At the end of 1976, Lautaro’s brigade, from DINA, carried out an operation to repel the second secret leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, known here as the Calle Conference II affair.
The Second Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court sentenced former Dina bosses Juan Hernán Morales and Pedro Octavio Espinosa to 20 years in prison as culprits in the aggravated murders of Juan Fernando Ortiz Letelier, Horacio Cepeda and Likoyan Yalo Berrios.
The custodians were also sentenced to another 15 years in prison for the qualified kidnapping of Fernando Alfredo Navarro, Hector Vélez and Waldo Ulises Pizarro.
Another 35 defendants were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to two years.
The plaintiff’s attorney in the case, Nelson Kokuto, welcomed the ruling, which ends a trial over human rights abuses and provides an answer to the relatives in their struggle to seek justice.
Kokoto denounced that “this case, called Conference 2, allowed the discovery of our extermination headquarters on Simon Bolivar Street, from which no one came out alive and no one escaped the brutality of torture.”
For the lawyer, 50 years after the coup against the popular unity government and the usurpation of power by the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, the message of no impunity issued by the Chilean courts is a strong call not to repeat these crimes in the future. .
Representative Lorena Pizarro, the daughter of one of the disappeared detainees, expressed her regret that justice came 47 years after the events, as many of the perpetrators died with impunity, and many relatives of the victims left.
But he said that the verdict shows how terrible the dictatorship and its agents are and its importance at a time when some deny the existence of a regime that tortures, kills and disappears who thought in a different way.
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Andrew Motion is an award-winning English author and poet whose work has significantly influenced modern British literature. Best known for his thoughtful poetry collections and acclaimed biography of poet John Keats, Motion’s writing combines literary sophistication with emotional resonance. His contributions to literature and public engagement with poetry have earned him lasting recognition across the United Kingdom and beyond.