Date of Birth : 07-15-53, 21 years old at the time of his detention. Address : Brasil 268, apartment 14, Santiago. Marital Status : Married Occupation : Medical student at the University of Chile, North Campus, Santiago.

Political Affiliation : Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Date of Detention : December 12, 1974 * Name : MARIA ISABEL JOUI PETERSEN ID No. : 6.872.216 Santiago Date of Birth : 06-22-55, 19 years old at the time of detention.

Address : Brasil 268, apartment 14, Santiago. Marital Status : Married Occupation : Economics student at the University of Chile. Political Affiliation : Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Date of Detention : December 20, 1974

REPRESSIVE SITUATION

Renato Alejandro Sepúlveda Guajardo, 21 years old, married, a medical student at the University of Chile and a member of the MIR, was detained on December 12, 1974, at 09:00 in the morning at the North Campus of the University of Chile's Faculty of Medicine, while attending a Biochemistry class in the presence of other students.

According to witness accounts, other students from the same institution were apprehended alongside him, such as María Cristina Zamora Eguiluz, who was released on December 10, 1976.

During that same month of December, several young students of medicine or health-related fields were apprehended. This was the case for Jorge Ortiz Moraga, also detained on the afternoon of December 12 on a public street and who remains forcibly disappeared to this day; Fátima Mohor Schmessane; Armando Pardo Balladares; and Cristina Godoy Hinojosa.

On December 13 at 23:00, the victim's home at Brasil 268, apartment 14, where he lived with his spouse, María Isabel Joui Petersen, was raided. According to neighbors, the personnel who carried out the raid arrived with a key to the property and identified themselves as members of the Military Intelligence Service to the neighbors, who had anxiously approached the apartment upon seeing it being opened late at night by people other than its owners.

The family assumes that, due to the possession of the key, it was the same personnel who had detained Renato Sepúlveda the previous day.

On December 14, six plainclothes agents arrived at the home of Mrs. Elba Marina Petersen Lena, María Isabel Joui's mother, in search of her daughter, who was not there. These civilians, who claimed to be from the Military Intelligence Service, carried handguns and submachine guns.

When the head of the household demanded they identify themselves, they merely warned that they were "following orders" and "that they had to take her in for questioning." At that moment, another son of the Joui Petersen family, a Navy officer, was present and made his rank known to the agents, which, according to Mrs.

Petersen, allowed them to elicit reasonable behavior from those who had until then shown arrogance and little respect. One of the subjects identified himself on that occasion as "Sub-officer Castro" and acted as the leader of the group of agents.

On December 15, this same "Sub-officer Castro" called Mrs. Petersen's house to ask if they had any news of María Isabel; he did not call again after that.

María Isabel Joui Petersen, 19 years old, an Economics student at the University of Chile, was detained on December 20, 1974, by DINA agents at Compañía 1741, apartment 4, in Santiago.

That day, she was visiting the home of Francisco Javier Alejandro Rozas Contador; she had arrived 20 minutes before the DINA agents appeared at the scene, bringing with them Alfredo Gonzalo Reveco Sapiaín, who had been apprehended on December 17, 1974.

They were looking for Francisco Rozas Contador, and upon asking for the identification of those present, they realized she was one of the people they had been looking for during those days. They detained Francisco Javier Alejandro Rozas Contador, María Isabel Joui Petersen, and a third person, Narciso Alfredo Gálvez Fuentes, who was there due to his friendship with one of Francisco Rozas's sisters.

Of these three detainees, only Narciso A. Gálvez Fuentes regained his freedom, while Francisco Rozas Contador and María I. Joui Petersen were forcibly disappeared.

They were all taken out of the house blindfolded and tied up and transported in a red Chevrolet pickup truck with a black canopy, license plate BI-896 from Conchalí (1974), to a facility they identified as "Venda Sexy," located at the intersection of Calle Irán and Los Plátanos in the Macul commune.

In case 83.109 of the Second Criminal Court of Santiago regarding the alleged disappearance of María Isabel Joui, Alfredo Gonzalo Reveco Sapiaín, who was detained at the 3 Alamos camp at the time, testified before the court on November 3, 1975.

He stated that he was arrested on November 17, 1974, by members of the DINA because they wanted to know the address of a person they wished to locate. Thus, on December 20, 1974, they took him in a pickup truck to a house located on Calle Compañía; he did not know the number, only the location.

Once there, several agents entered and proceeded to detain Alejandro Rozas, whom Reveco knew, and also detained María Isabel Joui Petersen. He stated that they had been looking for the latter, but he was unaware she was there.

After being blindfolded, the three were taken to a house whose location he did not know. He remained in that place until December 30, 1974. During his stay, Reveco continued, he was at all times in a room with about 17 to 20 other men, and across from it was another room with women.

In that facility, in the men's room, he met Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, who told him he was María Isabel Joui's husband. On some occasions, the DINA guards allowed María Isabel to visit her husband; on one occasion, they were even allowed to have a snack together.

Through their conversations, he learned of María Isabel's political militancy, and according to what she told her husband, she had arrived at Rozas Contador's house only twenty minutes before the detention of both occurred.

The witness concluded by stating that he was transferred on December 30, 1974, to the 4 Alamos camp, a place where María Isabel Joui and Renato Sepúlveda never arrived, as they remained at the secret detention facility known as "Venda Sexy."

Narciso Alfredo Gálvez Fuentes, in a sworn statement before a Notary on January 24, 1979, provided a very detailed account of the events. On December 20, 1974, at approximately 13:00, he was visiting the home of Francisco Javier Alejandro Rozas Contador; both were playing a game of chess while being watched by a friend of Francisco, María Isabel Joui Petersen.

