Miguel Krassnoff, Marcelo Moren Brito, and Raúl Iturriaga Neumann are among those implicated.

The minister for extraordinary causes regarding human rights violations at the Santiago Court of Appeals, Hernán Crisosto, sentenced 77 agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) this Monday for their responsibility in the kidnapping of Héctor Garay Hermosilla in 1974.

Garay Hermosilla, a member of the Revolutionary Student Front (FER), was 19 years old when he was detained near his home on July 8, 1974. Days later, his name appeared in the national press on a false list of 119 people killed due to alleged internal disputes within the MIR, in what was termed "Operation Colombo." According to the judge's findings, "the publications that declared the victim Garay Hermosilla dead had their origin in disinformation maneuvers carried out by DINA agents abroad."

According to the reconstruction of events carried out by the visiting minister, the DINA agents who captured Garay "forced him into the back of a gray Chevrolet C-10 pickup truck and took him to the home of a friend of the victim, who was also forced into the aforementioned truck, to be taken to an unknown destination."

"Subsequently, it was possible to establish, through testimonies, the passage of Héctor Marcial Garay Hermosilla through the clandestine detention center known as 'Londres 38,' which was guarded by armed guards and to which only DINA agents had access," the ruling continues, establishing that to date, there is no further information regarding Garay's whereabouts.

The convicted In the resolution, the presiding judge imposed sentences of 13 years in prison on: César Manríquez Bravo, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Marcelo Luis Moren Brito, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, and Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, as authors of the crime perpetrated in 1974.

Meanwhile, the following former agents must serve 10 years in prison, also in the capacity of authors: Gerardo Ernesto Urrich González, Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García, Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, Sergio Hernán Castillo González, Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, José Nelson Fuentealba Saldías, Basclay Humberto Zapata Reyes, José Enrique Fuentes Torres, José Mario Friz Esparza, Julio José Hoyos Zegarra, Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante, Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta, Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar, Gustavo Galvarino Caruman Soto, Hiro Álvarez Vega, José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, Olegario Enrique González Moreno, Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, Rudeslindo Urrutia Jorquera, Alfredo Orlando Moya Tejeda, Carlos Alfonso Sáez Sanhueza, Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo, Hernán Patricio Valenzuela Salas, Hugo Rubén Delgado Carrasco, Juan Alfredo Villanueva Alvear, Juan Evaristo Duarte Gallegos, Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza, Leónidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno, Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda, Rafael de Jesús Riveros Frost, Víctor Manuel Molina Astete, Máximo Ramón Aliaga Soto, Manuel Rivas Díaz, Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres, Risiere del Prado Altez España, Raúl Juan Rodríguez Ponte, Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca, and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle.

As accomplices to the crime of aggravated kidnapping of Garay Hermosilla, the presiding judge imposed sentences of 4 years in prison on: Luis Eduardo Mora Cerda, José Jaime Mora Diocares, Camilo Torres Negrier, Carlos Justo Bermúdez Méndez, Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, Fernando Adrián Roa Montaña, Gerardo Meza Acuña, Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya, Jaime Humberto Paris Ramos, Jorge Laureano Sagardia Monje, José Dorohi Hormazábal Rodríguez, José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo, José Stalin Muñoz Leal, Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, Luis René Torres Méndez, Manuel Antonio Montre Méndez, Moisés Paulino Campos Figueroa, Nelson Aquiles Ortiz Vignolo, Nelson Eduardo Iturriaga Cortés, Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, Reinaldo Alfonso Concha Orellana, Sergio Hernán Castro Andrade, Víctor Manuel de la Cruz San Martín Jiménez, Gustavo Humberto Apablaza Meneses, Héctor Carlos Díaz Cabezas, Jorge Antonio Lepileo Barrios, Óscar Belarmino la Flor Flores, Rufino Espinoza Espinoza, Héctor Manuel Lira Aravena, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, Sergio Iván Díaz Lara, Juan Miguel Troncoso Soto, and Roberto Hernán Rodríguez Manquel.

Meanwhile, Rodolfo Valentino Cocha Rodríguez and Armando Segundo Cofre Correa were acquitted due to a lack of participation in the events.

Source: t13.cl, August 31, 2015

Among the accused, all retired, are eight colonels and 23 army non-commissioned officers, 40 Carabineros officers and non-commissioned officers, two former FACH agents, one former Navy agent, and seven former Investigative Police agents.

The biggest blow to the repression of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship was dealt yesterday by Minister Víctor Montiglio, who indicted 98 former agents from different branches of the Armed Forces, Carabineros, and Investigative Police for 42 victims of Operation Colombo.

This is the largest resolution issued among the nearly 400 human rights violation cases currently being investigated in the country. It even surpassed the 67 former agents indicted by Judge Montiglio himself in 2007 for the crimes of the Lautaro Brigade and its Delfín Group at the Simón Bolívar barracks.

Among those indicted for Colombo are eight Army colonels (R), six of whom had not been indicted in any case before. Also declared defendants were 23 Army non-commissioned officers (R), of whom at least 50 percent appear for the first time in these types of cases.

Among these non-commissioned officers is Juvenal Piña, alias "El Elefante," a former agent of the Lautaro Brigade, who was the one who suffocated the clandestine Communist leader (1976) Víctor Díaz with a plastic bag over his head, before injecting him with cyanide.

In addition, the magistrate indicted 40 former Carabineros officers and non-commissioned officers, including Ricardo Lawrence, Heriberto Acevedo, Claudio Pacheco, and José Mora, all former members of the same Brigade. Among those indicted are also former agents who belonged to the Investigative Police. The only civilian (Army) is Juan Suárez.

Of the total list, at least thirteen are already serving sentences for other cases (see list).

As of the closing of this edition, the accused were still being detained to be interned in various locations, such as the Peñalolén Military Police Battalion.

