Ogan Esteban Lagos Marín, 21 years old, an agronomy student and MIR militant, was detained under the following circumstances: On the night of Thursday, March 14, 1974, the victim met with his brother Ernesto at the home of his sister-in-law, Marta Contreras.

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss his interest in returning to the university to finish his degree. Because it was late, they decided to stay the night at the house where they were.

At approximately 2:30 a.m. on the 15th, while they were sleeping, a commando unit composed of Armed Forces personnel, all in civilian clothes, raided the home. The group of 8 members included, among others, Carabineros Corporal Nindo Palavecinos (who lived across from the victim's house), Carabineros Sergeant Francisco Opazo, Carabineros officer Márquez Riquelme and one with the surname Alarcón, Carabineros Lieutenant Patricio Fuentes, a "black beret" soldier with the surname "Quezada," a detective with the surname Aguilera, and an Army Captain.

This group had carried out various raids, bringing with them two detainees who were being held at the N°9 "Chillán" Regiment: Iván Flores and Sergio Fuentealba.

During the raid, the children of the victim's sister-in-law were in the house. After identifying Ogan Lagos and his brother Ernesto, the captors put them into a green pickup truck driven by Detective Aguilera.

From there, they were taken to the Chillán Investigations Barracks, where they were told they would be held incommunicado until Monday, March 17. However, on Saturday afternoon, Ogan Lagos was taken from the facility by Carabineros officer Alarcón and the "black beret" Quezada, who indicated that he would be interrogated at the Regiment.

Around 7:00 p.m., they brought him back. On Monday the 18th, they were taken blindfolded to the Regiment in a green van driven by Detective Aguilera and accompanied by Carabineros officer Alarcón. At the military facility, the detainees were tortured during interrogation; they were even subjected to electric shocks.

Subsequently, the other detainees were removed, and Ogan was left in isolation. His brother Ernesto remained in a room with about 8 other people, including Sergio Fuentealba.

On March 26, Ernesto Lagos was released, and on Wednesday the 27th, Ogan was transferred to the Public Jail, where he was placed in the general population; his family was able to visit him there on several occasions.

From there, he was periodically taken out to be interrogated at the Regiment, from where he would return in very poor condition; he even had to remain in the prison infirmary for a few days because his right arm was put in a cast due to the beatings he had received.

On April 25, 1974, when the victim was called from the Guard, everyone thought it was for the physical therapy treatment he was receiving for his injuries, for which he went to the Regional Hospital 3 times a week. Upon leaving, the guards at the Internal Guard post told him he was being taken to the Regiment for interrogation, which he managed to warn other detainees about.

His mother went to the prison facility that same day, the 25th, and when she asked about Ogan, the guards told her that he had been released, despite the fact that all of his belongings had remained in the jail.

For this reason, Mrs. Margarita Marín went to the Investigations office, the Carabineros Prefecture, and the Regiment in search of information. At the latter place, a uniformed officer told her that her son was there but that she could not see him or give him anything.

It should be noted that by that date, the Judge of the Third Court of Chillán had already identified an unidentified corpse killed by bullets as Ogan Lagos Marín.

Indeed, two days after he was taken from the Chillán Jail, on April 27, 1974, the farmer Segundo Benavides Rodríguez found the lifeless body of Ogan Lagos Marín about 200 meters from the house of Manuel Matus Salas, located at the Fundo La Dehesa de Tanilvoro. The body was wearing only underwear and had 4 bullet wounds.

Subsequently, the Judge of the 3rd Criminal Court of Chillán ordered the body to be recovered for an autopsy at the Chillán Regional Hospital, where it was admitted as an unidentified person.

On February 7, 1975, his brother Sergio Humberto Lagos Marín was detained by the DINA in Santiago and has remained forcibly disappeared since that date.

Another brother, Nelson Ernesto Lagos Marín, died on 09-23-85 as a result of the detonation of an explosive device in the home he occupied in the city of Chillán.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

On August 5, 1974, his mother, Margarita Marín, filed a writ of amparo with the Chillán Court of Appeals on behalf of her son Ogan, which was registered under N°93.350.

That same day, the Chillán Investigations Station reported through the Chief Commissioner, Juan Espinoza Melo, that the victim was not registered in their detainee books. On August 6, through a telephone inquiry, the second commander of the N°9 "Chillán" Regiment responded that the victim had not been detained at that location. The Military Prosecutor of Ñuble provided a similar response.

