Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia, single, a merchant, was a militant of the MIR in the province of Cautín. Upon the occurrence of the Military Coup on September 11, he moved to Santiago, as he was very well known in the area.

On March 25, 1974, the press reported that the Military Prosecutor's Office of Cautín had set a 15-day deadline for "61 people, all of them militants of the outlawed former Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR, to present themselves voluntarily to the Tribunal... due to charges existing against them." Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia was among these people.

This information was reproduced, among other newspapers, by La Tercera on the aforementioned date.

In Santiago, he lived in a constant state of changing addresses, taking refuge in the homes of various friends, while simultaneously re-establishing contact with the political organization in which he was a militant.

On December 14, at approximately 10 in the morning, he was detained by unknown individuals at Carlos Valdovinos (formerly San Joaquín) and Vicuña Mackenna. There were no witnesses to the detention, but his partner, Ida del Carmen Hernández Mendoza, who had a 2-month-old son, knew he was heading to that location and he did not return from there. Since that date, his family has not seen him again.

According to information available from witnesses, Isidro Labrador was taken to the torture center known as "La Discotheque" or "Venda Sexy," where he was seen with a gunshot wound to a leg, with the wounds gangrenous or infected and in poor physical condition.

Mr. Carlos Galeón Camacho Matos, in a sworn statement before a notary on August 14, 1975, states that "During the period from December 11, 1974, until December 20 of that same year, I was detained and held incommunicado by the Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA) in a facility identified by my fellow detainees as 'La Discoteque'." Among the detainees, he met "...Mr.

Ramón Isidro Labrador... who was detained during the month of December... He had two wounds in one of his legs caused by a .38 caliber bullet. Said gentleman had not received medical assistance and was suffering from a severe infection or, according to other opinions, the onset of gangrene...". He adds that there were several medical students among the detainees at the facility.

For his part, Narciso Alfredo Gálvez Fuentes, in a sworn statement before a notary on January 24, 1979, affirms that during his detention in an unknown location in the eastern zone of Santiago, between December 20 and 23, 1974, he was in a room where there was a person who told him his name was Isidro. "Isidro had a gunshot wound in his thigh and in the ankle of the same foot" and was one of the detainees who had remained the longest in that torture center, and he highlights that there were several medical students among the detainees.

Gálvez adds later: "I must point out that Isidro was fluent in the Mapuche language." It must be remembered that Isidro Labrador worked politically in Cautín, where the majority of Chile's Mapuche population is located.

During the following months, his partner was the object of constant persecution by security agents. Finally, in September 1975, Ms. Ida Hernández and her son traveled to Sweden, where they reside to this day.

On July 23, 1975, the national press reported that 60 Chileans had died abroad due to "clashes among themselves." This information had as its source the magazine LEA of Buenos Aires, which existed only for these purposes, as it was never published again and it was not possible to identify the editor or owner.

The name of Isidro Labrador Urrutia appeared on this list. This information was added to one of similar characteristics also published during those days by a Brazilian magazine, O'DIA, which included a list of 59 names.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, in a communiqué sent to the Criminal Courts on September 9, 1975, stated that "there is no official record whatsoever that the named persons... have died" and also added that there was no evidence of these persons having left the country.

The names corresponded to 119 people who had been forcibly disappeared after having been detained between the months of June 1974 and February 1975 by security agencies.

JUDICIAL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

On January 3, 1975, a writ of amparo (habeas corpus) was filed on behalf of the affected party before the Santiago Court of Appeals, which was numbered as Case File 3-75. In it, it is requested that inquiries be made to the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA); three days later, it is requested that the same inquiries be made to the Combat Aviation Command and the Commander-in-Chief of the Emergency Zone, and the appointment of a Visiting Minister is requested so that, by constituting himself at the Tres Alamos prisoner camp, he may verify the presence of the amparado there, given that in a photograph of prisoners at that camp, the mother of Isidro Urrutia recognized her son.

The Tribunal resolved that "it is not appropriate to commission one of the ministers of this chamber for the purposes requested."

On the other hand, the Tribunal agreed to carry out the other requested proceedings and sent official letters to the corresponding agencies.

On March 18, the DINA sent the Court a pre-filled form, in which it indicates that it should address the SENDET or the Ministry of the Interior "to provide this type of information."