They were violently interrupted by three armed subjects in civilian clothes, who forced them to stand with their arms raised and leaning against a wall. They were ordered to give their names. When Francisco Rozas stated his, the agents remarked, "You are the so-called René." When María Isabel Joui stated her name, they said, "Our lucky day, you are the girl Ximena," implying that they were also looking for her to detain her, but did not expect to find her at Rozas Contador's house.

The witness insisted to the captors that he had no responsibility for anything and that his presence there was due to his romantic relationship with one of Francisco Rozas's sisters. One of the subjects, upon hearing this, told him: "If you aren't involved, don't worry, but if you are, you won't leave this alive."

A fourth agent, armed with a ZIC rifle, entered the place and proceeded to conduct a complete raid, finding a photography lab belonging to a relative of Rozas. They also took numerous photographs of various social events, such as weddings, baptisms, etc., which they found next to the photography equipment.

After this search, they blindfolded and tied each of the detainees with items found in the house. In those conditions, they were taken to the street and forced to climb into the back of a red C-10 Chevrolet pickup truck with a canopy. Inside, Alfredo Gonzalo Reveco Sapiaín was already being held as a detainee.

They were transported to a place the witness could not identify, but he assumed it was in the eastern part of the city. Indeed, through other testimonies, it was established that this facility was "Venda Sexy," a secret place of detention and torture located at Calle Irán and Los Plátanos, in the Macul commune.

Upon exiting the vehicle, Francisco Rozas, María Isabel Joui, and the witness were taken into one of the rooms of the house, while Gonzalo Reveco was taken to another.

They were put into a large room, and an individual with a hoarse, authoritative voice proceeded to take the detainees' information after taking all their belongings. They took Francisco Rozas and María Isabel Joui out of that place, and an hour later, they took Narciso Gálvez to another room where they proceeded to interrogate him under duress, in order to force him to declare his alleged militancy.

They told him that if he did not tell everything, he would suffer the fate of "that one who is dead." They were referring to a person who was lying on the floor and who, upon hearing this, let out a groan; the witness was able to recognize him as his friend Francisco Javier Alejandro Rozas, who looked very mistreated.

After the torture session that day, Gálvez was taken to a room where he realized there were several other detainees, and that Francisco Rozas was next to him. There he also saw Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, whom he said, in his capacity as a medical student, provided help to another detainee he knew as Isidro, who had a bullet wound in his thigh and the ankle of the same foot.

Sepúlveda himself indicated that during the interrogations he had been subjected to, his ribs had been fractured.

Narciso Gálvez continued to relate that on December 21, 1974, they took his friend Alejandro out for interrogation, and he returned after a while, quite beaten. He also saw that on some occasions, they allowed María Isabel Joui and her husband Renato Sepúlveda to be together for moments.

The witness remembers December 23, 1974, as a day of special agitation. Shortly after 8 in the morning, they called Francisco Rozas Contador for a new interrogation. They also called him and moved him to a room where there was a desk and a typewriter.

He realized that María Isabel Joui was in that same place, and they were interrogating her about her political participation; he heard her acknowledge her militancy in the MIR while simultaneously rebuking the agents for having ideas she described as "fascist."

After the interrogation, he was taken back to the first-floor room where he had been previously, while María Isabel Joui remained in the same place.

Francisco Rozas Contador had already been returned to that confinement room. In the afternoon, after lunch, Renato Sepúlveda was allowed to go out to see his wife, and upon returning, he told the others that he had been with her.

That day, the 23rd, was the last day Narciso Gálvez Fuentes had information about and/or saw the three forcibly disappeared victims.

However, there are more testimonies from people who claim to have been with the victims.

Cristina Godoy Hinojosa reports having been detained at the place called Venda Sexy between December 7 and 20, 1974; the room she was placed in, which she shared with other female detainees, had its door permanently open, allowing her to see the movement of detainees or hear their voices.

Thus, she heard the voice of Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, Jorge Ortiz Moraga, and Isidro Pizarro Meniconi, among other forcibly disappeared detainees she knew in that facility.

For her part, Beatriz Bataszew Contreras was detained at Venda Sexy between December 12 and 17, 1974. She remembers it as a two-story house, with a solid structure, large, almost luxurious, with a white staircase, apparently marble, to go up to the second floor. On that second floor, there were three rooms, and under the stairs, a small bathroom with a round window.

She was always in the room designated for female detainees, except for one day, December 13, when they took some of them to the hallway and laid them on a mattress, where they put men and women together.

She ended up next to Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, whom she knew from before. Renato Sepúlveda was complaining a lot, he was very ill, and the witness assumed he had an appendicitis attack or something similar. He was still wearing the white apron he used at medical school. She did not know anything more about him afterward.

Olga Cortés Bruna, in a sworn statement before a Notary, says she was detained on December 28, 1974, and taken to Villa Grimaldi. There she met María Isabel Joui Petersen, whom she describes as a very beautiful, intelligent young woman of great courage.

She explained to them that she came from another facility. They brought her along with her husband, Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, to "testify." They continuously threatened her with the "grill" (torture rack), which caused her great anguish.

Finally, she also relates that María Isabel, Renato, María Teresa Eltit Contreras, and a dark-haired young man whose name she does not know were taken out of the Villa Grimaldi facility on one occasion, to an unknown destination.

María Stella Dabancens Gándara, in a sworn statement made abroad, states that she was detained at Villa Grimaldi between January 2 and 6, 1975. Among other things, she reports that for four days she lived in the same room with María Isabel Joui Petersen, with whom she had mutual friends.

