ADDRESS Pobl. Vicente Pérez R., Avda Castilla 614, Chillán PROFESSION OR TRADE Worker at "El Cóndor" Tannery On September 25, 1973, Robinson Ramírez del Prado was detained at his workplace, the "El Cóndor" tannery in Chillán, at approximately 10:00 hours, by Carabineros officers dressed in civilian clothes.

Robinson Ramírez, former President of the Central Unica de Trabajadores (CUT) during the previous government, had previously been visited by the same police officers for the purpose of holding an interview with him, as they stated to his employer, whose surname was León.

In the latter's presence, he was taken into custody, and they indicated to him that he would soon be released. His partner, Elena Pino Quintana, learned that he was taken to the barracks of the Second Police Station (Segunda Comisaría) of Chillán.

She went there to deliver food to him during the days following his detention. On the third day, officials told her that he was not there. She insisted many times before the Carabineros, but they have never acknowledged the fact of Robinson Ramírez's detention or the fate he met after his arrest. All efforts to learn of his whereabouts have been fruitless.

LEGAL ACTIONS

Amparo Appeal (Habeas Corpus) to the Court of Appeals of Chillán, Case File 94.657, initiated on March 4, 1975. The Court limited itself to requesting information from the Carabineros, who denied the detention, and ruled to reject the Appeal, ordering the Duty Court to initiate a summary proceeding for alleged disappearance.

Proceeding for alleged disappearance, Third Criminal Court of Chillán, Case File 7.201, initiated on March 4, 1975, and temporarily dismissed and archived on June 19, 1975.

ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

Personal efforts by his spouse before the Carabineros and administrative authorities of Chillán, and at various detention centers for political prisoners. She always received negative or evasive responses.

Source: Corporation report

Memoriaviva gained access to the death certificate dated September 23, 1973, for Mr. Robinson Ramírez del Prado; therefore, the date is recorded with the FOLIO: 500653439183 Verification Code: 9d48f3295ab7 Civil Registry and Identification Service.

Source: registrocivil.cl

In the resolution (case file 6-2017 and accumulated cases), Minister Aldana Fuentes indicted retired Carabineros General Jeldres Rodríguez as the perpetrator of the qualified homicides of Patricio Lautaro Weizel Pérez and Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna; the qualified kidnappings of Ricardo Troncoso León, Arturo Lorenzo Prat Martí, José Gregorio Retamal Velásquez, Robinson Ramírez del Prado, Leopoldo López Rivas, and Mario Fernando Moreno Castro; and the aggravated kidnapping of Juan Mauricio Poblete Tropa.

The minister on extraordinary assignment for human rights violation cases for the Courts of the jurisdictions of Concepción and Chillán, Carlos Aldana Fuentes, issued an indictment against retired Carabineros General Patricio Enrique Jeldres Rodríguez for his responsibility in two consummated crimes of qualified homicide, six consummated crimes of qualified kidnapping, and one consummated crime of aggravated kidnapping.