In just 24 hours, the Chillán Court of Appeals rejected the amparo and did not order a summary investigation into the alleged disappearance. It should be noted that by that date, the Judge of the Third Court of Chillán had already identified an unidentified corpse killed by bullets as Ogan Lagos Marín.

On April 29, 1974, a case was opened regarding the discovery of a corpse in the 3rd Criminal Court of Chillán; the case is registered under N°6.492. That same day, farmers Manuel Matus Solar and Humberto Benavides Rodríguez, who found the body at the Fundo La Dehesa de Tanilvoro, appeared before the Judge.

The corpse entered the morgue as "an unknown person," and the death certificate indicates the cause of death as "shock, acute anemia, multiple ballistic perforations, action by third parties."

On March 14, 1975, the Identification Cabinet informed the Judge that the fingerprints taken from the corpse corresponded to Ogan Esteban Lagos Marín.

On September 22, 1975, the Minister of the Interior, Division General Raúl Benavides Escobar, informed the Judge of the 3rd Criminal Court of Santiago regarding Sergio Lagos Marín that the Ministry's records showed an Ogan Lagos Marín, "who remained detained in the Chillán prison and was released on April 29, 1974."

The Warden of the Chillán prison, Claudio Pavez C., informed the Judge in August 1974 that Ogan Lagos entered the prison as a detainee on April 3, 1974, by order of the Ñuble Military Prosecutor's Office, and was released on April 24, 1974, by order of the same Prosecutor's Office.

On August 30, 1974, the Judge declared the summary closed and dismissed the case, noting that the existence of a crime was proven but that there was no evidence to charge any specific person.

On September 5, 1974, the Chillán Court of Appeals confirmed the Judge's ruling.

Furthermore, it is known that in 1975, a case regarding the alleged disappearance of Ogan Esteban Lagos Marín was processed in the 2nd Criminal Court of Chillán. The status of its proceedings is unknown.

In April 1990, while studying files on unidentified deaths from 1973 and 1974, file N°6492 of the Third Criminal Court of Chillán was found, which had been initiated due to the discovery of an unidentified corpse at the Fundo La Dehesa de Tanilvoro, which had subsequently been identified as Ogan Lagos Marín.

In this process, in August 1974, the victim's father had been summoned and told that it was possible this unidentified corpse was his son; as the death was not certified to him, nor did he have access to the remains, his family did not give credibility to the information.

Source: Corporation report

This Tuesday, August 4, the visiting judge for Human Rights cases of the Chillán Court of Appeals, Claudio Arias Córdova, indicted 16 former repressive agents, both civilian and military, as authors of the crimes of qualified homicide of Rolando Gastón Angulo Matamala, Ogán Esteban Lagos Marín, and Bartolomé Ambrosio Salazar Veloz, crimes perpetrated between April 27 and 28, 1974, in the province of Ñuble.

The three victims were MIR militants in the region. Rolando Angulo was 26 years old and a social worker; Bartolomé Salazar was 31 and a high school teacher; Ogán Lagos was 20 and an agronomy student at the University of Concepción (Chillán campus); he was the first of three brothers who were murdered by the dictatorship.

Those prosecuted are former DINA agents and former army officers: Fernando Gómez Segovia, head of the DINA Southern Brigade; Mario César Romero Godoy, military prosecutor at the time of the events; Osvaldo Enrique Ortega Echeverría; and DINA agents Froilán Enrique Aguilera Domínguez, Luis Enrique Troncoso Verdugo, Pedro Blas Vergara Mieres, Hugo Enrique Villamán Salazar, Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana, Humberto Artemio Olmedo Álvarez, Arturo Manuel Alarcón Navarrete, Fanor Eduardo Aguilera Pizarro, Luis Alberto Toledo Espinoza, and civilian employees Sergio Francisco Bustos Baquedano, Lincoyán Lagos Tortella, and Héctor Soto Hermosilla.