María Isabel told her details of her and her husband's detention and their stay at Venda Sexy, where they spent Christmas. Renato Sepúlveda was also at Villa Grimaldi; the witness was able to see him one morning when they were taking him to the bathroom.

María Stella Dabancens left Villa Grimaldi on January 6, 1975, and before leaving, she was able to say goodbye to María Isabel, who gave her a gift that she still keeps to the date of her statement. It is a cross made with threads from a blanket and splinters from a wooden chair from the Villa Grimaldi room they shared.

Also in a sworn statement, Angeles Beatriz Alvarez Cárdenas reported that she was detained at Villa Grimaldi between January 6 and 15, 1975. She says that, as a form of identification, people arriving at the facility were given a number to hang around their necks; she was given 816.

She was taken to a room where there were two other women, María Teresa Eltit Contreras and María Isabel Joui Petersen, with whom she stayed until they were taken out of there between January 7 and 8, 1975.

Mrs. Patricia Guzmán Pardo, in a sworn statement before a Public Notary, reported that she was detained at the secret detention facility called Villa Grimaldi between January 1 and 17, 1975. During her stay, she was in the same room for four days with María Isabel Joui Petersen.

Through her accounts, she was able to learn the details of the detention of Renato Sepúlveda, whom they nicknamed "El Chueco."

María Isabel Joui told her that she and her spouse were at Venda Sexy, where they were, in her words, harshly mistreated, and were even tortured together. A large part of the interrogations was aimed at obtaining information about Andrés Pascal Allende.

María Isabel sometimes showed her husband to her when he was brought from the sector called "The Tower" at Villa Grimaldi to be taken to the bathroom. The witness was able to see the evident signs of torture; she reports seeing him limping, and it was notorious that he had been beaten and subjected to illegitimate duress.

According to Patricia Guzmán's testimony, Marcelo Moren Brito had given the order for Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo to be transferred from Venda Sexy to Villa Grimaldi. Moren himself directed the interrogations, and the so-called Lieutenant Pablo, Fernando Laureani Maturana, collaborated in this work.

January 8, 1975, is the last time Patricia Guzmán saw Renato Sepúlveda; they took him out along with his spouse María Isabel Joui, María Teresa Eltit Contreras (also a forcibly disappeared detainee), and another young man, thin with black hair.

When he left the Villa Grimaldi barracks, Renato was limping, in his shirtsleeves, and his clothes were in poor condition, almost ragged. They took him away in a red C-10 Chevrolet pickup truck with a black canopy; two individuals in civilian clothes were guarding in the front and two others in the back.

For her part, María Alicia Salinas Farfán made an extensive sworn statement before a public notary where she records her stay in the different places of confinement and in particular at Villa Grimaldi between January 3 and 10, 1975.

On the same day, January 3, 1975, that she arrived at the facility, they tortured her; she especially remembers among the agents the one nicknamed "El Ronco" or "El Coronta," Marcelo Moren Brito, and also "Lieutenant Pablo," Fernando Laureani Maturana.

After that first day of interrogation, they took her to a room where there were more female detainees, among them María Teresa Eltit Contreras and María Isabel Joui Petersen, whom she had known for a long time.

On the third day of her confinement, January 6, 1975, around 3 in the afternoon, she offered to wash the dishes along with María Isabel Joui to take the opportunity to see the other detainees. Thus, she witnessed when two lines of men were brought in; some came from the right side and were those who were in the sector called "The Tower," and others came from the sector called "Casas Corvi." While they were washing the dishes, she saw Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo for the first time, whom she also knew from before; he was leading the line of detainees from "The Tower" and was wearing a white apron.

On January 7, she again offered to wash the dishes and pots and saw Renato Sepúlveda again, who was going with other detainees, also disappeared: Herbit Ríos Soto, Carlos Eduardo Guerrero Gutiérrez, José Patricio León Gálvez, and Gilberto Patricio Urbina Chamorro.

During her stay at Villa Grimaldi, the witness spoke with María Teresa Eltit and María Isabel Joui Petersen, who told her the circumstances of their respective detentions. María Isabel Joui told her about her and her husband Renato Sepúlveda's time at Venda Sexy.

María Alicia Salinas also testifies how the agent Osvaldo Romo Mena went to the detainees' room on several occasions and, addressing María Isabel Joui directly, gave her information about her family. On one occasion, he told her that he had seen her father at the Ministry of Defense and that he had not filed a Recurso de Amparo (writ of habeas corpus) for her.

On January 8, 1975, in the morning, María Teresa Eltit Contreras and María Isabel Joui Petersen were taken out of the room and she never saw them again. They believed they were being transferred to "free talk" (a state of less restricted detention), along with Renato Sepúlveda, and with that conviction, they said goodbye to her.

María Isabel Joui was wearing black pants, a pink plaid short-sleeved blouse, and a white blazer or short jacket on that occasion.

Since that date, there have been no more testimonies that they were seen or heard from in any other place.

The name of María Isabel Joui Petersen was included in the list published by the Brazilian newspaper "O'DIA," which was reproduced by national media on July 25, 1974, reporting on alleged confrontations in which 59 Chileans had supposedly died.

It should be noted that this Brazilian publication appeared only once for the purpose of this information, without a responsible editor and without a known address, and that the names that made up this list of supposed dead all correspond to people who were detained by the Military Government of Chile and who remain disappeared.

CIVIL AND/OR ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS

On December 19, 1974, Mrs. Sonia Sepúlveda Santiago, aunt of Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, filed a Recurso de Amparo (writ of habeas corpus) under roll number 1624-74 with the Santiago Court of Appeals.

