The minister for extraordinary cases of human rights violations of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Mario Carroza, sentenced three retired Carabineros for the qualified homicides of two people, perpetrated in September 1973, in Santiago.

The sentence applies to Humberto Quiñones Marín, Carlos Córdova Salinas, and Alfonso Silva Ramírez, with effective sentences of 10 years and one day of imprisonment , as authors of the homicides of Ángel Espinoza Valenzuela and Miguel Díaz León.

According to the information gathered during the investigation stage, it was established that the victims were being held in the cells of the Zelada Carabineros station , located in the commune of Quinta Normal. They were removed from the facility on September 14, 1973, by police personnel who transported them to the vicinity of the Bulnes bridge, executing them on the banks of the Mapocho River .

Source: biobiochile.cl, April 8, 2016

Former Carabinero serving sentence at Colina 1 for human rights violations passes away

Humberto Quiñones Marín was serving a 15-year prison sentence for the homicide of two people in 1973. This Saturday, the former Carabineros non-commissioned officer, Humberto Quiñones Marín, who was serving a 15-year prison sentence at the Colina 1 Penal Facility for the homicide of two people, passed away.

The former officer had been sentenced in 2016 for the murder of Ángel Espinoza Valenzuela and Miguel Díaz León, which occurred on the banks of the Mapocho River in September 1973, as detailed by La Tercera .

Quiñones was hospitalized at the Dipreca Hospital due to a chronic heart condition , where he passed away around 01:00 hours. His lawyer, Raúl Meza, explained that “a presidential pardon had been requested from President Piñera in June of this year and it was denied due to the lack of a document.” Furthermore, he added that “we deeply regret that in almost 8 months of Sebastián Piñera’s Government, 8 elderly inmates with chronic and terminal illnesses have passed away while serving sentences in Punta Peuco and Colina 1.”

Source: 24horas.cl, June 27, 2018

Case No. 185-2011: homicide case of Ángel Daniel Espinosa Valenzuela and Miguel Antonio Díaz León

13.- Police Report, on page 135 and following, signed with the number 4030/00702, issued by the Investigative Brigade of Crimes Against Human Rights of the Investigative Police of Chile, which concludes that it can be established that the victims of this case, Ángel Daniel Espinosa Valenzuela and Miguel Antonio Díaz León , were detained on September 13, 1973, by Carabineros personnel assigned to a police post located at Plaza Chile-España, specifically at the intersection of Buzo Sobenes and Abtao streets , under the jurisdiction of the 22nd Precinct of Estación Central ; that, Miguel Antonio Díaz León , upon leaving his home to make some purchases and verify the end of the curfew, was pursued and detained from inside his home by Carabineros personnel wearing institutional uniforms, helmets, and machine guns; that, subsequently, the friend of said victim, Ángel Espinosa Valenzuela , was detained from his private residence, an event witnessed from the street by his partner, Blanca Díaz Valenzuela; that, both victims allegedly had police records for robbery and theft, but had served their respective sentences; that, likewise, the officers who participated in the detention were nicknamed in the victims' residential area as "Área 12," "El Cuchuflí," and one with the surname "Quiñones"; that, the first two allegedly held the rank of Carabinero, and " Quiñones" was a Sergeant at the time of the detentions; that, the victims were allegedly transported to the aforementioned police post, a place where Magdalena Flores Pareja heard the screams of both detainees due to the beatings inflicted upon them by the Carabineros officers, an instant from which she has no further knowledge of the events that caused the death of both friends, until their bodies were found at the Legal Medical Service; that, likewise, there is an eyewitness to the detention of the victims, who allegedly saw them inside the indicated police post, being subjected to beatings and torture, who was also detained, and would correspond to Manuel or Pedro Valderrama.

Source: Judiciary, April 7, 2017