses at the Londres N° 38 facility. Muriel Dockendorff was subsequently transferred to Cuatro Alamos, from where she disappeared. The Commission is convinced that the disappearance of both women was the work of State agents, who thereby violated their human rights.

Source: Rettig Report

María Angélica was born on January 10, 1947, in Santiago, the daughter of Olga Cristina Bravo Pérez and Joaquín Alfonso Andreoli Rubio. She studied at Liceo No. 9 in Santiago and later enrolled to study Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Chile, Talca campus.

At the time of her arrest, she was working at the Metropolitano workshops, Sigdo Koppers S.A.; her workday began at 7:00 a.m. and she returned home around 7:30 p.m. On the evening of August 6, 1974, while her mother was caring for her father, who had suffered a heart attack two days earlier, María Angélica arrived around 7:00 p.m. while they were waiting for a nurse who was to perform an electrocardiogram on her father.

After a moment, the doorbell rang and she went to open it. She spent about 10 minutes talking to a group of individuals and a woman named Marcia Merino Vega, who were traveling in a yellow Chevrolet pickup truck.

While they were talking, the nurse arrived, which María Angélica announced. When the nurse left, they realized she was not there... they had taken her. That same day, they took her to the home of her cousin María Isabel Eyzaguirre, at 1490 Montenegro Street; upon confirming she was not there, they left the house under surveillance and control for three days.

On Saturday, August 10, at 6:00 p.m., they brought María Angélica to her uncle's house, let her go to the bathroom and have a cup of coffee; then they took her away in a light yellow Chevrolet pickup truck.

On August 15, her uncle received a phone call from her asking about her parents' health, indicating that she was fine. Erika Hennings C. stated: "While I was detained at Londres 38, I could see and hear María Angélica answering questions asked by the guards, such as whether she had a partner or not, where she worked, etc.

Since there were few women there, I could identify her voice and many times I heard her asking for water or permission to stand up." "I remained there until August 27, 1974; that day they grouped several of us together and we were transferred to the Cuatro Alamos Camp.

María Angélica was not in that group and I never saw her again." On July 23, 1975, the Santiago newspaper "El Mercurio," reproducing a news item that appeared in the Brazilian publication O'DIA, reported the alleged death of a group of Chileans in clashes between extremists abroad.

Among the names included in the lists appeared that of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo. However, this news, in addition to having been repudiated and denounced by family members, has been discredited, as neither the Chilean authorities nor foreign authorities, through their embassies or consulates, have provided official recognition of said news in any of the cases in which they were consulted.

On June 16, 1983, Marcia Alejandra Merino Vega was arrested by chance; there was an arrest warrant against her for her participation in several arrests of the forcibly disappeared. When interrogated by the Criminal Judge, she stated: "I know the reason for my arrest; effectively, while I was detained by the DINA in the month of August '74, due to the constant pressure and physical duress to which I was subjected by the personnel of that institution, I had to name my former comrades and companions from the MIR party, and then under death threats I had to accompany this personnel under intimidation to their respective homes, already pointed out by me, until they carried out the arrest. It was like that one night, I cannot specify the time, ... they took me out of the place and blindfolded me, and when we arrived at the home of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo, up toward Bilbao, ... they removed the blindfold from my eyes and made me knock on her door, ... María Angélica appeared and immediately my companions arrested her, made her get into the back of the pickup truck, and we left for our place of detention, which at that moment corresponded to the address at Londres 38. I never saw her again, but I heard her voice, I calculate for about 20 days, and then I didn't hear it anymore...". Two writs of amparo have been filed before the Santiago Court of Appeals: No. 940 on August 16, 1974, and the second, on December 6 of the same year, No. 1.529—both addressed to the Minister of National Defense, the Minister of the Interior, the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), the Chief of the State of Siege Zone, etc. The response has always been the same: "SHE IS NOT DETAINED AND THERE ARE NO CHARGES OR ARREST WARRANTS AGAINST HER." And then, WHERE IS SHE?... OSVALDO ROMO must answer. Those who ordered the application of this method of torture must answer. This war waged against a defenseless people, whose only weapons have been and are ideals of Justice, Democracy, and Liberty—for which many men and women like María Angélica have given the best of themselves, making those values a consistent commitment to their people—has caused much pain, much anguish, much exhaustion... but as a mother of a forcibly disappeared person says: "Where is he? I want to find him, it is the cry that springs from my whole being, I want to find him, I will keep saying it, because that day must, must arrive, because I did not give birth to a son so that he would be lost in NOTHINGNESS."

Source: Testimony of her mother

Case File 2.182-98: "Colombo Case" Episode, aggravated kidnapping of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo

13.-) Authorized copy of the statement on page 2748 of Osvaldo Romo Mena , who maintained that he joined the DINA on May 20, 1974. Regarding María Angélica Andreoli Bravo , he maintained that she was at José Domingo Cañas ; only the Caupolicán brigade worked there, with the teams of Krassnoff, Lawrence, Pablito, and Gerardo Godoy .