The SENDET sent an official letter to the Court on April 28, informing that the requests for information were forwarded to the Ministry of the Interior "as that Secretariat of State is the one in charge of reporting on such requests."

On May 6, 1975, the Minister of the Interior, General Raúl Benavides, informed the Court, on a pre-filled standard form, that the affected party "is not detained," and a similar reiterative official letter on June 16 states that "the person indicated below is not detained by order of this Ministry: Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia."

On June 20, 1975, the Court declared that the writ of amparo was not appropriate and forwarded the records to the First Criminal Court of Major Quantities of San Miguel, where it was entered as Case File 42.376, and a broad order to investigate was issued, which was returned without results by the Investigations police.

On October 10, 1975, the case was temporarily dismissed because "the perpetration of a crime or quasi-crime in the reported event has not been proven."

On December 17, 1975, the Court of Appeals approved the temporary dismissal, following a report from the Prosecutor, in which the following is declared: "Another disappeared person. This concerns Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia; it is his mother, Solemnidad Urrutia Mardones, who is claiming him."

"The matter is similar to so many others reported previously, although the current one is not entirely similar to all the previous ones, since there are not many who have been included in a publication from abroad as 'miristas executed by their own comrades,' identified as 'sixty miristas murdered,' and to some extent the publication was endorsed by the newspaper 'El Mercurio' in its edition of July 23 of the current year (1975) (p. 20 of the case file), and which, as reported on p. 26 (response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), lacks the due authenticity and veracity."

"As in previous matters, the Justice system is not in a position to provide an adequate response in relation to the disappearance of Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia, to whom the worst may or may not have happened."

The family made direct inquiries to the Detention Centers of the time; similar inquiries were presented in other prisoner camps, jails, hospitals, etc. They also left a record of the case with the International Red Cross.

Source: Corporation report

Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia, single, a merchant, was a militant of the MIR in the province of Cautín. Upon the occurrence of the Military Coup on September 11, he moved to Santiago, as he was very well known in the area.

On March 25, 1974, the press reported that the Military Prosecutor's Office of Cautín had set a 15-day deadline for "61 people, all of them militants of the outlawed former Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR, to present themselves voluntarily to the Tribunal... due to charges existing against them." Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia was among these people.

This information was reproduced, among other newspapers, by La Tercera on the aforementioned date.

In Santiago, he lived in a constant state of changing addresses, taking refuge in the homes of various friends, while simultaneously re-establishing contact with the political organization in which he was a militant.

On December 14, at approximately 10 in the morning, he was detained by unknown individuals at Carlos Valdovinos (formerly San Joaquín) and Vicuña Mackenna. There were no witnesses to the detention, but his partner, Ida del Carmen Hernández Mendoza, who had a 2-month-old son, knew he was heading to that location and he did not return from there. Since that date, his family has not seen him again.

According to information available from witnesses, Isidro Labrador was taken to the torture center known as "La Discotheque" or "Venda Sexy," where he was seen with a gunshot wound to a leg, with the wounds gangrenous or infected and in poor physical condition.

Mr. Carlos Galeón Camacho Matos, in a sworn statement before a notary on August 14, 1975, states that "During the period from December 11, 1974, until December 20 of that same year, I was detained and held incommunicado by the Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA) in a facility identified by my fellow detainees as 'La Discoteque'." Among the detainees, he met "...Mr.

Ramón Isidro Labrador... who was detained during the month of December... He had two wounds in one of his legs caused by a .38 caliber bullet. Said gentleman had not received medical assistance and was suffering from a severe infection or, according to other opinions, the onset of gangrene...". He adds that there were several medical students among the detainees at the facility.

For his part, Narciso Alfredo Gálvez Fuentes, in a sworn statement before a notary on January 24, 1979, affirms that during his detention in an unknown location in the eastern zone of Santiago, between December 20 and 23, 1974, he was in a room where there was a person who told him his name was Isidro. "Isidro had a gunshot wound in his thigh and in the ankle of the same foot" and was one of the detainees who had remained the longest in that torture center, and he highlights that there were several medical students among the detainees.

Gálvez adds later: "I must point out that Isidro was fluent in the Mapuche language." It must be remembered that Isidro Labrador worked politically in Cautín, where the majority of Chile's Mapuche population is located.

