The visiting judge for human rights violation cases at the Santiago Court of Appeals, Hernán Crisosto Greisse, issued a sentence in the investigation into the crime of aggravated kidnapping of University of Chile law student Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos (22), an offense perpetrated starting July 26, 1974, in the commune of Quinta Normal. The victim is part of the so-called "Operación Colombo."

In the resolution (case file 2182-98), the presiding judge sentenced the following former agents of the Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA) to effective prison terms of 13 years as authors of the crime: César Manríquez Bravo, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann.

Meanwhile, the following former DINA members must serve 10 years in prison, also as authors: Gerardo Ernesto Urrich González, Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García, Ricardo Víctor Lawrence Mires, Ciro Ernesto Torré Sáez, Sergio Hernán Castillo González, Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, José Nelson Fuentealba Saldías, Basclay Humberto Zapata Reyes, José Enrique Fuentes Torres, José Mario Friz Esparza, Julio José Hoyos Zegarra, Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante, Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta, Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar, Gustavo Galvarino Caruman Soto, Hiro Álvarez Vega, José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, Olegario Enrique González Moreno, Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, Rudeslindo Urrutia Jorquera, Alfredo Orlando Moya Tejeda, Carlos Alfonso Sáez Sanhueza, Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo, Juan Alfredo Villanueva Alvear, Juan Evaristo Duarte Gallegos, Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza, Leónidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno, Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda, Rafael de Jesús Riveros Frost, Víctor Manuel Molina Astete, Manuel Rivas Díaz, Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres, Risiere del Prado Altez España, Raúl Juan Rodríguez Ponte, Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca, Hernán Patricio Valenzuela Salas Cisternas, Máximo Ramón Aliaga Soto, José Avelino Yévenes Vergara, Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle.

Likewise, Judge Crisosto sentenced the following to 4 years in prison as accomplices: Luis Eduardo Mora Cerda, José Jaime Mora Diocares, Camilo Torres Negrier, Carlos Justo Bermúdez Méndez, Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, Gerardo Meza Acuña, Héctor Raúl Valdebenito Araya, Jaime Humberto Paris Ramos, Jorge Laureano Sagardia Monje, José Dorohi Hormazábal Rodríguez, José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo, José Stalin Muñoz Leal, Juvenal Alfonso Piña Garrido, Manuel Antonio Montre Méndez, Moisés Paulino Campos Figueroa, Nelson Aquiles Ortiz Vignolo, Nelson Eduardo Iturriaga Cortés, Pedro Segundo Bitterlich Jaramillo, Reinaldo Alfonso Concha Orellana, Víctor Manuel de la Cruz San Martin Jiménez, Gustavo Humberto Apablaza Meneses, Héctor Carlos Díaz Cabezas, Jorge Antonio Lepileo Barrios, Óscar Belarmino la Flor Flores, Rufino Espinoza Espinoza, Héctor Manuel Lira Aravena, Sergio Iván Díaz Lara, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Droguett, Carlos López Inostroza, Sergio Hernán Castro Andrade, Roberto Hernán Rodríguez Manquel.

In the same case, Judge Hernán Crisosto acquitted Rodolfo Valentino Concha Rodríguez, Armando Segundo Cofré Correa, Luis René Torres Méndez, and Fernando Adrián Roa Montaña due to a lack of evidence regarding their participation in the events.

In civil matters, the ruling accepts the claim for moral damages, ordering the State of Chile to pay a total compensation of $150,000,000 (one hundred and fifty million pesos) to the victim's spouse and child.

