Martín Elgueta Pinto, single, a Commercial Engineering student at the Universidad de Chile and a member of the MIR, was detained on July 15, 1974, at approximately 7:30 p.m., in the apartment shared by the married couple Juan Rosendo Chacón Olivares (detained on the same day as the victim and currently forcibly disappeared) and Verónica Martínez Ahumada, located at Antonio Varas No. 240, Apt. 202, Providencia.

His apprehension was carried out by agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), led by Osvaldo Romo Mena and transported in several vehicles, including Chevrolet C-10 pickup trucks.

Hours earlier, at approximately 3:00 p.m., María Inés Alvarado Börgel (currently forcibly disappeared), the victim's girlfriend, had been detained on a public street, also by DINA agents, in the presence of Verónica Martínez.

Martínez was with her young daughter, Camila, who managed to slip away and head to her home, where she reported the events to a cousin of her husband, Antonio Osorio. According to the latter’s statements, from that moment on, an intense deployment of individuals who appeared to be security agents was observed around the building.

Around 5:30 p.m., about 10 heavily armed individuals, including Osvaldo Romo, appeared at the apartment on Avenida Antonio Varas, identifying themselves as DINA officials. They were armed and brought María Inés Alvarado with them; she appeared very frightened and was bleeding from her upper lip.

After confirming the address, they proceeded to take her away, while other agents raided the apartment. At 7:00 p.m., Raúl Chacón Zenteno (father of Juan Rosendo) arrived, and half an hour later, Martín Elgueta arrived, from whom they took a package of clothing he was carrying.

At 8:00 p.m., Juan Rosendo Chacón (currently forcibly disappeared) arrived at the residence. All of them were detained, including Verónica Martínez Ahumada and Antonio Osorio, and taken, blindfolded, to Londres 38, a secret DINA detention and torture center.

There, Martín Elgueta was seen by several witnesses. Antonio Osorio Olivares noted that the victim was taken for interrogation three times a day. On more than one occasion, he heard his cries of pain and moans.

For his part, Ramón Osvaldo Barceló, who had known the victim since childhood, also saw him at Londres 38 in poor physical condition on the night of August 14 to 15, 1974. Martín Elgueta himself had previously told Antonio Osorio, "I have suffered many tortures, but I am in good health. No matter how much they torture me, I will not speak, for I have nothing to say."

Five days later, they were removed from Londres 38 to be taken to the Cuatro Álamos camp for the incommunicado: Verónica Martínez, Raúl Chacón Zenteno, and Antonio Osorio Olivares (all of whom were subsequently released), and Juan Rosendo Chacón Olivares (who disappeared from that facility). Martín Elgueta and María Inés Alvarado Börgel remained detained at Londres 38, from where they disappeared.

He was also seen at this facility by Cristián Van Yurick, Graciela Scarlett Mathieu, and Nelly Barceló. During his detention, Martín Elgueta was taken out of the DINA facility on two occasions. On July 17, 1974, around noon, he was taken to the home of María Matilde Cheuquemán Cheuquemán, in the Buzeta neighborhood, who was keeping belongings for the Elgueta family.

The purpose of the visit was to retrieve a pair of blankets. According to María Matilde, the victim, who looked very dirty and in poor condition, appeared accompanied by a civilian of roughly his same age, "friendly and blond," who never left his side. The description of this agent corresponds to one of those who raided the Antonio Varas apartment and participated in Martín's detention.

Days later, on July 25, 1974, Martín Elgueta and María Inés Alvarado Börgel were taken, this time by Osvaldo Romo and two other civilians, to the home of her mother, Inés Börgel González, located on Calle Dublé Almeyda in Ñuñoa.

The victims showed a black mark on their foreheads, apparently a burn. On that occasion, María Inés told her mother that they were both being held and that they remained in the same conditions. After about 10 minutes, the agents took the young people away, boarding a new Chevrolet C-10 pickup truck with them.

Subsequently, in February 1975, in a "press conference" broadcast via national radio and television from the Edificio Diego Portales, four MIR leaders who were being held by the DINA publicly named Martín Elgueta as one of the party militants who was "in exile."

