José Francisco Villaseñor Reyes
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Background
José Francisco Villaseñor Reyes
Victim of the military dictatorship.
Case summary
José Francisco Villaseñor Reyes was a Carabineros non-commissioned officer and a member of the DINA who operated in detention centers such as Rocas de Santo Domingo and Londres 38 starting in 1973. He has been judicially prosecuted for his responsibility in crimes of kidnapping and torture, including his participation in the "Colombo Case."
MemoriaViva[1]
Case File 2.182-98, "Colombo Case" episode, kidnapping case of Rodrigo Ugas Morales
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That the defendant Moisés Paulino Campos Figueroa , in his testimony on page 4264, states that he joined the DINA in October 1973, coming from the Escuela de Suboficiales de Carabineros de Chile, from where approximately one hundred and fifty non-commissioned officers were taken in buses, among whom he remembers Troncoso Vivallos, José Aravena Ruiz, Gustavo Carumán Soto, José Ojeda Obando, one with the surname Anabalón, Camilo Torres Negrier, Manuel Montre Méndez, Orellana de la Pinta, Duarte Gallegos, José Villaseñor Reyes , Claudio Pacheco Fernández, Carlos and Manuel Saldivia, Urrutia, Fernando Roa Montaña, Gamalier Vásquez, and Pacheco Colil, and they were transported to Rocas de Santo Domingo, where they were received by officers in charge whose names he does not remember, and they were given a talk regarding a unit to be formed in conjunction with the other branches of the Armed Forces; that he does not recall them being given classes on intelligence or counter-intelligence. The entire group remained for approximately fifteen days, subsequently they were transferred to Santiago, to the barracks located in the basement of the Plaza de la Constitución, where they remained for only one day and small groups were formed to then be transferred to the Londres N°38 barracks at the end of 1973, being assigned to the Águila group, under the command of Ricardo Lawrence Mires, and his group was composed of Emilio Troncoso Vivallos, Rufino Jaime Astorga, Jaime Mora Diocares, Emilio Marín Huilcaleo, José Fríz Esparza, and Pedro Alfaro, among those he remembers.
Source: Judiciary, June 30, 2015
Case File 6671-2005: crime of torture committed against the person of Sergio Patricio Aguiló Melo 27) Report N°2060 (492, Volume II) insofar as it forwards statements from: b) José Francisco Villaseñor Reyes (496) transferred to the CNI with the alias " Manuel Valdés ". He reiterates his statements on page 513.
Source: Judiciary, June 4, 2012
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