The facts During the investigation stage, the presiding judge managed to establish the following facts: “That on the night of July 26, 1974, Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos, 22, a law student at the University of Chile and a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), was detained at his home located at Calle Los Copihues No. 1977, in the commune of Quinta Normal, by agents belonging to the Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia (DINA), who transported him to the clandestine detention center known as 'Londres 38,' located at that address in the city of Santiago, which was guarded by armed guards and to which only DINA agents had access; That the victim, Chávez Lobos, during his time at the Londres 38 barracks, remained without contact with the outside world, blindfolded and tied, and was subjected to interrogations under torture by DINA agents operating in said barracks for the purpose of obtaining information regarding members of the MIR, in order to proceed with the detention of members of that organization; That the last time Chávez Lobos was seen by other detainees occurred on an undetermined day in the months of July or August 1974, and he remains forcibly disappeared to this date. That the name of Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos appeared on a list of 119 people, published in the national press after it appeared on a list published in the Brazilian magazine 'O’ DIA' on June 25, 1975, which reported that Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos had died in Argentina, along with 58 other people belonging to the MIR, due to internal disputes among those members, and That the publications that declared the victim Chávez Lobos dead originated from disinformation maneuvers carried out by agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional abroad.”

Source: https://vozciudadananoticias.com/, January 13, 2016

Repressor working as a civilian at the Carabineros hospital denounced

The vast majority of officials and employees at the Dipreca Hospital had no idea that they were living daily with a long-time repressor from the dictatorship's security apparatus. That was until Sunday, September 25, when members of the Comisión Funa unfurled a banner in front of the Carabineros hospital center to denounce the presence of José Avelino Yévenes Vergara, a former DINA and CNI agent who is being prosecuted for his participation in numerous crimes against humanity.

"We had no idea, we are shocked and we want him to leave," said a young professional who works at the police institution's hospital and who crosses paths daily with Yévenes, who was hired directly by the institution in 2003 as a "security assistant."

Yévenes Vergara was a Carabineros corporal when, at the end of 1973, he was assigned to the DINA under the command of officer Ricardo Lawrence Mires; the group of Carabineros took charge of Londres 38, which until the coup of September 11, 1973, belonged to the Socialist Party and was later requisitioned.

The first secret DINA barracks in Santiago was installed at Londres 38 after its agents—including Yévenes Vergara—received training during the previous months at the Las Rocas de Santo Domingo training camp.

"El Quico" or "Daniel Cáceres," as the then-corporal Yévenes was known in the DINA, was part of the teams of the repressive group "Halcón II," under the command of Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko; therefore, he participated in capture and kidnapping operations, in the interrogation of detained persons, as well as in the transfers of those who later disappeared from the repressive centers.

Yévenes performed similar duties later at Villa Grimaldi, José Domingo Cañas, and, it is estimated, also at the Simón Bolívar barracks.

In January of last year, Judge Leopoldo Llanos prosecuted Yévenes Vergara along with a dozen other former DINA agents for the kidnappings and forced disappearance of María Inés Alvarado and Martín Elgueta Pinto, both detained on July 15, 1974, and taken to Londres 38.

The names of both individuals were included in the lists of Operación Colombo, the communications operation set up to hide the forced disappearance of 119 people.

Also in the Operación Colombo case, Judge Hernán Crisosto filed a criminal indictment against Yévenes Vergara and more than a hundred DINA agents regarding the forced disappearance of Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos, which occurred on July 26, 1974; Washington Cid Urrutia, perpetrated on December 8, 1974; and Rodrigo Ugas Morales, on February 7, 1975.

Unlike many Carabineros assigned to the DINA, Yévenes Vergara was subsequently transferred in 1978 to the Central Nacional de Informaciones (CNI), and after the end of the dictatorship, he was assimilated into the Army's Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINE), becoming part of the more than 1,200 repressive agents who—as Minister of Defense José Antonio Gómez stated a few days ago—were integrated into the active service of the Armed Forces at the beginning of the transition, until they completed their years of service and retired.

The case of Yévenes Vergara continues to have particularities, as after retiring, he was hired by the Dipreca Hospital. This has only happened with some repressors who are taken in by institutions that provide them with protection, cover-up, and funds to live in tranquility, as happened with Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, who, after leaving the Army, took charge of the management of the Military Hotel.

Carabineros will have to provide an explanation as to why a former agent of the security agencies, prosecuted in several cases and for multiple crimes, was hired directly as a civilian employee.