During the following months, his partner was the object of constant persecution by security agents. Finally, in September 1975, Ms. Ida Hernández and her son traveled to Sweden, where they reside to this day.

On July 23, 1975, the national press reported that 60 Chileans had died abroad due to "clashes among themselves." This information had as its source the magazine LEA of Buenos Aires, which existed only for these purposes, as it was never published again and it was not possible to identify the editor or owner.

The name of Isidro Labrador Urrutia appeared on this list. This information was added to one of similar characteristics also published during those days by a Brazilian magazine, O'DIA, which included a list of 59 names.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile, in a communiqué sent to the Criminal Courts on September 9, 1975, stated that "there is no official record whatsoever that the named persons... have died" and also added that there was no evidence of these persons having left the country.

The names corresponded to 119 people who had been forcibly disappeared after having been detained between the months of June 1974 and February 1975 by security agencies.

Source: Association of Relatives of the Forcibly Disappeared

In successive resolutions of the Second Criminal Chamber, the Supreme Court sentenced former leaders and agents of the defunct Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA) for two crimes of qualified kidnapping committed in 1974 against two victims of the criminal actions of the repressive apparatus installed by the dictatorship.

In the first of the cases, for the crimes of illicit association and qualified kidnapping of the merchant Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia, the Second Chamber of the high court—composed of ministers Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, and minister María Cristina Gajardo—in a split decision (case file 72.036-2020), confirmed the sentence that rejected the partial statute of limitations and sentenced former DINA leaders and former Army officers Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, and Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos to two terms of 5 years and one day of imprisonment as authors of the crimes.

Meanwhile, former agents Manuel de la Cruz Rivas Díaz and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, both former PDI officers, must serve 5 years and one day of imprisonment as authors of the crime of qualified kidnapping, and 541 days for illicit association.

The Supreme Court rejected the cassation appeals filed by the convicted parties against the resolution adopted in May 2020 by the First Chamber of the San Miguel Court of Appeals, which ratified the sentences handed down in the first-instance ruling by minister Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón.

The decision was reached with the dissenting vote of minister Gajardo, who was in favor of accepting the cassation appeals filed by three of the sentenced parties (Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, Manuel de la Cruz Rivas Díaz, and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle), recognizing in their favor the gradual statute of limitations of the sentence.

The victim of this criminal act, Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia, was 24 years old at the time of his kidnapping. He was a merchant and a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). He was detained on December 14, 1974, in the morning hours, at Vicuña Mackenna and Carlos Valdovinos, in the commune of San Joaquín, by DINA agents who took him to the clandestine barracks known as "Venda Sexy," located at Calle Irán and Los Plátanos, in the current commune of Macul, in Santiago.

The "Chacal" Group operated in the aforementioned facility, which was part of the Purén Brigade, dependent on the Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade (BIM) of the DINA.

The head of the BIM was Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo; the person responsible for the Purén Brigade was Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, seconded by Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, while the Chacal group was directed by the now-deceased former Carabineros officer Miguel Eugenio Hernández Oyarzo.

Operating as torturers in the aforementioned barracks were, among others, the PDI officials of the time and former DINA agents Risiere del Prado Altez España (now deceased), Manuel Rivas Díaz, and Hugo Hernández Valle.

All traces of Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia were lost, and since that date, he has been a forcibly disappeared person.

Another victim of Operation Colombo

In the second of the cases, the Supreme Court sentenced five former DINA leaders for the qualified kidnapping of Luis Fernando Fuentes Riquelme, committed in Santiago on September 20, 1974. The victim also remained a prisoner in the barracks known as "Venda Sexy," the place from which all traces of him were lost, and he was later included in the fateful list of the 119 forcibly disappeared people mentioned in Operation Colombo, set up by the DINA to spread disinformation regarding the fate of the detainees who remained in their power.

In a unanimous ruling (case file 30.508-2020), the Second Chamber of the high court—composed in this case by ministers Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, and the interim lawyer Gonzalo Ruz—confirmed the sentence that rejected the partial statute of limitations and sentenced former DINA leaders and former Army officers César Raúl Manríquez Bravo, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, and the deceased former Carabineros officer Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez to sentences of 10 years and one day of effective imprisonment as authors of the crime.

