Investigative report on the cruel 1975 murder of writer, poet, playwright, essayist, and academic at the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Ignacio Ossa. Agents of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship whipped him until his heart failed. The Sech (Sociedad de Escritores de Chile) declared him a posthumous member in 2018. by Carlos Antonio Vergara

Death under torture is one of the worst crimes against humanity. One such case is that of the 32-year-old writer and academic at the Pontificia Universidad Católica, Jaime Ignacio Ossa Galdames, murdered at the former Terranova Barracks of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), a former secret center for political imprisonment and torture located at Avenida José Arrieta 3200, Peñalolén.

The crime was committed on October 25, 1975.

Ossa was detained on the 20th of that month at his parents' home on Calle Argentina 9157, in the commune of La Cisterna. A Chevrolet C-10 pickup truck with a green canopy arrived there, driven by Basclay Zapata (1946-2017), alias "El Troglo," along with Tulio Pereira (1935-1976), head of the DINA’s Halcón 1 Group.

The dictatorship made a special import of Chevrolet C-10s from the United States to assign them to the DINA, a repressive body that operated under the direct orders of Augusto Pinochet between late 1973 and 1977.

These vehicles met the requirements of the repressors. In the cargo bed, they could carry several detainees and their captors. Furthermore, they were long enough to subsequently transport their corpses and bury them in clandestine mass graves, or to take the bodies to the Tobalaba airfield or the Peldehue military center, from where Chilean Army Puma helicopters would drop them into the sea.

In the best of cases, they were taken to the Legal Medical Institute as "NN" (unidentified).

In the repressive patrol were three other agents and a woman, the civilian Navy employee Teresa del Carmen Osorio Navarro (1956), wife of Zapata, alias "la Chica Tere." While it was not possible to prove her participation in this specific crime, surviving witnesses saw her there.

Osorio would sniff out blood and was always present where it flowed or was expected to flow. She has been convicted in numerous other crimes.

At the UC, they provided the address

Before arriving at Calle Argentina, his kidnappers went to look for him at the Pontificia Universidad Católica (UC). They did not find him there, but they were provided with his home address. The rector of the UC was Jorge Swett, and his chief of staff was the former deputy and senator of the Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI), Carlos Bombal Otaegui (1950).

Cardinal Jorge Medina (1926) served as Pro-Grand Chancellor. In judicial records regarding the disappearance of another UC professor, the communist militant Juan Avalos Davinson (1944-1976), a victim of forced disappearance, Bombal judicially acknowledged having handed over the personal records of Professor Avalos to his killers.

Ossa taught at the Institute of Letters of the Pontificia Universidad Católica. There, he taught courses on Phonic Sciences I and II and Hispanic American Theater. In addition, he worked as a Spanish teacher at the Liceo de Maipú and the Liceo Vespertino Juan Bosco in Santiago. His essays, critiques, and poems were part of university publications.

After 9:00 a.m., "they entered stealthily and suddenly. At that moment, only my parents and a young man who had arrived about three weeks earlier were there. Their treatment at all times was extremely brutal; my mother (Otilia Galdames, editor's note) was thrown onto an armchair, then held at gunpoint, they threw away the food she had prepared, and my father (Oscar Ossa) was threatened and held at gunpoint," stated his sister Guadalupe Ossa in a writ of amparo on October 21, 1975.

She passed away in 1999 without seeing justice, just like her parents.

Liaison, a dangerous task

The young man was José Moya Raurich, a 22-year-old member of the Central Committee of the MIR, whom they did not expect to find but who was being intensely sought. Moya had nowhere to hide at that moment.

"I met Ignacio Ossa three weeks before his detention. I was assigned to him for communication duties. We were introduced at a contact point at Avenida Matta and Portugal. We talked on the way and agreed that I would go live with him, as it had not been possible to rent a place.

He decided to take me to live at his parents' house while we managed to rent a more permanent place," he specified to the author.

"In a violent manner, the DINA agents began to interrogate me, demanding my identity, tying me up, and laying me on the floor," Moya declared to the justice system when recounting the kidnapping.

The academic had gone out to carry out his usual activities. Days earlier, a thin 24-year-old woman, a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, Gabriela Salazar, had picked up a leather bag from a hotel. "I didn't know where it came from or what was in it. I just took it home."

"Ignacio took on one of the most difficult and thankless tasks, which is to be a liaison and take charge of clandestine communications," Moya indicated.