Among the 42 victims for whom the minister issued his resolution are María Angélica Andreolli, Miguel Acuña Castillo, Juan Carlos Perelmann Ide, Juan Chacón Olivares, Jorge Müller Silva, Luis Guendelmann Wisniak, Mario Calderón Tapia, and Carmen Bueno Cifuentes.

Operation Colombo and the media

The list of the 119 was published in the magazine Lea (Buenos Aires) and the newspaper O Dia (Brazil) in 1975, information that was also false. Both publications were created by DINA agents.

Operation Colombo was part of Operation Condor and consisted of a setup by the dictatorship to make the population believe that 119 detainees who were forcibly disappeared had clandestinely left for Argentina and died there in clashes with police and Army forces during the phase prior to the 1976 military coup in Argentina.

Some of those names appeared as militants "murdered" in Buenos Aires and its surroundings, with signs on their bodies stating that they had been executed by their own comrades as a settling of scores for internal disputes. However, this also turned out to be a setup.

The list of the 119 was published in the magazine Lea (Buenos Aires) and the newspaper O Dia (Brazil) in 1975, information that was also false. Both publications were created by DINA agents abroad and had only one edition.

In Chile, the pro-dictatorship press, such as the newspapers El Mercurio, La Tercera, Las Ultimas Noticias, and La Segunda, reproduced the intelligence services' setup. The headline of the evening paper that reported "Exterminated like rats: 59 Chilean MIR members fall in military operation in Argentina" remains in memory. They were part of the list of the 119 disappeared from Colombo.

The former fugitive Raúl Iturriaga, who was one of those in charge of the DINA's foreign department, was the one who first shed light on this operation in Buenos Aires.

According to former civilian agent Enrique Arancibia Clavel, convicted in Buenos Aires for the crime of General Carlos Prats and his wife, it was Iturriaga who met with him at the beginning of 1975 to ask him to prepare what was necessary because "we have to make some dead people from Operation Colombo appear."

It was about preparing the appearance of the alleged bodies of Jaime Robotham and Luis Guendelmann as part of the setup.

List of indicted

Army (all retired)

Víctor Molina Astete (colonel); Sergio Castillo González (col); Eduardo Guerra Guajardo (col); Víctor San Martín Jiménez (col); José Fuentes Torres (col); Manuel Carevic Cubillos (col); Jaime Paris Ramos (col); César Manríquez Bravo (col); Raúl Toro Montes (non-commissioned officer); Eduardo Reyes Lagos (NCO); Orlando Torrejón Gatica (NCO); Osvaldo Tapia Alvarez (NCO; committed suicide); Juvenal Piña Garrido (NCO; "El Elefante"); Juan Suárez Delgado (civilian); Nelson Paz Bustamante (NCO); José Aravena Ruiz (NCO); Luis Torres Méndez (NCO); Raúl Soto Pérez (NCO); Jorge Andrade Gómez (NCO); Juan Escobar Valenzuela (NCO); Rolando Concha Rodríguez (NCO); Gustavo Apablaza Meneses (NCO); Hiro Alvarez Vega (NCO); Víctor Alvarez Droguett (NCO); Jorge Venegas Silva (NCO); Carlos Rinaldi Suazo (NCO); Carlos Letelier Verdugo (NCO); Reinaldo Concha Orelana (NCO); Máximo Aliaga Soto (NCO); Hugo Clavería Leiva (NCO); Samuel Fuenzalida Devia (NCO)

Investigative Police

Juan Urbina Cáceres; Hugo Hernández; Manuel Rivas Díaz; Herman Alfaro; Eugenio Fieldhouse; Osvaldo Castillo

Carabineros (officers and non-commissioned officers, all retired)

Gerardo Godoy García; Ciro Torres Sáez; Alejandro Molina Cisternas; Camilo Torres Negrier; Héctor Lira Aravena; José Fritz Esparza; Claudio Pacheco Fernández; Jorge Sagardia Monge; Sergio Castro Andrade; Luis Villarroel Gutiérrez; Armando Cofré Gómez; Fernando Roa Montaña; Gerardo Meza Acuña; Enrique Gutiérrez Rubilar; Luis Mora Cerda; José Muñoz Leal; Juan Duarte Gallegos; Carlos Miranda Meza; Rufino Jaime Astorga; Luis Urrutia Acuña; Luis Zúñiga Ovalle; Pedro Alfaro Hernández; Orlando Inostroza Lagos; Rosa Ramos Hernández; Gustavo Caruvan Soto; Héctor Valdebenito Araya; Manuel Avendaño González; José Mora Diocares; Guido Jara Brevis; Nelson Ortiz Vignolo; Ruderlindo Urrutia Jorquera; Héctor Flores Vergara; Jerónimo Neira Méndez; Manuel Montré Méndez; Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo; Claudio Orellana de la Pinta; Nelson Iturriaga Cortés; Luis Gutiérrez Uribe; José Ojeda Obando

Air Force Delia Gajardo Cortés; Hernán Avalos Muñoz

Navy Teresa Navarro Osorio

Indicted who are already serving sentences

Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda; Pedro Espinoza Bravo; Raúl Iturriaga Neumann; Marcelo Moren Brito; Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko; Ricardo Lawrence Mires; Basclay Zapata Reyes; Conrado Pacheco; Francisco Ferrer Lima; Gerardo Urrich; Orlando Manzo Durán; Rizier Altez España; Fernando Lauriani Maturana

Source: La Nación, May 27, 2008

Calle Conferencia Case: Indictment issued against 53 former agents of the dissolved DINA

The visiting minister, Miguel Vásquez, issued the criminal indictment against 53 former agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for the disappearance and death of the members of the second clandestine leadership of the Communist Party in 1976.

The list is headed by General (r) Manuel Contreras, and among the accused are 11 women, one of them Gladys Calderón, the torturer known as "Doctora Hoffmann," where the magistrate also expanded the extradition request against Adriana Rivas, currently in Australia.

In this way, Judge Vásquez is preparing for the final stage of the trial in the old criminal procedure to then issue a first-instance sentence in the investigation into the repression of the second clandestine leadership of the Communist Party in 1976, known as "Calle Conferencia Two."

