Political Affiliation: Member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ERNESTO REINANTE RAIPAN

Name: ERNESTO REINANTE RAIPAN ID: No information DOB: 29 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Fundo Trafún, Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ALBERTO SEGUNDO REINANTE RAIPAN

Name: ALBERTO SEGUNDO REINANTE RAIPAN ID: No information DOB: 39 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Fundo Trafún, Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Married, 4 children Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

JOSE HECTOR BORQUEZ LEVICAN

Name: JOSE HECTOR BORQUEZ LEVICAN ID: No information DOB: 01-22-31, 42 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli Marital Status: Married, four children Occupation: Lumber worker and administrator at the Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli Political Affiliation: No known political affiliation Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ALEJANDRO ANTONIO TRACANAO PINCHEIRA

Name: ALEJANDRO ANTONIO TRACANAO PINCHEIRA ID: No information DOB: 22 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli Marital Status: Widower, two children Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Linked to the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

MIGUEL JOSE TRACANAO PINCHEIRA

Name: MIGUEL JOSE TRACANAO PINCHEIRA ID: No information DOB: 25 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Linked to the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ELISEO MAXIMILIANO TRACANAO PINCHEIRA

Name: ELISEO MAXIMILIANO TRACANAO PINCHEIRA ID: No information DOB: 10-22-55, 17 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Linked to the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

LUIS ALFREDO RIVERA CATRICHEO

Name: LUIS ALFREDO RIVERA CATRICHEO ID: No information DOB: 54 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli Marital Status: Single Occupation: Lumber worker at the Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli Political Affiliation: No known political affiliation Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

SALVADOR ALAMOS RUBILAR

Name: SALVADOR ALAMOS RUBILAR ID: No information DOB: 45 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Married, 9 children Occupation: Lumber industrialist Political Affiliation: Partido Socialista Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

LUIS ARMANDO LAGOS TORRES

Name: LUIS ARMANDO LAGOS TORRES ID: No information DOB: 50 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Widower, 9 children Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Partido Socialista Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

CARLOS SEGUNDO FIGUEROA ZAPATA

Name: CARLOS SEGUNDO FIGUEROA ZAPATA ID: 25.911 of Curacautín DOB: 07-25-26, 47 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Fundo Paimún, Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Married, 6 children Occupation: Lumber worker Political Affiliation: Union Councilor for the Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli representing Fundo Raimún. Partido Socialista. Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

MAURICIO SEGUNDO CURIÑANCO REYES

Name: MAURICIO SEGUNDO CURIÑANCO REYES ID: No information DOB: 38 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Single Occupation: Carpenter/Artisan Political Affiliation: Partido Socialista Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

ISAIAS JOSE FUENTEALBA CALDERON

Name: ISAIAS JOSE FUENTEALBA CALDERON ID: 25.220 of Villarrica DOB: 04-07-44, 29 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Fundo Trafún, Liquiñe Marital Status: Married Occupation: Area Chief, Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli, Fundo Trafún Political Affiliation: Member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.) Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

DANIEL ANTONIO CASTRO LOPEZ

Name: DANIEL ANTONIO CASTRO LOPEZ ID: No information DOB: 68 years of age at the time of his detention Address: Liquiñe, Valdivia Marital Status: Married, 7 children Occupation: Merchant, correspondent for the newspaper "El Clarín" in Temuco. Political Affiliation: Partido Socialista Date of Detention: October 10, 1973

On October 10, 1973, between 9:00 PM and 11:00 PM, the following individuals were detained in the Liquiñe sector, within the Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli: Luis Alfredo Rivera Catricheo, lumber worker, no known political affiliation; Eliseo Maximiliano Tracanao Pincheira, lumber worker, linked to the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.); Miguel José Tracanao Pincheira, lumber worker, linked to the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.); Alejandro Antonio Tracanao Pincheira, lumber worker, linked to the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.); Salvador Alamos Rubilar, lumber industrialist, member of the Partido Socialista; José Héctor Bórquez Levicán, lumber worker, work foreman at Fundo Trafún, member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.); Alberto Segundo Reinante Raipán, lumber worker, member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.); Ernesto Reinante Raipán, lumber worker, member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario; Modesto Juan Reinante Raipán, lumber worker, member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.); Luis Armando Lagos Torres, lumber worker, member of the Partido Socialista; Carlos Segundo Figueroa Zapata, lumber worker, councilor for Fundo Paimún to the Union of the Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli, member of the Partido Socialista; Mauricio Segundo Curiñanco Reyes, carpenter/artisan, member of the Partido Socialista; Isaías José Fuentealba Calderón, Area Chief at Fundo Trafún of the Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli, member of the Movimiento Campesino Revolucionario (M.C.R.); Daniel Antonio Castro López, merchant, correspondent for the newspaper "El Clarín" in Temuco, member of the Partido Socialista.