"Liaison tasks are the riskiest and also complicated because they do not allow for the creation of closer bonds. Militancy is different when you live together within a small group, carry out activities together, write a pamphlet, go out to paint graffiti, or perform an operational action; there is group coexistence.

In the matter of communications, according to the experience we developed at that time, liaisons had to practice a unique ostracism and only recognize each other visually. Sometimes even without physical contact, but through generous third parties who facilitated their workplace or their homes to be used as a mailbox, in which communications were deposited and retrieved.

There must be great conviction, great integrity in a person to be willing to take on a task like the one Ignacio Ossa performed," Moya noted.

The leather bag that came from Paris

The DINA was scouring Santiago trying to locate potential contact points for militants of parties opposed to Pinochet. Therefore, to avoid raising suspicions, Gabriela dressed that day "as if she were a person doing domestic chores, with an apron.

I put the package in one of those bags you take to the market, I put a bunch of celery and bread in it. I put it at the bottom, covered with the bread. That's how I delivered it," she detailed to the author.

Gabriela did not know Professor Ossa. "I met him on a street on Avenida República or another in that neighborhood. We exchanged a couple of words and nothing more. He said to me, 'Can I help you with the bags?' And I handed it to him. Then we turned the corner. We said goodbye with a kiss and he left," she expressed with tears in her eyes when remembering the events.

Researcher and university professor Gabriela Salazar

Ossa then took public transport toward the south of Santiago that traveled along Gran Avenida, heading to the house on Calle Argentina. It would be the last time he would walk the streets of Santiago de Chile. It was spring. He had only five days of life left.

Moya remained tied up on the floor all morning. In the meantime, more agents arrived. When Professor Ossa returned, around noon, there was a commotion among the agents because they realized that inside the leather bag, there was money and MIR documentation that had come from abroad.

Moya remembered the scene 42 years later in his office in the commune of La Reina.

As soon as Ignacio arrived—he recounted—the agents pounced on him and the belongings he was carrying. Before breaking the bag, they opened it. "It was elegant, and they took out a metal box that contained tobacco, a pipe, things that accompanied him, so it wouldn't be empty."

Resistance members against the dictatorship called 'barretines' the objects used to hide other items and go unnoticed during routine police checks.

Agents driven mad by dollars

The inspection, however, was not routine. These were members of an organization specialized in fighting clandestine parties and militants that would not stop at the worst crimes to achieve its objectives.

The 'barretín' that had traveled from Paris was hidden among the leather. Inside it were several thousand dollars. They came from a day's monthly salary donated by French militants and workers, and it was transported by a person who delivered it and immediately returned to France.

This motivated them to begin interrogating and torturing Professor Ossa in his own home. The discovery of money drove the agents mad.

"One of them took out the little box and threw it in my face violently. With the pipe, he started hitting me; he struck me with it several times. I saw the bag and realized that, on top of everything, a courier from abroad had arrived just at that moment," Moya recalls.

The one who initiated the scourging was the torturer Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires (1946), alias "Cachete Grande," responsible for the disappearance of more than a hundred people and a dozen qualified homicides, according to various criminal cases processed in the Chilean justice system. "Cachete Grande" would detain, torture, and then personally throw his victims into the sea.

In this case, they took Professor Ossa to the morgue, surely because a "death flight" was not planned at that moment. Lawrence retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel of the Carabineros police. Despite the gravity of his crimes, he remained free on bail, dedicated to numerous businesses until days before being sentenced by the Supreme Court in February 2015 for another disappearance, that of Alfonso Chanfreau from the Londres 38 torture and extermination center, at which point he was supposed to serve his sentence at the Punta Peuco prison. "Cachete Grande" knew that if he entered prison, he would not leave alive. At that moment, he decided to flee. He remained a fugitive until January 10, 2020, when he decided to turn himself in at a barracks of the institution where he had served, located in Ñuñoa, stating briefly that he had been "in the south." He was admitted to the Colina 1 Prison on January 11, 2020, that is, 45 years after his crimes were committed.

But on November 20, 1975, Lawrence was at the height of his criminal and genocidal career and decided to keep waiting to see if he could obtain another prey at the house in La Cisterna. The find up until noon was succulent and unexpected.

The unit of writers with Carlos Droguett

Regarding this, Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres, a former official of the Policía de Investigaciones (PDI) assigned to the DINA in July 1974, said in the proceedings that "the main concern of the heads of the operational groups such as Krassnoff and Moren Brito himself was not to dismantle the MIR or undertake patriotic actions to save Chileans, but to obtain profits from the operations, appropriating the remittances in dollars that the MIR people received from abroad (...) This appropriation of dollars was evident from the vehicles in which Krassnoff, Moren Brito, and others moved, which for the time were expensive," he pointed out.