According to the investigation, starting on December 13, 1976, in different parts of the capital, mainly the eastern zone, the former agents detained Fernando Navarro Allendes, Lincoyán Berríos Cataldo, Horacio Cepeda Marinkovic, Fernando Ortiz Letelier, Héctor Véliz Ramírez, and Waldo Ulises Pizarro Molina, all Communist militants, whom they took to a secret barracks located at 8800 Simón Bolívar Street, La Reina commune, where they were interrogated under brutal torture and subsequently forcibly disappeared.

The DINA relied on the LAUTARO Brigade and the Mehuín and Delfín units with the primary objective of repressing, detaining, and dismantling the PC, and where several women participated in the illegal coercion, such as Gladys Calderón, nicknamed "Doctora Hoffmann" because she gave lethal injections to the detainees, Adriana Rivas, Berta Jiménez, and Celinda Aspe, who on paper appeared as secretaries to the DINA director, General Manuel Contreras, but in truth were "operatives" to execute the crimes.

One of the victims is Waldo Pizarro, father of the president of the Association of Relatives of the Forcibly Disappeared, Lorena Pizarro, who said that upon learning of this judicial decision, she still has doubts, especially regarding the benefits granted to those convicted in the Degollados case.

Pizarro said that "I still don't know what happened to him, I only know generalities, because the pact of silence continues among the uniformed personnel, because justice, as far as possible, continues to be present. And because later we have a state that pardons or gives benefits to those who committed these brutal and serious acts, which I hope never happen to anyone ever again."

The person who provided the most accounts of the Simón Bolívar barracks was Jorgelino Vergara Bravo, the so-called "mocito" (errand boy) of the DINA, who asserts that the detainees were executed, put in sacks, some were fitted with rails to be thrown into the sea, into the Lonquén lime mines, or Cuesta Barriga, and who in the case recounts that Fernando Ortiz, at the time, begged them to kill him because they had broken his legs with sticks.

At the same time, Judge Vásquez requested to expand the extradition for these events against Adriana Rivas, currently in Australia, where lawyer Eduardo Contreras is confident that the Oceanian country will send her to Chile.

The plaintiff lawyer Eduardo Contreras valued this expansion, pointing out that "this decision by Minister Vásquez shows how the courts are acting now, and it seems to us to be a historic decision, since Adriana Rivas, who participated in the entire extermination of the Communist Party leaderships in the fateful Simón Bolívar barracks, is a central figure, both for her own responsibility and for the information she handles.

According to the current institutional framework that unites both countries, Chile and Australia, the extradition of this woman is absolutely viable," said the jurist.

Last January, Judge Vásquez requested the same extradition of Rivas to Australia for the disappearance of the PC general secretary, Víctor Díaz.

List of accused

In the resolution, Judge Vásquez indicates: "And in accordance, furthermore, with the provisions of articles 424 and 426 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, it is declared that this case is elevated to plenary and the following are accused: I. (1) Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, (2) Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, (3) Juan Hernán Morales Salgado, (4) Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, (5) Federico Humberto Chaigneau Sepúlveda, (6) Hernán Luis Sovino Maturana, (7) Gladys de las Mercedes Calderón Carreño, (8) Eduardo Antonio Reyes Lagos, (9) Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, (10) José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, (11) Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, (12) Jorge Laureano Sagardía Monje, (13) Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya, (14) Bernardo del Rosario Daza Navarro, (15) Sergio Orlando Escalona Acuña, (16) Jorge Lientur Manríquez Manterola, (17) José Miguel Meza Serrano, (18) Luis Alberto Lagos Yáñez, (19) María Angélica Guerrero Soto, (20) Jorge Iván Díaz Radulovich, (21) Guillermo Jesús Ferrán Martínez, (22) Jorge Segundo Pichunmán Curiqueo, (23) Orfa Yolanda Saavedra Vásquez, (24) Elisa del Carmen Magna Astudillo, (25) Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta, (26) Eduardo Alejandro Oyarce Riquelme, (27) Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo, (28) Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, (29) Emilio Hernán Troncoso Vivallos, (30) Sergio Hernán Castro Andrade, (31) Teresa del Carmen Navarro Navarro, (32) Juan Edmundo Suazo Saldaña, (33) Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, (34) José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo, (35) Carlos Enrique Miranda Mesa, (36) Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, (37) Orlando del Tránsito Altamirano Sanhueza, (38) Gustavo Enrique Guerrero Aguilera, (39) Manuel Antonio Montre Méndez, (40) Guillermo Eduardo Díaz Ramírez, (41) Hiro Álvarez Vega, (42) Celinda Angélica Aspe Rojas, (43) Jorge Hugo Arriagada Mora, (44) Berta Yolanda del Carmen Jiménez Escobar, (45) Carlos Justo Bermúdez Méndez, (46) Eduardo Patricio Cabezas Mardones, (47) Adriana Elcira Rivas González, (48) Carlos Eusebio López Inostroza, (49) Italia Donata Vaccarella Gilio, Camilo Torres Negrier, Joyce Ana Ahumada Despouy, Marilín Melahani Silva Vergara, and José Domingo Seco Alarcón, as co-authors of the crimes of aggravated kidnapping of Fernando Alfredo Navarro Allendes, committed starting December 13, 1976, and Lincoyán Yalú Berríos Cataldo, Horacio Cepeda Marinkovic, Juan Fernando Ortíz Letelier, Héctor Véliz Ramírez, committed starting December 15, 1976. II: Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Juan Hernán Morales Salgado, and Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, as co-authors of the crime of aggravated kidnapping of Waldo Ulises Pizarro Molina, committed starting December 15, 1976. III. Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Juan Hernán Morales Salgado, Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, Eduardo Antonio Reyes Lagos, Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, Jorge Iván Díaz Radulovich, Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo, Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, Emilio Hernán Troncoso Vivallos, Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, Orlando del Tránsito Altamirano Sanhueza, Carlos Enrique Miranda Mesa, Guillermo Eduardo Díaz Ramírez, Eduardo Patricio Cabezas Mardones, Carlos Eusebio López Inostroza, and José Domingo Seco Alarcón, as co-authors of three crimes of aggravated homicide of Juan Fernando Ortiz Letelier, Horacio Cepeda Marinkovic, and Lincoyán Yalú Berríos Cataldo, perpetrated between December 15, 1976, and December 25, 1976, in the city of Santiago."