The Court ordered reports to be requested from the Minister of the Interior, the Commander-in-Chief of the State of Siege Zone, and the Combat Aviation Command, all of whom reported having no information regarding the detention of the victim.

On January 27, 1975, the Court declared the amparo unfounded and ordered the relevant data to be sent to the corresponding Criminal Court.

On February 8, 1975, in the 3rd Criminal Court of Santiago, case roll 117.524 began to be instructed; a summary was opened, an investigation order was dispatched, and Mrs. Sonia Sepúlveda González was ordered to be summoned.

On August 5, 1975, the presiding judge of this court, Carmen Canales Lavín, recorded that upon taking office and conducting a review of the files in the charge of the clerk Manuel Riveros, she found that this case had been misplaced.

On October 31, 1975, the magistrate ordered compliance with what was decreed in the process, that is, the previously requested proceedings. However, on February 11, 1976, the Secretary of the Court appeared again at the clerk Manuel Riveros's office, noting that the present case did not contain any summary instruction order, nor any other tending to give progressive course to the files.

On April 20, 1976, the summons to Mrs. Sonia Sepúlveda S. was reiterated, an order was given to investigate the whereabouts of Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, and the victim's affiliation extract was requested.

Finally, on May 4, 1976, the complainant appeared, reiterated what she had stated in the amparo appeal, and added the information she had collected, providing the names of 2 people who were witnesses to the detention and imprisonment of the victim: María Cristina Zamora Eguiluz and Patricia Guzmán, and citing Villa Grimaldi as the facility where they saw the victim.

None of the proceedings decreed by the Court, both those tending to locate the whereabouts of the aforementioned witnesses and that of the victim, yielded positive results. Through successive official letters, the Ministry of the Interior reiterated its lack of knowledge regarding the fate of Renato Sepúlveda; for its part, the Investigations police only managed to find out regarding the witness María Cristina Zamora Eguiluz that she was a medical student at the North Faculty of the University of Chile and was detained on December 12, 1974.

On October 31, 1978, the summary was declared closed and the case was temporarily dismissed, a resolution that was approved by the Court of Appeals on May 18, 1979.

On December 30, 1974, Mrs. Elba Petersen Lena, mother of María Isabel Joui, presented a Recurso de Amparo under roll 1658-74 to the Santiago Court of Appeals in favor of her daughter. She pointed out in the same appeal the detention of María Isabel's husband, Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, which occurred on December 12, 1974.

The Court requested reports on the detention of the victim from the Ministry of the Interior, the Commander-in-Chief of the State of Siege Zone, and the Combat Aviation Command, all of whom responded that they had no information regarding the detention of the person in question.

On February 11, 1975, the amparo appeal was declared unfounded and it was ordered that the information be sent to the corresponding Criminal Court.

On February 25, 1975, the 2nd Criminal Court of Santiago began to instruct case roll 83.109, decreeing the opening of a summary, ordering an investigation, and sending official letters to the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Military Intelligence Directorate, asking them to report if they had information on the detention of María Isabel Joui Petersen.

All of them responded that they did not possess information on the point.

On March 15, 1975, the Investigations police reported that, in compliance with the Court's order, they interviewed Mrs. Elba Petersen, who ratified what was previously stated and added that her daughter could be at 3 Alamos or Villa Grimaldi.

The report adds: "Transferred to the road to Peñalolén, where Villa Grimaldi is located; at the place, Rodolfo Wenderoth Pozo, identity card No. 3.870.222 of Santiago, was interviewed, who stated: 'I am an Army Major and I can inform you that in this place we have no prisoners or detainees of any kind; in this Villa, we are only dedicated to tasks inherent to and directly related to the career of arms.

I have nothing more to say.'" The other proceedings carried out by Investigations also did not yield positive results.

On August 1, 1975, the victim's mother brought to the Court's attention the publication of a list of Chileans allegedly dead abroad, in which her daughter's name was included.

On September 9, 1975, in response to an official letter from the Court, Army Major Enrique Cid Coubles, of the Human Rights Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responded verbatim: "1) That the news published by the magazine 'LEA' of Buenos Aires would have come from Mexico via FONEL (Latin American Editorial Fund), a journalistic agency specialized in Marxist activities.

Regarding 'O'DIA,' we have been informed that such a publication would not exist in Curitiba (Brazil), but that there is a tabloid in that city called Novo Dia, of limited circulation, which published on July 23 last the news about Chilean extremists dead, wounded, or escaped in confrontations with security forces in various parts of Argentina. 2) There is no official record that the people named in the lists published in 'LEA' and 'O'DIA' have died abroad. 3) There is also no record that these people have left the country (had they done so, it would have had to be clandestinely). 4) The authorities of the countries in which, according to the publications, the events would have occurred, have reported nothing on the matter."

On August 12, 1975, María Isabel Joui Petersen's mother appeared in order to provide more information about her daughter's detention. She provided the Court with the date of the victim's detention, the vehicle's license plate (a red 1974 Chevrolet pickup truck with a black canopy, license plate BI-896 from Conchalí), and also the name of Gonzalo Reveco as the source of her information, since he was detained on the same occasion as her daughter and is currently being held at the Tres Alamos camp.

On November 3, 1975, with prior authorization from the National Executive Secretariat of Detainees, Alfredo Gonzalo Reveco Sapiaín, who at that date was still at Tres Alamos, testified, ratifying what he had told Mrs.

