The individuals are officers Ricardo Tadeo Soto and Raúl Quintana Salazar; Sergeant Ramón Carriel Espinoza; and Army doctor Vittorio Orvieto Tiplitzky. Judge Marianela Cifuentes sentences retired Army members to 10 years in prison for aggravated kidnapping at Tejas Verdes.

The judge serving as a special investigator for human rights violation cases at the San Miguel Court of Appeals, Marianela Cifuentes Alarcón, sentenced three retired Army personnel and one doctor who provided services to the military branch for their responsibility in the crime of aggravated kidnapping of Jorge Hunt Torres.

The illicit act was perpetrated in 1973 at the Tejas Verdes School of Military Engineers, located in the commune of San Antonio. In the ruling (case file 28-2009 I), the investigating judge sentenced Ricardo Fortunato Judas Tadeo Soto, an Army lieutenant at the time of the events; Raúl Pablo Quintana Salazar, a reserve second lieutenant; Ramón Luis Carriel Espinoza, a first sergeant; and the then-Army doctor Vittorio Orvieto Tiplitzky to 10 years of effective imprisonment as perpetrators of the crime.

Excerpt from the sentence In the resolution, Judge Cifuentes Alarcón established the following facts: “ 1° That on September 29, 1973, around 11:00 hours, Jorge Hunt Torres, a militant of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) and an employee of the San Antonio Sanitary Works Directorate, was detained without legal basis by soldiers from the Tejas Verdes School of Military Engineers, under the command of First Corporal Gregorio Romero Hernández—now deceased—who transported him to a facility within the aforementioned military unit, where he was interrogated regarding his activities and political militancy and subjected to illegitimate duress (application of electricity to different parts of the body) by Major Mario Jara Seguel and Captain Klaudio Kosiel Hornig, among others, after which he was taken to the prisoner camp at the Tejas Verdes School of Military Engineers, under the command of Major David Adolfo Miranda Monardes, reserve Second Lieutenant Raúl Pablo Quintana Salazar, and First Sergeant Ramón Luis Carriel Espinoza, all of the Chilean Army, where he remained illegally imprisoned. 2° That, subsequently, on several occasions, Jorge Hunt Torres was transferred from the aforementioned prisoner camp to facilities at the Tejas Verdes School of Military Engineers, located in the Studies Secretariat and under the officers' mess, places where he was interrogated and subjected to illegitimate duress, including the application of electricity to different parts of the body, which left him with post-traumatic stress disorder. 3° That the Tejas Verdes School of Military Engineers and its prisoner camp at that time were under the command of Army Lieutenant Colonel Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda, Major David Adolfo Miranda Monardes, Major Jorge Rosendo Núñez Magallanes, and Major Mario Alejandro Jara Seguel, all deceased. 4° That, during that period, the interrogations under illegitimate duress carried out in the basement of the officers' mess at the Tejas Verdes School of Military Engineers were under the charge of Major Jorge Núñez Magallanes, Major Mario Jara Seguel, Captain Klaudio Erich Kosiel Hornig, Lieutenant Ricardo Fortunato Judas Tadeo Soto Jerez, Second Sergeant Ramón Acuña Acuña, and doctor Vittorio Orvieto Tiplitzky, among others.”

Source: elciudadano.cl, July 15, 2023

Manuel Contreras sentenced for the disappearance of 2 Uruguayan citizens in 1973

Retired General and former head of the National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) during the dictatorship, Manuel Contreras, has received a new conviction for human rights violations. Investigating Judge Joaquín Billard Acuña sentenced Contreras and 12 other individuals for the disappearance of two Uruguayan citizens from the Tejas Verdes regiment in San Antonio in 1973.

The case concerns the aggravated kidnappings of Julio César Fernández Fernández and Nelsa Zulema Gadea Galán, who were last seen at the aforementioned military entity on October 11 and December 19, 1973, respectively. Due to this, Manuel Contreras received a sentence, in the first instance, of 10 years and 1 day in prison, without the option of benefits.

The other sentences are as follows

-David Miranda Monardes: 10 years and 1 day in prison. Without benefits. -Vittorio Orvieto Tiplitzky: 6 years in prison. Without benefits. -Raúl Quintana Salazar: 6 years in prison. Without benefits. -Ramón Acuña Acuña: 6 years in prison.

Without benefits. -Gregorio Romero Hernández: 6 years in prison. Without benefits. -Valentín Escobedo Azúa: 6 years in prison. Without benefits. -Jorge Núñez Magallanes: acquitted due to lack of participation. -Klaudio Kosiel Horning: acquitted due to lack of participation. -Ricardo Soto Jerez: acquitted due to lack of participation. -Gladys Calderón Carreño: acquitted due to lack of participation. -Ramón Carriel Espinoza: acquitted due to lack of participation. -Rodolfo Vargas Contreras: acquitted due to lack of participation.

Source: biobiochile.cl, October 4, 2012