Source: Londres38.cl, July 9, 2019

Human rights violators at large: Londres 38 demands an end to impunity

On Thursday morning, the organization Londres 38 called on the authorities of the Ministry of the Interior, judges and courts of the Judiciary, and police agencies to put an end to the "flagrant impunity" resulting from the non-compliance with Supreme Court sentences by former Carabineros officers, convicted of serious and multiple crimes committed during the civil-military dictatorship, who remain at large.

Londres 38 mentions as an example one of the most recent cases, that of retired Lieutenant Colonel Andrés Leopoldo Flores Sabella, who has been a fugitive from justice since June 15, when Judge Mario Carroza ordered the execution of a 15-year prison sentence for his participation in the murders of six people in Conchalí in 1973. "This former Carabineros officer has not been notified of his sentence, as he remains in hiding to this day," the organization warns.

Flores Sabella commanded a platoon that, on September 14, 1973, detained Luis Caro Bastías, Antonio González Rojas, Ricardo Ortega Alvarado, Carlos Hidalgo Retamal, and the brothers Vicente and Enrique Vásquez Castañeda in the Irene Frei neighborhood of Conchalí. "All of them were riddled with bullets by order of the then-lieutenant," explains Londres 38.

Ricardo Lawrence

The other case is that of Ricardo Lawrence Mires, a former Carabineros officer who was the head of the Águila operational group, which depended on the DINA's Caupolicán Brigade. He was at the secret centers of Londres 38, Venda Sexy, José Domingo Cañas, Villa Grimaldi, and Simón Bolívar.

His long repressive history indicates that he has extensive information about the fate of the forcibly disappeared persons; however, he has not collaborated with the justice system. He was prosecuted in the case of Alfonso Chanfreau Oyarce and obtained a final conviction from the Supreme Court on April 30, 2015.

He is also convicted for the crimes against Alejandro de la Barra and Ana María Puga, who were ambushed in December 1974. For the forced disappearance of Alfonso Chanfreau, the former DINA agent was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while for the crimes against Puga and de la Barra, he was sentenced to 15 years and one day.

He is also convicted in a trial for the detention and torture of former political prisoners at Villa Grimaldi. Lawrence Mires has been a fugitive for almost two years, since February 2014, after Judge Jorge Zepeda ordered the execution of a sentence for which he was to enter prison.

He remains in Chile, as demonstrated by the fact that he continues to collect his Dipreca pensions and occasionally communicates with his family.

These have not been the only cases. On August 19, the criminal courts also issued orders for the imprisonment of retired Carabineros non-commissioned officers Patricio Ignacio Montesinos Bustos and Mario José Pizarro Cortes, who must serve 10 years and one day in prison for the murder of 15-year-old Orlando Miguel Ponce Quezada, whose remains were hidden in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery of Santiago.

Both non-commissioned officers did not appear in court, and when searched for by the PDI, they were not found at their declared residences. They remained on the run for about twenty days, as they were arrested, one at a relative's house in Pudahuel and the other at a plot of land in Limache.

Protection networks

Londres 38 accuses that "the slowness with which police forces operate to capture sentenced criminals partly explains why some of them, like those named above, decide not to appear and remain as fugitives." Along with this, they add, "they have protection networks, which are facilitated if—despite their convictions and crimes—they continue to be individuals who receive their pensions and have access to resources and assets that facilitate their escape."

The organization also points out that the government—which has control of the police—"also lacks firmness in enforcing sentences." In that sense, they point out that the former head of Police Intelligence, Daniel Cancino Varas, who was in active service until 2000 despite his active participation in the DINA since 1974, "was a fugitive for more than a year after being sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes committed at Villa Grimaldi."

"That there are support networks for the dictatorship's repressors has been proven many times," they assert, mentioning as an example the case of former Carabineros non-commissioned officer José Avelino Yévenes Vergara. "He works as a civilian employee at the Carabineros Hospital (Dipreca), despite the fact that he is on trial for crimes against humanity and, particularly, in episodes of the Operación Colombo case," they illustrate. "El Quico" or "Daniel Cáceres," as the then-corporal Yévenes was known in the DINA, "integrated the teams of the repressive group 'Halcón II,' under the command of Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko." Therefore, the organization points out, "he participated in the operations of capture and kidnapping, in the interrogations of detained persons, as well as in the transfers of those who later disappeared from the repressive centers." Yévenes performed similar duties later at Villa Grimaldi, José Domingo Cañas, and, it is estimated, also at the Simón Bolívar barracks, according to them.

