Case File 113.075: proceedings for unlawful coercion against students from Temuco

57.- Statement of Dina Mercedes Petric Meneses , on page 1,037, Captain (ret.) of the Carabineros of Chile, who in 1980 or 1981 was assigned on an extra-institutional commission to the Regional Division located on Calle República at Toesca , which was under the command of a Lieutenant Colonel with the surname Rusque .

At the end of 1981 or the beginning of 1982, she was transferred to the Borgoño Barracks , to the Amarillo Brigade , which investigated the Socialist Party. Two years later, she moved to the Verde Brigade , which investigated the Communist Party.

In command of this brigade was the army officer with the surname Rubilar Ottone, alias "Gato Lira." The second in command was Lieutenant "Téllez." She also remembers Lieutenant Colitz and a detective with the surname Mass .

Her work in the Verde Brigade was to seek information on the PC (Communist Party), for which she was in command of a team that included Víctor Malina, alias "el choco" ; a Navy non-commissioned officer whose name she does not recall; Fernando Burgos Díaz, alias "el costilla"; and "el jote," who was from the FACH (Chilean Air Force).

She spent two years in the Verde Brigade, and in 1985 she took charge of the personnel office. Her operational name was "Francisca Pinto" and she was called "Panchita." While she was in the Amarillo or Verde brigade, she never had to participate in any operations in the regions.

Source: Judiciary, October 30, 2009

Carabineros hired former CNI agent to train personnel

In July 1981, as a second lieutenant, the woman who is now a public relations officer for the Directorate of Education and Doctrine was transferred on a service commission to the extermination unit headed by the military officer Álvaro Corbalán Castilla.

Since 2012, and by decision of former General Director Gustavo González Jure, former Captain Dina Petric Meneses, who performed functions in the feared National Information Center (CNI), has worked in charge of the Public Relations Office of the Carabineros Non-Commissioned Officers School, while simultaneously serving as a professor at the aforementioned institution.

According to documents obtained by El Ciudadano , Petric joined the Carabineros in 1979, retiring with the rank of captain on March 6, 1999. In July 1981, as a second lieutenant in the Carabineros Directorate of Communications (DICOMCAR)—which played a significant role in the throat-slitting of three communist teachers—the woman who is now a public relations officer for the Directorate of Education and Doctrine was transferred on a service commission to the extermination unit headed by the military officer Álvaro Corbalán Castilla.

In cases related to human rights violations, the former officer, who is 1.60 meters tall, stated that she had worked at the Borgoño Barracks—a CNI torture center—for tasks of "gathering information from open sources, and subsequently as head of personnel or administrative duties," clarifying that "she was aware that detained persons arrived at the barracks, but she knew nothing more." In the judicial file instructed to investigate the deaths of communists Enzo Muñoz Arévalo and Ana Delgado Tapia and MIR militants Héctor Sobarzo Núñez and Juan Varas Silva, Petric acknowledged having answered the call of Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Guzmán Olivares, head of the CNI's Anti-Subversive Division, to serve as "support" for the organization in Macul. After arriving and hearing shots at the scene, the agent Guzmán—a fugitive from justice since 2015, known by his alias Roberto Téllez Fuentes or "Gato Rubilar"—ordered her to go to a residence "located a few blocks further back to look for a baby, who was subsequently transferred to the Juvenile Police Station," added the former uniformed officer. Regarding her duties on the day journalist José Carrasco Tapia was murdered, Petric declared that "hours after the attack (on General Augusto Pinochet in September 1986), she was ordered to go to the Carabineros Hospital to check the condition of the wounded and take the details of the injured." Later, "she went again to the Borgoño Barracks to deliver the information, subsequently retiring to her home," states the transcript of her testimony before the visiting judge Haroldo Brito, who convicted "Gato Rubilar" and the CNI's chief of operations, Álvaro Corbalán, for the crime. Once the Center was formally dissolved, officer Dina Petric continued to receive a salary from the Carabineros. On March 27, 1990, for her collaboration with the Pinochet regime, she received the "Mission Accomplished" decoration, being transferred to the 34th Precinct of the Juvenile Prefecture. During the decade, she served in the Intelligence Section of the Aconcagua Prefecture and was assigned to Department III of the Carabineros Police Intelligence Directorate (DIPOLCAR), where she attended a counter-terrorism course in 1998, after which she left the institution. Petric returned to the ranks in 2012, hired as a C.P.R. official under the administration of President Sebastián Piñera. The document that made her return effective "as long as her services are necessary" bears the signature of former General Director Gustavo González Jure, predecessor to the current head of Carabineros, Bruno Villalobos Krumm. Two years later, in 2014, the former CNI agent was appointed as "tenured professor with technical university equivalence in the Intelligence Course (Assistant Investigator)" in the area of Police Sciences.