The academic's arrest was a consequence of the events that occurred on a plot of land in the commune of Malloco on October 16, from where the Secretary General of the MIR, Andrés Pascal Allende, and members of the Political Commission, Nelson Gutiérrez, Martín Hernández, and their partners, fled. At the scene, during the retreat, Dagoberto Pérez died while confronting DINA agents.

Before fleeing, the MIR leaders burned the documentation they possessed, but traces remained: remains of microfilms with letters where Ossa's name appeared in a desk that did not burn. The DINA knew nothing about Ossa, except that he was a university professor of literature at the UC.

Ossa was also part of a unit of writers within the MIR, which included the National Prize for Literature winner Carlos Droguett (1912-1996), whom Ossa interviewed on July 5, 1975.

The writer, to avoid running greater risks in his clandestine courier work, with the complicity of his aunt Raquel Ossa's family, began to use her home to receive and send communications. One of the couriers was Raúl Eduardo Guillén Zapata (1939), who knew Ossa as "Pablo."

The Villa Olímpica mailbox

"We met several times on the street in 1975. Despite the situation, a mutual sympathy united us immediately; we were very much alike in many things, in addition to our militancy, so we took advantage of our meetings to talk about poetry and literature.

We dreamed of a different Chile," said Guillén, moved, while remembering him in his apartment in the commune of Providencia. Guillén was later detained and survived the Clínica Santa Lucía 162, in Santiago Centro, where they sent prisoners to recover from torture only to continue torturing them, just like Gabriela Salazar. Others were injected there and made to disappear.

"Given that the street meeting points were becoming dangerous, Pablo suggested we contact each other through relatives who lived in the Villa Olímpica, in Ñuñoa, and deliver and receive 'barretines' there. As a way to justify my presence, he asked me to give chemistry lessons to a young woman, since I am a chemical engineer," he recalled.

That young woman was his first cousin Rosa Reyes Ossa, who filed complaint number 130 on June 20, 2000, against Augusto Pinochet, Manuel Contreras, and whoever else might be responsible for "war crimes, injuries, aggravated kidnapping with homicide, torture, and genocidal criminal association."

"I was in high school. The times Ignacio went to our apartment to leave or pick up the 'barretines,' which consisted of packages, detergent boxes, or others, he also gave me Spanish lessons, until two days before his detention," recalls Reyes Ossa.

That October 20, the house of Ossa's parents was searched thoroughly.

The house on Calle Argentina remained a 'mousetrap' for five days. Mousetraps were the detected homes of detained opponents, inside which DINA personnel remained hidden, trying to go unnoticed and giving the impression that the home had a normal routine, waiting for other people to eventually enter so they could be apprehended. In this case, they remained there with his parents inside.

Ossa and Moya were loaded into the Chevrolet C-10 when "Cachete Grande" got tired of waiting. It was past 3:00 p.m., and they were taken out of the house covered with blankets. Inside the truck, they were blindfolded. The vehicle began its journey to the east of Santiago.

When the vehicle stopped, Moya managed to hear them opening a metal gate that made a lot of noise. It was the gate of Villa Grimaldi.

"Upon getting out, I heard a voice calling me by my political name (Adrián) that I used in the MIR. Later, I found out that the person who called me was Miguel Krassnoff (1946), who knew me through a former member of the MIR, surnamed Schneider (Leonardo Schneider Jordán 1941-2002, editor's note), who was being held in that facility and was collaborating with that organization," Moya declared to the justice system.

He couldn't stand, he was falling while vomiting

The day after the detention, October 21, the evening newspaper La Segunda ran a headline about the detention of an important MIR leader and referred to the work of its external leadership. Its sources were none other than the DINA leadership.

Ossa and Moya were tortured by Krassnoff, Pereira, Zapata, and Marcelo Moren Brito (1935-2015), declared the doctor Patricio Bustos (1950-2018) in the investigation, one of the main witnesses to the crime. Bustos was detained for being part of the MIR's health brigade, which treated the wounded.

"He was savagely tortured, and the times I was able to see him, he was really very bad, after they had applied torture to a superior degree, hanging him from some trees. Then I saw him brought in by two guards, naked, with his bloodied shirt on top, and the last time, he couldn't stand and was falling while vomiting non-stop," declared Delia Veraguas Segura for her part.

