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CHRONOLOGY - 1985
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FEBRUARY 28, 1985
Socialist Party member Carlos Godoy
Etchegoyen dies from torture in the Quinteros Carabineros police
station. Godoy had returned from exile the year before.
MARCH 29, 1985
Two brothers, Rafael and Eduardo
Vergara Toledo, both members of the MIR, are shot dead by Carabineros
police in the streets of Las Rejas Sur sector of Santiago. A day later
Paulina Aguirre, aged 20, is also killed. In both cases, the police said
the deaths occurred during the course of an armed confrontation.
MARCH 30, 1985
Three Communist Party members are
savagely murdered. The bodies of Santiago Nattino, Manuel Guerrero and
Jose Manuel Parada are discovered near Santiago's airport, their throats
slashed. Nattino, a painter and supporter of the AGECH teachers' union,
had been kidnapped March 28, while AGECH leader Guerrero, and Parada, a
Vicaría staff member, were abducted the following day. The brutal triple
murder, which came to be known as "caso degollados," evoked widespread
indignation and compelled the Supreme Court to appoint Judge Jose Canovas
as special prosecutor to investigate the crime.
JULY 16, 1985
A bomb is set off in front of the United States consulate, killing one pedestrian and injuring four others.
OCTOBER 29, 1985
The Antofagasta martial court grants
amnesty to Gen. Sergio Arellano Stark, Marcel Moren Brito, and Armando
Fernandez Larios. The three Army members had been involved in the deaths
of at least 72 persons in October 1973, in what came to be known as the
"Caravan of Death."
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