According to the information gathered during the investigation stage, Judge Arias was able to establish that: "On April 19, 1974, through a minor who arrived at the home of Rolando Gastón Angulo Matamala, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), where he lived with his spouse, on Isabel Riquelme Street in this city, near the Municipal Market, who delivered a message for him to go to a person who knew him, he was detained by State Agents and subsequently transferred to a detention center located in the vicinity of San Carlos and from there to the N° 9 Mountain Infantry Regiment of Chillán, from where he was taken on April 27 of the same year to an unknown destination, his body being found on April 28, 1974, in the Camilo Bravo Canal of the Fundo Mutupín, located 7 kilometers east of San Carlos, with bullet impacts on his body caused by third parties, thus configuring the crime of qualified homicide."

In relation to this event and according to the ruling, "sufficient and well-founded presumptions arise to consider that the accused Mario César Romero Godoy, who served at the time of the commission of the crime as the Military Prosecutor of Chillán and from whom the orders to detain persons linked to the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) emanated; Osvaldo Enrique Ortega Echeverría, in his capacity as an official of the N° 9 Infantry Regiment of Chillán, in charge of the 'Registration and Control Office'; Fernando Gómez Segovia, Froilán Enrique Aguilera Domínguez, Luis Enrique Troncoso Verdugo, Pedro Blas Vergara Mieres, Hugo Enrique Villamán Salazar, Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana, Humberto Artemio Olmedo Álvarez, Arturo Manuel Alarcón Navarrete, Fanor Eduardo Aguilera Pizarro, Luis Alberto Toledo Espinoza, all of whom served at the time of the events investigated as State Agents belonging to the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) and the Central de Inteligencia Regional (CIRE); and Sergio Francisco Bustos Baquedano, Lincoyán Lagos Tortella, and Héctor Soto Hermosilla, who were part of the Civil Intelligence Service (SIC) in the city of San Carlos, who collaborated directly with the person in charge of the DINA in the Region, facilitating information and the means for the detention of persons linked to the MIR, bear culpable participation as authors of the crime of qualified homicide of Rolando Gastón Angulo Matamala."

Regarding the homicide of Bartolomé Salazar, Judge Arias also considered it proven that:

"On April 17, 1974, around 7:00 p.m., Bartolomé Ambrosio Salazar Veloz, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), met for a few moments with his spouse in the Plaza de Armas of this city, to whom he stated that he was going to meet with a person to carry out an errand, for which he waited, but he never returned.

Subsequently, on April 27, 1974, his body was found lifeless in the vicinity of Quinchamalí, Chillán Commune, on the banks of a river, dead from bullet impacts caused by third parties, thus configuring the crime of qualified homicide of Bartolomé Ambrosio Salazar Veloz, provided for and sanctioned in article 391 N° 1 of the Penal Code, perpetrated in this jurisdiction."

For this event, the document adds, "That, from these same antecedents and from the statements of the accused Mario César Romero Godoy, who belonged to the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) and held the leadership of said entity for the Seventh and Eighth Regions; and of Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana, who served at the time of the events investigated as head of the Central de Inteligencia Regional (CIRE) in this city; sufficient and well-founded presumptions arise to consider that they bear culpable participation as authors of the crime specified in article 15 N° 1 and 3 of the Penal Code."

Finally, in relation to the homicide of Ogán Lagos, the visiting judge considered it proven that: "in the early hours of March 15, 1974, from the house of a sister of the partner of Ogan Esteban Lagos Marín, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), located in Chillán Viejo, around 02:30 hours, a commando of approximately eight people, agents of the Carabineros and the Army, all in civilian clothes, raided the home, detaining him along with a brother, putting them into a green pickup truck, being transferred to the Chillán Investigations Barracks and from there they were taken blindfolded to the Regiment where they were interrogated and subsequently transferred to the Public Jail of this city; from there he was taken on April 25, 1974, to an unknown destination by a group of Agents, his body being found near a house at the Fundo La Dehesa de Tanilvoro, as a result of bullet impacts caused by third parties on the 27th of the same month and year, thus configuring the crime of qualified homicide of Ogán Esteban Lagos Marín, provided for and sanctioned in article 391 N° 1 of the Penal Code." For this crime, an indictment was issued against "Fernando Gómez Segovia, Mario César Romero Godoy, Arturo Manuel Alarcón Navarrete, and Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana, as authors of the crime of qualified homicide of Ogán Esteban Lagos Marín, provided for and sanctioned in article 391 N° 1 of the Penal Code, perpetrated in this jurisdiction on April 27, 1974."

Judge Arias ordered the preventive detention of the 15 prosecuted individuals, for which he issued an order to the Investigative Brigade of Crimes Against Human Rights of the Santiago Investigative Police and the Prefecture of Investigations of this city.

