Zuñiga Isaias Higuera
Estadístico Gendarmeria — 39 years old.
Background
Zuñiga Isaias Higuera
Estadístico Gendarmeria — 39 years old.
Case summary
Isaías Higuera Zúñiga, a 39-year-old statistician for the Gendarmería and a member of the Communist Party, died in January 1974 after being detained and transferred to the Pisagua prison camp. Although the official version attributed his death to a heart attack, the Rettig Report determined that he died due to torture and beatings inflicted by State agents during his captivity.
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Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos[1]
On January 11, 1974, Isaías HIGUERA ZUÑIGA, 39 years old, a prison guard at the Iquique Jail and a member of the Communist Party, passed away.
He had been detained and taken to the Telecommunications Regiment in Iquique, and was subsequently transferred to Pisagua. His spouse officially received the version that her husband had died of a heart attack.
This information was provided by the person who was then the Warden of the Iquique Jail and was ratified at the facilities of the VI Division of the Ejército in that city. The remains of Mr. Isaías Higueras were delivered to his spouse inside a sealed coffin.
This Commission is convinced, especially due to the statements of multiple and concordant eyewitnesses that it examined, that his death occurred as a result of the illegitimate duress to which he was subjected by State agents while he was detained at the Pisagua prisoner camp, where his custodians beat him to death.
Judicial Case Files[2]
Isaías Higuera Zúñiga
- Juez Ministra Monica Olivares
- 27627-2016
- 4-2013
- 7-2016
- Tarapaca
- Campo De Prisioneros De Pisagua
- Blas Barraza Quinteros
- Miguel Aguirre Alvarez
References
- 1Museum of Memoryhttps://interactivos.museodelamemoria.cl/victims/?p=3192
- 2Judicial Case Fileshttps://expedientesdelarepresion.cl/causa/isaias-higuera-zuniga/