Also detained at the facility was Gabriel Segundo Salazar Vergara (1936), 2006 National Prize for History winner, who until his detention held the position of adjunct member of the MIR Central Committee.

The three were savagely tortured, "Moya in 'The Tower,' where he remained for several days, and Salazar and Ossa on the 'grill.' I saw them being led to that room, I heard their screams, and I received them in very bad condition; sometimes they could barely walk.

On one occasion, already dark, I knocked on the door of the large room and called the guards, to whom I said they had to realize that Ignacio was very bad, that the torture was affecting him a lot, and that he could die from some heart problem. Ossa was large and burly; he complained of precordial (chest) pain that was increasingly intense as a result of the torture," Bustos specified.

"He's gone on us" the agents shouted Gabriel Salazar saw Professor Ossa and spoke with him. "He was in very bad condition, he had trouble breathing, he was gasping a lot, as if he had asthma. The next day, they tortured us again together. They tied me to the metal cot below and Ossa Galdames to the one above," he recounted in the proceedings.

Another detainee, Alejandro Núñez Soto, confirmed that he was "in deplorable health conditions. He told us he feared for his life, as he was sure they were going to kill him, and that if we managed to get out, we should tell his family.

He was dehydrated and had bruises all over his body. Together with another detainee, Carlos Patricio Barrera Sánchez, we put him on one of the bunks in the room; we calmed him down as he was very terrified by what was happening."

"He was noticeably tremendously affected and disoriented. I remember he ended up lying on the bunk, there he stayed, clinging to a sweater he had on his chest (...) He was bloodied, shivering, and babbling, as he had been beaten very hard in the face.

We attended to him with Núñez Soto and moved him to a bed where we cleaned his face," Barrera declared to the tribunal. "On October 24, 1975, they tortured a man all night; we felt his moans. Later I found out who it was, since they took me out of the room to be transferred to Cuatro Alamos.

While I was waiting standing in a hallway, some agents were shouting to bring a doctor because they had given the tortured man water, and he had suffered a cardiac arrest. One of the torturers asked another who it was, and he replied that it was Ossa Galdames," stated Selva Ivonne Hidalgo.

Meanwhile, Barrera heard the same "horrible screams from Ossa Galdames, and after a while, I felt a whole commotion among the agents, and it was commented that 'he's gone on us'."

Found by chance at the Legal Medical Service

On October 27, the Minister of the Interior, General César Raúl Benavides, responded to the writ of amparo, stating that the academic was at the Cuatro Alamos center. From that moment on, his sister Guadalupe Ossa began visiting that detention center every day, uselessly trying to obtain information.

"On December 10, they called me from the Comité Pro Paz to inform me that when they went to pick up a corpse, an assistant had told them that in the early morning he had seen my brother's body," she continued in her statement to the Rettig Commission.

When moving to the Legal Medical Service, they did not want to give her information, nor the death certificate. Finally, they indicated that he had been handed over to the General Cemetery for burial. They had buried him as an "NN."

An official "pointed out to me that the order for my brother was to cremate him, and that due to a problem with the ovens that were not working, he had been buried." That is, his disappearance was being prepared. Upon exhumation, they found the body face down with clear signs of the scourging on his body.

In the meantime, Manuel Contreras provided, signed in his own hand, the false version that he had thrown himself under the wheels of a vehicle on Avenida España. The Carabineros, through an official letter, indicated that no accident of any kind had occurred at that location on October 25, 1975.

Promising intellectual

Ignacio Ossa had just published and written the prologue for the most important study on the play Como en Santiago by Daniel Barros Grez, through the Nascimento publishing house. He had recently signed a contract with that publishing house to write prologues for works by Chilean authors.

He wrote a notable essay on the play Fulgor y muerte de Joaquín Murieta, by Pablo Neruda. He had a promising career. His students in the Department of Letters at the UC were left waiting for Professor Ossa's return to the classrooms, and they could not believe he had been killed. The Sech declared him a posthumous member in 2018.

The courts prosecuted the agent Osvaldo Enrique Romo Mena (1938-2007); he was processed and later died in prison before the sentence was handed down. DINA director Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda (1929-2015) and Marcelo Moren Brito were sentenced in the first instance in 2014 by the Santiago Court of Appeals judge Alejandro Solís to 10 years and 20 years, respectively.

They died in the Punta Peuco prison serving sentences for other crimes.

In 2017, the Supreme Court ratified the sentence against Miguel Krassnoff, who accumulated 20 years in prison for the crime of Ignacio Ossa. As accomplices, agents Fernando Lauriani Maturana (1949), alias "Teniente Pablito," and Rolf Wenderoth Pozo (1939) were sentenced to 5 years and one day.