One year after his detention and disappearance, in July 1975, the victim's name appeared on the list of 119 Chileans who had allegedly died in clashes in Argentina. He was included in the roster of the magazine "Lea," which appeared only once.

The veracity of this fact has never been proven; furthermore, no government, not even the Chilean one, officially ratified it. Colonel Jorge Espinoza Ulloa, Executive Secretary of the Servicio Nacional de Detenidos (SENDET), informed the Court on September 23, 1975, that the Secretariat he directed had no records of the detentions or deaths abroad of María Inés Alvarado Börgel and Martín Elgueta Pinto.

A little more than a month before Martín's detention, DINA agents, also led by Osvaldo Romo, had detained his brother Raimundo Belarmino Elgueta (May 1974), who was violently tortured and threatened with death, passing through different detention centers and remaining disappeared for more than 10 days.

Furthermore, his family's home had also been raided by Romo, while his father, Belarmino Elgueta Becker, a high-ranking leader of the Socialist Party, was in exile in Mexico. His mother, Yolanda Pinto (now deceased), and his sister were also victims of serious intimidation by Osvaldo Romo on different occasions.

Judicial and/or Administrative Proceedings

Various writs of amparo (habeas corpus) were filed on behalf of Martín Elgueta. On July 24, 1974, a writ was filed with the Santiago Court of Appeals, registered under No. 791-74. During its processing, Division General and Minister of the Interior Raúl Benavides Escobar informed the Court on September 27, 1974, that the victim was not "detained by order of any administrative authority and that this Ministry is unaware of his current whereabouts." Without further investigation, the writ was rejected four months later, on November 27 of the same year.

The records were sent to the 4th Criminal Court of Santiago to initiate a summary investigation. Thus, case file No. 106,476 was opened on December 5, 1974.

On February 21, 1975, a new writ was filed for the victim, also with the Santiago Court of Appeals. Attached to the filing were sworn statements from witnesses to both the detention and the imprisonment of Martín Elgueta, as well as a note signed by the Squadron Commander and Chief of the Confidential Department of the Ministry of the Interior, Enzo Di Nocera García, informing Mrs.

Yolanda Pinto that the cases of "Raimundo and Martín Elgueta Pinto will be reviewed by the relevant agencies" (September 1974).

For his part, the Minister of the Interior and Division General, Raúl Benavides Escobar, only responded to the court on June 10 of that same year, stating that the victim "is not detained by order of this Ministry." Two days later, on June 12, the amparo was rejected.

The resolution was appealed. Minister of the Interior Benavides responded again, this time to the Supreme Court, claiming a lack of information regarding the victim, adding that the note from Enzo Di Nocera to Mrs. Yolanda Pinto did not imply an acknowledgment of his detention (July 1975). Di Nocera testified to the same effect in Court. The ruling was confirmed on July 21, 1975.

Subsequently, on June 17, 1976, a writ of amparo was filed with the Santiago Court of Appeals for Martín Elgueta and María Inés Alvarado Börgel (file No. 536-76). Faced with the authorities' repeated negative responses, the writ was rejected on July 1 of that same year.

The records were sent to the 6th Criminal Court of Santiago, where case file No. 91,673 regarding the alleged disappearance of María Inés Alvarado and Martín Elgueta was already being processed.

As noted, case file No. 106,476 was investigated in the 4th Criminal Court regarding the victim's disappearance. On May 26, 1975, a criminal complaint was filed in this Court for the crime of kidnapping Martín Elgueta against the individuals who proceeded to detain him and their hierarchical superior.

Among the investigative steps, the court was asked to summon Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, Director of the DINA, and Osvaldo Romo Mena to testify. Without conducting any investigations, the Judge declared himself incompetent and sent the records to the 6th Criminal Court of Santiago, where it was consolidated with case file No. 91,675 regarding the alleged disappearance of María Inés Alvarado on July 28, 1975.

During the processing of this case, photographs of Romo were attached, and his summons to testify before the Court was continuously requested. On June 10, 1977, the Court was asked to issue an indictment against the aforementioned DINA agent for the crime of kidnapping committed against Martín Elgueta and María Inés Alvarado.

