On October 6, 1973, Orlando GALDAMES ROJAS, 41 years old, a councilman of Petorca and a member of the Communist Party, died at the Hospital de La Ligua as a result of the torture he received.

As this Commission was able to verify, he had been detained by Carabineros officers from Petorca and taken to the local police station. Due to the duress he was subjected to in that place, he had to be transferred to the Hospital de La Ligua, where he died.

The Commission reached the conviction that this was a case of human rights violations for which State agents are responsible, as the detention of the victim by Carabineros officers from Petorca was verified, as was his subsequent transfer to the local police station; it was also demonstrated that he required medical attention at the Hospital de La Ligua as a consequence of the torture; and that the cause of his death was, according to the death certificate, "renal capsule hemorrhage with suprarenal gland involvement," which is fully consistent with the beatings and other forms of duress to which the victim was subjected.