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Patricio Alfaro Santander

Carpintero — 21 years old.

Background

StatusNational Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation Violation of Human Rights
DateOctober 8, 1973
LocationLa Florida, Santiago, RM Metropolitana
Age21 years old
OccupationCarpintero
AffiliationSin Militancia

Case summary

Patricio Alfaro Santander was a 21-year-old carpenter with no political affiliation who was detained in October 1973 during a military operation in the San Gregorio neighborhood. After being taken to a police station, he was transported to the banks of the San Carlos canal in La Florida, where he was killed by multiple gunshots on October 8.

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Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]

ARCE GONZALEZ, ENRIQUE HERNAN: 31 years old, single, footwear worker, executed on October 7, 1973, in Santiago.

CORDOVA YAÑEZ, JUAN MIGUEL: 38 years old, single, bricklayer, executed on October 7, 1973, in Santiago.

ESPINOZA MEDEL, FLORENTINO DEL CARMEN: 27 years old, married, bricklayer, executed on October 7, 1973, in Santiago.

SALFATE SALFATE, CARLOS JULIO: 29 years old, single, executed on October 7, 1973, in Santiago.

SANTANDER ALFARO, PATRICIO: 21 years old, single, carpenter, executed on October 8, 1973, in Santiago.

VALENZUELA VALENZUELA, JULIO: 18 years old, single, laborer, executed on October 8, 1973, in Santiago.

ZULOAGA ORELLANA, CARLOS EDUARDO: 18 years old, single, waiter, executed on October 7, 1973, in Santiago.

The Medical Death Certificates from the Legal Medical Institute state that they died on those days on a public thoroughfare, in the Lo Espejo sector, due to multiple gunshot wounds.

Their relatives concurred in stating that they were detained on the morning of October 7, 1973, at their respective homes in the San Gregorio neighborhood, in the La Granja commune, by members of the Ejército, Carabineros, and Investigaciones who carried out an operation in that sector.

According to the statement of a surviving witness, during the operation, all men over the age of fifteen in the neighborhood were taken to a soccer field. The uniformed officers selected some of them, including those mentioned and approximately seventeen other residents, and took them to the Carabineros police station in the sector.

A group of these detained residents—which included the individuals named, as well as Luis Enrique Otts Flores and Jorge Espinoza Farías—was taken out of that facility and driven to the banks of the San Carlos canal; at Avenida Departamental and Walker Martínez, the captors shot them. The witness who recounted these circumstances to the families managed to survive the execution.

Days later, the relatives found and identified the remains of their loved ones at the Legal Medical Institute.

The cases of Luis Enrique Otts Flores and Jorge Espinoza Farías, detained under the same circumstances, were reviewed by the Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación, which declared them victims of human rights violations.

The identities of the other residents detained that day could not be established.

Considering the evidence gathered and the investigation carried out by this Corporation, the Superior Council reached the conviction that Enrique Hernán Arce González, Juan Miguel Córdoba Yañez, Florentino del Carmen Espinoza Medel, Carlos Julio Salfate Salfate, Patricio Santander Alfaro, Julio Valenzuela Valenzuela, and Carlos Eduardo Zuloaga Orellana were executed by State agents while they were being held in custody, outside of any legal process.

Therefore, it declared them victims of human rights violations.

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Judicial Case Files[2]

Caso SubComisaría La Granja. Ep. Enrique Arce González y otros

Judge/Minister
  • Juez Ministra Marianela Cifuentes
Case roles
  • 1597-2019
  • 20856-2020
  • 30-2009-f

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How to cite this record

DondeEstan.cl (2026). Patricio Alfaro Santander. Retrieved on June 4, 2026, from https://dondeestan.cl/record/patricio-alfaro-santander. Original sources: Museum of Memory (https://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=1968), Judicial Case Files (https://expedientesdelarepresion.cl/causa/caso-subcomisaria-la-granja-ep-enrique-arce-gonzalez-y-otros/), Judicial Case Files (https://expedientesdelarepresion.cl/causa/caso-subcomisaria-la-granja-ep-enrique-arce-gonzalez-y-otros/).