Although the request was not granted, the Judge ordered the Investigations Service to summon him to the first hearing. Thus began a fruitless search for Osvaldo Romo Mena, which continued over the years without it being possible to locate him, much less ensure his appearance at the various Courts where he had been summoned for his involvement in the disappearance cases of numerous people.

The Security Services and the corresponding authorities permanently denied the Justice system information in this regard.

Even when Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda appeared before the Visiting Minister, Servando Jordán, in August 1979, he declared that Osvaldo Romo was an informant for some DINA agents, but that nothing was known of him afterward. He also denied the existence of Londres 38 as a detention center for the organization he presided over (DINA).

On May 11, 1979, the case was referred to Visiting Minister Servando Jordán López, who was investigating cases of detention followed by disappearance that had been reported in Santiago. Subsequently, on September 17 of the same year, Visiting Minister Servando Jordán consolidated this case (91,675) with the case regarding the alleged disappearance of Juan Rosendo Chacón Olivares (file No. 77,237).

After carrying out various investigative steps aimed at finding the whereabouts of the victims and Osvaldo Romo Mena, Minister Jordán declined his jurisdiction on April 28, 1980, to continue hearing the case, sending the records to the Military Justice system, which consolidated file No. 91,675 with case file No. 553-78, investigated in the 2nd Military Prosecutor's Office of Santiago, on August 6, 1982.

This case had been initiated in August 1978 in the 10th Criminal Court by a complaint filed by numerous relatives of the forcibly disappeared against General Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda, and Marcelo Luis Manuel Moren Brito and Rolf Gonzalo Wenderoth Pozo, Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel of the Army, respectively. (For complete details of the complaint against Manuel Contreras, see the case of Eduardo Alarcón Jara.)

Faced with Minister Jordán's declination of jurisdiction, the plaintiffs appealed the resolution to the Santiago Court of Appeals, which confirmed the Visiting Minister's lack of jurisdiction in May 1981.

Without any investigative steps being taken for four years, on November 20, 1989, Army Lieutenant Colonel Enrique Ibarra Chamorro, Military Prosecutor General, requested the application of the Amnesty Decree Law (D.L. 2.191) for this case, because the process had the exclusive purpose of investigating alleged crimes that occurred during the period between September 11, 1973, and March 10, 1978, and because during the 10 years of processing, it had not been possible to "determine the responsibility of any person." On November 30, 1989, the request was accepted by the 2nd Military Court, which dismissed the case totally and definitively, while it was still in the summary stage, because "the criminal liability of the persons allegedly accused of the reported acts had been extinguished." The plaintiffs appealed that resolution to the Court Martial, which confirmed the ruling in January 1992. A Complaint Appeal was then filed before the Supreme Court of Justice, which, as of December 1992, had not yet issued its resolution.

In addition, the family carried out multiple administrative efforts before both national and international authorities, including human rights organizations. Thus, on July 5, 1976, José María Eyzaguirre, President of the Supreme Court, wrote to the victim's mother, Mrs.

Yolanda Pinto, informing her that "in a conversation held with Colonel Manuel Contreras, Chief of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, he expressed to me that Osvaldo Romo worked for the Agency he directed until November 1975 and that, subsequently, he left the country." She also noted, in a letter to the President of the Court of Appeals, Rubén Galecio, that Colonel Jorge Espinoza, of the National Secretariat of Detainees (SENDET), told her that her son was detained but that he could not tell her where.

He added that within a week he would be transferred to a detention center under the authority of SENDET. That never happened.

In November 1992, the former DINA agent Osvaldo Romo Mena was arrested. During the processing of a complaint for the disappearance of Alfonso Chanfreau Oyarce, the judge of the 3rd Criminal Court, Gloria Olivares, ordered the Investigations police to locate the agent.

Romo Mena was located in Brazil, where he had been living since late 1975 under a false identity; his transfer to that country was carried out under the instructions and support of the DINA, and for years he continued to receive support from that organization.

Upon being located, the Brazilian government detained him and subsequently expelled him, and upon arriving in Chilean territory, he was arrested. He was being summoned in several cases involving the forcibly disappeared, and as of December 1992, he had seven indictments against him.

