On October 16, 1973, 23 people were detained at the Campo Lindo, 24 de Abril, and Nuevo Sendero settlements. 22 of them remain forcibly disappeared to this day, while the body of the last one was recently found and identified.

In the early hours of that day, an operation was carried out in the three aforementioned settlements in the town of Paine by personnel from the San Bernardo Infantry Regiment, accompanied by Carabineros and civilians from the area, who were armed and some with their faces painted.

They traveled in a red truck, a military jeep, and other civilian vehicles. The personnel proceeded to detain twenty-three people, raiding their homes and acting with unnecessary violence in some instances. They did not allow lights to be turned on, operating by the light of flashlights.

Twelve of these individuals belonged to peasant families living in the "24 de Abril" settlement; two belonged to peasant families living in the "El Tránsito" settlement, but who also worked as laborers at the "24 de Abril" settlement; seven belonged to the "Nuevo Sendero" settlement; one was a merchant and another an industrialist from the area:

José Domingo ADASME NUÑEZ, 37 years old, married;

Pedro Antonio CABEZAS VILLEGAS, 37 years old, married;

Patricio Loreto DUQUE ORELLANA, 25 years old, married;

Carlos GAETE LOPEZ, 29 years old, married;

Luis Alberto GAETE BALMACEDA, 21 years old, married;

José Germán FREDES GARCIA, 29 years old, married;

Rosalindo Delfin HERRERA MUÑOZ, 22 years old;

Luis Rodolfo LAZO MALDONADO, 20 years old, single, Socialist Party militant;

Samuel del Tránsito LAZO MALDONADO, 24 years old, married, Socialist Party militant;

Carlos Enrique LAZO QUINTEROS, 41 years old, married;

Samuel Altamiro LAZO QUINTEROS, 49 years old, married, Socialist Party militant;

René del Rosario MAUREIRA GAJARDO, 41 years old, married, Socialist Party militant;

Jorge Hernán MUÑOZ PEÑALOZA, 28 years old;

Mario Enrique MUÑOZ PEÑALOZA, 24 years old, married, Vice President of the "24 de Abril" settlement;

Ramiro Antonio MUÑOZ PEÑALOZA, 32 years old, married;

Silvestre René MUÑOZ PEÑALOZA, 33 years old, married;

Carlos Alberto NIETO DUARTE, 20 years old, single;

Laureano QUIROZ PEZOA, 42 years old, married;

Andrés PEREIRA SALSBERG, 54 years old, married, industrialist;

Roberto Estevan SERRANO GALAZ, 34 years old, married;

Luis SILVA CARREÑO, 43 years old, married;

Basilio Antonio VALENZUELA ALVAREZ, 35 years old, married;

José Ignacio CASTRO MALDONADO, 52 years old, married, Socialist Party militant;

The detainees were taken to the Paine Sub-Station, where some of them were seen by their relatives. From there, they were transferred to the San Bernardo Infantry Regiment, and their whereabouts have remained unknown since then, despite the multiple administrative and judicial efforts made by their families.

Currently, the investigation into all the events that occurred in Paine in 1973 is under the jurisdiction of the Visiting Judge Germán Hermosilla, with all previously initiated cases being consolidated.

The Government of Chile informed the United Nations, in a document presented in 1975, that Carlos Gaete López appeared in the records of the Legal Medical Institute as having been admitted to that agency as deceased on October 18, 1973, at 12:20 p.m., having undergone autopsy protocol No. 3393, and that his identity card number was 5,338,566 from Santiago.

This information proved to be false, as Gaete López's identity card was from Buin and bore the number 53,491. For his part, the Visiting Judge, Juan Rivas Larraín, determined that "autopsy protocol No. 3393 corresponds to an unidentified (NN) male person sent by the Prosecutor's Office to that agency, who died in the town of Quilicura on October 13, 1973, at 8:00 p.m."

Of the 23 people detained on October 16, 1973, 22 remain forcibly disappeared to this day.

Considering that all the victims were detained by State agents, which has been proven, and were transferred to facilities under their control, from where they disappeared, the Commission is convinced that their disappearances are the responsibility of State agents, constituting violations of their human rights.