When José Domingo Cañas was closed, they moved to Villa Grimaldi , and of the detainees, only one of the Andrónicos Antequera and Cristián VanYurick Altamirano arrived there. He does not know where the rest of the detainees ended up.

Luz Arce and the Flaca Alejandra might know, since they lived there at José Domingo Cañas . These women did not move to Villa Grimaldi , but stayed there, they stayed living there. The Flaca Alejandra was also at Villa Grimaldi when they brought in the detainee Pinina, María Angélica Andreoli , who said to the Flaca Alejandra, " this motherfucking skinny bitch should be put here on the iron and put in the water ," referring to the wet submarine, which was applied at Villa Grimaldi , that is, putting the detainee in a well with water to drown them; Moren did this.

Regarding María Angélica Andreoli , he did not arrest her; he went on two occasions to arrest her accompanied by the Flaca Alejandra , to her house on Bilbao. The first time, the aunt said she would be back, but she never arrived; the second time she wasn't there either, and the third time, he didn't go anymore and she was arrested by a group of Tulio or the Gordos .

He understands that the Chica Pinina, by the date. She was arrested not at Londres 38 , but at José Domingo Cañas . He did not see her detained at José Domingo Cañas but at Villa Grimaldi , an occasion on which he saw that Moren Brito put her in the water several times and Pinina told him, "I'm going to drown." Moren would reply that "cows drown through their asses, so from here I'm going to see if you are drowning," since they submerged her headfirst.

The torture was materially executed by Tulio Pereira and Manuel Lucero Lobos , all under the command of Manuel Moren Brito , both deceased. It is not true that he spoke by telephone with Verónica Andreoli, since he spoke with the father at her house on Montenegro, and they were waiting for the brother who was bringing the money from Argentina.

The kid arrived and didn't bring anything. It is not true that he inserted a scrub brush into Andreoli's vagina, nor that he intervened in her death by injecting a lethal substance; that is not true. He never saw any nurse arrive at Londres 38 to attend to any detainee.

Source: Judiciary, April 10, 2015

Human Rights: Minister Paola Plaza orders that captured former DINA agent Osvaldo Pulgar Gallardo be admitted to Colina 1 prison

The order was issued after the subject was captured in the last few hours by the PDI's Police Investigation Brigade (BIPE). The former Carabineros non-commissioned officer was hiding in the district of Antuco and remained a fugitive from justice for two years.

He is sentenced to 10 years in prison for the aggravated kidnapping of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo, one of the 119 victims of the so-called Operation Colombo [UPDATED] The minister visiting human rights cases of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Paola Plaza González, issued an order for the admission to Colina 1 prison of former National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) agent Osvaldo Pulgar Gallardo, sentenced to 10 years in prison for the aggravated kidnapping of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo, one of the 119 victims of the so-called Operation Colombo.

The order was issued after the subject was captured in the last few hours by the PDI's Police Investigation Brigade (BIPE). The former Carabineros non-commissioned officer was hiding in the district of Antuco, Biobío Region, and remained a fugitive from justice for two years.

The magistrate explained that "on this date, the convicted Osvaldo Pulgar Gallardo, sentenced in case file 2.82-1998 Operation Colombo: María Angélica Andreoli Bravo Episode, was placed at the disposal of the court.

An admission order is being issued so that he may serve the sentence of major imprisonment in its minimum degree that was imposed on him for his participation in the aggravated kidnapping of this victim," said the minister.

She added: "The convicted man remained in a state of rebellion, a fugitive, and had evaded the action of justice once he was notified of the first-instance sentence, and through coordinated activity with the PDI, his whereabouts were discovered inside the city of Los Ángeles." Victim In the investigation stage of the case, visiting minister Hernán Crisosto Greisse established that: "in the afternoon of August 6, 1974, María Angélica Andreoli Bravo, a militant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), was arrested at her home located at Bilbao N° 5989 in the district of Las Condes, Santiago, by agents belonging to the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), who forced her into the back of a pickup truck and transported her to the clandestine detention facility called 'Yucatán' or 'Londres 38,' located at that address in the city of Santiago, which was guarded by armed guards and to which only DINA agents had access." "That the victim Andreoli Bravo, during her stay at the Londres 38 barracks, remained without contact with the outside world, blindfolded and tied up, being continuously subjected to interrogations under torture by DINA agents operating in said barracks regarding her party activities and the name and address of her political group comrades in order to proceed with the arrest of its members, being also seen subjected to interrogations under torture at the DINA barracks called Villa Grimaldi," he added. It was also established that "the last time the victim Andreoli Bravo was seen alive occurred on an undetermined day in the month of August or September 1974, remaining disappeared to this date." He also maintains that "the name of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo appeared on a list of 119 people, published in the national press after it appeared on a list published in the Brazilian magazine Novo O’ Día of Curitiba, dated June 25, 1975, which reported that María Angélica Andreoli Bravo had died in Argentina, along with 58 other people belonging to the MIR, due to internal quarrels that arose among those members." Finally, it was determined that "the publications that declared the victim Andreoli Bravo dead had their origin in disinformation maneuvers carried out by DINA agents abroad."