Source: Publimetro.cl, February 7, 2014

Judge Crisosto indicts nearly a hundred former DINA agents for kidnappings in the context of Operation Colombo

The presiding judge of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Hernán Crisosto Greisse, issued three new indictments in investigative proceedings he is conducting regarding the so-called "Operation Colombo," concerning victims of aggravated kidnapping perpetrated between July 1974 and February 1975.

In the resolution, Judge Crisosto determined to indict former DINA agents for the aggravated kidnappings of Ismael Darío Chávez Lobo, which occurred on July 26, 1974; Washington Cid Urrutia, which occurred on December 8, 1974; and Rodrigo Ugas Morales, which occurred on February 7, 1975.

With this ruling, indictments have been issued to date in 33 of the 37 episodes grouped in the investigation, for a total of 57 victims. According to the gathered evidence, the following facts have been established in the case of Chávez Lobo: “During the night of July 26, 1974, Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos, a militant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), was detained at his home located at Calle Los Copihues No. 1977, in the commune of Quinta Normal, by agents belonging to the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), who transported him to the clandestine detention center known as “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. During his stay at the Londres 38 barracks, he remained without contact with the outside world, blindfolded and bound, and was continuously subjected to interrogations under torture by DINA agents operating in said barracks for the purpose of obtaining information regarding members of the MIR, in order to proceed with the detention of members of that organization; the last time Chávez Lobos was seen alive was on an undetermined day in the months of July or August 1974, and he remains forcibly disappeared to this day. The name of Ismael Darío appeared on a list of 119 people, published in the national press after it appeared on a list published in the Brazilian magazine “O’ DIA” on June 25, 1975, which reported that Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos had died in Argentina, along with 58 other people belonging to the MIR, due to internal disputes that had arisen among those members; The publications that declared the victim Chávez Lobos dead had their origin in disinformation maneuvers carried out by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate abroad.” In this branch of the case, the judge indicted the following 85 former DINA agents as co-perpetrators of the crime of aggravated kidnapping of Chávez Lobos: 01. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, 02. César Manríquez Bravo, 03. Pedro Espinoza Bravo, 04. Marcelo Moren Brito, 05. Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, 06. Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, 07. Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García, 08. Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, 09. Gerardo Ernesto Urrich González, 10. Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, 11. Sergio Hernán Castillo González, 12. Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, 13. Luis Eduardo Mora Cerda, 14. Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca, 15. Basclay Humberto Zapata Reyes, 16. José Enrique Fuentes Torres, 17. José Jaime Mora Diocares, 18. José Mario Friz Esparza, 19. Julio José Hoyos Zegarra, 20. Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante, 21. Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, 22. Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya, 23. Héctor Manuel Lira Aravena, 24. Jaime Humberto Paris Ramos, 25. Jorge Laureano Sagardia Monje, 26. José Stalin Muñoz Leal, 27. Nelson Aquiles Ortiz Vignolo, 28. Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, 29. Rudeslindo Urrutia Jorquera, 30. Víctor San Martín Jiménez, 31. Máximo Ramón Aliaga Soto, 32. Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, 33. Camilo Torres Negrier, 34. Manuel Antonio Montre Méndez, 35. Sergio Hernán Castro Andrade, 36. Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta, 37. Hiro Álvarez Vega, 38. Nelson Eduardo Iturriaga Cortés, 39. José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, 40. Carlos Justo Bermúdez Méndez, 41. Gustavo Galvarino Carumán Soto, 42. Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, 43. José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo, 44. Fernando Adrián Roa Montaña, 45. Gerardo Meza Acuña, 46. Luis René Torres Méndez, 47. Orlando Guillermo Inostroza Lagos, 48. Reinaldo Concha Orellana, 49. Rodolfo Valentino Concha Rodríguez, 50. Luis Salvador Villarroel Gutiérrez, 51. Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar, 52. Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, 53. Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres, 54. Manuel Rivas Díaz, 55. Risiere del Prado Altez España, 56. Luis Germán Gutiérrez Uribe, 57. Juan Evaristo Duarte Gallegos, 58. Víctor Manuel Molina Astete, 59. Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo, 60. Gustavo Humberto Apablaza Meneses, 61. Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, 62. Carlos López Inostroza, 63. Armando Segundo Cofré Correa, 64. José Nelson Fuentealba Saldías, 65. Moisés Paulino Campos Figueroa, 66. Olegario Enrique González Moreno, 67. José Dorohi Hormazábal Rodríguez, 68. Raúl Juan Rodríguez Ponte, 69. Hugo Rubén Delgado Carrasco, 70. Jorge Antonio Lepileo Barrios, 71. Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza, 72. Óscar Belarmino La Flor Flores, 73. Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda, 74. Rufino Espinoza Espinoza, 75. Sergio Iván Díaz Lara, 76. Carlos Alfonso Sáez Sanhueza, 77. Roberto Hernán Rodríguez Manquel, 78. Juan Alfredo Villanueva Alvear, 79. Alfredo Orlando Moya Tejeda, 80. Rafael de Jesús Riveros Frost, 81. José Germán Ampuero Ulloa, 82. Leonidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno, 83. Héctor Carlos Díaz Cabezas, 84. Hernán Patricio Valenzuela Salas, and 85. José Avelino Yévenes Vergara. Meanwhile, in the investigation into the aggravated kidnapping of Cid Urrutia, the following was established: “In the early hours of December 8, 1974, Washington Cid Urrutia, a militant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), was detained at his home located at Pasaje 15, No. 2973, Población Cervecerías Unidas, in the commune of Renca, by agents belonging to the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), who, after tying him up and blindfolding him, placed him in the back of a pickup truck and transported him to the clandestine detention centers known as “Terranova” or “Villa Grimaldi,” located at José Arrieta No. 8200, in the commune of La Reina, and “Cuatro Álamos,” located at Calle Canadá No. 3000, in Santiago, which were guarded by armed guards and to which only DINA agents had access; the victim Cid Urrutia, during his stay at the Villa Grimaldi and Cuatro Álamos barracks, remained without contact with the outside world, blindfolded and bound, and was continuously subjected to interrogations under torture by DINA agents operating in said barracks for the purpose of obtaining information regarding members of the MIR, in order to proceed with the detention of the members of that organization; The last time the victim Cid Urrutia was seen alive by other detainees was on an undetermined day in December 1974, and there is no information regarding his whereabouts to this day; The name of Washington Cid Urrutia appeared on a list of 119 people, published in the national press after it appeared on a list published in the magazine Novo O’ Día of Curitiba, Brazil, on June 25, 1975, which reported that Washington Cid Urrutia had died in Argentina, along with 58 other people belonging to the MIR, due to internal disputes that had arisen among those members; The publications that declared the victim Cid Urrutia dead had their origin in disinformation maneuvers carried out by DINA agents abroad.” For this episode, Judge Crisosto indicted the following 81 former DINA agents as co-perpetrators: 01. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, 02. César Manríquez Bravo, 03. Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, 04. Orlando Manzo Durán, 05. Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, 06. Basclay Zapata Reyes, 07. Marcelo Luis Moren Brito, 08. Francisco Maximiliano Ferrer Lima, 09. Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, 10. Fernando Eduardo Lauriani Maturana, 11. Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García, 12. Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, 13. Ciro Ernesto Torres Sáez, 14. Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, 15. Alejandro Francisco Molina Cisternas, 16. Eugenio Jesús Fieldhouse Chávez, 17. Rosa Humilde Ramos Hernández, 18. Teresa del Carmen Osorio Navarro, 19. Sylvia Teresa Oyarce Pinto, 20. Eduardo Antonio Reyes Lagos, 21. José Jaime Mora Diocares, 22. José Mario Fritz Esparza, 23. Julio José Hoyos Zegarra, 24. Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante, 25. Pedro René Alfaro Fernández, 26. Samuel Enrique Fuenzalida Devia, 27. José Abel Aravena Ruiz, 28. Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, 29. Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya, 30. Jaime Humberto Paris Ramos, 31. José Stalin Muñoz Leal, 32. Nelson Aquiles Ortiz Vignolo, 33. Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, 34. Rufino Eduardo Jaime Astorga, 35. Víctor San Martín Jiménez, 36. Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, 37. José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, 38. Gustavo Galvarino Carumán Soto, 39. Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo, 40. Luis René Torres Méndez, 41. Orlando Guillermo Inostroza Lagos, 42. Reinaldo Concha Orellana, 43. Rodolfo Valentino Concha Rodríguez, 44. Luis Salvador Villarroel Gutiérrez, 45. Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, 46. Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres, 47. Manuel Rivas Díaz, 48. Osvaldo Octavio Castillo Arellano, 49. Víctor Manuel Molina Astete, 50. Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo, 51. Guido Arnoldo Jara Brevis, 52. Hugo Hernán Clavería Leiva, 53. Jerónimo del Carmen Neira Méndez, 54. Juan Carlos Escobar Valenzuela, 55. Carlos Enrique Miranda Mesa, 56. Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, 57. Raúl Alberto Soto Pérez, 58. Manuel Heriberto Avendaño González, 59. Carlos Enrique Letelier Verdugo, 60. Herman Eduardo Ávalos Muñoz, 61. Raúl Bernardo Toro Montes, 62. Silvio Antonio Concha González, 63. Héctor Wacinton Briones Burgos, 64. Olegario Enrique González Moreno, 65. Carlos López Inostroza, 66. Ricardo Orlando Zamorano Vergara, 67. Luis Rigoberto Videla Inzunza, 68. Jorge Segundo Madariaga Acevedo, 69. Hugo Rubén Delgado Carrasco, 70. Luis Fernando Espinace Contreras, 71. Jorge Antonio Lepileo Barrios, 72. Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza, 73. Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda, 74. Palmira Isabel Almuna Guzmán, 75. Miguel Ángel Yáñez Ugalde, 76. Rafael de Jesús Riveros Frost, 77. Leónidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno, 78. Héctor Carlos Díaz Cabezas, 79. Alejandro Francisco Astudillo Adonis, 80. Demóstenes Eugenio Cárdenas Saavedra, and 81. Rodolfo Gonzalo Wenderoth Pozo. In this episode, the following were also indicted for the crime of Illicit Association: 1. Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, 2. Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, 3. Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, 4. Marcelo Luis Manuel Moren Brito, 5. Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, and 6. Rolf Gonzalo Wenderoth Pozo. In the investigation into the aggravated kidnapping of Ugas Morales, it was established “that in the afternoon of February 7, 1975, Rodrigo Eduardo Ugas Morales, a militant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), was detained on a public street in the Estación Central sector of Santiago by agents belonging to the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), who transported him to the clandestine DINA detention center known as “Cuartel Terranova” or “Villa Grimaldi,” located at Lo Arrieta No. 8200, in the commune of La Reina, which was guarded by armed guards and to which only DINA agents had access; The victim, during his stay at the Villa Grimaldi barracks, remained without contact with the outside world, blindfolded and bound, and was continuously subjected to interrogations under torture by DINA agents operating in said barracks for the purpose of obtaining information regarding members of the MIR, in order to proceed with the detention of the members of that organization; The last time the victim Ugas Morales was seen alive was on an undetermined day in February 1975, and he remains forcibly disappeared to this day; The name of Rodrigo Eduardo Ugas Morales appeared on a list of 119 people, published in the national press after it appeared on a list published in the Argentine magazine “LEA” on July 15, 1975, which reported that Rodrigo Eduardo Ugas Morales had died in Argentina, along with 59 other people belonging to the MIR, due to internal disputes that had arisen among those members; The publications that declared the victim Ugas Morales dead had their origin in disinformation maneuvers carried out by DINA agents abroad.” For this crime, the following 75 former DINA agents were indicted: 01. Juan Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, 02. César Manríquez Bravo, 03. Pedro Espinoza Bravo, 04. Marcelo Luis Moren Brito, 05. Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, 06. Basclay Zapata Reyes, 07. Francisco Maximiliano Ferrer Lima, 08. Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, 09. Fernando Eduardo Lauriani Maturana, 10. Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García, 11. Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, 12. Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, 13. Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, 14. Alejandro Francisco Molina Cisternas, 15. Eugenio Jesús Fieldhouse Chávez, 16. Rosa Humilde Ramos Hernández, 17. Teresa del Carmen Osorio Navarro, 18. Eduardo Antonio Reyes Lagos, 19. José Jaime Mora Diocares, 20. José Mario Friz Esparza, 21. Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante, 22. Pedro René Alfaro Fernández, 23. Samuel Enrique Fuenzalida Devia, 24. José Abel Aravena Ruiz, 25. Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, 26. Delia Virginia Gajardo Cortés, 27. Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya, 28. José Stalin Muñoz Leal, 29. Nelson Aquiles Ortiz Vignolo, 30. Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, 31. Rufino Eduardo Jaime Astorga, 32. José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, 33. Gustavo Galvarino Carumán Soto, 34. Heriberto del Carmen Acevedo, 35. Luis René Torres Méndez, 36. Orlando Guillermo Inostroza Lagos, 37. Reinaldo Concha Orellana, 38. Rodolfo Valentino Concha Rodríguez, 39. Luis Salvador Villarroel Gutiérrez, 40. Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, 41. Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres, 42. Manuel Rivas Díaz, 43. Osvaldo Octavio Castillo Arellano, 44. Víctor Manuel Molina Astete, 45. Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo, 46. Guido Arnoldo Jara Brevis, 47. Hugo Hernán Clavería Leiva, 48. Jerónimo del Carmen Neira Méndez, 49. Jorge Luis Venegas Silva, 50. Juan Carlos Escobar Valenzuela, 51. Carlos Enrique Miranda Mesa, 52. Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, 53. Raúl Alberto Soto Pérez, 54. Carlos Enrique Letelier Verdugo, 55. Herman Eduardo Ávalos Muñoz, 56. Raúl Bernardo Toro Montes, 57. Silvio Antonio Concha González, 58. Héctor Wacinton Briones Burgos, 59. Pedro Mora Villanueva, 60. Carlos López Inostroza, 61. José Nelson Fuentealba Saldías, 62. Moisés Paulino Campos Figueroa, 63. Luis Rigoberto Videla Inzunza, 64. Raúl Juan Rodríguez Ponte, 65. Óscar Belarmino La Flor Flores, 66. Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda, 67. Sergio Iván Díaz Lara, 68. Palmira Isabel Almuna Guzmán, 69. Osvaldo Pulgar Gallardo, 70. Roberto Hernán Rodríguez Manquel, 71. Miguel Ángel Yáñez Ugalde, 72. Rafael de Jesús Riveros Frost, 73. Leonidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno, 74. Héctor Carlos Díaz Cabezas, and 75. Rolf Gonzalo Wenderoth Pozo. Furthermore, in this branch of the case, the following were indicted as authors of the crime of Illicit Association: 1. Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, 2. Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, 3. Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, 4. Marcelo Luis Manuel Moren Brito, 5. Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, and 6. Rolf Gonzalo Wenderoth Pozo.