For its part, the report of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation includes the names of the following victims as part of this same repressive situation: Carlos Alberto Cayumán Cayumán; and the 27-year-old teacher from Puerto Fuy, Bernarda Rosalba Vera Contardo, a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionario (MIR).

The detentions were carried out by uniformed personnel who carried a list with the names of the detainees. The apprehending group was composed of military personnel wearing combat uniforms who belonged to the No. 3 Helicopter Group "Maquehua" of the city of Temuco, of the Chilean Air Force (FACH); some Carabineros officers from the Liquiñe station, and civilians from the area.

They moved in private vehicles, a pickup truck from the Agricultural and Livestock Service (S.A.G.), a police vehicle, an ambulance from the Liquiñe station, and they also had the support of a FACH helicopter.

The captors acted in several groups, which met at the Coñaripe junction, near all the locations where the detentions were carried out. There, they took the road to Villarrica, and around 2:00 AM on October 11, 1973, on the bridge over the Toltén River, they proceeded to kill them and throw their bodies into the water.

Some of the bodies were found days later by a group of people working on the banks of the Toltén River. The bodies were placed in sacks with stones so they would not float; however, some bodies surfaced. This situation was immediately reported to the Carabineros, who, by order of the officer on duty, proceeded to push the bodies back into the river's current.

Among the testimonies obtained is that of Honorinda Lagos Sepúlveda, spouse of Isaías Fuentealba Calderón, Area Chief of the Complejo Maderero y Forestal Panguipulli, who points out regarding her husband that he left early on the morning of October 10, 1973, after his driver picked him up, and they traveled from Trafún to Liquiñe, about 14 km away.

Upon returning in the afternoon, at a place called Los Canelales, the victim was detained by Carabineros, who left Isaías Fuentealba's document holder, which contained documentation from the Lumber Complex, in the driver's possession so that he could deliver it to his spouse.

Part of this testimony indicates that the detainees were taken to the Liquiñe Inn, owned by Tulio García, where they were beaten and kept in a cabin. After that, they were taken out tied up and blindfolded, being transported in vehicles.

For its part, the family of Salvador Alamos Rubilar stated that the victim had been detained previously, remaining in that condition from September 18 to 28, 1973, for alleged links to a failed ambush on the Neltume station.

His captors on that occasion were Carabineros; they detained him along with his 17-year-old son, Salvador. Alamos Rubilar was tortured. His arrest on October 10, 1973, was carried out by military personnel in the presence of his daughter, Mirta Alamos, who noted that there were more detainees in the vehicle into which they loaded her father, tied by his hands and feet.

The victim's spouse, Mrs. Elcira Figueroa, immediately began searching for him in various places such as the Logistics Battalion of Valdivia, the Public Jail, the Military Prosecutor's Office of Temuco, etc.

On one occasion, while interviewing the Military Prosecutor, a high-ranking officer who was present intervened, telling her that the operation was carried out by "Boinas Negras" (Black Beret) Commandos from Colina, so the local military authorities had nothing to do with it, adding: "it is better to mourn and grieve for the dead."

All the aforementioned victims, executed outside of any legal process by State agents who violated their right to life and then hid their bodies, preventing their families from giving them a dignified burial, remain in the status of forcibly disappeared.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

There is no knowledge that any judicial proceedings have been carried out.

Eliseo Maximiliano Tracanao Pincheira appears in the report of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, and in a sworn statement by his mother, Mrs. Margarita del Carmen Valenzuela González, as Eliseo Maximiliano Tracanao Valenzuela.

This surname had to be rectified, because the young man is actually registered in the Civil Registry by his grandmother with the surnames Tracanao Pincheira.