These crimes were perpetrated between September and December 1973, in the commune of Chillán. In the resolution (case file 6-2017 and accumulated cases), Minister Aldana Fuentes indicted the Carabineros lieutenant at the time of the events, Jeldres Rodríguez, as the perpetrator of the qualified homicides of Patricio Lautaro Weizel Pérez and Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna; the qualified kidnappings of Ricardo Troncoso León, Arturo Lorenzo Prat Martí, José Gregorio Retamal Velásquez, Robinson Ramírez del Prado, Leopoldo López Rivas, and Mario Fernando Moreno Castro; and the aggravated kidnapping of Juan Mauricio Poblete Tropa. Furthermore, he indicted the civilian Juan Antonio Sepúlveda Peña as an accomplice in the aggravated kidnapping of Troncoso León. In the resolution, the visiting minister establishes the following facts: a) Case file 7-2017: "That on October 1, 1973, around 11:00 hours, while Ricardo Troncoso León, photographer and theater director, pseudonym 'Gonzalo Román', was at his home located in the El Tejar neighborhood, Pasaje Sur No. 387 in the city of Chillán, together with his wife and minor daughter, a patrol of Carabineros from the Second Police Station of Chillán arrived, commanded by a Lieutenant, in a jeep with the Carabineros logo and accompanied by a civilian nicknamed 'El vuela poco', named Juan Antonio Sepúlveda Peña, and proceeded to raid the home and detain him, without a competent judicial or administrative order, transporting him to the premises of said Institution, where he remained in that capacity. The family was informed on the 3rd of the same month and year that he had been transferred to the Regiment, where such fact was denied, and his whereabouts or fate have remained unknown from that date until now." b) Case file 9-2017: "That at 22:00 hours on October 1, 1973, a Carabineros patrol dedicated to detaining persons opposed to the military regime arrived at the home of Patricio Lautaro Weitzel Pérez, located in Pabellones Pizarro, street six, house four, commune of Chillán. Without a competent judicial or administrative order, they entered said home and proceeded to detain him, together with his fellow students at the Escuela Normal de Chillán, Arturo Lorenzo Prat Martí and José Gregorio Retamal Velásquez, transporting them to the Second Police Station of Chillán, where they were subjected to interrogations and torture by the aforementioned Carabineros operational group, led by Lieutenant Patricio Jeldres Rodríguez, with their bodies later being found in the bed of the Ñuble River, at the height of the El Ala Bridge. Subsequently, on December 24, 1973, a young woman arrived at the watch repair shop owned by Mr. Mario Weitzel Trincado – father of Patricio Lautaro Weitzel Pérez – to repair a wristwatch. Upon realizing it belonged to his son Patricio Lautaro – who had been forcibly disappeared since September 1973 – after assisting her, he proceeded to follow her at a distance, arriving at the El Ala Bridge sector over the Ñuble River, on whose bank he found the bodies of six people floating in the water, among them that of his son Patricio. He left it half-buried in the same place while he complied with reporting it to the court on December 26, 1973. A criminal case was formed, and the judge constituted himself at the aforementioned place the following day, ordering the removal of the body and its transfer to the morgue for the corresponding autopsy, and later ordered its delivery to the relatives, who gave him a burial. Regarding the victims Arturo Lorenzo Prat Martí and José Gregorio Retamal Velásquez, since the date of their detention – October 1, 1973 – and their transfer to the Second Police Station of Chillán, all certain news of their whereabouts or location is unknown." c) Case file 11-2017: "That around 10:00 hours on September 25, 1973, Robinson Enrique Ramírez del Prado, President of the Central Unica de Trabajadores of Chillán, was detained by a group of Carabineros without a competent judicial or administrative order, in the presence of his boss (Juan León Bernier) and coworkers, at his workplace, the 'El Cóndor' tannery, located at Av. Collin No. 866, Chillán. He was seen entering the Second Police Station by his cousin Gerardo Pradenas del Prado, who at the time was a Carabineros official at the same station, and who were personally confronted to determine the degree of kinship between them. Subsequently, the victim entered a cell, this being the last time he was seen. That at 13:00 hours on September 26, 1973, at his shoe repair shop located at Av. Brasil and Av. Libertad in the city of Chillán, Leopoldo López Rivas, a militant of the Communist Party, was detained by a group of Carabineros without a competent judicial or administrative order, in the presence of his assistant (Vicente Vidal Méndez). He was transported to the Second Police Station of Chillán, and his detention at said police facility was acknowledged by the Guard Carabineros when checking the entry log before Mrs. Rosario Peña Espinoza, who went to said place at 15:00 hours that same day. Likewise, it is proven that both detainees – Robinson Ramírez del Prado and Leopoldo López Rivas – were subjected to intense and cruel torture, remaining in poor physical condition. In that state, they were taken out of the aforementioned police unit and loaded into a vehicle by Carabineros personnel – along with the also-detained Luis Ibarra Durán and Juan Poblete Tropa – a date from which – September 25 and 26, 1973 – all news regarding their whereabouts or location is unknown." d) Case file 15-2017: "That around 23:45 hours on September 23, 1973, while Juan Mauricio Poblete Tropa was sleeping at his parents' house, Carabineros led by Lieutenant Patricio Jeldres Rodríguez, supported by military personnel, arrived and removed him violently without a judicial or administrative order. He was taken to the Second Police Station of Chillán, where he was visited by his mother, María Sabina Poblete Tropa, who observed that he was very mistreated due to the duress received. On September 27, 1973, as his mother was going to the Police Station to leave lunch for her son, she noticed that he was being loaded into a van. When she asked about his