Source: El Periodista, March 25, 2014

Presiding judge "debuts" with mass conviction of 75 former DINA agents

A historic human rights sentence was issued by the presiding judge of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Hernán Crisosto, who convicted 75 former agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their responsibility in the aggravated kidnapping of the forcibly disappeared detainee Jorge Grez Aburto.

The voluminous sentence of more than 400 pages and 310 considerations is the first issued by Judge Crisosto since he was appointed in August 2013 as the presiding judge to investigate human rights violation cases.

"CRUDE STAGING"

The ruling corresponds to one of the episodes of the so-called "Operation Colombo," which was investigated by the late judge Víctor Montiglio Rezzio. The victim is Jorge Arturo Grez Aburto (pictured), a socialist militant at the time of his capture and a founder of the MIR in Concepción.

At the time of his disappearance, on May 23, 1974, he was 28 years old. Grez's case was linked by the authorities of the time to Operation Colombo, the cover-up device deployed by the DINA to attribute the disappearances to alleged clashes between militants of leftist parties.

When explaining the ruling to the press, Crisosto described the "staging" of the repressive organ of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship as "very crude" and "very failed."

THE RULING

Grez was detained in downtown Santiago and transferred to torture centers such as Londres 38, the Estadio Chile, and "Cuatro Álamos." "He was kept without contact with the outside world, blindfolded, bound, and continuously subjected to interrogations under torture by the indicated agents, in which they asked him about his party activities and about the names and addresses of his political group comrades in order to proceed with their detention," the resolution states.

The conviction adds that the last date on which Grez Aburto was seen alive was on an undetermined date in July 1974.

THE CONVICTIONS

For the crime, the judge sentenced former agents Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda; César Manríquez Bravo; Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo; Marcelo Luis Moren Brito; Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko; and Gerardo Ernesto Urrich González to 13 years of imprisonment, without benefits, for their responsibility as authors of the crime of aggravated kidnapping.