INSTITUTIONAL SILENCE

"Regarding your request, we inform you that we are taking the corresponding steps to provide you with the data you need," indicated the Carabineros Department of Social Communications to this media outlet, responding to a request to obtain the opinion of the General of Education and Doctrine, Rafael Rojas Agurto, regarding the information provided in this publication.

More than a month after the request was made, we received no response. El Ciudadano also asked to speak with public relations officer Dina Petric, sending an email to her institutional account to "clarify some points about the work she performed at the National Information Center (CNI)" and "hear her side of the story," without results.

Source: elciudadano.cl, August 4, 2017

Shameful: Carabineros hires former CNI agent

Former agent Dina Petric, of the National Information Center (CNI), a security agency in charge of the repression of opponents of the dictatorship, is in charge of the Public Relations Office of the Carabineros Non-Commissioned Officers School, and is also a professor at the institution.

The information, provided by the electronic media outlet El Ciudadano, once again highlights the presence of former agents of the dictatorship in current service. The impunity of those who were part of the dictatorship and its repressive agencies remains.

Evidence of this is the small number of military personnel, Carabineros, and former agents detained, which barely exceeds 100. According to reports, Dina Petric was a second lieutenant in the Carabineros Directorate of Communications (DICOMCAR).

Let us remember that this agency has several crimes to its name, including the "degollados" (throat-slitting) case, where three teachers were murdered. Furthermore, Petric allegedly worked at the Borgoño Barracks, although she stated she knew nothing of what happened there.

The site Memoria Viva, specialized in human rights, notes that this barracks was at 1470 Borgoño Street, in Santiago. "According to most testimonies, the detainees spent almost all their time in a basement of the building." On the other hand, "the interrogation and torture room was equipped with the necessary equipment: metal bed frames, chairs, electric generators, cattle prods, and electrodes.

The filming room is conditioned with empty egg cartons for the purpose of soundproofing it, and it is quite large."

Source: laizquierdadiario.cl, August 7, 2017

Pinochet's repressive agents who remain fugitives

Members of the Armed Forces and Order who have been convicted or prosecuted for human rights violations perpetrated during the dictatorship enjoy free movement throughout the country, and even abroad. 1.

Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires This retired Carabineros colonel heads the list of those most wanted by the PDI (Investigations Police). With the nickname "Cachete Grande," he was part of the DINA's Caupolicán Brigade, in charge of repressing the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR).

From Villa Grimaldi, under the direction of Brigadier Pedro Espinoza Bravo, he commanded the "Águila" group, whose members were known as "Los Guatones."

RICARDO LAWRENCE MIRES, FORMER DINA AGENT.

