Augusto Pinochet returned to Santiago with his escort from his home in The Peach, a 7th of September when he was the victim of an armed attack as his vehicle passed by the slope of the Achupallas, road to Cajon del Maipo (40 miles from Santiago).
At 18.35 hours, the convoy of 6 armored cars and 2 motorcycles was intercepted by a unit of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, with a car-trailer blocked traffic and then attacked the dictator in a hail of bullets and explosive strength. Pinochet and his grandson, who were in the fourth car, turned to return to the Peach and finally received a missile not explode, resulting in minor injuries.
Five bodyguards died in the attack and eleven wounded.
This is the account he gave Pinochet himself about what happened.
would unleash one of the bloodiest acts of revenge from the dictatorship of the late 80's: Operation Albania.
Ironically, those executed were not just those who attacked Pinochet, because most managed to flee outside the country, but people completely outside of the facts, as was the case of journalist Jose Carrasco, riddled with shot during the early hours of September 8, 1986, in the outer wall of the south side of Memorial Park Cemetery located in Huechuraba, together with Professor Gaston Vidaurrázaga, Abraham publicist electrician Muskatblit and Felipe Rivera, who sack them from their homes and then appeared as Carrasco, shot in different parts of Santiago.
The CNI killed everyone who stood before him, no matter who it was. And the thirst for revenge did not stop in 1986, but continued until 1987 when the operation occurred Albania, with no intention of going directly involved. Be killed and that was what was done.
So much so that in those who participated in the attack and died in this feud was that the transaction command, José Joaquín Valenzuela Levi, but the dome of the CNI organized vengeance, led by Alvaro Corbalan Castilla did not even know who killed .
Valenzuela died June 15, hours after the CNI had been dedicated to using targeted Castro Patricio Acosta, a senior official of the FPMR, and aJulio Olivares War, and after the killing of street Mena Varas 417, situations covered Operation Albania. Valenzuela died in a house on Calle Pedro Donoso in Conchalí commune, where he was taken by forces that had CNI detained in the barracks Borgoño street. Corvalan gave direct orders to kill. In the dungeons of Borgoño were who they were considered important within the FPMR and José Joaquín Valenzuela Levi, "Commander Ernesto Cabrera and Esther Hinojosa. But there were also Ricardo Rivera Silva, Ricardo Silva Soto, Manuel Valencia Calderon, Elizabeth and Patricia Mondaca Escobar Quiroz Nilo, leaders who were not of great relevance to the agents. All had been arrested in the previous hours. According to court documents, Alvaro Corbalan agent ordered Ivan Quiroz to elect five officers to be made responsible for bringing together its people to carry out the removal of the seven detainees.
The morning of June 16, 1987, detainees were moved in convoy to the empty house of Pedro Donoso Street 582, that IPC had already identified. The major Alvaro Corbalan had ordered the captain Francisco Zúñiga choose where the frontage would be mowed down. After pondering, the officer chose the unoccupied property which the suspected CNI sometimes functioned as a safe house frontage.
According to reports from neighbors of the house of Pedro Donoso street people got arrested that night were barefoot, with his arms tied behind his back, bound and blindfolded. The sergeant and captain Ivan Quiroz Francisco Zúñiga were assigned to designate pairs of officers to execute each of the seven detainees frontage. CNI
It calculated that night there were about a hundred agents, police and detectives inside and outside the home. The order for the troops assigned to each victim strike weapons was throwing a brick on the roof, while the rest of the agents fired into the air and screamed for the neighbors to the idea of \u200b\u200ba confrontation. Around 5:30 a.m., seven were shot frontage. Then, according to several officers went into action the captain Francisco Zuniga, who proceeded to shoot at each of the victims.
Although prosecutions of members of the CNI who committed these murders, so far there has been no claim to Valenzuela Levi, or its partners.
Germany, in early September, decided to rehabilitate those considered traitors during World War II, including von Stauffenberg, who tried to kill Hitler.
Is it not time that Chile did the same?
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