On August 12, 1992, a new complaint was filed in the case of Martín Elgueta for the crimes of kidnapping, illicit association, and others, against Osvaldo Romo before the 6th Criminal Court, which was registered under file No. 5048-6. As of December 1992, the aforementioned case was in the summary stage with important investigative steps pending.

Source: Corporation report

Walking down Calle Londres today, in the heart of Santiago, is very different from having done so blindfolded to enter No. 38, a clandestine detention and torture center of the dictatorship. However, the memorial that has just been inaugurated there will make it possible to appreciate plaques that repeat the effect of the tiles that the detainees managed to glimpse, from under their blindfolds, upon entering "Yucatán," the name the DINA gave to that clandestine barracks.

Among the cobblestones of the narrow street, in front of the dilapidated mansion that was the headquarters of the Socialist Party until the coup d'état, 300 white marble and black granite plaques were installed.

They remember the 96 Chileans who were made to disappear from there between September 1973 and the end of 1974. Survivors, relatives, and companions of the fallen, public figures, artists, and authorities attended the inauguration ceremony of this space.

The Londres 38 Collective, the promoter of the initiative, emphasized that "Never Again" is not a matter of the future, but a current task that, however, "is not guaranteed by the mere knowledge of the horror.

It is necessary to promote a rational and political judgment on what happened and on its relationship with this time, in which we continue to live with impunity. There is an unsatisfied demand for truth and justice, and as long as there is no full response to that demand, the past will continue to be part of our present."

For the relatives, "the memory associated with this site, so often and for so long hidden, is to account for the political and generational identity of the victims, the vast majority of whom were MIR militants, young people who were an active part of the social and political struggles of the time.

Men and women who chose to resist the dictatorship, part of those who from the beginning fought to recover democracy. It is for this reason that today they cannot be absent from its construction: a society that prides itself on being democratic cannot be so if it forgets those who fought for it, because that forgetting weighs not only on the kidnapped and disappeared, on the omitted, but on the society itself that forgets a piece of its own life." One of them was MARTÍN ELGUETA PINTO (MIR).

Source: puntofinal.cl 10/24/2008

Date: 10-24-2008

The Supreme Court sentenced six former agents of the dissolved Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) for their responsibility in the crime of aggravated kidnapping of the young secretary María Inés Alvarado Borgel and the university student Martín Elgueta Pinto, committed starting in July 1974 in the city of Santiago.

The young couple and victims of these events were last seen alive in the clandestine detention centers of Londres 38 and Cuatro Álamos, and subsequently, in July 1975, they were included in the list of the 119 forcibly disappeared persons mentioned in the so-called Operation Colombo, the perverse disinformation maneuver mounted by the DINA.

In a unanimous ruling (case file 104.196-2020), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, María Teresa Letelier, Eliana Quezada, and lawyer (i) Pía Tavolari—confirmed the challenged sentence, issued by the Santiago Court of Appeals, which sentenced former Army officers and former DINA leaders César Raúl Manríquez Bravo and Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, and former agents José Avelino Yevénes Vergara and Osvaldo Pulgar Gallardo to 15 years and one day in prison, as authors of the crime.

Meanwhile, former Army officers and former DINA leaders Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo and Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann were also sentenced as authors and must serve 13 years in prison each.

Those convicted in the first instance, Basclay Humberto Zapata Reyes, Risiere del Prado Altez España, Sergio Hernán Castillo González, and Orlando José Manzo Durán, died during the course of the proceedings.

María Inés Alvarado Borgel was 21 years old, a secretary, and a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). She was detained on a public street on July 15, 1974, by DINA agents, around 3:00 p.m., while walking with a friend who managed to flee.

María Inés Alvarado was surrounded by the agents, who detained her and transferred her to the DINA facility at Londres 38, where she was seen by surviving witnesses.

On July 17, 18, and 25 of the same year, María Inés was taken out of the facility, heading to her mother's house and other relatives' homes, guarded by plainclothes agents. On these occasions, they were able to see María Inés in terrible physical condition, dejected, unkempt, with her legs and forehead burned.

Subsequently, she was left at the Londres 38 barracks, where she was again seen by witnesses who were also detained there. From this clandestine barracks, they made her disappear, and some time later, they included her in the ominous list of "Operation Colombo."