Source: elmostrador.cl 7/1/2021

Date: 07-01-2021

University of Chile to award posthumous degrees to 104 executed and disappeared persons (excerpt)

Symbolic recognition will be directed at former students murdered during the military regime.

Through exempt decree number 0030766 of the University of Chile, authorized by the Comptroller General of the Republic on September 4 of this year, said university was enabled, for the first time in its history, to award posthumous and symbolic degrees to students who were political executions victims and those who became forcibly disappeared during the military regime.

The official ceremony, which will be led by Rector Ennio Vivaldi, will take place next Monday the 11th, in the Domeyko courtyard of the main campus, starting at 12:30 p.m. For Vivaldi, "this initiative has two very profound meanings.

On one hand, it is a gesture of reparation for the victims themselves and for their families, who also affectively associate their loved ones with this great institution that is the U. of Chile. On the other hand, the U. of Chile feels it is fulfilling its moral duty by not granting the dictatorship the terrible objective of, in addition to having cut their lives short, erasing their achievements as students and future professionals for Chile." The list includes 104 former students of the university who were murdered by State agents between 1973 and 1989.

Among the most remembered cases is that of history student Jécar Nehgme, who also appears as the last victim of Augusto Pinochet's regime. This former leader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) was found dead on September 4, 1989, on General Bulnes Street, a few days before the elections that would mark the return to democracy.

After a long judicial process, which was resolved in 2008, it was established that the authors of the murder were the metropolitan chief of the CNI, Brigadier (ret.) Enrique Levy Araneda; Colonel (ret.) Pedro Guzmán Olivares; and Captain (ret.) Luis Sanhueza Ross.

Social organizations valued the gesture. The president of the Association of Families of Political Executions Victims (Afep), Alicia Lira, pointed out that "it is a great gesture, which we recognize enormously.

With this, Rector Vivaldi fulfills a pending task that the University of Chile had, since similar gestures had already been fulfilled by other universities such as the U. of Santiago and the Austral of Valdivia.

But it is a huge signal for democracy and for a true 'never again' to be fulfilled in Chile." On the list of University of Chile students who were victims of the civil-military dictatorship is MARIA ANGELICA ANDREOLI BRAVO, forcibly disappeared on 8/6/1974.

Source: latercera.cl 09/08/2017

Date: 09-08-2017

The tiles of Londres 38 (excerpt)

It is very different to walk today along Londres Street, in the heart of Santiago, than to have done so blindfolded to enter No. 38, a clandestine detention and torture center of the dictatorship. However, the memorial that has just been inaugurated there will make it possible to appreciate some plaques that repeat the effect of the tiles that the detainees managed to glimpse, from under the blindfold, upon entering "Yucatán," the name the DINA gave to that clandestine barracks.

Among the cobblestones of the narrow street, in front of the dilapidated house that until the coup d'état was the headquarters of the Socialist Party, 300 white marble and black granite plaques were installed.

They remember the 96 Chileans who were forcibly disappeared from there between September 1973 and the end of 1974. Survivors, family members, and comrades of the fallen, personalities, artists, and authorities attended the inaugural act of this space.

The Londres 38 Collective, promoter of the initiative, emphasized that "Never Again" is not a matter of the future, but a current task which, however, "is not guaranteed by the mere knowledge of the horror.

It is necessary to promote a rational and political judgment about what happened and about its relationship with this time, in which we continue to live with impunity. There is an unsatisfied demand for truth and justice, and as long as there is no full response to that demand, the past will continue to be part of our present." For the families, "the memory associated with this site, so often and for so long hidden, is to account for the political and generational identity of the victims, in their vast majority militants of the MIR, young people who were an active part of the social and political struggles of the time. Men and women who chose to resist the dictatorship, part of those who from the beginning fought to recover democracy. It is for this reason that today they cannot be absent from its construction: a society that prides itself on being democratic cannot be so if it forgets those who fought for it, because that forgetting does not weigh only on the kidnapped and disappeared, on the omitted, but on the society itself that forgets a piece of its own life." The attendees—many with their voices choked by emotion—chanted "present" when the names of the fallen were read, engraved on the plaques that also indicate their date of detention, age, and affiliation, among them MARIA ANGELICA ANDREOLI BRAVO.

Source: puntofinal.cl November 2008