Elba Petersen L., that is, that he was detained on December 17, 1974, taken to Alejandro Rozas's (Francisco Javier Alejandro Rozas Contador) house on December 20, 1974, where Rozas and María Isabel Joui Petersen were apprehended by DINA agents and taken to a place he does not know, where he was together with them and María Isabel Joui's husband until December 30, 1974, the date on which Reveco was transferred to the Tres Alamos camp.

On November 22, 1975, the summary was declared closed and the case was temporarily dismissed, a resolution that was approved by the Court of Appeals on January 19, 1976.

However, María Isabel Joui Petersen's mother continued with her efforts. On August 14, 1975, she sent a letter to the President of the Supreme Court at the time, Mr. Rubén Galecio, making him aware of the detention situation of her daughter and her son-in-law, Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, and the lack of news about their whereabouts despite the numerous efforts she had made.

The President of the Supreme Court ordered the information to be sent to the Third Criminal Court of Santiago, where the judge ordered regular processing and the case was assigned roll 117.534. The process was dismissed by the Court on September 25, 1976, a resolution approved by the Court of Appeals on January 28, 1977, without achieving any positive response from the authorities regarding the fate of the victims.

On March 21, 1979, the Supreme Court ordered the appointment of Minister Servando Jordán as an Extraordinary Visiting Minister to handle cases of complaints of forcibly disappeared detainees in the jurisdiction of Santiago. Minister Jordán requested that case rolls 83.109 (on October 31, 1979) and 117.534 (on April 8, 1980) be sent to him for review.

For his part, in the same month of April 1980, Mrs. Sonia Sepúlveda Santiago, aunt of Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, filed a criminal complaint before Minister Jordán for the kidnapping of María Isabel Joui Petersen and her nephew Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo, against DINA agents, among whom she identified Marcelo Moren Brito, and requested that others be summoned to testify, such as Lieutenant Pablo (Fernando Laureani Maturana), Lieutenant Marcos, Luz Arce Sandoval, Osvaldo Romo Mena, and Manuel Contreras Sepúlveda.

On April 25, 1980, Minister Servando Jordán declared himself incompetent to continue the processing of this case and ordered the information to be sent to the Second Military Court, given that, according to the nearly two hundred cases he has seen, in most of them, people with military jurisdiction are accused, particularly and especially members of the former DINA, and in his view, the accusation of people with military jurisdiction is sufficient for the competence of the Military Courts to proceed.

He adds that in this file and in the installation notebook of the Visit, there are multiple records of the presence in the place called Villa Grimaldi or "Terranova" camp, as it is also called, of the aforementioned María Isabel Joui Petersen in January 1975, and that in case 1071-74 of the First Military Prosecutor's Office, instructed in October 1974, María Isabel Joui Petersen appears among other accused, with the nickname "Marisa," and charged with the possession of weapons and explosives.

On May 29, 1980, in accordance with what was resolved by Minister Jordán, the Second Military Prosecutor's Office of Santiago accepted the competence and continued the processing of the case under roll 361-80.

In the course of the process, the complainant party provided various sworn statements made before a Public Notary by people who were detained together with María Isabel Joui Petersen and Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo and who testified in this regard.

DINA collaborators Alicia María Gómez Gómez (a.k.a. "Carola"), Luz Arce Sandoval, and Osvaldo Romo Mena were also summoned to testify, but they were never found by the Investigations police and therefore never appeared before the Military Court.

Finally, without reaching any conclusion regarding the fate of María Isabel Joui Petersen, on September 21, 1982, the Investigating Judge issued the Ruling requesting the total and temporary dismissal of the case, which was approved by the Martial Court on August 29, 1987.

On October 16, 1989, Lieutenant Colonel and General Prosecutor Enrique Ibarra Chamorro became a party to the proceedings and requested the application of the Amnesty contemplated in Decree Law 2.191 and to issue a total and definitive dismissal of the case.

Without delay, on October 30, 1989, the Military Judge, Brigadier General Carlos Parera Silva, accepted the request, which was nevertheless appealed on January 31, 1990, by the injured party. However, on January 2, 1991, by a majority decision of the Second Chamber of the Martial Court, the definitive dismissal was confirmed, to which the family of María Isabel Joui Petersen filed a complaint on January 11, 1991.

As of December 1992, the Supreme Court had not issued a ruling on this complaint.

To date, María Isabel Joui Petersen and Renato Sepúlveda Guajardo remain in the status of forcibly disappeared detainees, without any authority having reported on their detention and fate.

Osvaldo Romo Mena, one of the DINA agents involved in the detention and disappearance of the Sepúlveda Joui couple, and who was not found when summoned to testify in case 361-80 of the Second Military Prosecutor's Office, was detained in November 1992.

The aforementioned agent had remained hidden in Brazil for 17 years. At the end of 1975, he was being summoned by several Courts that were substantiating cases of forcibly disappeared detainees; because of this, the DINA decided that he should leave the country and, among other means, provided him with documents with a false identity for himself, his spouse, and his children.

In July 1992, he was located in the aforementioned country following a series of proceedings ordered in the case regarding the disappearance of Alfonso Chanfreau Oyarce. Brazilian authorities detained him and subsequently expelled him from the country. As of December 1992, he had been indicted in six cases involving forcibly disappeared persons and had several pending summonses to other courts.

Source: Corporation report

My friend Renato was born on July 15, 1953, and lived in Santiago. As a child, he was orphaned of both father and mother along with his four siblings, of whom he was the eldest. Around the age of 12, we entered the Internado Nacional Barros Arana (INBA); we were classmates and became very close friends.