"We demand that the State stop this festival of impunity" In this scenario, Londres 38 demands that the government and the justice system take concrete measures so that the sentences—"which are already low due to the application of partial prescription and are few," they note—are at least fulfilled with the imprisonment of criminals like Lawrence Mires and Flores Sabella.

Along with this, the organization expressed its "repudiation and rejection" of the resolution of the Santiago Court of Appeals that granted parole to General Raúl Iturriaga Neumann, one of the top former DINA chiefs, sentenced to more than 200 years in prison for crimes against humanity and awaiting about 14 more convictions. "We demand that the State stop this festival of impunity, regulate once and for all the treatment of criminals against humanity, and respect the international treaties it has signed," they maintain.

Source: elciudadano.com, October 6, 2016

Supreme Court sends 59 former DINA agents to prison for Operación Colombo

Operación Colombo was a major intelligence operation and a media setup by the DINA, which attempted to make 119 people kidnapped in Chile appear as having been killed abroad.

The Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court revoked a sentence that had acquitted more than 60 former agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) and convicted them as responsible for the disappearance of 16 left-wing militants, mostly from the MIR, in the process known as Operación Colombo, which in this case was perpetrated between June 17, 1974, and January 6, 1975, during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

The ruling was issued by judges Manuel Antonio Valderrama, Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, María Teresa Letelier, and Diego Simpertigue. They revoked the sentence issued by the Court of Appeals and sentenced former DINA chiefs and officers César Manríquez Bravo, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Miguel Krassnoff, and Raúl Iturriaga Neumann to 15 years and one day of major imprisonment in its maximum degree as authors of the crimes of aggravated kidnapping of the victims.

Similarly, the court sentenced 53 former agents to an effective penalty of 10 years and one day of major imprisonment in its medium degree as authors of the same crime, who had been previously acquitted by the capital's appellate court, despite having been convicted in the first instance as accomplices and authors.

Furthermore, this time all of them must enter prison, with some of them already in prison for other crimes against humanity.

These are former DINA agents Fernando Eduardo Lauriani Maturana, Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García, Manuel Andrés Carevic, Rosa Humilde Ramos Hernández, Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante, Jose Abel Aravena Ruiz, Claudio Enrique Pacheco Fernández, Nelson Aquiles Ortiz Vignolo, Rudeslindo Urrutia Jorquera, José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, Manuel Heriberto Avendaño Gonzalez, Raúl Juan Rodríguez Ponte, Alejandro Francisco Astudillo Adonis, Daniel Alberto Galaz Orellana, Francisco Maximiliano Ferrer Lima, Leoncio Enrique Velásquez Guala, José Enrique Fuentes Torres, Julio José Hoyos Zegarra, Pedro René Alfaro Fernández, Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, José Manuel Sarmiento Sotelo, Luis René Torres Méndez, Rodolfo Valentino Concha Rodríguez, Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar, Hugo Del Tránsito Hernández Valle, Manuel Rivas Diaz, Daniel Valentín Cancino Varas, Juan Evangelista Duarte Gallegos, Víctor Manuel Molina Astete, Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo, Leónidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno, Jorge Antonio Lepileo Barrios, Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza, Pedro Ariel Aravena Aravena, Carlos Alfonso Sáez Sanhueza, Juan Carlos Villanueva Alvear, Alfredo Orlando Moya Tejeda, Rafael De Jesús Riveros Frost, Silvio Antonio Concha González, Luis Fernando Espinace Contreras, Hernán Patricio Valenzuela Salas, Palmira Isabel Almuna Guzmán, Sylvia Teresa Oyarce Pinto, Osvaldo Pulgar Gallardo, José Avelino Yévenes Vergara, Olegario Enrique González Moreno, Werner Zanghellini, Hector Flores Vergara.

