Núcleo Disca

Disability and citizenship

PEPITO, Politically executed

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, dice: Ejecutado Político, Valdivia, 1973z Abajo una franja en negro con letras blanco, dice: Pepito, 28 años, sin militancia, persona sorda con discapacidad intelectual.

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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