In court, he admitted to the application of electric current to detainees, using a magneto and a metal bed frame to tie up the victims. Questioned about the forcibly disappeared, he stated that the head of the DINA, Manuel Contreras, and Augusto Pinochet must have known their whereabouts, criticizing them for "not showing their faces." He was convicted for the aggravated kidnappings of Miguel Ángel Acuña Castillo, Francisco Eduardo Aedo Carrasco, Jorge Elías Andrónico Antequera, Juan Carlos Andrónico Antequera, Jaime Mauricio Buzio Lorca, Mario Eduardo Calderón Tapia, Cecilia Gabriela Castro Salvadores, Rodolfo Alejandro Espejo Gómez, Albano Agustín Fioraso Chau, Gregorio Antonio Gaete Farías, Mauricio Edmundo Jorquera Encina, Isidro Miguel Ángel Pizarro Meniconi, Marcos Esteban Quiñones Lembach, Jilberto Patricio Urbina Chamorro, Aldo Gonzálo Pérez Vargas, Carlos Fredy Pérez Vargas, Ariel Martín Salinas Argomedo, Carmen Cecilia Bueno Cifuentes, Jorge Hernán Müller Silva, Luis Eduardo Durán Rivas, Eduardo Humberto Ziede Gómez, EDUARDO ENRIQUE LARA PRETROVICH, Enrique Segundo Toro Romero, and José Caupolicán Villagra Astudillo. As victims of the same crime against humanity, appear Luis Alberto Guendelman Wisniak, Héctor Marcial Garay Hermosilla, Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos, Jorge Alejandro Olivares Grandorge, Juan Carlos Perelman Ide, Juan Rosendo Chacón Olivares, María Angélica Andreoli Bravo, María Cristina López Stewart, Pedro Enrique Poblete Córdova, Rodrigo Eduardo Ugas Morales, Rubén David Arroyo Padilla, Teobaldo Antonio Tello Garrido, Washington Cid Urrutia, Zacarías Antonio Machuca Muñoz, Félix Edmundo Lebrecht Díaz-Pinto, Bárbara Gabriela Uribe Tamblay, Francisco Edwin Van Yurick Altamirano, Alfonso René Chanfreau Oyarce, Alejandro de la Barra Villarroel, Ana María Irene Puga Rojas, Marcia Bernardita Scantlebury Elizalde, Jesús Clara Tamblay Flores, among others. 2. Pedro Javier Guzmán Olivares Member of the CNI's Anti-Subversive Brigade who operated under the alias "Roberto Téllez Fuentes." Prior to dedicating himself to repressing the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front (FPMR), he was part of the Army Intelligence Battalion (BIE). He was involved in the crime of journalist José Carrasco Tapia, committed in revenge for the attack against Pinochet.

PEDRO GUZMÁN OLIVARES, FORMER CNI AGENT

A retired colonel, he was convicted as the author of the torture suffered by Cristina Jeannette Miranda Osorio, Manuel René Moreno Torres, Víctor Hugo Cárdenas Díaz, Alexis Orlando Contreras Díaz, Juan Carlos Durán Fuentes, Sergio Enrique Cabello Romo, Julian Arnaldo Valdés Recabarren, Kristel Leonie Waleska Dossow Teillier, Víctor Manuel Jofré Valenzuela, Flor María Muñoz Meriches, Alejandro Fredy Almonacid Sandoval, Raúl Orlando Calfulen Quintrequeo, and Rodrigo Antonio Cárdenas Neira.

He was also sentenced as the author of the homicides of Ana Alicia Delgado Tapia, Juan Manuel Varas Silva, Felipe Segundo Rivera Gajardo, and Marcelino Carol Marchandon Valenzuela. Additionally, as a co-participant in the crime of Jecar Antonio Neghme Cristi, a member of the MIR. 3.

Juan Eduardo Rubilar Ottone He directed the CNI's Anti-Subversive Brigade starting in 1984. Hidden under the operational name "Captain Lira," he exercised command over 25 agents, among them the now fugitives Reimer Kohlitz and Pedro Guzmán.

His superior in the organization was Álvaro Corbalán, currently imprisoned in Punta Peuco. A former Army officer, he has convictions as the author of the aggravated homicides of Enzo Muñoz Arévalo and Héctor Patricio Sobarzo Núñez, for which there is an arrest warrant against him, issued on August 4, 2015.

In the proceedings, he said that the victims were followed after an attack carried out against the BIE barracks, on Alameda at García Reyes. The property is adjacent to the former Army War Academy that served as the cradle for the infamous Operation Condor in the 70s, and from there came the executioners of the union leader Tucapel Jiménez.

According to the regime's version, the CNI detected the presence of the suspects in a vehicle traveling along Avda. José Pedro Alessandri, meters from the Departamental Roundabout, triggering a confrontation that caused the death of both.

The Rettig Report determined that the account was not truthful, and that in reality, they were kidnapped and shot while defenseless. 4. Luis Arturo Sanhueza Ros (captured on August 26, 2017) He entered the Military School two years after the coup d'état.

Also known as "El Huiro" and "Ramiro Droguett," Sanhueza acknowledged having participated in the death of MIR members in Neltume. From 1981, he worked at the Borgoño Barracks, forming part of the CNI's ranks.