Jaime Alfonso Fernández Garrido received a sentence of 5 years and one day of major imprisonment in its minimum degree as an author of the crime of aggravated kidnapping of Ida Vera Almarza. Meanwhile, Samuel Fuenzalida Devia was sentenced to 541 days and one day for the same crime, but will not serve time in prison.

This is an extensive process that had its first instance sentence in 2017 at the hands of Judge Hernán Crisosto Greisse. In the course of the investigation, some agents have died, such as Basclay Zapata, Ciro Torré, Manzo Duran, Ricardo Lawrence, among others.

For Nelson Caucoto, the plaintiff lawyer representing 13 of the 16 victims, this is "a transcendent ruling in Chilean judicial history, since the Supreme Court has restored the sense of justice for crimes of this nature, which had literally remained in an unacceptable situation of impunity.

The highest court has once again rejected partial prescription and the defense's appeals, and has accepted the plaintiffs' appeals," he noted.

Caucoto adds that "this is a modern ruling based on international law and domestic legislation. It is undoubtedly the case that justice operates in this instance as a healing process for so many relatives of victims who still survive, and it is a pity that others did not live to see this end."

Operación Colombo was a major intelligence operation and a media setup by the DINA, which attempted to make 119 people kidnapped in Chile by the DINA appear as having been killed abroad, allegedly having perished after fighting among themselves.

This process investigated the fate of 16 of those 119 victims. They are Francisco Aedo Carrasco, Jorge Elías Andrónicos Antequera, Juan Carlos Andrónicos Antequera, Jaime Buzio Lorca, Mario Calderón Tapia, Cecilia Castro Salvadores, Rodolfo Espejo Gómez, Agustín Fioraso Chau, Gregorio Gaete Farías, Mauricio Jorquera Encina, Isidro Pizarro Meniconi, Marcos Quiñones Lembach, Sergio Reyes Navarrete, Ida Vera Almarza, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Araya, and Jilberto Urbina Pizarro.

Source: radio.uchile.cl, March 3, 2023

Operación Colombo: Supreme Court issues sentences against 32 DINA agents in cases of two victims

The Supreme Court issued replacement sentences condemning 32 former agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) for their responsibility in the aggravated kidnapping of two victims of the so-called Operación Colombo.

In separate cases and rulings, the highest court issued a resolution on the cases of Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos, detained on July 26, 1974, and Jorge Alejandro Olivares Graindorge, detained on July 27, 1974, both in the commune of Quinta Normal, in Santiago.

In the first case, referring to Ismael Chávez Lobos, in a unanimous ruling (case file 79.461-2020), the Second Chamber of the highest court—composed of judges Jorge Dahm, Leopoldo Llanos, María Teresa Letelier, and acting lawyers Pía Tavolari and Gonzalo Ruz—established an error of law in the sentence issued by the Santiago Court of Appeals in June 2020, which had acquitted the agents who performed operational functions and served as guards at the Londres 38 facility of responsibility for the established facts.

For this reason, in the replacement sentence, it classifies them as guilty and condemns them for the crime, while increasing the sentences of the other convicted individuals.

At the same time, it accepted the cassation appeals filed by the plaintiffs and, issuing a replacement sentence, condemned former DINA leaders and former Army officers César Raúl Manríquez Bravo, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, and Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann to 10 years and one day of imprisonment as authors of the crime.

Meanwhile, former Carabineros officer Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García, Army officer Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, and former agent José Enrique Fuentes Torres were also sentenced to 10 years in prison as authors of the crime.

