They may be the southernmost victims of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship: three men executed by firing squad in the frozen pampas of Porvenir, XII Region, by personnel from the Regimiento Nº 11 Caupolicán.

Yesterday, presiding judge Joaquín Billard indicted and imprisoned the three non-commissioned officers who opened fire on Ramón González (fiscal employee), Carlos Baigorri (teacher), and Hernán Cárcamo (fishery worker) on the dawn of a forgotten October 30, 1973, for qualified homicide.

The Special Affairs and Human Rights Brigade confirmed that the three prisoners were removed from the military unit, being the only detainees at the facility who were not from the area.

It was established that non-commissioned officers Miguel Muñoz, Luis Arata, and Juan Ortiz drove them to a remote point in Tierra del Fuego, executing them by firing squad under the orders of the regiment commander, Augusto Reijer Rago (deceased).

The three bodies were buried at the same location, with their deaths certified by a doctor from the same military unit who confirmed that they died from bullet wounds. Reijer Rago was a friend of Sergio Arellano Stark, head of the feared Caravan of Death. According to testimonies, the executions took place after a call from Arellano in which he asked Reijer "how many dead they had."

Source: August 9, 2006 La Nación