He was an outstanding student, reserved about his private life, but extroverted and possessed leadership qualities. Dark-skinned with green eyes, we called him "Gato" (Cat) Sepúlveda. He was a great athlete; I remember watching him run alone around the INBA field with deep tenacity and determination, just like everything else he did in his life.

He and his siblings lived with their aunt Sonia in a modest house in Recoleta. His life was different from ours; he had to figure out how to survive as an orphan: I believe his rebelliousness came from that.

Being boarders, we hardly had time to go out; I remember one time we went to the Estadio Chile to listen to Víctor Jara, who was one of the musicians he liked. He was part of the INBA Student Council and soon joined the MIR.

During the 1971 Voluntary Work projects, he met María Isabel and they began dating. We entered the School of Medicine at the Universidad de Chile in 1972. After the coup, in 1974, he married María Isabel and they lived in the Barrio Brasil, where he brought his younger brother to live with them, following that protective role he had developed since childhood.

The last time I saw him was on the day of the coup. Renato was detained at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad de Chile. I learned that a cell of the Communist Youth at the INBA bears his name, and I felt joy at the recognition of his legacy.

He was Renato Alejandro Sepúlveda Guajardo, forcibly disappeared on December 12, 1974. I am his friend, Roberto Navarrete, and I remember him. You remember him, remind others of him.

Technical Note To create this micro-biography, Roberto Navarrete was interviewed; he recorded this radio segment in December 2014 at the studios of Radio Universidad de Chile, where it was subsequently mixed and broadcast.