Meanwhile, Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann; Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García; Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires; Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez; Sergio Hernán Castillo González; Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos; José Nelson Fuentealba Saldías; Basclay Humberto Zapata Reyes; José Enrique Fuentes Torres; José Mario Fritz Esparza; Julio José Hoyos Zegarra; Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante; Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta; Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar; Gustavo Galvarino Carumán Soto; Hiro Álvarez Vega; José Alfonso Ojeda Obando; Luis Salvador Villarroel Gutiérrez; Olegario Enrique González Moreno; Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica; Rudeslindo Urrutia Jorquera; Alfredo Orlando Moya Tejeda; Carlos Alfonso Sáez Sanhueza; Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo; Hernán Patricio Valenzuela Salas; Hugo Rubén Delgado Carrasco; José Fernando Morales Bastías; Juan Alfredo Villanueva Alvear; Juan Evaristo Duarte Gallegos; Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza; Leonidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno; Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda; Rafael De Jesús Riveros Frost; Víctor Manuel Alvarez Droguett; and Víctor Manuel Molina Astete were sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, without benefits, for their responsibility as authors of aggravated kidnapping. In the case of Luis Eduardo Mora Cerda; José Jaime Mora Diocares; Alfonso Humberto Quiroz Quintana; Camilo Torres Negrier; Carlos Justo Bermúdez Méndez; Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández; Fernando Adrián Roa Montaña; Gerardo Meza Acuña; Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya; Jaime Humberto Paris Ramos; Jorge Laureano Sagardia Monje; José Dorohi Hormazábal Rodríguez; José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo; José Stalin Muñoz Leal; Juan Manuel Troncoso Soto; Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido; Luis René Torres Méndez; Manuel Antonio Montre Méndez; Máximo Ramón Aliaga Soto; Moisés Paulino Campos Figueroa; Nelson Aquiles Ortiz Vignolo; Nelson Eduardo Iturriaga Cortes; Orlando Enrique González Moreno; Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo; Reinaldo Alfonso Concha Orellana; Sergio Hernán Castro Andrade; Gustavo Humberto Apablaza Meneses; Héctor Carlos Díaz Cabezas; Jorge Antonio Lepileo Barrios; Luis Fernando Espinace Contreras; Oscar Belarmino La Flor Flores; Rufino Espinoza Espinoza; and Sergio Iván Díaz Lara, they were sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment, without benefits, for their responsibility as accomplices to aggravated kidnapping.

DEMENTIA

In the case, Víctor Manuel de la Cruz San Martin Jiménez was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment as an accomplice, but the execution of the sentence was suspended after it was proven that he suffers from dementia, and it was ordered that he be released on bail into the custody of his family.

INDEMNIFICATION

In the civil aspect, Judge Crisosto ordered the payment of an indemnification of $70 million for moral damages to Rebelión Grez Rodríguez, the victim's daughter.

Source: Amnistia.cl, May 9, 2014

Miguel Angel Acuña Castillo: The disappearance of the 19-year-old in Londres 38

He was detained in July 1974 in the commune of Macul. Numerous witnesses saw him at the torture and extermination center of Londres 38. He is one of the victims of "Operation Colombo." The justice system convicted 78 former DINA agents for this crime against humanity.

The judge of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Hernán Crisosto, issued a first-instance sentence for the kidnapping and disappearance of Miguel Angel Acuña Castillo. The magistrate established that the young man, a militant of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), was detained in the vicinity of his home located at Pasaje Talca No. 2033 in the commune of Macul, by State agents belonging to the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), among them Osvaldo Romo Mena, alias "el Guatón Romo." His sister, Rosa Acuña Castillo, declared that her father tried to climb into the back of the covered pickup truck as they were taking him away, but he was struck in the mouth by one of the subjects and fell to the ground. A week after the kidnapping, Romo went to their home again and told them that his brother was in good condition along with Héctor Garay Hermosilla, who is also disappeared. Both were members of the Revolutionary Student Front (FER) at the Liceo 7 in Ñuñoa. Judge Crisosto determined that the DINA agents “transported him to the clandestine detention center known as “Yucatán” or “Londres 38.” Acuña Castillo belonged to the secondary student structure of the MIR's Military Political Group 3 (GPM3), an organization that grouped militants from the eastern part of the capital and was led by Agustín Reyes González, and whose trail was lost forever in Londres 38. There, “he remained without contact with the outside world, blindfolded and bound, and was continuously subjected to interrogations under torture by DINA agents” and, the last time he was seen alive, “occurred on an undetermined day in July or August 1974, and he remains forcibly disappeared to this day,” the first-instance ruling states.

Laughing in Londres 38 with Héctor Garay Hermosilla

In the “Yucatán” barracks, he was seen by Erika Hennings, who was detained on July 30, 1974. “I can say that he was very young, I think they called him El Pampa,” she asserted during the proceedings. She heard the detainees being called for roll call twice a day.

On July 31, 1974, she heard the name of Miguel Angel Acuña Castillo, who answered "present." Later, she did not hear him called again. “They took them out of Londres 38 just like other detainees, among whom she remembers María Inés Alvarado,” a 21-year-old forcibly disappeared detainee.

Hugo Chacaltana Silva, detained on May 4, 1974, a former student of the Liceo Manuel de Salas and a member of the Revolutionary Student Front (FER), also saw him in Londres 38. He related that in the early hours of July 8 to 9, 1974, Miguel Angel Acuña arrived along with Héctor Garay Hermosilla, whom they called "Titín"; he was able to see them through a gap that formed between his nose and cheekbones under the blindfold.

Chacaltana noted that he met Castillo in 1971, when both were secondary students. Both coincided in meetings that were held at the time between members of the FER, the judicial ruling notes. He remembers “Miguel Ángel as a young man of great leadership capacity and great physical resistance.” He stopped seeing him on September 11, 1973.

He met him again in Londres 38. He arrived along with Héctor Garay to the same room where he remained lying on the floor. “At that moment I did not address Miguel Ángel,” on the contrary, he pretended to be unaware of his presence. “The next day, when the mattresses on which we detainees lay were removed and replaced by chairs, I sat down and, to one side, I observed that they were still sitting.