In the first-instance ruling, handed down in March 2019, minister Mario Carroza sentenced only Manríquez Bravo, Krassnoff Martchenko, and Torré Sáez to sentences of five years and one day of imprisonment, and acquitted the other two accused.

This ruling was revoked by a Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals which, in January 2020, revoked the acquittals and sentenced the five involved to the penalty of ten years and one day of imprisonment.

In the present resolution, the Supreme Court rejected the cassation appeals filed by the convicted parties against the sentence. In this regard, the Supreme Court's ruling states:

".... the classification of the illicit act committed as a crime against humanity necessitates the consideration of International Human Rights Law regulations, which exclude the application of both the total statute of limitations and the so-called partial statute of limitations, understanding such institutions to be closely linked in their foundations and, consequently, contrary to the ius cogens regulations originating from that sphere of International Criminal Law, which reject impunity and the imposition of penalties not proportional to the intrinsic gravity of the crimes, based on the passage of time."

The victim of this criminal act, Luis Fernando Fuentes Riquelme, 23 years of age, was a Biology student at the University of Chile and a militant of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). He was detained in an ambush set by DINA agents on September 20, 1974, at Calle Bilbao and Amapolas, in Santiago.

During the event, Luis Fuentes tried to flee the ambush but was shot by the agents and, wounded, they managed to subdue him and put him into a vehicle in which they were moving to quickly leave the scene.

The detainee was taken to the clandestine barracks known as "Ollague," located at Calle José Domingo Cañas No. 1367, in Ñuñoa; later, due to the gunshot wounds he had, he was transferred to the Military Hospital for basic care.

Afterward, he was taken to the barracks known as "Venda Sexy," where he was last seen on November 23 of that year by other detainees and survivors; since that date, he has been a forcibly disappeared person who, in July 1975, was included by the DINA in the Operation Colombo list.

Source: resumen.cl, December 15, 2022

Date: 15-12-2022

Five DINA agents sentenced as authors of the kidnapping and disappearance of a young mirista

The minister on extraordinary duty for human rights violation cases of the San Miguel Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, sentenced five agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) as perpetrators of the crimes of illicit association and aggravated kidnapping of Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia, an illicit act perpetrated starting on September 14, 1974, in the commune of San Joaquín.

In the ruling, the visiting minister sentenced Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, and Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos to 5 years and one day of imprisonment each, as perpetrators of the crimes of illicit association and aggravated kidnapping.

Meanwhile, former agents Manuel Rivas Díaz and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle must serve 5 years as perpetrators of the aggravated kidnapping and 541 days for illicit association.

In the civil aspect, the ruling orders the State of Chile to pay compensation of $50,000,000 (fifty million pesos) to the victim's sister.

During the investigation stage of the case, Minister Cifuentes managed to establish the following facts:

1° That after September 11, 1973, the new government initiated a systematic campaign of repression against all militants and/or sympathizers of opposition parties and movements.

2° That, in that context, it created an organization intended to commit crimes against those who opposed the current political regime, called the National Intelligence Directorate, composed of a group of men and women belonging to the branches of the National Defense and the Chilean Investigative Police, and even civilians, among them: Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, an officer of the Chilean Army, Director of the National Intelligence Directorate, currently deceased; Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, an officer of the Chilean Army and Commander of the Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade (BIM) of the National Intelligence Directorate, upon whom the operational brigades and barracks of said organization depended; Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, an officer of the Chilean Army and Commander of the Purén Brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate; Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, an officer of the Chilean Army and Second Commander of the Purén Brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate; Miguel Eugenio Hernández Oyarzo, an officer of the Carabineros of Chile, Chief of the Chacal Group, dependent on the Purén Brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate and in charge of the Venda Sexy barracks, currently deceased; and Risiere del Prado Altez España, Manuel Rivas Díaz, and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, officers of the Chilean Investigative Police, members of the Chacal Group and interrogators at the detention and torture center known as Venda Sexy, an organization that carried out the unlawful detention of several militants of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), among them, Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia.

3° That, in effect, on the morning of December 14, 1974, at Vicuña Mackenna and Carlos Valdovinos (formerly San Joaquín), in the commune of San Joaquín, Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia, a militant of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), was unlawfully detained by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), an organization that, at that time, was directed by Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Colonel of the Chilean Army.