In this regard, it must be noted that Fernando Gómez Segovia is serving a sentence at the Punta Peuco Prison for other human rights crimes.

Source: resumen.cl, August 7, 2015

FOUR FORMER REPRESSIVE AGENTS CONVICTED FOR THE MURDER OF THREE MIR MILITANTS IN CHILLÁN IN 1974

The visiting judge for human rights violation cases in the jurisdictions of Concepción and Chillán, Carlos Aldana Fuentes, sentenced four former repressive agents of CIRE-Chillán for their responsibility in the crimes of qualified homicide of Rolando Gastón Angulo Matamala, Bartolomé Ambrosio Salazar Veloz, and Ogan Esteban Lagos Marín, perpetrated between March and April 1974 in Chillán.

In the ruling (case file 111-2023), the visiting judge sentenced former Carabineros officer Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana to 15 years and one day in prison as the perpetrator of the three qualified homicides; and former Carabinero Arturo Manuel Alarcón Navarrete to 10 years and one day in prison as the perpetrator of the homicide of Ogan Lagos Marín.

Meanwhile, former Army non-commissioned officers Luis Alberto Toledo Espinoza and Humberto Artemio Olmedo Álvarez were sentenced to 4 years in prison, with the benefit of supervised release for the same period, as accomplices to the homicide of Rolando Angulo Matamala.

In this case, the judge decided to acquit seven other involved and accused agents; these are former Army officer Osvaldo Enrique Ortega Echeverría, former Army non-commissioned officers Froilán Enrique Aguilera Domínguez, Luis Enrique Troncoso Verdugo, Pedro Blas Vergara Mieres, Hugo Enrique Villamán Salazar, former Army civilian employee Sergio Francisco Bustos Baquedano, and former PDI official Fanor Eduardo Aguilera Pizarro.

Four other individuals processed in the case passed away during the proceedings.

Detentions and executions

The judicial investigation established the sequence of these detentions and executions perpetrated by the criminal agents of the dictatorship. In the early hours of March 15, 1974, university student Ogan Esteban Lagos Marín, 20 years old and a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), was staying at a house located in Chillán Viejo.

Around 02:30, he was detained by a commando of approximately eight people, composed of Carabineros and Army agents, all in civilian clothes and heavily armed, who raided the home and detained him along with his brother. They were taken to the Cuartel de Investigaciones de Chillán and from there, blindfolded, to the Regimiento N° 9 in the same city.

In this facility, they were interrogated. Subsequently, on April 3, Ogan Esteban Lagos Marín was transferred to the Cárcel Pública de Chillán, from where he was taken out on several occasions to be interrogated under torture at the aforementioned Regiment.

Later, on April 24, 1974, he was removed from the aforementioned penitentiary center by a team composed, among others, of a group of Carabineros known as ‘Los Chicos Malos’, led by Lieutenant Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana.

He was again subjected to interrogation and torture, causing abrasions and contusions, and was then executed by four ballistic impacts to the cranium and abdomen. His body was abandoned on April 27, 1974, near a house at the Fundo La Dehesa de Tanilvoro, in the commune of Chillán.

On April 17, 1974, around 19:00, state teacher Bartolomé Ambrosio Salazar Veloz, 30 years old and a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), met briefly with his spouse at the Plaza de Armas in the city of Chillán, telling her he was going to meet someone to run an errand.

After waiting for a while and seeing he did not return, his spouse went home. During the night of that day, a group of about four people arrived, claiming to be detectives, looking for weapons, which they did not find because none existed.

They then took her detained to the Regimiento N° 9 of Chillán, and after about 20 minutes, they transferred her to a house located in San Carlos, to finally take her to the Academia de Guerra in Santiago, where she remained detained from April 21 until July 9, 1974, when she regained her freedom.

For his part, Bartolomé Salazar Veloz was likely detained that same day, the 17th, and taken through various detention and torture centers in the region where he was subjected to interrogations under torture, as he presented abrasions on his body and parchment-like furrows on his wrists, demonstrating that he had been kept with his hands tied, until April 27 of the same year, when his body was found in the vicinity of Quinchamalí, commune of Chillán, on the banks of a river, dead from having been executed by firearm shots.