Meanwhile, former agents Juan Evaristo Duarte Gallegos, Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda, Víctor Manuel Molina Astete, Manuel de la Cruz Rivas Díaz, Raúl Juan Rodríguez Ponte, Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca, Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, Rudeslindo Urrutia Jorquera, Julio José Hoyos Zegarra, Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante, Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar, Hiro Álvarez Vega, José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, Olegario Enrique González Moreno, Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, Alfredo Orlando Moya Tejeda, Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo, Hernán Patricio Valenzuela Salas, Juan Alfredo Villanueva Alvear, Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza, Leónidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno, Rafael de Jesús Riveros Frost, Carlos Alfonso Sáez Sanhueza, Máximo Ramón Aliaga Soto, and José Avelino Yévenes Vergara must serve 5 years and one day in prison as authors of the crime.

In the second case, referring to Jorge Olivares Graindorge, in a unanimous ruling (case file 122.171.2020), the Second Chamber, composed of the same judges as the previous case, established an error of law in the sentence issued by the Santiago Court of Appeals in July 2020, by mistakenly acquitting agents who performed operational functions and served as guards at the Londres 38 facility.

For this reason, in the replacement sentence, it classifies them and condemns them as guilty of the crime.

Likewise, it increases the sentences of the other convicted individuals and condemned former DINA leaders and former Army officers César Raúl Manríquez Bravo, Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Miguel Krassnoff Martchenko, and Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann to 10 years and one day of imprisonment as authors of the crime.

Meanwhile, former officers Gerardo Ernesto Godoy García and Manuel Andrés Carevic Cubillos, and former agent José Enrique Fuentes Torres were also sentenced to 10 years in prison as authors of the crime.

Similarly, for this crime, former agents Juan Evaristo Duarte Gallegos, Pedro Ariel Araneda Araneda, Víctor Manuel Molina Astete, Manuel de la Cruz Rivas Díaz, Raúl Juan Rodríguez Ponte, Hermon Helec Alfaro Mundaca, Hugo del Tránsito Hernández Valle, Rudeslindo Urrutia Jorquera, Julio José Hoyos Zegarra, Nelson Alberto Paz Bustamante, Enrique Tránsito Gutiérrez Rubilar, Hiro Álvarez Vega, José Alfonso Ojeda Obando, Olegario Enrique González Moreno, Orlando Jesús Torrejón Gatica, Alfredo Orlando Moya Tejeda, Fernando Enrique Guerra Guajardo, Hernán Patricio Valenzuela Salas, Juan Alfredo Villanueva Alvear, Lautaro Eugenio Díaz Espinoza, Leónidas Emiliano Méndez Moreno, Rafael de Jesús Riveros Frost, Carlos Alfonso Sáez Sanhueza, Máximo Ramón Aliaga Soto, and Osvaldo Enrique Pulgar Gallardo must serve 5 years and one day in prison as authors of the crime.

In both cases, twelve other agents convicted in the first instance died during the course of the process, including former officers Gerardo Urrich González, Ricardo Lawrence Mires, Ciro Torré Sáez, and Sergio Castillo González, and agents Basclay Zapata Reyes, Risiere del Altez España, Juan Ángel Urbina Cáceres, José Nelson Fuentealba Saldías, Hugo Rubén Delgado Carrasco, José Mario Friz Esparza, Claudio Orlando Orellana de la Pinta, and Gustavo Galvarino Carumán Soto, who were acquitted of these crimes.

The victims Ismael Darío Chávez Lobos, 22, was a Social Sciences student at the University of Chile and a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR). He was detained on the night of July 26, 1974, at his home located at Calle Los Copihues No. 1977 in the commune of Quinta Normal, by agents belonging to the DINA, who transported him to the clandestine detention center 'Londres 38,' located at that address in the city of Santiago.

Jorge Alejandro Olivares Graindorge, 23, a gardener by trade and also a member of the MIR, was detained by DINA agents on a public street on the afternoon of July 27, 1974, in the vicinity of his home located at Pasaje Salta 2258, in the commune of Quinta Normal. He was also transported by the agents to the clandestine detention center "Londres 38."

From this place of detention and torture, the trail of both detainees was lost. Subsequently, in July 1975, they appeared mentioned in the lists of the international disinformation maneuver known as "Operación Colombo," carried out by the DINA, which included 119 forcibly disappeared persons.

by Darío Nuñez

Source: resumen.cl, December 4, 2023