Martín Elgueta Pinto, 21 years old, was a Commercial Engineering student at the Universidad de Chile and a MIR militant. He was also detained on July 15, 1974, by DINA agents, around 7:30 p.m., in the apartment of Juan Rosendo Chacón (currently a forcibly disappeared person), and was transferred to the DINA facility at Londres 38, where he was seen by surviving witnesses.

From this detention facility, he was taken out on July 17 and 25, guarded by DINA agents. On the first occasion, he was taken to the house of a friend of his paternal family, and on the second occasion, to the house of María Inés Alvarado Borgel's parents, where both were seen by relatives.

He was then left at the Londres 38 barracks, where he was again seen by witnesses who were also detained there; days later, he was seen at the Cuatro Álamos facility, from where his trail was lost.

Through witnesses and other evidence, it has been established that he was taken on some occasions to Villa Grimaldi, a detention center where he was interrogated and subjected to physical duress.

In the judicial investigation carried out by Minister Leopoldo Llanos Sagristá, it was established that Londres No. 38 was a secret detention and torture center located in the center of Santiago. It operated from late 1973 until approximately the last days of August 1974.

It held about sixty detainees at a time, who remained blindfolded, with their hands tied, all gathered in a large room, from where they were continuously taken to other rooms to be interrogated and tortured with different types of flagellation, including the application of electric current in the so-called 'parrilla' (grill).

They were also taken out of the place to force them to cooperate in other detentions.

The so-called 'Cuartel Terranova' or 'Villa Grimaldi,' located at Avenida José Arrieta No. 8,200 in the commune of Peñalolén, in the Metropolitan Region, is the one that concentrated the largest number of detainees.

A group of agents from the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) operated in this clandestine detention facility, who, boasting various levels of command hierarchy, ordered and executed the captures of people, leaders, militants, or those affiliated with political parties or left-wing movements, whom they locked up in the place, breaking them under physical and psychological torment of various kinds, with the aim of forcing them to provide information about other people on the political left in order to apprehend them, according to the judicial investigation.

Source: resumen.cl 3/9/2023

Date: 03-09-2023

LMS students invite the community to connect to the 2021 Act of Memory in commemoration of those detained, disappeared, and tortured during the dictatorship

Due to the health context, the meeting will be virtual and will take place starting at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, September 10, through the networks of the LMS Student Assembly.

September 11 is approaching, the date on which, 48 years ago, the country experienced the civic-military coup that began a brutal dictatorship commanded by Augusto Pinochet, and the Liceo Experimental Manuel de Salas is present through the Act of Memory, to commemorate those detained, disappeared, and tortured during that period.

This traditional meeting, which brings together the school community around the memory of the victims of human rights violations, will be held in a virtual format due to the health crisis context, on Friday, September 10, at 6:00 p.m., through the platforms of the LMS Student Assembly.

"We invite the entire community to join this activity, which has historically been so important to us," say members of the Organizing Committee.

The call is to gather amidst artistic interventions and memories, in an emotional space that the students wanted to link with the political imprisonment of those who fought in the revolt that began on October 18, 2019, with the slogan "Facing all the prisons of yesterday and today, the peoples in struggle for our comrades in prison."

We take this opportunity to remember our fallen students and teachers, for whom this Friday we will say together: "Present!"

María Inés Alvarado Börgel, Jaime Buzio Lorca, Arnoldo Camú Veloso, Luis Alberto Corvalán Castillo, Alejandro de la Barra Villaroel, Martín Elgueta Pinto, Sergio Gabriel Flores Durán, Luis Fernando Fuentes Riquelme, Carlos Enrique Godoy Lagarrigue, Luis Julio Guajardo Zamorano, Jorge Mario Jordán Domic, Hugo Martínez González, Littré Quiroga Carvajal, Jaime Eugenio Robotham Bravo, and Edwin Van Yuric Altamirano.

YouTube: Liceo Manuel de Salas Instagram: @Difusión.lms

Source: lms.cl 9/7/2021

Date: 09-07-2021

U. de Chile to award posthumous degrees to 104 executed and disappeared persons

Symbolic recognition will be directed to former students murdered during the military regime.

