regiment commander assumed command Copiapo politico-military and Area Head of State of Emergency in the province of Atacama, the current Region III, pursuant to Decree Law No. 4 of September 11, 1973. Was established there that departments Freirina Huasco were under the command of the regiment of La Serena, as Head of State of Emergency Zone of the former province of Coquimbo.
In the first months after the coup, most arrests in rural and remote locations were made by police. The prisoners were kept for several days on the premises of the institution and then were transferred to cities, other police stations, the regiment of Copiapo or jail. The arrests in the cities were made primarily by the Army.
Detainees in the region classified as dangerous were sent to the regiment of Copiapo and subsequently detained in prisons. According to testimonies received, were often taken from them and transferred to unspecified locations in the area or the regiment of Copiapo, to be interrogated and tortured.
According to background information provided by people who attended the Commission of the detainees taken to Copiapo regiment were transferred to regimental agricultural land, located on the urban fringe. This land was adjacent to the Old Jail Copiapo enclosure that had operated as such until 1968, being both separated by a wall.
SIM The DINA and mainly operated in the same regiment. Under the control of the DINA, some prisoners were transferred other military facilities in La Serena and its secret headquarters in Santiago, especially at Cuatro Alamos.
In the 1980 arrests were made by Police, Research and CNI. Those arrested by police after a short time, could be released or transferred to Research and thence to the CNI. CNI detainees could be released or sent to jail.
Many people who gave their testimonies said they were battered, threatened and beaten while being arrested. Many indicated that the shipments were tied and blindfolded. Most reported having been tortured in the precincts where they were detained.
Most of those who testified before the Commission in the Third Region reported having gone through the Copiapo Regiment between 1973 and 1974. Those who were arrested after 1980 remained in police and jail.
Many people were relegated to different parts of the region during the 1980's.
By way of illustration, are described below the conditions of detention and treatment of prisoners in 16 precincts.
Region III List enclosures
• Harbor Master, Chañaral
Chañaral • Prison • Copiapo prison
• Buen Pastor women's prison, Copiapo
Vallenar • Jail • Police Station, Chañaral
• Police Station, Copiapo
• Police Station, El Salvador
• Police Station, Potrerillos
• Police Station Carabineros Vallenar
• Barracks Investigations Chañaral Barracks
• Investigations • Campus INF
Copiapo San Roman street 1290, Copiapo
• DINA Campus regiment farming plots Copiapo / Copiapo Old Prison
• Infantry Motorized No. 23, Copiapo
• Detention of Police, El Salado
• Detention of Police, Incahuasi
• Carabineros, Freirina
• Carabineros, Huasco
• Carabineros, Pueblo Sunk (Current Police Station, Diego de Almagro)
Coquimbo Region
On 11 September 1973 was appointed as Head of State of Emergency Zone in the province of Coquimbo, Region IV present, the commander of the Infantry Regiment N ° 1 Arica La Serena. At that time the departments were included Freirina Huasco under that command.
Carabineros and army made the vast majority of arrests across the region. To a lesser extent also did research, acting especially in La Serena and Coquimbo.
From the various police precincts in the towns, rural areas, particularly in rural settlements and remote locations within the region detainees, men and women were sent to police stations in the towns closest to Know: Serena, Ovalle, Illapel. From there, along with political prisoners in the city were taken to jail and Arica Regiment of the city of La Serena. He noted the large number of testimonies on arrests
carried out in rural areas with low population, such as Salamanca,
Combarbala Andacollo, Vicuña, Canela and Los Vilos. The Serena's public prison was, after Infantry Regiment No. 21 Arica to La Serena, the enclosure that more prisoners joined in the region. During 1973 and 1974, the Illawarra and Ovalle prisons, according to testimony, also gathered a large number of prisoners. Research Barracks Ovalle, Coquimbo and La Serena were used as detention centers.
Arica Regiment was identified as the main center for interrogations and torture in the region, he worked in the Military Prosecutor. From here, the detainees were transferred to other facilities in the country in Santiago and Valparaiso.
Although the region is not officially recognized the existence of the DINA, however, the testimony received by the Commission of the detainees reported being interrogated by the service. The background to the conclusion that the agency operated within the Arica Regiment. This compound was used as a transit point for political prisoners arrested by the DINA in other regions during his transfer to campuses of the DINA in Santiago.
During the period between 1973 and 1977 appears in the testimony received, that political prisoners were transferred from prisons to facilities of the Army for questioning. This was especially true with the public prison inmates and prisoners of the jail the Good Shepherd of the city of La Serena, who were taken to the Arica Regiment.
Since 1977, arrests in the region were made by Police, Research and CNI, working together. The testimony received reports that prisoners were transferred to prison or driven to the headquarters of the CNI in Coquimbo and La Serena.
In the region there were three campuses of the CNI. Only one of them, located on the street Colo Colo, was publicly acknowledged in 1984 when its direction was published, among others, in the Official Journal as part of the Ministry of Interior Decree No. 594 (June 14, 1984).
Many of those arrested were released by the CNI in remote areas or were left in some quarters of Investigation, or in prison. Allegations of political prisoners showed that a large number of prisoners were transferred to the CNI headquarters in the city of Santiago, especially at the headquarters of Burgundy.
As stated in the testimony, from the time of his arrest and during the military dictatorship of the prisoners were mistreated, beaten and tortured at all campuses. The Fourth
Commission Region identified 40 places of detention.
List Region IV enclosures Combarbalá
• Jail • Jail Illapel
• Jail • La Serena
Buen Pastor women's prison, La Serena Ovalle
• Jail • Jail Vicuña
• Police No. 3 police station, Ovalle
• Police Station, Andacollo
• Police Station, Combarbalá
• Police Station, Coquimbo
• Police Station, Illapel
• Police Station, La Serena
• Police Station, Salamanca
• Police Station, Vicuña
• Investigations Headquarters, La Serena
• Research Headquarters, Coquimbo
• Prefecture of Police, La Serena Avda
• CNI Campus Stadium, La Serena
• Site CNI Colo Colo Street 2001 / Casa de Piedra, La Serena
• Site CNI street The Panul, Coquimbo
• Infantry Regiment No. 21 Arica, La Serena / Military Prosecutor
• Detention of Police, El Tofo
• Detention of Police , Tulahuen
• Commissioner of Police, Los Vilos
• Tenure of Police, Tan
• Carabineros, Guayacan
• Carabineros, Monte Patria
• Carabineros, Paihuano
• Carabineros, Peñuelas
• Carabineros, Punitaqui
• Carabineros, Tongoy
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