The detention of Salazar Veloz appears registered in the files seized at Colonia Dignidad; in the seized file, he is recorded as detained in Chillán as of April 21, 1974. This file was reportedly prepared by Gerd Seewald Lefevre, in charge of intelligence operations for the German enclave, who stated that he compiled such data with information provided by Fernando Gómez Segovia (Army captain and head of the DINA in the region; also processed in this case, now deceased).

On April 19, 1974, a minor arrived at the home of Rolando Gastón Angulo Matamala, 26, a social worker and militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), who lived with his spouse in a house located on Calle Isabel Riquelme in Chillán, delivering a message for him to go to a place where someone who knew him was waiting.

Rolando Angulo left his home for that meeting but was detained by repressive agents and taken to various clandestine detention centers, including a house in the Pomuyeto sector, in the commune of San Carlos; in this place, he was interrogated under physical torture.

On April 26, he was transferred to the Regimiento de Infantería N° 9 of Chillán, where he was again interrogated under torture by the group of Carabineros known as ‘Los Chicos Malos’, led by Lieutenant Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana, who were attached to the aforementioned regiment to carry out repressive tasks as members of the CIRE.

They then proceeded to execute him with several revolver shots, causing four impacts, one in the cranium and the other three in the thorax, which caused his death. Then, in the early hours of April 27, his body was abandoned in the Camilo Bravo canal of the Fundo Mutupín, located 7 kilometers east of San Carlos.

Source: serpajchile.cl 27/3/2023

Date: 27-03-2023

Jorge Lagos Marín: A life among students and computers (BROTHER)

On the La Castilla campus, surrounded by students, computers, classes, and laughter, Jorge Lagos Marín performs his work as the person in charge of the Computer Laboratories in the Faculty of Education and Humanities.

The walls of his office, where he is interviewed, are partially covered with calendars featuring photographs of students who have served as laboratory assistants. They are young people from different majors who wanted to be part of that area of the University, and each one has left a memory in Jorge’s mind.

A native of Chillán, with a vocation as a teacher, and saved by what many believe is a miracle after a massive heart attack, the official has no qualms about recounting pleasant episodes of his life, and some not so pleasant, but which have transformed him into the man he is today, although, in his own words, "just as grumpy" as ever.

Large family

Currently, Jorge has formed his family, consisting of his wife and three daughters, Pilar, Margarita, Marcela, and Camila, respectively, but in his childhood, there were seven siblings, a mother, and a father, Margarita and Humberto, she a housewife and he a laborer.

They lived as a family in the Purén neighborhood, an area of hard work where there were many families like them. Although Jorge mentions how difficult it was to have a childhood with material shortages, what prevails in his words is a sense of pride in understanding that they were capable of overcoming that. "Our origin was quite modest, in an area of hard work.

I don't know how we dealt with that, I've never been able to explain it well. There are things inconceivable for a family today; a family with two or three is already a lot. We had to walk, cross the whole city to get to school, using what was left over from the older brother, we survived," he explains.

He confesses that, "according to my parents, I was quite mischievous, with pranks that sometimes bordered on delinquency (laughs), with a couple of classmates or neighborhood friends. But nothing more than taking an apple or a magazine here and there, things that were also forbidden to us," he adds, reminiscing. "I have always praised my parents for how it was possible that we managed to move forward; in fact, the four siblings who survived have a very good academic background," Lagos highlights.

As a young man, and after the pranks, came high school. In a context where few could think of continuing to study, he began his path in the technical area. "At least for the younger ones, we were taught to study a technical career to be able to enter the labor field immediately.

At that time, in general, one didn't think about continuing to study. I mean, the issue was finishing Humanities at that time, if it could be achieved, and being able to work at anything. I studied Electricity, my other brother did too, another studied Mechanics at the Industrial School, and another Accounting.

We didn't necessarily practice them, but that's where they led us; we didn't choose where to study, but rather it was what there was, what was possible," Jorge recalls.

His arrival at the UBB

By fate, and despite having a vocation as a Mathematics teacher, he ended up arriving at the Universidad de Concepción to study, just like another of his brothers, thanks to a great effort, Civil Electrical Engineering, a degree he ended up leaving in his third year.

He returned to Chillán to give private lessons in the subject he is passionate about, classes he also taught in pre-university courses in the 80s, until he arrived at the Universidad del Bío-Bío in 1992 to collaborate in the beginnings of the Execution Engineering in Computing and Informatics program of the Faculty of Business Sciences. "They needed someone who could handle the computational side to help with work similar to what I do currently.

