2023-09-07 21:58:31
In December 2005, the prominent Chilean journalist and founding leader of the Latin American Federation of Journalists, Hernán Uribe, sent to this organization and the Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC), the list, updated to that date, of the professionals of the press murdered or disappeared in Chile by the military dictatorship.
Details of the direct implications of Yankee imperialism in the preparation, execution and subsequent support for Pinochet’s coup on September 11, 1973 have recently been declassified in the United States. As proof that the womb of fascism remains fertile, now in the sister nation The political right refuses to acknowledge the bloody history of the overthrow of a democratically elected government and the imposition of a bloody dictatorship that a foreign power devised and presented as a model for the rest of the continent and the world.
In 1974, less than a year after the military coup, the UPEC elected as Honorary President of its Third Congress the Chilean journalist Augusto Olivares Becerra, who had fallen alongside Salvador Allende in the bombing of the Presidential Palace in La Moneda, and conferred upon him post mortem the Félix Elmusa Order, later established as a Distinction.
A few days before the 50th anniversary of the military coup, it is fair to recognize that in the martyrology list following the fascist coup, the names of murdered or missing colleagues stand out.
Let’s remember their names, their ideas and their work:
Diana Arón Svigifiski, journalist; born (n): 2-15-50. Arrested in 1974 by the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA-secret police of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet-). Missing.
Hugo Araya, cameraman; no: 9-10-35. Murdered on 9/11/1973 (day of the military coup) when the Technical University of Chile was attacked by the military.
Carlos Dewet Bascuñán Mourgues, journalist, n: 10-2-45. His body was found in the Andes mountain range on 11-5-73. He was probably murdered in September 1973.
Carlos Berger Guralnik, journalist and lawyer, n: 16-6-43. Murdered in 1973. Submitted to a Court Martial, he was sentenced and then kidnapped from prison and murdered along with other prisoners.
Mario Calderon Tapia, journalist; no: 5-23-43. Arrested on 9-25-74. Missing.
Augusto Carmona Acevedo, journalist; no: 9-26-43. Murdered on 7-12-77 in an alleged confrontation.
Daniel Antonio Castro Lopez, journalist; n: 6-13-1905. Murdered along with 14 other detainees on 11-11-73.
Oscar Castro, press photographer, n 21-3-34. Arrested on 8-16-74. Missing.
Sergio Contreras, journalist; n: 2-2-1933. Arrested on the day of the coup d’état, he was murdered by the military. His body was found 30 days later.
Luis Eduardo Duran Rivas, journalist; n: 16-245. Arrested on 9-14-73. Missing.
Juan Ellas Espinoza, journalist; n: 14-1-47. Killed in a false confrontation on 11-29-1983.
Guillermo Gálvez Rivadeneira, journalist; no: 10-20-26. Kidnapped at the headquarters of the College of Journalists. Missing.
Máximo Antonio Gedda Ortiz, journalist, poet and musical composer, n: 12-19-47. Arrested on 7-16-74. Missing.
Leonardo Henrichsen, Argentine, cameraman; n: 29-5-40. Murdered in Santiago de Chile by soldiers during the failed military uprising against the government of Salvador Allende on 6-29-73. Henrlchsen’s last professional action was to capture the image of the murderer shooting him. The film was rescued by civilians. In his memory, Cameraman’s Day was established, for having filmed his own murder.
José Eduardo Jara Aravena, a journalism student who was already practicing. He was kidnapped in September 1980. He died as a result of torture.
Charles Edmund Horman Lazar, American journalist; n: 15-5-42. Arrested in Santiago on 9/17/73, he was executed a week later in the National Stadium converted into a prison. His corpse was hidden. Horman is the tragic protagonist of the film and book titled “Missing.” In his memory, Cameraman’s Day was established, for having filmed his own murder.
Archibaldo Morales Villanueva, journalist and radio host and owner of the Diario El Guerrillero; n: 15-10-930. Killed immediately after his arrest on 11-5-73.
Augusto Olivares Becerra, journalist; n: 6-27-1930. At his death he was director of the state television channel. He fought against the coup plotters on September 11 in the La Moneda Palace alongside President Allende.
José Leonardo Pérez Hermosilla, journalist; n: 8-12-4; arrested on 3-1-74 and disappeared.
José Miguel Rivas Rachitoff, journalist; n: 1-12-1938; arrested on 3-1-74. Missing.
José Tohá González, co-owner and director of the evening news “Las Noticias de Última Hora”. Arrested and sent to a concentration camp, he died in an Air Force hospital. He was Minister of the Interior and Defense of the Popular Unity Government.
Ernest Traubmann Riegelhaupt, Czechoslovakian; No: 5-19-24. Contributor to the CTK press agency. Arrested on 9-15-73. Missing.
Ricardo Troncoso León, journalist and playwright; n: 10-11-42. Arrested on 10-1-73. Missing.
Jorge Yanez Clave, journalist and poet; n: 2-9-44. Arrested on 9-16-13, Disappeared.
Juan Manuel Bertoló Rivas, journalist; n: 26-12-1942. Arrested on 10-2-1990 by uniformed police (Carabineros), his death was never clarified.
Cover photo: Taken from the Twitter account of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights
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