• Manuel Antonio AGUILERA AGUILERA, 45 years old, a worker at the National Electricity Company (ENDESA), El Toro Power Plant.
• Abel José CARRASCO VARGAS, 39 years old, a worker at the National Electricity Company (ENDESA), El Toro Power Plant, and a member of the Socialist Party.

Both were taken to the Antuco police station, where, according to their relatives, they were informed that the men had been transferred to the Los Angeles Regiment. Witnesses declared having seen Abel Carrasco at this facility.

To date, the fate and whereabouts of both remain unknown. It is the conviction of the Commission that the aforementioned persons were effectively arrested by State agents, who are responsible for their subsequent disappearance.

This conviction is based on the information provided by relatives and witnesses and on the existence of other similar, duly verified situations in the same geographical sector.

Source: (Rettig Report)

Retired Army Colonel Walter Klug Rivera arrived in Chile this Monday night. As confirmed by Radio Bío Bío, he remains at the Santiago Military Police Regiment. This follows his expulsion from Argentina, where he had been detained two weeks ago after fleeing Chile upon notification of a conviction for human rights violations.

It should be recalled that the sentence was 10 years in prison decreed by the Supreme Court, specifically for the homicide and kidnapping of 23 workers from the El Toro and Abanico ENDESA power plants in 1973.

This was Klug's second escape from the country, the first having occurred in 2015. According to a statement from the Judiciary, Klug Rivera entered the military unit for a 10-day quarantine, during which time the minister for the Endesa Case, Paola Plaza, will resolve the former officer's procedural status.

The Supreme Court issued a final sentence in the investigation into the crimes of kidnapping and qualified homicide of 23 workers from the El Toro and El Abanico hydroelectric plants; seven of them were victims of political executions and the rest were forcibly disappeared.

These crimes were perpetrated between September 11 and November 17, 1973, and were investigated in the first instance by Minister Jorge Zepeda Arancibia. In a split decision, the Second Chamber of the high court—composed of ministers Milton Juica, Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, Lamberto Cisternas, and Andrea Muñoz—rejected the appeals filed against the sentence of the Santiago Court of Appeals, which convicted:

• Patricio Martínez Moena, retired Army General, to a sentence of 20 years in prison, without benefits;
• Walter Klug Rivera, retired Colonel, to 10 years and 1 day in prison, without benefits; and
• Ismael Espinoza Silva (Officer) to 5 years in prison, with the benefit of supervised release.

These sentences must be served for their responsibility in the homicides of: Juan Miguel Yañez Franco, César Augusto Flores Baeza, Víctor Jerez Meza, Mario Belmar Soto, Mario Samuel Olivares Pérez, Juan Eladio Ulloa Pino, and Víctor Adolfo Ulloa Pino; as well as the qualified kidnappings of: Abraham López Pinto, José Abel Coronado Astudillo, Abel José Carrasco Vargas, Alamiro Segundo Santana Figueroa, Luis Leopoldo Sepúlveda Núñez, Plutarco Coussy Benavides, Wilfredo Hernán Quiroz Pereira, Exequiel del Carmen Verdejo Verdejo, Domingo Norambuena Inostroza, Luis Eduardo Vergara Corso, Benjamín Antonio Orrego Lillo, José Óscar Badilla García, Manuel Antonio Aguilera Aguilera, Manuel Sepúlveda Cerda, Bernardo Samuel Meza Rubilar, and Manuel Jesús Arias Zúñiga. Regarding civil matters, the Criminal Chamber ratified the sentence ordering the state to pay an indemnity of 50 million pesos to each of the nine relatives of the victims who were executed or forcibly disappeared in 1973 in the mountainous sector of Los Ángeles, Bío Bío Region. According to Minister Zepeda's investigation, the following sequence of events was determined: "That, in the mountainous sector east of the city of Los Ángeles, the El Toro and El Abanico hydroelectric plants are located, belonging to the National Electricity Company, ENDESA; That the workers of said hydroelectric plants, as of September 11, 1973, mostly resided with their families in small rural towns in said area, forming the towns of 'Los Canelos', 'Rayenco', 'Polcura', 'Antuco', in addition to the work camps of the 'El Toro' and 'El Abanico' Hydroelectric Plants, and further east, behind the Laja lagoon, that of 'Cuatro Juntas', a sector that was called 'Mallines del Sol', belonging to the 'Alto Polcura' ravine, the patronymic of the 'Polcura' river, which runs through the place, where the workers also spent periods performing their usual duties; That subsequent to the aforementioned date, upon the violent change of government due to the coup d'état of September 11, 1973, the aforementioned workers, as well as the rest of the civilian population of said towns, supporters of the previous government that was deposed on that day, in application and knowledge of a policy of the new regime and in a flagrant attack on human dignity and the very notion of humanity, were persecuted and detained by State agents, under the pretext that the victims intended to attack detention centers to free people deprived of liberty by the military authority and/or to attack the hydroelectric plants where many of them worked, with their final destination being their confinement or deprivation of liberty in the Regiment located in the city of Los Ángeles or in places dependent on this unit, and ultimately being killed and, in other cases, forcibly disappeared to this day." The Supreme Court's sentence was adopted with the dissenting vote—in the criminal aspect—of Minister Lamberto Cisternas, who was in favor of accepting mitigating factors of responsibility in the case of the convicted Klug Rivera; and the dissenting opinion of Minister Muñoz, who was in favor of accepting the statute of limitations for the civil action in the case.