4° That, subsequently, Ramón Labrador Urrutia was unlawfully imprisoned in the clandestine detention and torture center of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) known as Venda Sexy, located at the intersection of Irán and Los Plátanos, in the commune of Macul (formerly the commune of Ñuñoa), under the charge of Miguel Eugenio Fernández Oyarzo, Lieutenant of the Carabineros of Chile, Chief of the Chacal Group, dependent on the Purén Brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate, with no evidence that Labrador Urrutia survived his captivity, and his fate remains unknown to this date.

5° That, at the time, the Purén Brigade was commanded by Chilean Army officers Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann and Miguel Andrés Carevic Cubillos and depended on the Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade, led by Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Major of the Chilean Army.

6° That, in the indicated temporal context, Risiere del Prado Altez España, Manuel Rivas Díaz, and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, all officials of the Chilean Investigative Police, served as interrogators at the Venda Sexy detention center, among others.

Source: cambio21.cl, June 4, 2019

Date: 06-04-2019

Supreme Court sentences DINA agents for illicit association and aggravated kidnapping

The Second Chamber of the highest court confirmed the sentence that rejected the partial statute of limitations and sentenced former agents Pedro Espinoza Bravo, Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, and Manuel Carevic Cubillos to 5 years and one day of imprisonment each, as perpetrators of the crimes.

The Supreme Court rejected the appeals for cassation on the merits filed against the sentence that convicted agents of the defunct National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for their responsibility in the crimes of illicit association and aggravated kidnapping of the merchant Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia. The latter illicit act was committed starting on September 14, 1974.

In a split decision (case file 72.036-2020), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of ministers Haroldo Brito, Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, and minister María Cristina Gajardo—confirmed the sentence that rejected the partial statute of limitations and sentenced former agents Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, and Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos to 5 years and one day of imprisonment each, as perpetrators of the crimes.

Meanwhile, Manuel Rivas Díaz and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle must serve 5 years and one day of imprisonment as perpetrators of the crime of aggravated kidnapping, and 541 days for illicit association.

“Regarding the appeals for cassation on the merits filed by the joint defense of the accused Iturriaga Neumann and Espinoza Bravo, it is feasible to observe that both are somewhat imprecise in their construction, since the grounds for cassation under numbers 1 and 7 of article 546 of the Code of Criminal Procedure are invoked jointly, alleging both an absence of criminal responsibility and an existing one, but mitigated and deserving of a lesser sanction, which from the outset undermines the success of a strict law appeal,” the ruling notes.

The resolution adds: “In this sense, the allegations of not having sufficiently proven their participation are incompatible with the request for a reduction of the sentence, which assumes, precisely, an existing criminal responsibility established in the trial.”

“Furthermore, since the ruling SCS 05.1920, G.J. 1920, 1st sem., no. 60, p. 323, onwards, the jurisprudence has maintained that this ground—that of no. 1—necessarily assumes the existence of the crime and the responsibility of the accused, since it results from the imposition on the defendant of a penalty different from the one that corresponds to them (Repertory of the Code of Criminal Procedure, cit., Vol.

III, pp. 342 et seq.),” it adds.

For the Supreme Court: “In conclusion, what the appearing parties begin by denying, ends up being accepted, from which it is inferred that the substantial nullity remedy under study contains grounds that are incompatible with each other, based on different, contradictory, and irreconcilable assumptions, which cancel each other out and which, consequently, are foreign to the strict law appeal that is the cassation on the merits, which leads to its rejection.”

Likewise, the ruling states: “That notwithstanding the reasoning above, it is necessary to point out, regarding the substantive challenge formulated by the defense of both accused, that the facts of participation declared by the ruling conflict with those stated in the appeals, for which it has been claimed that the laws regulating evidence were violated in their establishment.

However, the error of the brief is that the provisions cited do not satisfy the intended purpose.”

“For now, it should be specified that of all the precepts cited, only article 488 nos. 1 and 2, 1st part, has the character of a law regulating evidence, according to constant jurisprudence (among others, SCS, Roles No. 8550-10 of November 25, 2011; No. 3.322-2018, of October 4, 2019; and No. 28.474-2018, of October 1, 2020).