Source: Corporation report

The Santiago Court of Appeals confirmed this Friday the 18-year prison sentence against retired Colonel Hugo Alberto Guerra Jorquera for the kidnapping of 11 peasants who were executed in 1973 but whose bodies were never found, judicial sources reported.

The peasants were from the town of Liquiñe and worked at a local lumber complex. The appellate court rejected an appeal filed by Guerra Jorquera to invalidate the sentence imposed by Judge Alejandro Solís in January 2006, which is currently the harshest sentence handed down for human rights violations.

The retired Army colonel was also ordered to pay 250 million pesos (about 480,000 dollars) as compensation, by virtue of a civil lawsuit filed against him by five relatives of the victims. According to the Rettig Report, which documented human rights violations during the regime of the late dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), the agricultural workers were detained in a joint operation by the Carabineros police from the Liquiñe station, Army personnel, and civilians.

The peasants were taken to the Villarrica bridge over the Toltén River, where they were executed and their bodies were never found. Among the executed are the brothers Modesto, Ernesto, and Alberto Reinante Raipán, all three workers and members of the Panguipulli lumber complex union.

The plaintiff lawyer, Nelson Caucoto, celebrated the ruling because, as he said, it confirms the crimes and establishes exemplary punishments against the accused.

Source: August 3, 2007 El Mostrador Date: 08-03-2007

Judge Solís handed down the highest penalty to date in human rights cases

The magistrate sentenced a retired Army lieutenant colonel to 18 years of major imprisonment in its maximum degree for the aggravated kidnapping of 11 peasants in Liquiñe. Minister Alejandro Solís handed down this Thursday the highest penalty known for a case linked to human rights violations during the military regime led by General (R) Augusto Pinochet.

The magistrate sentenced retired Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Alberto Guerra Jorquera to 18 years of major imprisonment in its maximum degree as the perpetrator of repeated crimes of aggravated kidnapping in the so-called "Liquiñe episode." The ruling is based on the repression suffered starting October 10, 1973, by a group of 11 peasants who sympathized with the Unidad Popular (UP), in the foothills sector of the Tenth Region of Los Lagos.

Among the victims are Salvador Álamos Rubilar, José Héctor Bórquez Levican, Daniel Antonio Castro López, Carlos Alberto Cayuman Cayuman, Mauricio Segundo Curiñanco Reyes, Carlos Figueroa Zapata, Isaías José Fuentealba Calderón, Luis Armando Lagos Torres, Ernesto Juan Reinante Raipan, Modesto Juan Reinante Raipan, and Luis Alfredo Rivera Catricheo.

The retired Army officer was also ordered to pay a total sum of $250 million as compensation, by virtue of a civil lawsuit filed against him by five relatives of the victims. The beneficiaries, with $50 million each, will be Miguel Ángel and Isaías Julián Fuentealba Lagos, as well as Héctor Hernán, Hugo Raúl, and Didier Antonio Figueroa Arraigada.

Additionally, the owner of the Termas de Liquiñe, a civilian identified as Luis Osvaldo García Guzmán, was convicted, who in his capacity as the perpetrator of the aggravated kidnapping of Luis Armando Lagos Torres received a sentence of five years and one day.

Source: January 26, 2006 El Mostrador Date: 01-26-2006

Individual involved in Liquiñe case prosecuted

The investigating judge, Juan Guzmán Tapia, resolved tonight to prosecute Luis Osvaldo García Tapia as the perpetrator of aggravated kidnapping in the case of Luis Armando Lagos Torres, 50 years old—a worker at the Panguipulli lumber complex—a socialist militant detained in Curranco in 1973.

Luis Lagos was detained in 1973 along with 15 other people in the south, in the so-called "Caravanita Chica," in the Ninth Region.

The 16 disappeared

Salvador Alamos Rubilar José Héctor Bórquez Livican Daniel Antonio Castro López Carlos Alberto Callumán Callumán Mauricio Segundo Curiñaco Reyes Carlos Figueroa Zapata Isaías José Fuentealba Calderón Luis Armando Lagos Torres Alberto Segundo Reinante Raipán Ernesto Juan Reinante Raipán Modesto Reinante Raipán Luis Rivera Catricheo Alejandro Antonio Tracanao Pincheira José Miguel Tracanao Pincheira Eliseo Maximiliano Tracanao Valenzuela Bernarda Rosalba Vera Contardo

Source: El Mostrador – May 23, 2001 Date: 05-23-2001

Breaking the silence of children and adolescents who were political executions during the civil-military dictatorship 1973-1990

Testimonies, photographs, letters, and other documents that families and friends delivered or wrote specifically to be published are incorporated into the book "Breaking the silence of children and adolescents who were political executions during the civil-military dictatorship 1973-1990," which was produced by the Association of Relatives of Political Executed (AFEP) with the support of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Heritage, through the Culture, Memory, and Human Rights Unit, and the Human Rights Chair of the University of Chile.