Source: sech.cl, October 25, 2020

Case File 2.182-98: “Colombo Case” Episode, aggravated kidnapping of María Angélica Andreoli Bravo d.-- Statements of co-defendant Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante , who in the relevant part of his inquiry maintained that he joined the DINA in November 1973...

At Londres 38 he provided services in the Caupolicán Brigade , which was based at that facility, belonging to the Halcón Group under the command of Miguel Krassnoff ; also part of this same group were Basclay Zapata, the civilian employee “Guatón Romo,” Rosa Humilde Ramos, Teresa Osorio, José Enrique Fuentes Torres, Rodolfo Concha Rodríguez, Tulio Pereira

• now deceased - and José Abel Aravena Ruiz.

13.-) Authorized copy of the statement on page 2748 of Osvaldo Romo Mena , who maintained that he joined the DINA on May 20, 1974. Regarding María Angélica Andreoli Bravo , he maintained that at José Domingo Cañas only the Caupolicán Brigade worked, with the teams of Krassnoff, Lawrence, Pablito, and Gerardo Godoy .

When José Domingo Cañas closed, they moved to Villa Grimaldi , and of the detainees, only one of the Andrónicos Antequera and Cristián VanYurick Altamirano arrived there. He does not know where the rest of the detainees ended up.

Luz Arce and the "Flaca Alejandra" might know, since they lived there at José Domingo Cañas . These women did not move to Villa Grimaldi but stayed there, they stayed living there. The "Flaca Alejandra" was also at Villa Grimaldi when they brought in the detainee "Pinina," María Angélica Andreoli , who said to the "Flaca Alejandra," " this motherfucking skinny bitch should be put here on the iron and put in the water ," referring to the "wet submarine," which was applied at Villa Grimaldi , that is, putting the detainee in a well with water to drown them; Moren did this.

Regarding María Angélica Andreoli , he did not detain her; he went twice to detain her accompanied by the "Flaca Alejandra" to her house on Bilbao. The first time, the aunt said she would be back, but she never arrived; the second time she wasn't there either, and the third time, he didn't go anymore, and she was detained by a group of Tulio or the "Gordos." He understands that the "Chica Pinina," by the date.

She was detained not at Londres 38 , but at José Domingo Cañas . He did not see her detained at José Domingo Cañas but at Villa Grimaldi , an occasion in which he saw that Moren Brito submerged her in the water several times, and "Pinina" told him, "I'm going to drown." Moren would reply that "cows drown through their asses, so from here I'm going to see if you're drowning," as they submerged her headfirst.

The torture was materially executed by Tulio Pereira and Manuel Lucero Lobos , all under the command of Manuel Moren Brito , both deceased. It is not true that he spoke by phone with Verónica Andreoli, since he spoke with the father at her house on Montenegro, and they were waiting for the brother who was bringing the money from Argentina.

The kid arrived and didn't bring anything. It is not true that he inserted a scrub brush into Andreoli's vagina, nor that he intervened in her death by injecting her with a lethal substance; that is not true. He never saw any nurse or male nurse arrive at Londres 38 to attend to any detainee.

Source: Judiciary, April 10, 2015

Homicides of Iván Renato Pérez Vargas and Amador del Fierro Santibáñez: 5 years and one day for DINA leadership

They were executed in the commune of La Florida by members of the DINA’s “Halcón” group, whose agents had left Villa Grimaldi to detain them. It is part of the “Villa Grimaldi Episode” file.

The visiting minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Leopoldo Llanos, issued a sentence in the investigation into the crimes of the homicides of Iván Renato Pérez Vargas and Amador Roberto del Fierro Santibáñez, perpetrated on February 24, 1976, in the commune of La Florida.

The magistrate sentenced the agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, Carlos López Tapia, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, and Basclay Zapata Reyes to 5 years and 1 day in prison for both crimes.

According to the magistrate's investigation, it was determined that: "On February 24, 1976, at the property at Pasaje Juan Ramón Jiménez No. 7476, Paradero 14 of Vicuña Mackenna, commune of La Florida, were Amador Del Fierro Santibáñez, his partner Herminia Espíndola González, their one-year-and-two-month-old daughter, and the twin siblings Mireya de Lourdes Pérez Vargas and Iván Renato Pérez Vargas, 21 years of age."

