Notes for reading Carlos Soto Román, 11

Selected pages have rough translations.

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4. attention, position one, switch

5. given: 1) the very grave economic, social, and moral crisis destroying the country [“It was
at 8:42 am in Santiago, when the "Democratic Network" radio broadcasted,
to the surprise of its listeners, a military proclamation in which President
Allende was required to abandon his position immediately and submit to a
government board, composed by the high command of the Armed Forces
Augusto Pinochet, Gustavo Leigh, Jose Toribio Merino and César Mendoza.”
source]
6. with the political commitment / to restore Chileanness, justice, institutions (broken
voice)
aware of how this is the only way to be loyal to national traditions, to be loyal to the
Fathers of the Country, to be loyal to the History of Chile
aware of how this is the only way to allow for the evolution and progress of the country, it
is vigorously directed that…”

THE FIRST ONES: [two people are confirmed to have been held in the Central Post Office
after incidents when two security officials were injured] Since then, their
whereabouts have been unknown.

7. WHERE ARE THEY? [names are the signatories of the Chilean Declaration of
Independence]
The persons named below are required to voluntarily report to the Ministry of National
Defense before 16.30 hours today, September 11, 1973

8. Failure to report means putting oneself in a position with consequences easy to predict
CERTIFICATE: The Chief of the Dept. of Information about Prisoners who signs below
certifies that______________________was detained in the National Stadium
from_____________until_________________.

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9.
In a noble and gentlemanly gesture of military gallantry, the Delegate of the Government
Council, in front of the Central Bank of Chile, kisses the hand of one of the
many patriotic ladies who filled the offices on the first floor of the Bank,
having come to donate jewelry, cash, and other valuable for the voluntary
and spontaneous campaign “Fund for the Reconstruction of the National
Economy…”
10. Military of Chile, Division 5, Given that: 1. there are still to be found in circulation flyers
with political propaganda or with other types of writings; 2. that every form
of political partisanship must be forgotten since the only thing that can be of
interest in these moments is our Fatherland and its immediate restoration to
normalcy.

For having hidden buried the quantity of 15 weapons, a great deal of ammunition and
explosives
For having participated as a Teacher of Guerillas in the region
For stealing explosives with violence
For inciting miners to steal explosive powder
…
11. The citizenry is informed that on today’s date___________at 16:00 the following persons
were executed following the orders of the Military Tribunal in the time of
war:

for infringing the law of the security of state, for belonging to violent groups, for professing
ideologies incompatible with the national soul, I command:

12. their detention and delivery to justice, making them available to the security
organizations so that they can be interrogated and so that violent acts can be
prevented, sending them to the locality of
may this be communicated and filed
13. the worker, the professor, the fishing official, the draftee, the marine official, the marine
official, the lawyer, the port administrator, the bureaucrat….
with the goal of accelerating processes and establishing uniform criteria for the
administration of justice related to political prisoners

14. ineffective, belligerent, timid, coward…….blank orders

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15. [Sites from the Caravan of Death]

18. Application of the “Law of Flight:” 1. Shot 2. Shot…

20. EXTERMINATED LIKE RATS

28. [Notes from President Carter’s agenda the day that a Chilean exile was assassinated in
Washington DC, probably with US knowledge]

29. My dear young people: The future of Chile is always in you, you whose grandeur we are
cultivating
Chile is you Fatherland, flag, youth

40. What is the purpose of the interrogation? Has a plan been prepared for the
interrogation? Is an appropriate site available for the interrogation? ….
[List of nicknames for torture techniques: the Grill, the Telegrams, the Dry Submarine, the
Wet Submarine…]

41. Shock zones: Breast, neck, armpits, stomach, nipple, penis, anus, thighs, feet
Stretcher, plug diodes, battery or transformer, table, rope

42. Shock zones….

they stripped me down completely and tied me to…

they tied me to a band and poured water in my…
….

45. A month and a half into her pregnancy

Two months into her pregnancy
….

[Abbreviations for Chilean security agencies]

46. [Nicknames for torturers]

Gentleman, I am the DINA! [“The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (English: National

Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean secret police in the
dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and has been called Pinochet's Gestapo.”]

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48-49. Molecular structure of sarin gas followed by a description of its properties [“Project
Andrea (Spanish: Proyecto Andrea) is the code name of an effort by the military
dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet to manufacture sarin gas[a] for use as a weapon against
its opponents.”]

55-57 are one unit – they line up to create sentences that overlap pages:
55. Until when?

S/he was detained…

56. ….[ el 26 de octubre de 1973…, on these dates]

[por carabineros…, by these officials]

57. … [en la vía pública, in these locations]

60-62 are one unit – they line up to create sentences that overlap pages:

60. S/he was executed

61. on this date
by these agents
in this place

62-65. N.N. = name unknown. like grave markers

72-73. Summary of charges against Pinochet, brought by a Spanish prosecutor, which led to
Pinochet being held in England for 18 months

87. THE FINAL ONE (WHO IS ALSO THE FIRST ONE)

The morning of September 3, 2005, according to witnesses protected as part of the

investigation, José Gerardo Huenante Huenante, 16 years old, of Mapuche
origins, confronted the National Police in the Avenida Vicuña Mackena, in the
village Mirasol de Puerto Montt, where was later brought to the Police Radio
Patrol Unit No. 1375, which belongs to the 5th Commisary of Puerto Montt.
Since then, his whereabouts have been unknown.