By virtue of this, the allegation of violation of the rules regulating evidence can only be circumscribed to the cited rules,” it concludes.

Therefore, it is resolved: “That the appeals for cassation on the merits formalized by the accused Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, Manuel Rivas Díaz, and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle against the sentence issued by the San Miguel Court of Appeals on May 4, 2020, are rejected.”

Decision agreed upon with the dissenting vote of Minister Gajardo, who was in favor of accepting the appeals for cassation on the merits filed by the sentenced individuals Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, Manuel Rivas Díaz, and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, recognizing in their favor the gradual statute of limitations of article 103 of the Penal Code.

Venda Sexy

In the first-instance sentence, the visiting minister of the San Miguel Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, deemed the following facts proven:

“1.- That after September 11, 1973, the new government initiated a systematic campaign of repression against all militants and/or sympathizers of opposition parties and movements.

2° That, in that context, it created an organization intended to commit crimes against those who opposed the current political regime, called the National Intelligence Directorate, composed of a group of men and women belonging to the branches of the National Defense and the Chilean Investigative Police, and even civilians, among them: Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, an officer of the Chilean Army, Director of the National Intelligence Directorate, currently deceased; Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, an officer of the Chilean Army and Commander of the Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade (BIM) of the National Intelligence Directorate, upon whom the operational brigades and barracks of said organization depended; Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, an officer of the Chilean Army and Commander of the Purén Brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate; Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, an officer of the Chilean Army and Second Commander of the Purén Brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate; Miguel Eugenio Hernández Oyarzo, an officer of the Carabineros of Chile, Chief of the Chacal Group, dependent on the Purén Brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate and in charge of the Venda Sexy barracks, currently deceased; and Risiere del Prado Altez España, Manuel Rivas Díaz, and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, officers of the Chilean Investigative Police, members of the Chacal Group and interrogators at the detention and torture center known as Venda Sexy, an organization that carried out the unlawful detention of several militants of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), among them, Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia.

3° That, in effect, on the morning of December 14, 1974, at Vicuña Mackenna and Carlos Valdovinos (formerly San Joaquín), in the commune of San Joaquín, Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia, a militant of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), was unlawfully detained by agents of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), an organization that, at that time, was directed by Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Colonel of the Chilean Army.

4° That, subsequently, Ramón Labrador Urrutia was unlawfully imprisoned in the clandestine detention and torture center of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) known as Venda Sexy, located at the intersection of Irán and Los Plátanos, in the commune of Macul (formerly the commune of Ñuñoa), under the charge of Miguel Eugenio Fernández Oyarzo, Lieutenant of the Carabineros of Chile, Chief of the Chacal Group, dependent on the Purén Brigade of the National Intelligence Directorate, with no evidence that Labrador Urrutia survived his captivity, and his fate remains unknown to this date.

5° That, at the time, the Purén Brigade was commanded by Chilean Army officers Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann and Miguel Andrés Carevic Cubillos and depended on the Metropolitan Intelligence Brigade, led by Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Major of the Chilean Army.

6° That, in the indicated temporal context, Risiere del Prado Altez España, Manuel Rivas Díaz, and Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, all officials of the Chilean Investigative Police, served as interrogators at the Venda Sexy detention center, among others.”

In the civil aspect, the sentence ordering the state treasury to pay compensation of $50,000,000 (fifty million pesos) for moral damages to the victim's sister was confirmed.

Source: pjud.cl, December 14, 2022

Ramón Isidro LABRADOR URRUTIA, better known as comrade PANCHO

Before beginning, I would like to recall the political and social situation in the Ninth Region (which was the Province of Cautín) and specifically the commune of Lautaro.

During the "Christian Democratic" government, under President Frei Montalba, the Agrarian Reform law was decreed and signed, under which some estates were expropriated. During the years 69 and 70, the Mapuche people organized and began to recover lands usurped by large latifundios. Fence-running took place.

With the triumph of the Popular Unity in the year 70, with comrade Allende being elected, a new stage opened where we dreamed of a better future. A much broader opening occurred, and a very deep exchange began between the peasantry, factory workers, city dwellers, and students.

Many young people arrived to perform voluntary work in the countryside during the summer. Peasants also visited factories, and in this way, they exchanged experiences of work, organization, and struggle.