"At approximately 12:30 p.m., two or three DINA vehicles arrived at the entrance of the alley, having left Villa Grimaldi, manned by at least six agents of that organization, members of the 'Halcón' group, who were carrying with them the detainee Víctor Espíndola González—who had been apprehended that same day by the DINA," the ruling states.

"Once the vehicles arrived at the entrance of Pasaje Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Army officer who was the head of the group ordered agent Tulio Pereira to find out if there were occupants in the house, returning a few moments later indicating that there was movement of people in said dwelling, before which the officer in charge ordered that they proceed to detain Del Fierro Santibáñez, with Pereira going along with another agent—not precisely identified—to carry out the order, both armed with long firearms covered with newspaper," it adds.

"For their part, the occupants of the dwelling in question noticed the presence of a subject dressed in civilian clothes who passed in front of it, looking inside insistently, observing that he was carrying in his hands an elongated package wrapped in newspaper and that at the nearest corner there were several vehicles parked.

Herminia Espíndola went out to the street, and a subject grabbed her by the arm, asking her if her husband was in the house, to which she answered affirmatively. Then said subject (who was the aforementioned DINA agent Tulio Pereira) approached the door of the house.

In turn, and at the place where the detainee Espíndola and the other agents were, three shots were heard coming from the aforementioned dwelling, and the agent accompanying Pereira signaled for help, as he had been mortally wounded by said shots; the other members of the aforementioned group proceeded to head toward the aforementioned house, armed with long firearms, and proceeded to fire on numerous occasions at the front of the dwelling," the judicial text recounts.

"At that moment, Amador del Fierro ran out from inside and jumped the fence of the neighboring house but was wounded to death. Herminia, for her part, entered the house in search of her daughter and in the hallway encountered Iván Pérez Vargas, who was also trying to escape, and as the DINA agents exited, they fired on him with a submachine gun, and he fell lifeless in the patio of the house.

Then, the DINA agents entered the property, from which they took out Mireya Pérez Vargas, with bullet wounds in her legs, and transported her to 'Villa Grimaldi,' where she was interrogated, tortured, and in the afternoon was killed in this facility by DINA agents," states Minister Llanos.

"Additionally, and as a result of the shootout that took place, the three-year-old minor Susana Elizabeth Sanhueza Salinas died, daughter of Catalina Salinas Isla, who in turn was a neighbor of the couple formed by Amador del Fierro and Herminia Espíndola; a minor who, moments before the shooting began, had approached the couple's home to play with their daughter," it specifies.

It adds that: "In sum, as a result of the events that took place on February 24, 1976, at the property at Pasaje Juan Ramón Jiménez No. 7476, Paradero 14 of Vicuña Mackenna, commune of La Florida, the following people died as a consequence of wounds from firearms fired by third parties:

a) Tulio Pereira, DINA agent;

b) Iván Renato Pérez Vargas, MIR militant;

c) Amador del Fierro Santibáñez, MIR militant;

d) Susana Elizabeth Sanhueza Salinas, three-year-old minor, neighbor of the place.

Regarding Mireya Pérez Vargas, a MIR militant who was wounded by a bullet in the events narrated above, her detention and subsequent execution at Villa Grimaldi was the subject of another investigation, which concluded with a first-instance sentence on March 19, 2010, and a copy of which is attached to page 47 and following of this case (Case File 2182-1998, 'Villa Grimaldi' (Mireya Pérez Vargas).

Finally, and regarding the minor Elizabeth Sanhueza Salinas, her death is also not the subject of this process."

Source: Villa Grimaldi.cl, May 15, 2015

Former DINA agents were sentenced to 5 years in prison for homicide

Manuel Contreras and Miguel Krassnoff are among the perpetrators of the crimes against Iván Pérez and Amador del Fierro.

Manuel Contreras, Miguel Krassnoff, Carlos López, and Basclay Zapata were sentenced to five years and one day in prison for the qualified homicides of Iván Pérez Vargas and Amador del Fierro Santibáñez, which occurred in a shooting incident in La Florida on February 24, 1976.

The resolution was delivered by the special judge of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Leopoldo Llanos.

Pérez, a university student, and Del Fierro, an engineer by profession, were MIR militants and were staying in a house in La Florida.

DINA agents burst into the place, provoking a confrontation in which the two young men, agent Tulio Pereira, and a three-year-old girl from the neighboring house died, in addition to Mireya Pérez Vargas, Iván's twin sister, being wounded, who was taken to a torture center to be interrogated and executed hours later.

Source: cooperativa.cl, May 16, 2015