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Pedro Mario Alonso Muñoz Apablaza

Estudiante — 21 years old.

Background

StatusValech-Rettig Commission Violation of Human Rights
DateOctober 27, 1973
LocationVictoria, Victoria, IX Araucanía
Age21 years old
OccupationEstudiante
AffiliationSin Militancia

Case summary

Pedro Mario Alonso Muñoz Apablaza, a 21-year-old student with no political affiliation, was arrested at his home by a military patrol on October 27, 1973, in Victoria. That same day, he was extrajudicially executed by State agents, in an act classified as a grave violation of human rights.

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Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]

On October 27, 1973, in the city of Victoria, two people were executed:

Eliseo Segundo JARA RIOS, 38 years old, area chief of the Institute for Agricultural Development (Indap) and a member of the Partido Socialista. He was detained and taken to the Victoria Prison on four occasions, re-entering for the last time on October 16, 1973.

When consulted by this Commission, the Chief of the Victoria Social Readaptation Center stated that the detainee left the facility "on October 27, 1973, to be taken to the Prosecutor's Office, having neither returned nor re-entered the unit at a later date." Testimonies presented to this Commission indicate that Eliseo Jara was indeed taken from the prison, handcuffed and in precarious physical condition, on October 27 by military personnel, saying goodbye to his fellow detainees.

Pedro Mario Alonso MUÑOZ APABLAZA, 21 years old, a high school graduate. He was detained on that same October 27 at his home by a patrol of "boinas negras" (black berets).

According to the information gathered by this Commission, on that day, October 27, a patrol of Ejército "boinas negras" arrived in Victoria by helicopter on a special mission. Those commandos left that same day in a truck heading toward Curacautín, where they proceeded to execute the aforementioned detainees at the California estate.

The remains were turned over to the families, who stated they were informed that the two detainees had been executed during an attempted escape. This version was never made official, but it contradicts consistent and credible testimonies that saw how one of them was taken from the Victoria prison and the other from his home by military personnel.

This Commission is convinced that both individuals were executed at the hands of State agents. This constitutes an act of human rights violation.

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How to cite this record

DondeEstan.cl (2026). Pedro Mario Alonso Muñoz Apablaza. Retrieved on June 4, 2026, from https://dondeestan.cl/record/pedro-mario-alonso-munoz-apablaza. Original sources: Museum of Memory (https://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=513).