The publication, based mainly on the Report of the National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (1991) and the Report of the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation (1996), seeks to reconstruct in a comprehensive and careful way each of the lives and stories of the victims.

During the research, access was gained to the archive of the Association of Relatives of Political Executed, where documents that families have preserved over the years are kept. Illustrations by Álvaro Gómez were also included. The creation process was a complex challenge that involved combining delicacy, respect, and methodological rigor to state in this work a painful and inescapable truth.

Source: cultura.gob.cl 9/14/2023

Letter from Nadia Reinante to her great-uncles Alberto, Ernesto, and Modesto.

Hello family, I hope you have been able to find your place in heaven. I know we didn't meet in person, but I want you to know that I would have loved to; I know we would have had a lot in common. My mom says you loved music, sports, and joy in general.

It's a shame that for thinking differently, they took your lives away... I will tell you that we have never stopped shouting your names, nor carrying the only photo we have of you, Alberto, with the hope that one day they will tell us where you are.

When I was a girl, they made fun of me a lot for participating in marches and rallies that remembered you. There were people who told us that you were better off dead for being communists. I never accepted that thinking differently was a cause to be murdered and disappeared, but well, this Chile that you knew has been changing, and it changed more deeply on October 18 of last year.

A boy in Santiago jumped the subway barrier and didn't pay his fare, which had gone up 30 pesos, and all hell broke loose. Literally, all of Chile started to organize spontaneously. We started to gather in the squares of every city with simple pots and spoons to make noise and shout about the inequalities we have.

I went to the first rally here in the square in Valdivia; I went with my husband and my 3-year-old daughter. Truly, no one was doing anything wrong, when out of nowhere the "pacos" (police) arrived and threw tear gas bombs at us, without caring about the children or the elderly who were in the place.

I felt so much rage, I couldn't believe it, so much abuse, but that was just the first sample I could see. And without being afraid of the "zorrillo" (riot vehicle), the "guanaco" (water cannon), or a detention, I went out to the streets with more strength, and I wasn't the only one.

Every day there were more of us; it was so beautiful to see us united like that. The attacks by the Carabineros started to get harder every day; they took students prisoner for shouting. What was going on?

It was like they were taking whoever crossed their path, and people started to disappear again, and some appeared dead, but according to forensic reports, they killed themselves... No one believed their setups.

They tried to point to all of us as vandals, criminals, who only sought to destroy, or at least that's what the television broadcast. I remembered you so much, that you didn't even go out to protest and they took you; they lifted you from your beds to take you to be tortured and then killed, without you causing any harm, just for being workers who hoped for something better in your futures.

Ah, but if you had been rich, the story would be different. In Temuco, there is a rapist, and because he has money, they wouldn't even send him to prison, but we started to apply pressure and he is now behind bars in Valdivia.

Social pressure does work; the bad thing is that it has very high costs for the most vulnerable. I think of each one of you: Modesto, the youngest, you were just 18 years old, and they didn't let you live, know, or enjoy life.

Alberto, you already had your family, your children, and they left you without being able to see your youngest daughter born, nor raise any of them. Ernesto, you were just getting to know love, just starting to feel, and they took everything from you, from one minute to the next...

My mom has never stopped fighting; she is already 84 years old and still cries when she tells her stories. She loves you with her soul, and she has transmitted all that love to me, and that strength to fight for you, for all those they killed, and so that these aberrations are never again silenced or hidden in Chile.

I love you very much, and I promise you that we will never forget you. Signed, Nadia Reinante (28 years old), great-niece of Alberto Reinante Raipan, Ernesto Reinante Raipan, Modesto Reinante Raipan.

Source: epistolariodelamemoria.cl 09/11/2020 Date: 09-11-2020