It was to attend to the needs of the engineers, since a room with computers was being set up and someone had to take charge of that part."

Finally, he arrived at the Faculty of Education and Humanities, where he has formed ties with the university community and built his family life around the La Castilla campus, thus prioritizing his quality of life.

Jorge remembers those beginnings and, as a stage, highlights the enhancement that, as he explains, was given to UBB pedagogy programs at the end of the 90s. He laughs when mentioning that they used floppy disks there, "the 3.5-inch ones, not the 5 ¼-inch ones, then the boom of CDs and then it advanced to pendrives, which were a wonder, but now they are just lying around," he clarifies.

In October 2016, he suffered a heart attack. "I was unconscious of what happened, but according to those who lived through it and are close to me, it is a miracle that I am here. At work, I started to feel strange, a little weak, and at the insistence of my daughters, I had exams done and it was determined that I had a problem, and they sent me quickly to the Hospital Las Higueras in Talcahuano; there, I lost touch with the world.

Apparently, I arrived just in time, mechanical ventilator, pacemaker," he says.

Months after the health problem occurred, he returned to work; his rest was brief for the severity of that, but he recognizes that he is not in a position that requires major physical effort. "Now, I always had the doubt of whether I stayed here because I had some debt to pay, or if it is a prize (laughs).

I remember that I received many displays of affection and love from people I didn't expect, but that changes the subject a bit, they get a little closer. You gain in that; there are people who pass by more often to ask how I am, 'you can't die, huh,' my colleagues tell me."

Tragedy that deserves to be remembered

His family was made up of seven siblings; however, three of them died during the dictatorship: Ogan Esteban, Sergio Humberto, and Nelson Ernesto. 1974, 1975, and 1985 were the years that marked Jorge's parents and clearly him, who, of the siblings who are alive, is the one who has always taken charge of legal matters with the aim of seeking justice and not forgetting what should not be forgotten, both for his core family and for the country.

"Two of them were students at the Universidad de Concepción, the oldest in Sociology, another in Agronomy, and the third worked in commerce; I lived with him more and there was less age difference between us. They all left children behind," he explains.

Trying to attend all the commemorations that time allows him, he admits that he never had time to assimilate what happened. "I think that to this day it is not closed; at least on my side, it is an open wound.

You suffer a lot; I suffered a lot seeing my parents, my mom especially, because I understand that for a mother, losing children is the worst thing that can happen to her. This is one of the greatest sufferings. Seeing the children they left behind; the first left two, the second one, and the third one."

With ups and downs in his life, Jorge Lagos Marín insists that it is not yet time to retire, neither in his work nor in life; he loves what he has built. Furthermore, he adds, "what would I do? I know I would invent something, but no, I prefer to continue."

Source: ubb.cl 23/4/2019

Date: 23-04-2019

Judge Claudio Arias issues indictment against 16 people for three homicides of MIR militants in 1974

The visiting judge for human rights cases of the Court of Appeals of Chillán, Claudio Arias Córdova, indicted 16 people, civilians and military personnel, as perpetrators of the crimes of qualified homicide of Rolando Gastón Angulo Matamala, Ogán Esteban Lagos Marín, and Bartolomé Ambrosio Salazar Veloz, illicit acts perpetrated between April 27 and 28, 1974, in the Biobío region.

According to the background information collected during the investigation stage, Judge Arias managed to establish that: "On April 19, 1974, through a minor who arrived at the home of Rolando Gastón Angulo Matamala, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), where he lived with his spouse on Calle Isabel Riquelme in this city, near the Municipal Market, who delivered a message for him to go to where a person who knew him was, he was detained by State Agents and subsequently transferred to a detention place located in the vicinity of San Carlos and from there to the Regimiento de Infantería de Montaña N° 9 of Chillán, the place from which he was taken on April 27 of the same year to an unknown destination, his corpse being found on April 28, 1974, in the Camilo Bravo Canal of the Fundo Mutupín, located 7 kilometers east of San Carlos, with bullet impacts in his body which were carried out by third parties, thus configuring the crime of qualified homicide."