Source: latidosdelamemoria.cl, undated

PART I The dusty soccer field of the Internado Nacional Barros Arana—the place where people went daily to smoke after lunch, in a sort of tacit pact with the school authorities that there would be no inspectors to repress them—began in 1966 to see a singular, thin figure with wavy hair combed back in a style already outdated for the time due to the influence of the Beatles, and large green eyes, who ran and ran incessantly around what was once "grass," while the smokers watched, between astonishment and mockery, this long-distance runner who, unlike them, did not smoke and sweated daily on the dirt. The soccer field was located at the foot of the Lourdes Basilica, from where its immense dome could be observed while he ran along Calle Santo Domingo, past Matucana and in front of the Quinta Normal. More than once, escapes were attempted, which most of the time were frustrated, and their authors had to serve long confinements over several weekends as a sanction. However, at the end of the 60s, more than one successful "escape" was carried out, even during the day, in an "operation" of adolescents, some older than others, to fulfill missions that revolutionary tasks demanded. That was the setting that, since he was 12 years old, Renato Alejandro Sepúlveda Guajardo trotted thousands of times with the hope of becoming a representative of the INBA athletics team in long and middle-distance events, a position he obviously achieved, showing that enormous will and perseverance he maintained until the end of his days at "Venda Sexy," where his trail was lost in July 1975. Undoubtedly, in his athletic efforts, he emulated the will of "Chino" Gallardo, a member of the INBA gymnastics team, a MIR militant at the time, who died in an accident on the road to the "El Teniente" mine when, as an ELN militant, he was part of the GAP during the years of the Unidad Popular (UP). "Gato" Sepúlveda, a nickname he immediately earned in 7th A—a school where the letter defined those who arrived with the best grades from primary school—did not take long to become known in that small citadel of nearly two thousand students. Highly intelligent, a good athlete, and a better student, in a few years he was already a familiar figure in the different courses of the boarding school, as those types of qualities were well-evaluated in those times in that closed society that used to make the "Inbanos," a good portion of whom were from the provinces, feel like part of an elite group of Chilean education, being one of the last "bastions" of the influence of the Radical Party in education. Frequently, its authorities mentioned "alumni" who held important positions in Parliament, as ministers of state, in public administration, diplomacy, and the academic world. Dark-skinned, not very tall, and bow-legged—for which he was later baptized "Chueco" (Crooked) in the MIR—he ran through the hallways with his white apron that by the end of the year was nothing more than gray rags... But "Gato," with his light eyes, could allow himself those licenses reserved for the best, whose grades indicated to the omnipresent Council of Teachers that they would be high scores in the PAA (Academic Aptitude Test), just as happened years later. Many will remember his leadership in the "Biology Academy," which, apart from making some rats suffer, made the science laboratory one of our meeting places for unity. "Gato" always maintained, even among his closest friends, great discretion about his family. It was only known that he lived with a paternal aunt, Sonia, a journalist by profession, and other siblings who were not boarders like him. More than once it was said that his parents had died when he was very young. But there was never official confirmation from him. Besides, that type of situation was not unusual for many of the boarders there. In Santiago, he lived on Calle Fariña, in the Recoleta sector, near the Valentín Letelier high school, in an old large house with big rooms, interior courtyards, and high ceilings. His bedroom, unlike those of young people who had posters of rock bands, was wallpapered with posters of the Cuban Revolution, others from the Chilean-Cuban Institute of Culture, and one very large one that stood out with the figure of "Che" Guevara and his legend: "I hear the rattling of the machine guns..." After all, his aunt Sonia was close to the PC (Communist Party). Only, to reach that bedroom, his lair, his refuge, one first had to overcome innumerable hurdles of loyalty and trust that "Gato" subtly took it upon himself to put to the test. It was some summer work projects in the year '71 that changed the life of "Gato," until then a sympathizer, without militancy, of the revolutionary left of those times, including a sector of the Socialist Party. His first relationships with the MIR were in the mid-70s, but it would be in those voluntary work projects that he decided to incorporate himself into militancy. After all, the existing MIR units had been working more outwardly for some years, and their relationship with student work was compartmentalized from the existing student structures. There, he made his first contacts with the secondary MIR, which quickly tasked him with building a base at the boarding school. The INBA, despite its particular condition regarding the other high schools in Santiago, had an agitated political life among groups and scattered sympathizers of non-reformist left-wing organizations. Being part of the sphere of influence, many will remember having seen Gato attend the calls for agitation acts in the courtyards by the revolutionaries grouped in the FER (Revolutionary Secondary Front) in '69. At that time, the MIR, with some comrades with incipient contacts with the secondary Brigade, the older MIR members more involved in operational units, the comrades of the FAR, the ELN members of the PS, would raise a candidacy for the Student Council that would put an end to the long series of radical governments in the Student Council, which was part of the traditions in a secular school and cradle of Chilean Freemasonry. With this triumph at the end of the 60s, there was a historic change with the victory of the left-wing list without the PC and reformist sectors of the PS. A true FER that allowed the arrival of a group sympathetic to the Cuban Revolution with organizations of different developments. Renato Sepúlveda began to frequent these groups that led him to those summer work projects... THE "RANA" IS CRAZY... Back in March and a few days after classes had started, the INBA was shaken one morning—at the 6:00 AM wake-up call—by large graffiti in the courtyards. They said: "El Rana is crazy - MIR." Far from being a great political slogan, it was an attack on the vice-rector Leopoldo Rodríguez, an obese and well-connected Christian Democrat, tremendously reactionary and with a batrachian face, for which he had not taken long to be baptized as the "Rana" (Frog), and who had arrived in the final days of the Frei Montalva government. The slogan, in reality, was not of great political flight, but it caused a commotion among the student body and teachers in those thick and ancient walls, almost virginal until then. It also showed the presence of an organized group that had been able to circulate at night without being noticed by inspectors and guards, traverse the courtyards, paint the walls, and hide brushes and paints. An act of unprecedented audacity, in which a group of ELN comrades also participated. However, that propaganda action, which had to be officially denied because it "defiled" the so-called "Patio de Las Palmeras," which was part of the most stately entrance of the INBA, served in any case as a letter of introduction to the set of Inbanos of the secondary MIR during the beginning of the UP, because the Inbanos never believed that it hadn't been us. We would say that this was the official debut of the MIR at the INBA and that for a long time it was remembered in the Inbano society. It didn't take long for it to be suspected who or who had been its authors. "Gato" Sepúlveda, in his impulsiveness to create a party, in a few months became the most visible face of the FER at the boarding school. In the same way, at that time, one would sometimes see the "Jecho" and the "Gorda" arrive for a "visit," who were some of those who handled the party relationship "outwardly." Lucid and a great polemicist, whom the communist-reformists detested because, most of the time, he destroyed their arguments with an implacable logic. It was already the year '71 and the effervescence in Chile with the advent of the Unidad Popular showed the rise of the student movement that went hand in hand with the class struggle. The Student Council elections of '71 produced the first UP-FER alliance. Sepúlveda was elected as general secretary, another comrade in Foreign Relations, and a delegate to the FESES (Federation of Secondary Students of Santiago). A significant advance. These were the times when the small MIR base, which had functioned clandestinely for almost a year, began to influence decisively the daily life of the Inbanos, with a great organic growth that quickly forced the creation of units of sympathizers and aspirants. The best students of the INBA, who largely grouped in Gato's 4th year, moved to the MIR environment, among them "Chico" Ortiz, a friend, classmate, and with whom they would later meet in university classrooms and revolutionary work. The few militants had to spread themselves thin in tasks of political direction, infrastructure, external relations with the party, political education, FESES elections with Milton Lee, etc. The INBA, a separate enclave from the social problems of the commune, committed itself to the residents and workers of the area who were able to use its infrastructure, thanks to the strong impulse given by the party with "Gato" at the head, through the Student Council. PUT IN EFFORT... It was the moment when the leadership of Sepúlveda, possessor of a sympathetic personality, serious when circumstances required it, joking and affectionate with everyone, emerged clear and undisputed. With the endorsement that he not only directed the militants and the FER, but was present in each of the activities. Political education: The Manifesto, The State and Revolution, What Is to Be Done?, Bukharin's Bolshevik Program, The Problem of Power, the notebooks of Marta Harnecker, Chile Hoy, etc., etc., were required readings and analyses that "Gato" demanded in marathon sessions on weekends—when we were free!—in his room on Calle Fariña. Premonitory, more than once he said that not everyone from that group would reach the point of wielding a rifle. "Gato" was already in his fourth year and distinguished himself as much as anyone, despite the fact that he virtually did not study because he was fully committed to the internal and external party tasks of the student movement. It was frequent to see him arrive in the last minutes of the night study session, bringing "El Rebelde" under his arm for sale and asking the other militants, "What's there for tomorrow?" When he was told that there was a global test of this or that, he would answer, "And here I am, having studied nothing..." The next day, and without an alarm clock, "Gato" was in the classroom from 5:00 AM; although most of the time he didn't study. The grade he ended up with was never less than a 6, and those comrades who did not achieve a good grade, he would grab by the neck and say: "Put in some effort, Rojitas (if the surname was Rojas)." Solidary, days later he would approach that comrade discreetly and say, "Come, I'm going to explain the material to you..." His gravitation was so enormous that the best students of the INBA were captured for the revolutionary cause. Some of them are in exile today, others also disappeared or executed, and some who remained clandestinely in Chile during the dictatorship. "Gato," as was to be expected, achieved a high score in the PAA at the end of '71, a time when he met at the FESES assemblies a beautiful leader from Liceo Tres. The "Chica del Tres," María Isabel Joui Petersen, who with her sweetness, conviction, sympathy, and beauty, conquered Gato to the point that one could feel his good mood when one ran into them. It would be with this comrade that he would marry two years later, with whom he faced the coup and the establishment of the dictatorship. In those fateful days, when the medical student also made furniture and resisted the gorilla onslaught together with Isabel, trying to organize the resistance, was when Gato fell into the hands of the DINA, and Isabel as well. Both are still disappeared to this day. Perhaps it may seem an irony to remember him as "a cat with seven lives," but those who shared with him his revolutionary work at school—later at the university in the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad de Chile—cannot help but remember him as the great revolutionary who will remain present in all those who knew him and who have made his life an example for our lives to this day. Many will still remember him, with his black vinyl briefcase and his apron, with his smile and characteristic look, his humor, his militant strength, and his great optimism... who knows, I hope like many that many Gatos and many Chuecos will return to beat the winds of the people, and we will all be there. QUELTEC - PART II The 70s were ending and, in the middle of the heat of December, the assembly was held in an old boys' school. The prestige of the hosts did not prevent a group of students willing to make a party commitment from being there as well. In the middle of that crowd of young people, "El Gato" stood out; his incisive and energetic style marked him as a great leader. Shortly after, he sat in the middle of the girls from the Tres. We from Liceo 3 were few; we had to face the tradition of a girls' school in which there was no history of political participation. We discussed the support that students should give to the residents, and a group was organized to do voluntary work in the La Bandera shantytown. Little by little, he began to get closer to Marisa; at first, the friendship was shared equally with both of us. During '71 and '72, in the middle of many other assemblies, graffiti, and marches, the closeness grew, which quickly turned into a relationship until their marriage to Marisa in December '73. Gato managed to conquer a place of affection and tenderness; his energy and decision were simultaneous with his ability to give and receive affection. Renato's capabilities were multiple; if there is something that always distinguished him, it was his intelligence. Sharp, capable, the arguments flowed without much effort. He entered the School of Medicine at a time when life was so convulsed that this achievement went unnoticed. He always maintained a special affection for his siblings; nothing was ever known exactly about his parents; he lived with his aunt. When he married, he took Mauricio, one of the youngest, with him. He tried to take on all the tasks: studying, militating, and building a family life. He had energy for all of that and an enormous desire to live to transform, to make possible the slogans that with such conviction guided his decisions. Renato had light eyes and a small scratch on his eyebrow. On the day of his detention, he was at the Faculty of Medicine; Marisa knew something was not right when he did not arrive around seven in the evening. She managed to get out in time, but days later, she also fell into the hands of the DINA. Witnesses say they met at Venda Sexy and Villa Grimaldi, that on some occasion they were able to exchange words and gestures; they say that Renato, dressed in his white apron, helped other detainees with his medical knowledge, that despite the multiple tortures he always maintained his dignity and energetically opposed his torturers. Renato was detained on December 12, 1974; the last witnesses saw him on January 8 or 9, 1975, leaving the tower of Villa Grimaldi; Marisa also left around those days... with the conviction that she would be transferred to another torture center; they never appeared again. Among others, Marcelo Moren Brito and Osvaldo Romo have the information that would allow the truth to be reached.... Queni.