It struck me that both were talking and laughing, which made me think that they were unaware of the magnitude of what awaited them. Miguel Ángel approached him in Londres-38, saying, “I know you.”

His mother found out at the hair salon that her son was in Londres 38

León Gómez, detained on July 15, 1974, and transferred to Londres 38, saw Miguel Angel along with Héctor Garay, whom he knew. Someone commented to him that "Pampino" was among the detainees, which he corroborated upon hearing him “with his typical jokes that he made to the guards, as if giving the impression that what was happening in the place was of no importance.

Even Titín and Pampino would drive the guards crazy. They were very irreverent.” David Cuevas Sharon, detained on May 4, 1974, also testified to having seen him. “Pampino, despite showing signs of mistreatment, appeared to have great presence of mind; he was very physically strong.” He shared space with him for at least five days.

When Cuevas was released, Acuña Castillo remained a prisoner. His maternal grandmother had a hair salon in Ñuñoa, and one of her clients was Miguel Angel's mother. In a conversation, “she found out about the problem she had with a disappeared son.

Given this, my grandmother had her come to the hair salon, where she met Pampino's mother and told her what she knew about him, specifically the place where he had been imprisoned with him.” Regarding the torments applied to the detainees in Londres 38, including Miguel Angel, Judge Crisosto incorporated statements from Osvaldo Romo, who stated that among other tortures, the detainees were subjected to “the dry submarine, which was blocking their breathing with a plastic bag placed over their heads; the detainees' eyes would look like “fried eggs,” and blood would come out of their noses and eardrums. After the interrogations and duress, the detainees would be exhausted.” Another former agent, Samuel Fuenzalida Devia, specified in this regard that “the general treatment of the prisoners was to keep them blindfolded, they were not allowed to wash, there were no beds for them to sleep on, food was scarce, and they were subjected to intense interrogations in which they were subjected to electricity, especially on their genitals and breasts. Another form of torture consisted of keeping the detainees sitting in chairs, tied by their hands and feet, while current was applied to them with magnets, although common electric current was also applied, which burned those people, a procedure in which many people died.” Eugenio Fieldhouse Chávez maintains that as an official of the Investigative Police, in mid-June 1974, he was assigned to that repressive agency and indicated that the same DINA agents who intervened in the detention and interrogation of the detainees, once the information sought was obtained, were in charge of making them disappear, upon the order of DINA superiors. The name of Miguel Ángel Acuña Castillo appeared among the 119 Chileans of Operation Colombo, on a list disseminated in the national press after it appeared in publications that appeared only once in Brazil and Argentina, “which reported that Miguel Ángel Acuña Castillo had died in Argentina, along with 58 other people belonging to the MIR, due to internal disputes.”

The convictions

“The publications that declared the victim Acuña Castillo dead had their origin in disinformation maneuvers carried out by DINA agents abroad,” determined Judge Crisosto, who convicted 78 former DINA agents for his disappearance.

The magistrate issued a sentence of 13 years of major imprisonment in its medium degree to Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda; César Manríquez Bravo; Pedro Espinoza; Marcelo Luis Moren Brito; Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko; and Raúl Iturriaga Neumann.

Likewise, he sentenced to 10 years of major imprisonment in its minimum degree Gerardo Ernesto Urrich González; Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García; Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires; Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez; Sergio Hernán Castillo González; Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos; José Nelson Fuentealba Saldías; Basclay Humberto Zapata Reyes; José Enrique Fuentes Torres; José Mario Friz Esparza; Julio José Hoyos Zegarra; Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante; Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta; Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar; Gustavo Galvarino Caruman Soto; Hiro Álvarez Vega; José Alfonso Ojeda Obando; Luis Salvador Villarroel Gutiérrez; Olegario Enrique González Moreno; Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica; Rudeslindo Urrutia Jorquera; Alfredo Orlando Moya Tejeda; Carlos Alfonso Sáez Sanhueza; Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo; Hernán Patricio Valenzuela Salas; Hugo Rubén Delgado Carrasco; Juan Alfredo Villanueva Alvear; Juan Evaristo Duarte Gallegos; Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza; Leónides Emiliano Méndez Moreno; Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda; Rafael De Jesús Riveros Frost; Víctor Manuel Molina Astete; Manuel Rivas Díaz; Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle; Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres; Risiere del Prado Altez España; Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca; and Raúl Juan Rodríguez Ponte. As accomplices to the kidnapping and disappearance of the 19-year-old, he sentenced to 4 years of minor imprisonment in its maximum degree Luis Eduardo Mora Cerda; José Jaime Mora Diocares; Camilo Torres Negrier; Carlos Justo Bermúdez Méndez; Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández; Fernando Adrián Roa Montaña; Gerardo Meza Acuña; Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya; Jaime Humberto Paris Ramos; Jorge Laureano Sagardia Monje; José Dorohi Hormazabal Rodríguez; José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo; José Stalin Muñoz Leal; Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido; Luis René Torres Méndez; Manuel Antonio Montre Méndez; Máximo Ramón Aliaga Soto; Moisés Paulino Campos Figueroa; Nelson Aquiles Ortiz Vignolo; Nelson Eduardo Iturriaga Cortes; Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo; Reinaldo Alfonso Concha Orellana; Sergio Hernán Castro Andrade; Víctor Manuel de la Cruz San Martin Jiménez; Gustavo Humberto Apablaza Meneses; Héctor Carlos Díaz Cabezas; Jorge Antonio Lepileo Barrios; Oscar Belarmino La Flor Flores; Rufino Espinoza Espinoza; Roberto Hernán Rodríguez Manquel; Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett; Héctor Manuel Lira Aravena; and Sergio Iván Díaz Lara. Regarding Víctor Manuel De la Cruz San Martín Jiménez, due to having fallen into dementia, the fulfillment of the sentence is suspended, and he must, in due course, be handed over under bail of custody to a family member.

Source: Villa Grimaldi.cl, February 3, 2015