On August 13, 1979, Daniel ACUÑA SEPULVEDA, a member of the PS and a public servant, died in La Serena. According to the official version, released through a statement by the Regional Intendancy, an explosion occurred in the area where the plot of land owned by the victim was located. Carabineros alerted the CNI, who went to raid the property.

Upon identifying themselves, an individual from inside threw a bomb at them and fled. They pursued him through the garden, and before he entered the house, a second explosion occurred inside, which shattered all the windows. They later found the victim already dead in the bathroom and arrested the other individual.

This Commission possesses evidence that allows us to affirm the falsehood of this version. There is a record in the judicial proceedings that, contrary to what was officially reported, it was a CNI agent who went to the Carabineros station in Tierras Blancas to report the alleged explosion and request access to contact their service's headquarters; it was not Carabineros who called the CNI.

Furthermore, it is not plausible that the only person to hear the explosion that triggered the incident was precisely a CNI agent; nor is it plausible that, following the operation, they proceeded directly to the victim's house, when it is established that they had no information indicating that an event had occurred there.

The autopsy indicates the possibility that the death was caused by the actions of third parties. When an attempt was made to verify this hypothesis by performing a new necropsy on the body to assess the condition of the victim's hands and determine if he was the one handling the explosive device, the hands mysteriously disappeared after the exhumation of the corpse, making it impossible to perform the forensic examination on them.

In the judicial investigation, the presiding judge declared himself incompetent upon determining that individuals with military jurisdiction were involved in the events.

All these elements, combined with the circumstance that the use of such violent methods does not correspond to the attitude of PS militants at the time, lead the Commission to the conviction that Daniel Acuña was executed by CNI personnel.