Through exempt decree number 0030766 of the Universidad de Chile, authorized by the Comptroller General of the Republic on September 4 of this year, said university was enabled, for the first time in its history, to award posthumous and symbolic degrees to students who were political executions victims and those who became forcibly disappeared during the military regime.

The official ceremony, which will be led by Rector Ennio Vivaldi, will take place next Monday the 11th, in the Domeyko courtyard of the main campus, starting at 12:30 p.m. For Vivaldi, "this initiative has two very deep meanings.

On one hand, it is a gesture of reparation for the victims themselves and for their relatives, who also affectively associate their loved ones with this great institution that is the U. de Chile. On the other hand, the U. de Chile feels that it is fulfilling its moral duty by not granting the dictatorship the terrible objective of, in addition to having cut their lives short, erasing their achievements as students and future professionals for Chile."

The list includes 104 former students of the university who were murdered by State agents between 1973 and 1989.

Among the most remembered cases is that of history student Jécar Nehgme, who also appears as the last victim of Augusto Pinochet's regime. This former leader of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR) was found dead on September 4, 1989, on Calle General Bulnes, a few days before the elections that would mark the return to democracy.

After a long judicial process, which was resolved in 2008, it was established that the authors of the murder were the metropolitan chief of the CNI, Brigadier (r) Enrique Levy Araneda; Colonel (r) Pedro Guzmán Olivares; and Captain (r) Luis Sanhueza Ross.

Social organizations valued the gesture. The president of the Association of Political Executions Victims (Afep), Alicia Lira, pointed out that "it is a great gesture, which we recognize enormously. With this, Rector Vivaldi fulfills a pending task that the Universidad de Chile had, since similar gestures had already been fulfilled by other universities such as the U. de Santiago and the Austral de Valdivia.

But it is a huge signal for democracy and for a true 'never again' to be fulfilled in Chile."

In the list of Universidad de Chile students who were victims of the civic-military dictatorship, is MARTÍN ELGUETA PINTO, FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED 7/15/1974.

Source: latercera.cl 09/08/2017

Date: 09-08-2017

Secret files of Colonia Dignidad declassified

The Londres 38 memory space revealed part of the archive seized in the enclave led by Paul Schäfer.

The Londres 38 memory space declassified 93 files of forcibly disappeared persons that were seized in 2005 in the former Colonia Dignidad and handed over to the organization by Visiting Minister Jorge Zepeda.

During the first years of political repression, the Yucatán barracks of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) operated in the mansion located at Londres 38, in Santiago.

Hundreds of detainees passed through that facility, most of them MIR militants; 96 of them are disappeared.

That is the case of Martín Elgueta Pinto, an economics student at the Universidad de Chile.

In Paul Schäfer's archive, there is a file with information on this young man who was 21 years old at the time of his detention.

It contains data on his political affiliation and position in the MIR. In addition, there are press clippings and data from international Human Rights organizations.

Check out the file declassified by Londres 38 here.

Source: 24horas.cl 4/11/2014

Date: 04-11-2014

Minister Guzmán indicted seven retired military officers

The investigating judge, Juan Guzmán Tapia, indicted seven retired military officers for the crime of aggravated kidnapping, for the disappearance of 23 people at the Villa Grimaldi torture facility during the military government.

The former uniformed officers are the former director of the DINA, Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda; Colonel Marcelo Moren Brito; Brigadier Miguel Krassnoff; Sub-officer Basclay Zapata; agent Osvaldo Romo; retired Carabineros officer Conrado Pacheco; and agent Pedro Alfaro.

Note from memoriaviva.com: Human Rights lawyer provided the following details: Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda for: Jacqueline Drouilly, César Negrete Peña, Marta Neira, Alfredo Rojas Castañeda, Jaime Vásquez Sáenz, Juan Molina Mogollones, Alej.

Avalos Davidson, Sonia Rios Pacheco, Elías Villar Quijón, María Isabel Gutiérrez Martínez, Horacio Carabantes, Fabián Ibarra Córdova, Carlos Rioseco Espinoza, Alfredo García Vega, Abel Vilches Figueroa, René Acuña Reyes, Carrasco Matus, Hugo Rios Videla, Martín Elgueta Pinto, Agustín Martínez Meza, Juan MacLeod, Julieta Ramírez Castro, and Luis Palominos Rojas.

