LUIS ARTURO NAVARRO PEÑA (46 years old) ⚡️Santiago, 1973 ⚡️ Worker and deaf person, without militancy.
Luis was a deaf worker who, on September 12, 1973, left his home in the San Joaquín district. He was on his way to buy bread when the police patrolling the area ordered him to stop. When he did not listen to the order, he was shot and killed instantly.
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LUIS ENRIQUE PÉREZ BALBONTÍN (22 years old) ⚡La Pintana, 1973⚡ Newspaper salesman with physical disability. No militancy.
On October 15, 1973, Luis was attending to his newspaper kiosk in the Pablo de Rokha neighborhood of La Pintana, when he was detained by carabineros from the San Rafael police station, while they were looking for information to arrest people on a list. When he was taken to the police station, it was found that he had total muscular atrophy in both legs, as well as the use of orthopedic shoes and crutches to move around. The following day, his body was abandoned in a plot of land in Nos, with gunshot wounds to the skull and abdomen. His death occurred while he was deprived of his liberty.
#Disability #Dictatorship #StateCoup #LaPintana #LuisEnriquePerezBalbontin #PoliticalExecuted.
NELSON JOSÉ MÁRQUEZ AGUSTO (31 years old) ⚡ Pisagua, 1974 ⚡Fisherman with cognitive impairment due to torture. Communist militant.
Nelson was arrested in the city of Iquique. He worked in the merchant navy, for which he was falsely accused of smuggling and drug trafficking. He was transferred to the Pisagua prison camp, where he spent 4 months under permanent torture. His mental state rapidly declined, so that his cognitive impairment became permanent. In such conditions, the military force decided to leave him unguarded in the field located in front of the prison, which allowed him to make an escape attempt to the Caleta Pisagua dock. The escape was discovered, he was recaptured and brutally beaten. Nelson was returned to prison, to be taken to the beach a couple of hours later, where he was finally shot in front of 40 prisoners as part of a collective punishment. The version given by the military indicated that his death was due to suicide. However, his body was found with his hands tied, blindfolded and shot in the clandestine grave of Pisagua in 1990.
#Disability #Dictatorship #StateCoup #Pisagua #NelsonMarquez #ExecutedPolitician
LUIS HUMBERTO FUENTES FUENTES (47 years old) ⚡ Quinta Normal, 1973⚡ Retired and blind person without militancy.
Luis was a blind person. Widowed at a young age, he lived with his son in the Nueva Matucana neighborhood in Quinta Normal. He was killed by a bullet during the curfew of November 4, 1973. His son testified that the shot was fired by individuals wearing helmets from a moving van, while Luis was on the sidewalk in front of his home. He died at home. For years, his death was not investigated as the complaint was not accredited.
#Dictatorship #Dictatorship #StateCoup #QuintaNormal #LuisFuentesFuentes #ExecutedPolitician
PEDRO PURÍSIMO BARRIA ORDOÑEZ (22 years old) ⚡️Panguipulli, 1973⚡️ Student of typing with physical disability. Militant of the MIR and MCR.
As a child, Pedro suffered from Poliomyelitis which led him to live with a permanent physical disability and to use crutches to get around. At the age of 22, he was studying typing and was a militant of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) and the Revolutionary Peasant Movement (MCR). He carried out literacy work with the families of the workers of the Panguipulli Timber and Forestry Complex. He was arrested on September 12, 1973 at the Complex along with eleven other workers, who were taken to the Valdivia Public Jail. There he was subjected to a war council, whose legality did not exist, being falsely accused of assaulting the Retén Neltume and sentenced to death along with the other detainees. What witnesses have assured is that the workers together with Pedro were demonstrating for the Carabineros not to join the coup d’état that took place the day before.
#Disability #Dictatorship #StateCoup #Panguipulli #PedroBarria #PoliticalExecuted
TEOBALDO SALDIVIA VILLALOBOS (26 years old) ⚡Quillota, 1973⚡ Street vendor and executed without militancy.