Source: Antimafia - July 01, 2021

Date: 07-01-2021

Walther Klug, the Crime Against Humanity Perpetrator Who Fled to Argentina, Admitted to Military Regiment

The Judiciary reported late at night the admission of Walther Klug Rivera to the Santiago Military Police Regiment No. 1, in the commune of Peñalolén. Klug is a perpetrator of crimes against humanity during the Chilean Dictatorship who had fled the country attempting to evade judicial proceedings against him.

Former Colonel Klug Rivera is a well-known member of the Dictatorship's repressive forces in southern Chile, and today he is wanted in two cases for human rights violations: the kidnapping and death of 21 Endesa workers in the commune of Antuco, Bío Bío Province, and the qualified kidnapping of the president of the Student Federation of the University of Concepción, Los Ángeles branch, Luis Cornejo.

In the first case, Klug was sentenced by the Supreme Court to 10 years in prison, without benefits, for his responsibility in the homicides of: Juan Miguel Yañez Franco, César Augusto Flores Baeza, Víctor Jerez Meza, Mario Belmar Soto, Mario Samuel Olivares Pérez, Juan Eladio Ulloa Pino, and Víctor Adolfo Ulloa Pino; as well as the qualified kidnappings of: Abraham López Pinto, José Abel Coronado Astudillo, Abel José Carrasco Vargas, Alamiro Segundo Santana Figueroa, Luis Leopoldo Sepúlveda Núñez, Plutarco Coussy Benavides, Wilfredo Hernán Quiroz Pereira, Exequiel del Carmen Verdejo Verdejo, Domingo Norambuena Inostroza, Luis Eduardo Vergara Corso, Benjamín Antonio Orrego Lillo, José Óscar Badilla García, Manuel Antonio Aguilera Aguilera, Manuel Sepúlveda Cerda, Bernardo Samuel Meza Rubilar, and Manuel Jesús Arias Zúñiga. In the second case, Klug is identified as the person responsible for the disappearance of the Topography student and president of the student center of the Los Ángeles branch of the University of Concepción, Luis Cornejo. Klug had fled to Germany in 2015, taking advantage of the lenient treatment of human rights violators in our country. Thus, he used his dual nationality and benefited from the European nation's difficulty in extraditing its citizens, even if they are perpetrators of crimes against humanity. However, in 2019 he was detained during a trip to Italy, the country from which he was extradited to Chile. Nevertheless, despite the gravity of the crimes committed—he is convicted by the Supreme Court—the perpetrator of crimes against humanity was not imprisoned and fled again, this time to Argentina, from where he was expelled to our country. Klug did not comply with the precautionary measures ordered by Minister Carlos Aldana—who did not order his detention despite the existence of these records—for the other case in which he is being prosecuted: the qualified kidnapping of Luis Cornejo. The Visiting Minister of the Santiago Court of Appeals, Paola Plaza, indicated that Walther Klug Rivera will serve a 10-day quarantine period at the Santiago Military Police Regiment No. 1 before his procedural status is reviewed.

Source: Resumen.cl, June 29, 2021

Date: 06-29-2021

Supreme Court Issues Final Sentence for Kidnappings and Homicides of Workers from the El Toro and El Abanico Power Plants

The Supreme Court issued a final sentence in the investigation into the crimes of kidnapping and qualified homicide of 23 workers from the El Toro and El Abanico hydroelectric plants; seven of them were victims of political executions and the rest were forcibly disappeared.

