Néstor Arnoldo Castillo Hidalgo
Obrero Construcción — 21 years old.
Background
Néstor Arnoldo Castillo Hidalgo
Obrero Construcción — 21 years old.
Case summary
Nestor Arnoldo Castillo Hidalgo, a 21-year-old construction worker with no political affiliation, died on October 7, 1973, in Santiago due to gunshot wounds sustained on a public street. Although the exact circumstances of his death could not be determined, he was officially declared a victim of the political violence prevalent at the time.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
All these individuals died between September 11 and the month of December 1973, on public thoroughfares, due to gunshot wounds, as recorded in the respective Medical Death Certificates from the Legal Medical Institute.
Their cases were presented to the Corporation by the Chilean Commission for Human Rights, without further background information other than what was indicated. The investigations carried out by this Corporation were also unable to gather further information regarding these victims.
Although it was not possible to establish the precise circumstances under which these deaths occurred in the respective investigations, the Superior Council considered the existence of common factors among them, regarding the time period, hour, location, and especially, the similar cause of death.
Likewise, it noted that there is an evident analogy with other situations, in which the same circumstantial elements noted exist, which, being better documented, were the subject of individual accounts in this Report.
By virtue of this, it reached the conviction that all these cases were closely linked to the situation of political violence that existed in the country at the time, and especially in the city of Santiago. By virtue of this, it declared the aforementioned individuals to be victims of political violence.
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=2190