- Caso Degollados
The "Caso Degollados" (Spanish: "Case of the Slit Throats") was a politically motivated crime and political scandal that took place in
Chile .Events of the case
On
March 30 ,1985 three Communist Party members were savagely murdered. The bodies ofSantiago Nattino , Manuel Guerrero andJosé Manuel Parada were discovered near Santiago's airport, their throats slashed. Nattino, a painter and supporter of the AGECH teachers' union, had been kidnapped onMarch 28 , while AGECH leader Guerrero, and Parada, aVicaría de la Solidaridad staff member, were abducted onMarch 29 .The brutal triple murder, which came to be known as "Caso Degollados", evoked widespread indignation and compelled the Supreme Court to appoint Judge
José Cánovas Robles as special prosecutor to investigate the crime.Only four months later, the investigation carried out by Judge Cánovas led to the arrest of two colonels, one major, two captains and two non-commissioned officers of the national police force "(carabineros)". The after effects of this case provoked, on
August 2 ,1985 , the resignation of GeneralCésar Mendoza , Director General of the Carabineros and Member of Government Junta since the military coup ofSeptember 11 ,1973 as well as the dissolution ofDICOMCAR , an agency of the Carabineros that had allegedly carried out the kidnappings and assassinations. In its 1985 special report, theInter-American Commission on Human Rights stated that it hoped that “the case now under way will lead to the identification and punishment of the persons responsible for the execution of so culpable an act.” [ [http://www.cidh.org/annualrep/85.86eng/chap.4.htm Inter-American Commission on human rights Report 1986] ]Eventually six members of the police secret service were indicted and sentenced to life for the murder.
ee also
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Chilean political scandals
*Chile under Pinochet References
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