These crimes were perpetrated between September 11 and November 17, 1973, and were investigated in the first instance by Minister Jorge Zepeda Arancibia. In a split decision (case file 17030-2013), the Second Chamber of the high court—composed of ministers Milton Juica, Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, Lamberto Cisternas, and Andrea Muñoz—rejected the appeals filed against the sentence of the Santiago Court of Appeals, which convicted: Patricio Martínez Moena to a sentence of 20 years in prison, without benefits; Walter Klug Rivera to 10 years and 1 day in prison, without benefits; and Ismael Espinoza Silva to 5 years in prison, with the benefit of supervised release. These sentences must be served for their responsibility in the homicides of: Juan Miguel Yañez Franco, César Augusto Flores Baeza, Víctor Jerez Meza, Mario Belmar Soto, Mario Samuel Olivares Pérez, Juan Eladio Ulloa Pino, and Víctor Adolfo Ulloa Pino; as well as the qualified kidnappings of: Abraham López Pinto, José Abel Coronado Astudillo, Abel José Carrasco Vargas, Alamiro Segundo Santana Figueroa, Luis Leopoldo Sepúlveda Núñez, Plutarco Coussy Benavides, Wilfredo Hernán Quiroz Pereira, Exequiel del Carmen Verdejo Verdejo, Domingo Norambuena Inostroza, Luis Eduardo Vergara Corso, Benjamín Antonio Orrego Lillo, José Óscar Badilla García, Manuel Antonio Aguilera Aguilera, Manuel Sepúlveda Cerda, Bernardo Samuel Meza Rubilar, and Manuel Jesús Arias Zúñiga. Regarding civil matters, the Criminal Chamber ratified the sentence ordering the state to pay an indemnity of $50,000,000 (fifty million pesos) to each of the nine relatives of the victims who were executed or forcibly disappeared in 1973, in the mountainous sector of Los Ángeles, Bío Bío Region. According to Minister Zepeda's investigation, the following sequence of events was determined: «a) That in the mountainous sector east of the city of Los Ángeles, the El Toro and El Abanico hydroelectric plants are located, belonging to the National Electricity Company, ENDESA. b) That the workers of said hydroelectric plants, as of September 11, 1973, mostly resided with their families in small rural towns in said area, forming the towns of «Los Canelos», «Rayenco», «Polcura», «Antuco», in addition to the work camps of the «El Toro» and «El Abanico» Hydroelectric Plants, and further east, behind the Laja lagoon, that of «Cuatro Juntas», a sector that was called «Mallines del Sol», belonging to the «Alto Polcura» ravine, the patronymic of the «Polcura» river, which runs through the place, where the workers also spent periods performing their usual duties. c) That subsequent to the aforementioned date, upon the violent change of government due to the coup d'état of September 11, 1973, the aforementioned workers, as well as the rest of the civilian population of said towns, supporters of the previous government that was deposed on that day, in application and knowledge of a policy of the new regime and in a flagrant attack on human dignity and the very notion of humanity, were persecuted and detained by State agents, under the pretext that the victims intended to attack detention centers to free people deprived of liberty by the military authority and/or to attack the hydroelectric plants where many of them worked, with their final destination being their confinement or deprivation of liberty in the Regiment located in the city of Los Ángeles or in places dependent on this unit, and ultimately being killed and, in other cases, forcibly disappeared to this day». The Supreme Court's sentence was adopted with the dissenting vote—in the criminal aspect—of Minister Lamberto Cisternas, who was in favor of accepting mitigating factors of responsibility in the case of the convicted Klug Rivera; and the dissenting opinion of Minister Muñoz, who was in favor of accepting the statute of limitations for the civil action in the case.

Source: ANGELINO · October 24, 2014

Date: 10-24-2014

MEMORIAL TO BE INAUGURATED FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES WHO WERE VICTIMS OF THE DICTATORSHIP

This Monday, September 8, the National Association of Public Employees (ANEF) will hold a ceremony to inaugurate a memorial in honor of the public officials who were forcibly disappeared and killed during the dictatorship.

The tribute will be attended by government authorities, social organizations, and human rights organizations. “This is done with all the respect that preserving the memory of our country holds for us as an association.

On this occasion, we want to immortalize our officials and leaders, who also bequeathed to us their ethics and union struggle and who were murdered in the worst period of our history. And in remembering our fallen comrades, we also make a call for life and peace,” commented the general secretary of ANEF, Bernardo Jorquera.

Joining the ANEF leaders who announced the memorial was Deputy Tucapel Jiménez—son of the ANEF union leader of the same name, who was murdered by Army agents in 1982—as well as the leader of the Association of Relatives of Political Executed Persons, Alicia Lira.

There are more than 380 cases that will appear on a plaque at the ANEF headquarters, which will be inaugurated on Monday, September 8, at 11:00 AM. The list was provided to the union by the Ministry of the Interior, and includes President Salvador Allende Gossens and Tucapel Jiménez. “This inauguration dignifies the working class and the union movements,” said Alicia Lira, who is the widow of a Treasury official murdered in the first days after the coup d'état. “These acts of keeping memory alive, of remembering the fallen, are important because memory is fragile and it is good to keep it alive. We want young people to never again live through that dark history that we experienced as a country, and that is why it is important to remember.”