Source: archivochile.com, undated

Memoriaviva had access to the death certificate of Mr. Renato Alejandro Sepúlveda Guajardo, dated December 13, 1974; it does not correspond to the date in the documents. It is recorded with FOLIO: 500653378600, Verification Code: e3eb707b1ac9, Civil Registry and Identification Service.

Source: registrocivil.cl

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

Symbolic recognition will be directed at 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 the distinction of 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 building, starting at 12:30 PM. 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 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 the Augusto Pinochet regime. This former leader of the Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) appeared 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 Relatives of Political Executed Persons (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 an enormous signal for democracy and for a true 'never again' to be fulfilled in Chile." List of Universidad de Chile students who were victims of the civic-military dictatorship [...] 89. Sepúlveda Guajardo, Renato. Medical student. Forcibly disappeared. [...]

Source: latercera.cl, 09/08/2017

Date: 09-08-2017

Book "They will always be INBANOS. Forcibly Disappeared and Murdered of the Internado Nacional Barros Arana" to be launched

October 6, 2010, was the launch of our book "A Light Over the Shadow, Forcibly Disappeared and Murdered of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile." This successful experience has led one of our founders of the "Colectivo Memoria PUC," Sergio Requena Rueda, a Civil Engineer from our University, in his capacity as an alumnus of the Internado Nacional Barros Arana (generation 1964), in conjunction with other members of the Collective, to edit a book about the victims of the dictatorship who were students of the INBA.

The book "THEY WILL ALWAYS BE INBANOS. Forcibly Disappeared and Murdered of the Internado Nacional Barros Arana," with a prologue by Luis Maira, an INBA alumnus, collects the history of the Internado Nacional Barros Arana and with it the stage that suffered the offense and greatest humiliation by being used as a center for detention, torture, and executions.

In it, homage is paid to all the comrades who were victims of the civic-military dictatorship. Their history, their time at the INBA, and their choice of political commitment that led them to be victims of the policy of extermination established since September 11, 1973, are told.

We invite you to accompany us at the launch of this book, which will be on Friday, May 19, 2017, at 7:00 PM in the Auditorium of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Matucana 501, Metro Quinta Normal, Line 5. The Inbano comrades who were executed and disappeared, whom this book remembers, are: [...] Renato Alejandro Sepúlveda Guajardo [...]

Source: serpajchile.cl, 5/4/2017