destination, she was informed that he would be taken to the Regiment, a place where they denied having received him. From that day on, the family lost all news of his whereabouts until they received information from Mr. Mario Weitzel Trincado, who handed over items found on a headless corpse that was in the vicinity of the 'El Ala' Bridge on December 24, 1973, next to the body of his son Patricio Lautaro Weitzel Pérez. After forensic genetic examinations, a GMI laboratory report, and an integrated expert report were carried out, incorporated on page 1767 and following of September 23, 2019, it was established with an identification probability of at least 99.99997% that the left femur labeled 62 belongs to the indicated victim, that is, Juan Mauricio Poblete Tropa, ordering on page 1992 the corresponding death registration at the Civil Registry Service, for cause of death: undetermined." e) Case file 5-2018: "That around 12:00 midnight on October 1, 1973, Mario Fernando Moreno Castro, a leader of the Socialist Party, was at his home on Calle Cabildo No. 441, Chillán Viejo (a home he shared with his wife Rosa Elba Salinas Farías and their 3-year-old daughter, who were not at the place at that moment). He realized his home was being raided by Carabineros officials and chose to flee through the rear fence of the property, passing through the interior yards of his neighbors. When he was passing through the intersection of Juan Martínez de Rozas and Cabildo streets, he was assisted by Mrs. Mónica Muñoz Orellana, who saw him walking in the middle of the street carrying a white handkerchief on his shoulder. Mario told her that he was escaping from the raid on his home and that he was heading to turn himself in to the Carabineros of the 2nd Police Station. Given the circumstances of the time and the prevailing curfew, Mrs. Mónica had him enter the restaurant where she worked ('Sociedad Mutualista Bernardo O'Higgins'), located on the corner of Juan Martínez de Rozas and Cabildo, half a block from Moreno Castro's home, where he remained hidden all night. Around 6:00 in the morning, Mario Moreno Castro left the restaurant, again stating his intention to turn himself in at the 2nd Carabineros Police Station of Chillán, not without first leaving his belongings so they could be delivered to his wife. At the moment Mrs. Mónica Muñoz Orellana opened the door, she encountered a Carabineros jeep and held a dialogue with the Carabinero Troncoso (deceased), whom she knew, since the restaurant served as a boarding house for Carabineros in the area. She asked them what they were doing there so early, and the Carabinero Troncoso pointed out that 'A little bird had escaped from them, but it was nearby.' After the Carabineros patrol left, Mario Moreno Castro left the place, a moment from which he has never been seen alive again, to date. On the morning of October 2, 1973, when Rosa Elba Salinas Farías returned to her home after her shift at the Chillán Hospital, she realized her home had been raided. She was informed by neighbors that her partner had been detained that early morning by a Carabineros patrol in a place near her home, so she went in search of him to the 2nd Carabineros Police Station of Chillán, where she was informed at first that Mario Moreno was detained in that police facility, but subsequently the same Carabineros officials denied that information." f) Case file 6-2017 and accumulated cases: "That at 17:00 hours on September 18, 1973, a Carabineros patrol composed of Herminio Fernández Mercado (deceased), Juan Francisco Opazo Guerrero (deceased), Márquez Rodolfo Riquelme Echeverría (deceased), and Pedro Loyola Osorio (deceased) arrived at the home of Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna, located at Pabellón Manuel Rodríguez, No. 107, commune of Chillán. They entered without a competent judicial or administrative order, violently searching the home in search of Jorge Cortez Luna (the victim's older brother), who was not at the place, and proceeded to detain the brothers Gabriel Marcelo and Pedro Eduardo Cortez Luna, whom they transported to the Second Carabineros Police Station of Chillán. There, Pedro Cortez Luna was released by order of Lieutenant Patricio Enrique Jeldres Rodríguez because they had been fellow students at the Liceo de Hombres in Chillán, with Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna remaining detained in said police unit. After many searches by his family, his mother learned on October 18, 1973, that in the facilities of the Legal Medical Service of Chillán there was a body that presented as the cause of death 'cranial-encephalic perforation, ballistic projectile, action of uniformed contingent,' according to a medical death certificate issued on September 20, 1973, which was buried in the common grave of the Chillán cemetery. Upon exhuming the body, it was verified that it corresponded to the victim Gabriel Marcelo Cortez Luna, who had died on September 19 of the same year, at the level crossing of Calle Maipón, upon arriving at the Chillán Railway Station." Finally, Minister Aldana resumed the processing of case file 8-2017 (accumulated to 6-2017), in which Jeldres Rodríguez is indicated as the perpetrator of the crimes of qualified kidnapping of Gustavo Domínguez Jara, Wilson Becerra Cifuentes, and Tomás Domínguez Jara. Crimes committed starting from October 11, 1973, in the commune of Chillán.

Source: pjud.cl, May 18, 2022

Date: 05-18-2022

Received by Memoriaviva in 2011

My name is Dayana Ramírez, I am the granddaughter of Robinson Ramírez del Prado, and I would like to say that the information is incorrect because he was married to my grandmother Adriana Palacios, with whom he had 8 children, and they lived in the Población Irene Frei, Pasaje Los Picunches 569, Chillán.

Based on the data and things my grandmother tells, he had another woman with whom he had the other three children you mention. This information is true because my grandmother is the one who receives my grandfather's pension, and my uncles and father have also benefited from other benefits, such as the PRAIS card, for example.

I just wanted you to know so that you can correct the information on your page. Greetings,

Source: Dayana Ramírez Mejías