He was arrested by the military in Quillota on September 17 and executed 10 days later. He was submitted to the Court Martial by the Military Prosecutor’s Office of the Cavalry School of Quillota accused of an attempted assault on military personnel without proof of injuries. His intellectual disability and his previous irreproachable conduct were not taken into account. He did not have legal assistance, nor was his detention and process communicated to his family members.
#Disability #Dictatorship #StateCoup #Quillota #TeobaldoSaldivia #politicallyexecuted #politicalexecutee
RAÚL ARMANDO SEPÚLVEDA CATRILEO (5 months) ⚡La Cisterna, 1973⚡Infant shot. His mother survives the attack remaining physically disabled.
Raul was a newborn who was shot to death when his mother was carrying him in her arms, while closing the gate of the home on a day of curfew extended for 24 hours. Their home was located in the Inés Rivas passage in the José Maria Caro population. Mother and son were hit by bullets fired by Air Force patrolmen, without being rescued or taken to the Barros Luco Hospital, where the infant finally died. His mother survived the attack, but was left with a physical disability due to injuries to her left arm.
CARLOS VICENTE SALINAS FLORES (21 years old) ⚡Curriñe, 1973 ⚡️ Radio operator with physical disability. Politically executed without militancy.
A military convoy made up of several vehicles and approximately 90 people detained 17 workers from the Panguipulli Agricultural and Forestry Complex, including Carlos. They were taken to a farm owned by a civilian where they were tortured and, hours later, executed.
A witness, the following day, recognized several of the victims and declared that most of them had cuts on their hands, fingers, stomachs and some of them had their throats slit and their testicles cut off.
After approximately fifteen days they were buried in pits on the same property. At a later date that is not possible to specify, civilians went to excavate the graves and moved the remains to a place that has been impossible to determine. They managed to exhume the few remains that remained on the property, which were given to the families.
#Dictatorship #Dictatorship #ColpeDeEstado #Curriñe #CarlosSalinas
PEDRO JUAN JUAN YAÑEZ PALACIOS (29 years old) ⚡️ Neltume, 1981 ⚡️ Electrician assistant with physical disability. Executed political militant of the MIR.
Pedro, whose political name was “Jorge”, was born into a modest family in Constitución and studied at the Industrial School of the city. His first entry into politics was as an assistant in propaganda actions for the Government of #SalvadorAllende, in the midst of a time of great turmoil in the Cellulose Industry. He was part of the #FER (Revolutionary Students Front) in the midst of the coup d’état, which led him to be imprisoned, released and imprisoned again in a short period of time. He was imprisoned for two years in the Cauquenes prison and finally exiled. That was how he arrived in France, where he became part of the MIR and the #OperaciónRetorno, which sought to build in the mountains of Neltume (X region), a new center of operations to resist the dictatorship. After attending the Cuban School of Instruction, he clandestinely entered Chile in 1980, arriving to the mountain range area to be part of the guerrilla detachment #ToquiLautaro.
Farmers in the area reportedly denounced the existence of the camp to the military forces, which surrounded the group of militants, forcing them to hide in the heights, a situation that resulted in serious wounds and infections in one of Pedro’s feet. The situation worsened, so his comrades had to amputate his foot to contain the gangrene. Without a foot, he had to flee from the intelligence agents, hiding in a natural emergency shelter, accompanied by a rifle and in diminished physical conditions. Pedro’s hiding place -located in the area of Puente #Quilmio- was tracked and surrounded by the #CNI, who killed him with a machine gun.
PEPITO (28 years old)⚡️Valdivia, 1973 ⚡️Politically executed without militancy.
Of unknown origin and identity, “Pepito” is the only person executed for whom no photograph or testimony is kept, nor is his name known. The young man was a deaf and intellectually disabled person, having been raised and taken in by an elderly woman who, during those years, took care of children abandoned by their parents. On September 19, 1973, Pepito went to cut firewood in the Preciosa Sangre parish in Valdivia, and on his return he was intercepted by a military patrol. When he did not hear the stop sign, he continued on his way home, was machine-gunned and abandoned in the street in total agony. The parish priest found him and carried him in his arms to Kennedy Hospital, where he finally died.
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