In relation to this event and according to the ruling, "sufficient and well-founded presumptions emerge to estimate that they have had a culpable participation as perpetrators of the crime of qualified homicide of Rolando Gastón Angulo Matamala by the accused Mario César Romero Godoy, who served at the date of the commission of the crime as Military Prosecutor of Chillán and from whom the orders to detain people linked to the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) emanated; of Osvaldo Enrique Ortega Echeverría in his capacity as an official of the Regimiento de Infantería N° 9 of Chillán, in charge of the 'Registry and Control Office'; of Fernando Gómez Segovia, Froilán Enrique Aguilera Domínguez, Luis Enrique Troncoso Verdugo, Pedro Blas Vergara Mieres, Hugo Enrique Villamán Salazar, Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana, Humberto Artemio Olmedo Alvarez, Arturo Manuel Alarcón Navarrete, Fanor Eduardo Aguilera Pizarro, all of whom served at the time of the occurrence of the investigated events as State Agents, belonging to the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) and Central de Inteligencia Regional (CIRE); and, of Sergio Francisco Bustos Baquedano, Lincoyán Lagos Tortella, and Héctor Soto Hermosilla, who were part of the Servicio de Inteligencia Civil (SIC) in the city of San Carlos, who collaborated directly with the person in charge of the DINA in the Region, facilitating information and the means for the detention of people linked to the MIR."

Judge Arias also considered it proven that "on April 17, 1974, around 19:00, Bartolomé Ambrosio Salazar Veloz, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), met briefly with his spouse in the Plaza de Armas of this city, to whom he stated that he would meet a person to carry out an errand, for which she waited, but he never returned, and subsequently, on April 27, 1974, his body was found lifeless in the vicinity of Quinchamalí, Commune of Chillán, on the banks of a river, dead from bullet impacts carried out by third parties, thus configuring the crime of qualified homicide of Bartolomé Ambrosio Salazar Veloz, provided for and sanctioned in Article 391 N° 1 of the Penal Code, perpetrated in this jurisdiction."

For this event, the document adds "That, from these same antecedents and from the statements of the accused Mario César Romero Godoy, who belonged to the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) and exercised the leadership of said Entity for the Seventh and Eighth Regions; and of Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana, who served at the time of the occurrence of the investigated events as head of the Central de Inteligencia Regional (CIRE) in this city; sufficient and well-founded presumptions emerge to estimate that they have had a culpable participation as perpetrators of the crime specified in Article 15 N° 1 and 3 of the Penal Code."

Finally, and in relation to the third event, the visiting judge accredited "that in the early hours of March 15, 1974, from the house of a sister of the partner of Ogan Esteban Lagos Marín, a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), located in Chillán Viejo, around 02:30, a commando of approximately eight people, agents of the Carabineros and Army, all in civilian clothes, raided the home, who detained him along with a brother, putting them into a green pickup truck, being taken to the Cuartel de Investigaciones de Chillán and from there they were taken blindfolded to the Regiment where they were interrogated and subsequently transferred to the Public Jail of this city; from there he was taken out on April 25, 1974, to an unknown destination by a group of Agents, his corpse being found near a house at the Fundo La Dehesa de Tanilvoro, as a consequence of bullet impacts carried out by third parties on the 27th of the same month and year, thus configuring the crime of qualified homicide of Ogán Esteban Lagos Marín, provided for and sanctioned in Article 391 N° 1 of the Penal Code." For this crime, an indictment was issued against "Fernando Gómez Segovia, Mario César Romero Godoy, Arturo Manuel Alarcón Navarrete, and Patricio Orlando Marabolí Orellana, as perpetrators of the crime of qualified homicide of Ogán Esteban Lagos Marín, provided for and sanctioned in Article 391 N° 1 of the Penal Code, perpetrated in this jurisdiction on April 27, 1974."

Judge Arias ordered the preventive detention of the 16 processed individuals, for which he issued an order to the Investigative Brigade of Crimes Against Human Rights of the Policía de Investigaciones of Santiago and the Prefecture of Investigations of this city.

Regarding this, he stated that "we are investigating, we have 8 volumes in the case, investigating these qualified homicides for which they were indicted. Once I issued the indictment yesterday, they will have the right to appeal this same judicial resolution, then the subsequent procedures will come, they were interrogated, the pertinent confrontations were carried out.

I will resolve the detention as the people arrive; the detainees are under arrest warrants," indicated Judge Arias.

Source: diarioelitihue.blogspot.com, August 5, 2015

Date: 05-08-2015