Banner Telefónica
  • Login
Friday, May 9, 2025
No Result
View All Result
  • es Español
  • en English
subscribe
thediplomatinspain
video channel
  • Frontpage
  • News
    • Spain
    • World
    • The world in Spain
    • Diplomatic Breakfast
    • Diplomacy with a history
    • The bag
    • Social life
  • Tribune
  • Analysis
  • Trends
  • Embassies
    • Embassies Directory
    • Protocol
    • International legislation
  • UNWTO News
  • Leisure
    • Libros
    • Culture & Art
    • Música
    • Movies
    • Niños
    • Espectáculos
    • Teatro
  • Diplomatic club
  • Vip Club
  • Frontpage
  • News
    • Spain
    • World
    • The world in Spain
    • Diplomatic Breakfast
    • Diplomacy with a history
    • The bag
    • Social life
  • Tribune
  • Analysis
  • Trends
  • Embassies
    • Embassies Directory
    • Protocol
    • International legislation
  • UNWTO News
  • Leisure
    • Libros
    • Culture & Art
    • Música
    • Movies
    • Niños
    • Espectáculos
    • Teatro
  • Diplomatic club
  • Vip Club
No Result
View All Result
No Result
View All Result
thediplomatinspain
Home Frontpage

Government celebrates convictions in Chile for the murder of Spaniard Carmelo Soria

Redacción
25 de August de 2023
in Frontpage, Frontpage, News, The world in Spain
0
Government celebrates convictions in Chile for the murder of Spaniard Carmelo Soria

Image: CEPAL

Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
The Diplomat

 

The acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, celebrated yesterday that “justice has been done” in the case of the murder of Spanish national Carmelo Soria in 1976 in Chile, after the country’s Supreme Court convicted several people for the crime.

 

“Justice has been done for a crime that could not go unpunished,” the minister said in a message on his X account, celebrating that the Chilean Supreme Court had “sentenced to prison terms the perpetrators of the murder of the Spanish international civil servant Carmelo Soria”.

 

On Tuesday, the Chilean Supreme Court sentenced six former agents of the now defunct National Intelligence Directorate (DINA), the secret police of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990), and two former military officers for the murder of Carmelo Soria, a Spanish official of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and communist militant, who was kidnapped in Santiago de Chile on July 14, 1976.

 

In particular, two senior DINA officers, Pedro Espinoza Bravo and Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann, were each sentenced to 15 years and one day’s imprisonment. In addition, the military officer Juan Morales was sentenced to ten years and one day in prison. These three, convicted as perpetrators of the murder, are currently in prison for committing other human rights violations.

 

The others sentenced are agent Guillermo Salinas Torres (15 years and one day in prison for the murder and 541 days for illicit association), René Quilhot and Pablo Belmar (10 years and one day in prison each for murder and 541 days for illicit association.

 

In addition, Eugenio Covarruvias Valenzuela, a former general in the Chilean army, was sentenced to four years in prison for false declaration under oath, and Sergio Cea Cienfuegos, a former military prosecutor, to 600 days in prison for falsification of a public instrument.

 

The sentence indicates that the DINA “operated systematically and clandestinely against multiple political opponents of the military government and its collaborators, including Carmelo Soria”, who worked for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and was kidnapped, tortured for 48 hours and finally murdered.

 

 

ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

Técnicas Reunidas wins 516 million euro engineering and construction contract in Qatar

Next Post

Spain will not apply the new passport control regime to Gibraltarians, but will apply to Spaniards

Redacción

Redacción

Next Post
Spain allows UK to bring 150 kilos of packages into Gibraltar without declaring their contents

Spain will not apply the new passport control regime to Gibraltarians, but will apply to Spaniards

Recommended

Congress processes France’s Treaty of Friendship despite the appeal of the Senate

Congress will vote on the Treaty of Friendship with France this Tuesday, pending the Constitutional Court and the Senate

3 days ago

Newsletter

"Stay informed through our pages and always stay one step ahead. With in-depth analysis, exclusive reports and comprehensive coverage of the events that are shaping our present, our newspaper is more than just news, it is a window to the future."

Sections

Newspaper archive

August 2023
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  
« Jul   Sep »

About Us

The Diplomat in Spain is the reference digital newspaper for diplomats and companies that want to be well informed.

© 2024 The Diplomat in Spain.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist

  • Login
No Result
View All Result
  • Frontpage
  • News
    • Spain
    • World
    • The world in Spain
    • Diplomatic Breakfast
    • Diplomacy with a history
    • The bag
    • Social life
  • Tribune
  • Analysis
  • Trends
  • Embassies
    • Embassies Directory
    • Protocol
    • International legislation
  • UNWTO News
  • Leisure
    • Libros
    • Culture & Art
    • Música
    • Movies
    • Niños
    • Espectáculos
    • Teatro
  • Diplomatic club
  • Vip Club

© 2024 The Diplomat in Spain.

Go to mobile version
  • English