Once democracy arrived, during the investigation of the crime of the former DINA chemist, Eugenio Berríos, he indicated that he had gone into hiding, protected abroad by a secret squad of the Army Intelligence Directorate (DINE), under the command of officer Maximiliano Ferrer Lima.

After remaining a refugee with his family in Argentina and Uruguay, he chose, out of fear, to move away from his custodians and testify in court, where he was also accused of the cold practice of throwing detainees into the waters off the coast of Quintay.

He was convicted as the murderer of Fernando Gabriel Vergara Vargas, Juan Elías Espinoza Parra, Julio Arturo Guerra Olivares, and Gonzalo Iván Fuenzalida Navarrete, and for the aggravated kidnapping of Julio Orlando Muñoz Otarola, José Julián Peña Maltés, Alejandro Alberto Pinochet Arenas, and Manuel Jesús Sepúlveda Sánchez.

Finally, as a co-author of the crime of Jecar Neghme Cristi. 5. Reimer Eduardo Kohlitz Fell A fugitive for the crime of homicide in case file 2182-98, the Enzo Muñoz Arévalo episode, of the Santiago Court of Appeals, according to PDI records.

His arrest was ordered by Judge Mario Carroza on October 9, 2015. He wore an Army uniform and was a lieutenant when the extermination brigade led by Rubilar Ottone—who is also evading justice—ended the lives of Enzo Muñoz and Héctor Sobarzo in a fake "confrontation," a hallmark that marked the CNI's actions.

His presence at the scene was indicated by Carabineros officer Dina Petric Meneses, a CNI official who, as revealed by El Ciudadano in its digital edition, appears as a member of the teaching staff of the uniformed police's Non-Commissioned Officers School with a specialty in intelligence, while simultaneously serving as the establishment's public relations officer as of 2017.

Identified with the alias "Eduardo Covarrubias," Kohlitz denied having participated in the illicit acts. However, the magistrate dismissed his statements. 6. Armando Fernández Larios Although he has been out of the country for years, he appears on the list provided to El Ciudadano by the PDI.

He participated in the feared Caravan of Death, involved in the massacres, torture, and abuse that stained the northern cities with blood and pain. After entering the United States in 1987, the former major of "Mamo" Contreras's DINA declared himself an accomplice to the bomb attack that claimed the life of the former Allende diplomat Orlando Letelier in Washington DC.

He allegedly provided the US justice system with sufficient evidence to prove Contreras's participation in the massacre, and in exchange, he received protection from that country's Department of Justice.

As discovered by an Ahora Noticias team, Fernández currently lives in Florida, in the Marco Island resort area, where he has a house that he rents for 700,000 pesos a week, dedicated to business. In Chile, the Supreme Court requested his extradition for the crimes of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated homicide of Manuel Sanhueza Mellado, which occurred in Pisagua in July 1974.

His handover is also requested from the US as being implicated in the death of the Spanish ECLAC official, Carmelo Soria, along with the FBI-protected hitman Michael Townley and the Cuban terrorist Virgilio Paz. 7.

Demóstenes Eugenio Cárdenas Saavedra A civilian FACH official who belonged to the DINA. He was convicted as an accomplice for the aggravated kidnappings of Modesto Segundo Espinoza Pozo and Roberto Enrique Aranda Romero, which occurred in Santiago between August 22 and 23, 1974, along with Manuel Contreras and Miguel Krassnoff.

Modesto Espinoza, a MIR militant, was taken to the "Cuatro Álamos" detention center, located on Calle Canadá in Santiago, at the 3000 block. Like many others, he was taken to the clandestine barracks of Londres 38 and Villa Grimaldi to be subjected to interrogations.

The MIR member became another victim of the setup known as Operation Colombo, appearing on the list of 119 people published by the Chilean press complicit with the regime and the magazine Novo O’Día of Curitiba, Brazil.

In them, it was reported that Espinoza and other MIR members had died due to internal disputes, as part of the disinformation strategy deployed by the DINA abroad. Cárdenas's whereabouts have been unknown since August 2009, when in case file No. 2182-98, Judge Mario Carroza of the Santiago Court of Appeals ordered his arrest. 8.