During that period, the seizures and expropriations of estates also became widespread.

In this context, I do not remember exactly if it was at the end of 1970 or the beginning of 1971, I met comrade Pancho. He arrived and took charge of the MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement) in Lautaro. He was responsible for the Lautaro local branch and the one who directed us.

Therefore, he was also a member of the Cautín regional branch, where he received instructions on the development of the party and national policy. All the members of the local branch were very young; we fought together with the peasants for a better world, of justice and freedom.

We fought to build a more just society. The goal of the local branch—our goal—was to strengthen the party, the MCR, the peasant communal councils, and all social organizations.

Pancho, as the person responsible for the party, also participated in production work alongside the peasants, in the settlements, in advising on credit demands, and in technical advice. This allowed for a particular relationship between comrade Pancho and the Mapuche people.

With his friendliness and because he was very good at "cracking jokes," he was welcomed and considered by the Mapuche people. Furthermore, he became a true member of the Mapuche people.

Pancho also directed and organized some estate seizures, or rather, land recoveries.

During Fidel's visit to Chile in November 71, Pancho was called to support security from a distance. He, as the person responsible, participated with four other comrades in that mission. The work consisted of investigating to ensure there were no suspicious elements in the places where Fidel and Allende would be, such as the National Stadium, for example.

Pancho was a person very dear to the people of the party, to the workers, to the peasants, and to the Mapuche people. He was a very cheerful, smiling, kind person, and always willing to help people. His simplicity caught my attention, as did the fact that he always took the time with people to explain what was being done.

I want to emphasize that Pancho, from the moment he arrived in Lautaro to take charge of the party until the coup d'état, participated in all social struggles.

The last time we met with Pancho was on September 19, 73. We met that day because we had to know how the party was facing the repression and what we would have to expect. All of us had in mind the enormous repression that existed against political parties, social organizations, unions, and peasant organizations.

In fact, as militants, we were already being pursued and hunted with great ferocity. At this meeting, it was then decided that we all had to find our own infrastructure to continue in hiding. Because the intelligence services, the military, the police... everyone was looking for us. With this decision and from that moment on, we all remained "disconnected" from the rest of the organization.

At that moment, despite what we were living through and the concern we all had, Pancho remained the same, always showing his good humor and his optimism...

At the end of 74 or the beginning of 75, while I was in prison, one day relatives came to ask about Pancho, to know if he was in that prison. There, I realized that Pancho had been detained or that he was missing. Every time this happened—that relatives came to ask about comrades—which happened often, we knew that our comrades were being held by the dictatorship's repressive services.

Even though years passed, I always maintained the hope that we would meet Pancho again... Today I can say that I was lucky to have known him and worked with him. I will always remember the difficult moments, but also the good moments we lived through in this period...

Source: A friend and comrade

In Memory of Ramón Isidro Labrador Urrutia

It is a long-term path, it is a commitment to the future, an autonomous, solidary, and beautiful path.

It is difficult terrain, the truth, justice, equality in the condition of human dignity.

Unity, unity, unity, of childhood, youth, people, workers, townspeople, revolutionaries, artists, presidents, teachers, laborers, peasants, students, builders, soldiers, engineers, militants, thinkers, singers, dancers, actors of their dreams and our hopes.

In a special place in the territory, roots are sown, to grow as guardians of water, life, and hope for the future.

From a hill, you can look at the blue sky, yearn for utopia, under a burning sun, close your eyes and see the forest, upon opening them see in the distance the snow-capped volcano even in February, then you will hear the wind whispering, and the water springing from the earth, guiding your steps to bring water to every nascent tree.

We are few, we cross paths in our tasks, we follow the track of the wheelbarrow, we fill every empty bucket with crystalline water, we give drink to the weakest, to the one who has been burned by the sun, however, it sprouts again at ground level, for every broken or destroyed tree, we plant a native one again.

The hour advances, the day must end in human absence, however, the forces of nature labor day and night, with the faint and scorching sun, with the dew and the rain, with their spores of life. The certainty that the forest will grow and that our drop of water will fall on roots that will be deep, makes the end of the human day the energy that revives our dreams.

May the Dignity of nature be the dwelling of all human beings on the planet.

Source: undated