Jose Guillermo Montenegro Valenzuela
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Background
Jose Guillermo Montenegro Valenzuela
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Case summary
José Guillermo Montenegro Valenzuela was an officer or non-commissioned officer in the Chilean Army and an agent of the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE). He was identified as one of those responsible for the disappearance and death of former DINA chemist Eugenio Berríos in Uruguay, an event that occurred in the early 1990s to obstruct justice in the Letelier case.
MemoriaViva[1]
Six officers and non-commissioned officers of the Ejército, all currently on active duty and who were agents of the Ejército Intelligence Directorate: Martin Michael Borck Keim, Santiago Gerónimo Caradeux Franulic, Carlos Ángel Espinoza López, Pedro Alejandro Jara Morales, José Guillermo Montenegro Valenzuela, and Felipe Enrique Cabrera Palacios, were identified by the Fifth Department of Investigaciones as those responsible for the disappearance and death of the former chemist and member of the DINA External Brigade, Eugenio Berrios Sagredo, in Uruguay.
The case was presented to the Sixth Criminal Court of Santiago by high-ranking officers of the Fifth Department of Investigaciones. This demonstrates that the Ejército has obstructed justice to prevent Eugenio Berrios from testifying in the Letelier case in 1991, where he was the key witness to establish the illicit association of the DINA.
Until November 1991, the head of the Ejército Intelligence Directorate was General Hernán Ramírez Rurange, who was prosecuted as a cover-up agent in the crime against union leader Tucapel Jiménez and was replaced in December of the same year by General Eugenio Covarrubias.
This information was fully known to the Concertación government. In particular, by the Undersecretary of the Interior, the Christian Democrat Jorge Burgos.
Source
EL MOSTRADOR; May 2001 Previous Next Close
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