Marcelo Moren Brito for all of the above except Elgueta, Negrete, and Neira. Miguel Krassnoff for Negrete, Neira, Drouilly, Rojas, Vásquez, Molina, Avalos, Acuña, Carrasco, Ríos, Elgueta, Martínez, and Palominos.

Pedro René Alfaro Fernández for: Ríos, Villar, Gutiérrez, Carabantes, Ibarra, Rioseco, García, and Vilches. Basclay Zapata for: Rojas, Vásquez, Molina, Acuña, Carrasco, Ríos, Elgueta, and Palominos. Conrado Pacheco Cárdenas for: MacLeod and Ramírez.

Source: La Tercera, July 22, 2002

Date: 07-22-2002

Former LMS students who were victims of the military dictatorship received posthumous degrees at the Universidad de Chile

Former LMS students who were victims of the military dictatorship received posthumous degrees at the Universidad de Chile.

Last Wednesday, April 11, at the institution's Main Campus, a symbolic graduation and delivery of professional degrees owed to 100 U. de Chile students who were forcibly disappeared and political execution victims during the dictatorship took place. Four of them were from Manuel de Salas.

The Universidad de Chile awarded posthumous and symbolic degrees to its students who were forcibly disappeared and political execution victims of the civic-military dictatorship commanded by Augusto Pinochet Ugarte.

Relatives of 100 students received their owed degrees this April 11 at the institution's Main Campus: four of them were former students of the Liceo Experimental Manuel de Salas.

They are

Martín Elgueta Pinto, forcibly disappeared, who graduated from the Liceo in 1970, who received the title of Commercial Engineer; Luis Fernando Fuentes Riquelme, forcibly disappeared, who graduated in 1969, the title of State Professor in Biology and Science; Luis Julio Guajardo Zamorano, forcibly disappeared, who graduated in 1968, the title of Civil Mechanical Engineer; and Eugenio Robotham Bravo, forcibly disappeared, who graduated in 1968, the title of Sociologist.

The highest authority of the University, Rector Ennio Vivaldi, presented the recognitions and addressed each of the relatives and attendees. "The U. de Chile is making a gesture of demonstration of moral autonomy today. The military dictatorship told us they had died, and today we feel entitled to say something else and give them this diploma," he highlighted.

According to the Director of the LMS, "today, the names of the four recognized students, in addition to 11 other forcibly disappeared and political execution victims from the Liceo, are honored in our Memorial that pays tribute to these fighters who dignified us with their sacrifice."

On September 11 of this year, the U. de Chile will distinguish the new names that the investigation yields, and the process will continue until all students who were victims of political violence during the civic-military dictatorship are recognized.

The Memorial Every morning, at the beginning of the school day, the students of the Liceo Manuel de Salas enter through the main entrance of the institution and are greeted by a sculpture of two young people made by Sergio Castillo Amunategui, which commemorates the 15 former students who were disappeared or executed during the civic-military dictatorship of Pinochet.

The Memorial was inaugurated in 1991 in the establishment's park, and at the end of 2013, the LMS Alumni Center proposed to the Liceo's administration to move the sculpture to a more visible place. After the development of a project, the Memorial was repositioned in September 2015 to this daily space of entry into a new day of experiences and learning.

Thus, day by day, the students can see and remember the names of our fallen:

María Inés Alvarado Börgel, Jaime Buzio Lorca, Arnoldo Camú Veloso, Luis Alberto Corvalán Castillo, Alejandro de la Barra Villaroel, Martín Elgueta Pinto, Sergio Gabriel Flores Durán, Luis Fernando Fuentes Riquelme, Carlos Enrique Godoy Lagarrigue, Luis Julio Guajardo Zamorano, Jorge Mario Jordán Domic, Hugo Martínez González, Littré Quiroga Carvajal, Jaime Eugenio Robotham Bravo, and Edwin Van Yuric Altamirano.

Source: lms.cl 4/13/2018

Date: 04-13-2018