Núcleo Disca

Disability and citizenship

NELSON JOSÉ MÁRQUEZ AGUSTO

Lámina con gráfica de DISCA con fondo blanco e ies de colores, con una silueta de persona. Arriba una franja en gris con letras en negro: Ejecutado político, Pisagua, 1974. Abajo una franja en negro con letras blanco: Nelson José Márquez Agusto, 31 años, comunista, pescador con daño cognitivo por torturas.

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.

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