The Supreme Court issued a final judgment in a series of human rights violation cases committed in the Aysén Region in October 1973, which were investigated by the visiting judge of the Coyhaique Court of Appeals, Luis Sepúlveda Coronado.

In the ruling, the ministers of the Penal Chamber, Milton Juica, Hugo Dolmestch, Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, and Lamberto Cisternas, rejected the cassation appeals filed for the episodes designated as: Puerto Cisnes, Puerto Aysén, and Villa Los Torreones; and accepted the cassation appeals for the Coyhaique episode.

In the ruling, the Second Chamber of the highest court confirmed the sentences appealed for the homicide of Jorge Vilugrón Reyes, perpetrated on October 8, 1973, in Puerto Cisnes; the homicide of Julio Cárcamo Rodríguez, which occurred on October 2, 1973, at the second Carabineros police station in Puerto Aysén; and for the homicide of Moisés Ayanao Montoya, executed on October 25, 1973, in the Villa Los Torreones sector (the route connecting Puerto Aysén with Coyhaique).

Meanwhile, the appeal was accepted and a replacement sentence was issued for the aggravated kidnappings of Juan Vera Oyarzún, José Rosendo Pérez Ríos, and Néstor Hernán Castillo Sepúlveda, which occurred starting on October 27, 1973, in Coyhaique.

For the Puerto Cisnes case, the sentences of 3 years and one day of imprisonment, with the benefit of supervised release, were maintained against José Tocol Navarro and Luis Pineda Muñoz as perpetrators of the crime of homicide; and 541 days of imprisonment, with the benefit of conditional remission, against Carlos Henríquez Reuquén, Héctor Andrade Calderón, and Ramón Concha Pérez, in the capacity of accomplices.

In the episode designated as Puerto Aysén, the Penal Chamber confirmed the sentences of 3 years and one day of imprisonment against Aquiles Vergara Muñoz as the perpetrator of the crime of homicide, with the benefit of supervised release; and 541 days of imprisonment against Miguel Rojas Quiroga as an accessory to the crime, with the benefit of conditional remission of the sentence.

While in the Villa Los Torreones episode, the ruling was confirmed that sentenced José Maricahuin Carrasco to 5 years of imprisonment as the perpetrator of the crime of homicide, with the benefit of supervised release; and 541 days of imprisonment for Juan González Andaur and Nelson Ojeda Soto, with the benefit of supervised release.

Coyhaique The Penal Chamber accepted the cassation appeal and issued a replacement sentence, sentencing Miguel Ángel Rondón to 10 years and one day of imprisonment, without benefits, for his responsibility as the perpetrator of three aggravated kidnappings; and Gustavo Rivera Toro was sentenced to 3 years and one day of imprisonment for his responsibility as an accessory, and was granted the benefit of supervised release.

Source: radio.uchile.cl, September 6, 2014