Sergio Hugo Muñoz Maturana
Comerciante — 21 years old.
Background
Sergio Hugo Muñoz Maturana
Comerciante — 21 years old.
Case summary
Sergio Hugo Muñoz Maturana, a 21-year-old merchant with no political affiliation, was a victim of a human rights violation on September 23, 1973, in Santiago. His case is part of the judicial episode concerning the Población Roosevelt.
Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
CORIA CALDERON, JUAN JORGE: 19 years old, single, laborer, victim of political execution on September 23, 1973 in Santiago.
MUÑOZ MATURANA, SERGIO HUGO: 21 years old, single, merchant, victim of political execution on September 23, 1973 in Santiago.
SARAVIA GONZALEZ, MARTIN SEGUNDO: 39 years old, single, mechanic, victim of political execution on September 24, 1973 in Santiago.
VASQUEZ ROMO, EMILIO GUILLERMO: 30 years old, single, laborer, victim of political execution on September 23, 1973 in Santiago.
Juan Jorge Coria Calderón died that day at 10:00 PM, on the Panamericana Norte, due to multiple thoracic-abdominal gunshot wounds, as recorded in the Medical Death Certificate from the Instituto Médico Legal.
Sergio Hugo Muñoz Maturana died that day at 6:00 AM, on a public thoroughfare, due to an abdomino-thoracic gunshot wound, as established by the Death Certificate.
Martín Segundo Saravia González died that day at 3:00 AM, on a public thoroughfare, due to a craniocerebral gunshot wound, according to the Medical Death Certificate from the Instituto Médico Legal.
Emilio Guillermo Vásquez Romo died that day at 11:00 PM, on the Panamericana Norte, due to a craniocerebral gunshot wound, according to the Medical Death Certificate from the Instituto Médico Legal.
According to statements from family members and eyewitnesses, all of them were detained on September 23, along with other residents, by military personnel, Carabineros, and Investigaciones officers who carried out a joint operation in the Roosevelt neighborhood and surrounding areas.
Their bodies were found on the Panamericana Norte, alongside those of Jaime Iván Meneses Cisternas, Miguel Segundo Orellana Barrera, and Jorge Bernardino Pinto Esquivel, who were also detained on the same occasion and were declared victims of human rights violations by the Rettig Report.
Considering the evidence gathered and the investigation conducted by this Corporation, the Superior Council reached the conviction that Juan Jorge Coria Calderón, Sergio Hugo Muñoz Maturana, Martín Segundo Saravia González, and Emilio Guillermo Vásquez Romo were executed by State agents outside of any legal process while in detention, a situation constituting a human rights violation.
Judicial Case Files[2]
Episodio Población Roosevelt
- Mario Carroza
- 206-2010
- 28464-2018
- 859-2017
- Metropolitana De Santiago
- Alejo Patricio Lopez Godoy
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=3212
- 2Judicial Case Fileshttps://expedientesdelarepresion.cl/causa/episodio-poblacion-roosevelt/