Source: cronicadigital.cl 9/5/2014

Date: 09-05-2014

Confirmation of middle name.

According to the birth certificate, Mr. Abel appears with the middle name José, which does not appear on the certificate.

FOLIO: 500498439768

Verification Code

d7eab5987fc8

Source: registrocivil.cl

Supreme Court confirms sentence for 16 disappearances and 7 murders of workers from the El Toro and El Abanico hydroelectric plants

The crimes against humanity were perpetrated between September 11 and November 17, 1973, in the mountainous sector of Los Ángeles, Bío Bío Region. The investigation was led by Minister Jorge Zepeda. The Supreme Court issued a final sentence in the investigation into the crimes of kidnapping and qualified homicide of 23 workers from the El Toro and El Abanico hydroelectric plants; seven of them were victims of political executions and the rest were forcibly disappeared.

In a split decision, the Second Chamber of the high court—composed of ministers Milton Juica, Carlos Künsemüller, Haroldo Brito, Lamberto Cisternas, and Andrea Muñoz—rejected the appeals filed against the sentence of the Santiago Court of Appeals, which convicted: Patricio Martínez Moena to a sentence of 20 years in prison, without benefits; Walter Klug Rivera to 10 years and 1 day in prison, without benefits; and Ismael Espinoza Silva to 5 years in prison, with the benefit of supervised release.

Regarding civil matters, the Criminal Chamber ratified the sentence ordering the state to pay an indemnity of 50 million pesos to each of the nine relatives of the victims who were executed or forcibly disappeared in 1973 in the mountainous sector of Los Ángeles, Bío Bío Region.

These sentences must be served for their responsibility in the homicides of: Juan Miguel Yañez Franco, César Augusto Flores Baeza, Víctor Jerez Meza, Mario Belmar Soto, Mario Samuel Olivares Pérez, Juan Eladio Ulloa Pino, and Víctor Adolfo Ulloa Pino.

In addition, the conviction includes the qualified kidnappings of: Abraham López Pinto, José Abel Coronado Astudillo, Abel Carrasco Vargas, Alamiro Segundo Santana Figueroa, Luis Leopoldo Sepúlveda Núñez, Plutarco Coussy Benavides, Wilfredo Hernán Quiroz Pereira, Exequiel del Carmen Verdejo Verdejo, Domingo Norambuena Inostroza, Luis Eduardo Vergara Corso, Benjamín Antonio Orrego Lillo, José Óscar Badilla García, Manuel Antonio Aguilera Aguilera, Manuel Sepúlveda Cerda, Bernardo Samuel Meza Rubilar, and Manuel Jesús Arias Zúñiga.

According to Minister Zepeda's investigation, it was determined “that in the mountainous sector east of the city of Los Ángeles, the El Toro and El Abanico hydroelectric plants are located, belonging to the National Electricity Company, ENDESA.” “The workers of said hydroelectric plants, as of September 11, 1973, mostly—according to Minister Zepeda's sentence—resided with their families in small rural towns in said area, forming the towns of «Los Canelos», «Rayenco», «Polcura», «Antuco», in addition to the work camps of the «El Toro» and «El Abanico» Hydroelectric Plants, and further east, behind the Laja lagoon, that of «Cuatro Juntas», a sector that was called «Mallines del Sol», belonging to the «Alto Polcura» ravine, the patronymic of the «Polcura» river, which runs through the place, where the workers also spent periods performing their usual duties.” Subsequent to September 11, 1973, “upon the violent change of government due to the coup d'état of September 11, 1973, the aforementioned workers, as well as the rest of the civilian population of said towns, supporters of the previous government that was deposed on that day, in application and knowledge of a policy of the new regime and in a flagrant attack on human dignity and the very notion of humanity, were persecuted and detained by State agents, under the pretext that the victims intended to attack detention centers to free people deprived of liberty by the military authority and/or to attack the hydroelectric plants where many of them worked,” states the ruling by Minister Zepeda, ratified by the country's highest court. The final destination of these people was “their confinement or deprivation of liberty in the Regiment located in the city of Los Ángeles or in places dependent on this unit, and ultimately being killed and, in other cases, forcibly disappeared to this day,” the ruling states. The Supreme Court's sentence was adopted with the dissenting vote—in the criminal aspect—of Minister Lamberto Cisternas, who was in favor of accepting mitigating factors of responsibility in the case of the convicted Klug Rivera; and the dissenting opinion of Minister Muñoz, who was in favor of accepting the statute of limitations for the civil action in the case.

Source: villagrimaldi.cl 10/24/2014