Leonidas del Carmen Bustos San Juan A former Carabineros de Chile official convicted on October 13, 2016, for the aggravated homicides of residents Ramón Bernardo Beltrán Sandoval, Carlos Alejandro Ibarra Espinoza, Juan Luis Inostroza Mallea, Rodolfo Ismael Rojas González, and Abraham José Romero Jeldres.

In court, he admitted his participation as a material author of the crimes perpetrated between September 26 and 27, 1973, in Quilicura, "since he is part of the group of Carabineros that removes the detainees from the police unit, he is also one of those who transports them to the Portezuelo sector and joins the group that completes the action, by shooting," the sentence reads.

Bustos was part of the Eneas Gonel Marín precinct and participated in raids along with Investigations police and members of the Army. According to the ruling, in compliance with orders issued by a chief officer, the detainees were loaded into a pickup truck, taken out, forced to kneel, and to withstand shots to their entire bodies, some directly to the skull. 9.

Carlos Humberto Minoletti Arriagada A retired Army major who allegedly fled the country. He is wanted for the kidnapping of Leopoldo García Lucero, a Socialist Party militant who supported the Popular Unity government.

The exile passed through, among others, the National Stadium and the Chacabuco prisoner camp, located in the Antofagasta Region, where Minoletti served as a security officer. The agent was prosecuted in the Calama Caravan of Death case by the special judge Hernán Crisosto, as a co-author of the crime of aggravated homicide of Mario Arguellez Toro, Carlos Berger Guralnik, Haroldo Ruperto Cabrera Abarzúa, Jerónimo Jorge Carpanchai Choque, Bernardino Cayo Cayo, Carlos Alfredo Escobedo Caris, Luis Alberto Gahona Ochoa, Daniel Jacinto Garrido Muñoz, Luis Alberto Hernández Neira, Manuel Segundo Hidalgo Rivas, Rolando Jorge Hoyos Salazar, Domingo Mamani López, David Ernesto Miranda Luna, Hernán Elizardo Moreno Villarroel, Luis Alfonso Moreno Villarroel, and Rosario Aguid Muñoz Castillo. In the same capacity, he was prosecuted for the deaths of Milton Alfredo Muñoz Muñoz, Víctor Alfredo Ortega Cuevas, Rafael Enrique Pineda Ibacache, Carlos Alfonso Piñero Lucero, Sergio Moisés Ramírez Espinoza, Fernando Roberto Ramírez Sánchez, Alejandro Rodríguez Rodríguez, Roberto Segundo Rojas Alcayaga, José Gregorio Saavedra González, and Jorge Rubén Yueng Rojas. Likewise, he was convicted for digging up corpses and throwing them into the sea in the operation called "Retiro de Televisores" (Removal of Televisions) to cover up the facts, crimes of illegal exhumation that he committed against Mario Arguellez Toro, Carlos Verger Guralnik, and Haroldo Ruperto Cabrera Abarzúa, among others. 10. Walter Ludwig Klug Rivera A retired Army officer who joined the ranks of the Military Intelligence Service (SIM) and passed through the School of the Americas in Panama. He supervised the stables of the Los Ángeles Regiment, which were transformed into a prisoner camp. According to the PDI, he holds the status of a fugitive based on an order issued by the Concepción Court of Appeals, imparted by Judge Carlos Aldana Fuentes on September 22, 2015, in case file No. 13.886. He was sentenced as an accomplice to the aggravated kidnappings of Manuel Antonio Aguilera Aguilera, José Óscar Badillo García, Mario Omar Belmar Soto, Abel Carrasco Vargas, José Abel Coronado Astudillo, Plutarco Enrique Coussy Benavides, Bernardo Samuel Meza Rubilar, Domingo Antonio Norambuena Inostroza, Mario Samuel Olivares Pérez, Benjamín Antonio Orrego Lillo, Wilfredo Hernán Quiroz Pereira, Alamiro Segundo Santana Figueroa, Manuel Sepúlveda Cerda, Luis Leopoldo Sepúlveda Núñez, Exequiel del Carmen Verdejo Verdejo, Luis Eduardo Vergara Corso, and Juan Miguel Yáñez Franco. In the same capacity, he was convicted for the aggravated homicides of César Augusto Flores Baeza, Víctor Jerez Meza, Juan Eladio Ulloa Pino, and Víctor Adolfo Ulloa Pino.

Source: laorillaizquierda.com; September 4, 2017