This Monday, January 18, the minister on extraordinary assignment for human rights violation cases of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Mario Carroza, issued an indictment against six former agents of the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI) for their responsibility in the crime of frustrated qualified homicide of Héctor Enrique Muñoz Morales, perpetrated in May 1984, at Cerro San Cristóbal, in the Metropolitan Region.

In the resolution (case file 238-2010), the presiding minister charged the following as co-perpetrators of the crime: former Army Lieutenant Colonel Álvaro Julio Federico Corbalán Castilla, alias "Faraón"; former Army Lieutenant Colonel Fernando Rafael Mauricio Rojas Tapia, alias "El Piscola"; former Army Captain Luis Arturo Sanhueza Ros, alias "El Huiro"; and former civilian Army agents Patricio Leonidas González Cortez, alias "El Gigio"; Luis René Torres Méndez, alias "Negro Mario"; and Rafael de Jesús Riveros Frost, alias "El Suave".

All of those indicted were agents of the CNI's Blue Brigade.

During the investigation stage, Minister Carroza was able to determine the following facts:

«On May 17, 1984, between 10:00 PM and 11:00 PM, while Héctor Muñoz Morales, a militant of the MIR, and his partner María Loreto Castillo were returning to their home located in the Pedro Aguirre Cerda commune, Población Dávila, after having gone to buy food, they were intercepted on a public road by operational agents of the Blue Brigade of the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI) who were traveling in at least two vehicles.

After subduing them with the use of firearms, they forced them into a van, blindfolded them, and transported them to the institution's Cuartel Borgoño, where they were beaten and interrogated for several hours, until a moment when they were transported to another point in Santiago, still blindfolded, near the La Pirámide sector of Cerro San Cristóbal, where they were separated.

On that occasion, Héctor Muñoz Morales was repeatedly beaten on the head by CNI agents with great force, losing consciousness. He awoke moments later surrounded by explosives that failed to detonate, managing to flee the scene to a medical center where he was able to recover and report what had happened.

It is necessary to indicate—the resolution points out—that Héctor Muñoz Morales was being followed and surveilled that day and on previous days by agents of the CNI's Blue Brigade, who knew his routine and his movements.» The act constitutes the crime of frustrated qualified homicide, the ruling concludes.

Days later, Héctor Muñoz Morales, accompanied by lawyers from the Vicaría de la Solidaridad, made a public denunciation of the event, as well as the murder of his partner. María Loreto Castillo Muñoz had also managed to break free and flee the place where they had tried to blow her up along with Héctor, but she was almost immediately recaptured by the henchmen, who transported her to another location and this time succeeded in executing the treacherous crime.

María Loreto was found the following day in the Pudahuel commune, next to some high-voltage towers, where she had been murdered by the CNI agents using another explosive device.

At the same time, Jorge Eduardo Muñoz Navarro, another MIR member detained on the same date, who also remained at Cuartel Borgoño along with the couple, was taken to another location in the Renca commune where he was also murdered, next to a high-voltage power line, staging a false confrontation to cover up the crime.

Last June, Minister Carroza indicted these same individuals as perpetrators of the qualified homicide of María Loreto Castillo Muñoz, and Álvaro Julio Corbalán Castilla, Fernando Rafael Rojas Tapia, Luis Arturo Sanhueza Ros, and Rafael Primitivo Salas Cataldo as perpetrators of the qualified homicide of Jorge Muñoz Navarro.

The farces of false confrontations and the treacherous crimes by bombs committed by the repressive agents of the dictatorship are little by little being unveiled by the justice system and, despite the cover-ups, pressures, and maneuvers for impunity, the truth ends up prevailing.

Source: resumen.cl, January 20, 2016