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Democratic inquistion: the Security Case
Collective call for solidarity - Chile - February 2014

“Because no sentence shall be eternal, and no prison
can be Maximum Security”
– Claudia Lopez
“It they attack, they will be facing somebody to speak to:
they will gain a cross or will not enjoy their pension. Too
bad for them after all. Sometimes it is expensive to defend
the rich.”

The case is then distributed widely with a powerful
media campaign, allowing for the widow as well as
the children of the deceased Officer to appear in various media press conferences and interviews. Official
honours were granted to the Officer’s figure and the
threats against the alleged participants of the assault
are widely distributed without question.

On October 18th, 2007, an assault was carried out on
the Security Bank in the middle of Santiago, Chile’s
downtown core. Police closed off the perimeter surrounding the branch with the objective of trapping
those who committed the assault. It is in this way that
a motorcycle is intercepted, leading to the armed confrontation between the suspects and police, leaving
one of the police officers, Luis Moyano, dead at the
scene, and another wounded.

Within a month, one of the alleged suspects is arrested. Three days later, the suspect hands in the names
and photographs of the alleged members of the group.
This testimony – constructed from within and for the
framework of Power – is blessed with complete disregard and is then transformed into the irrefutable truth
to be shown to society and the courts. The faces of
Freddy Fuentevilla, Juan Aliste, Marcelo Villaroel and
Carlos Gutierrez Quiduleo are exposed and analyzed
by the press, showing off with biometric expertise and
forensic evidence.

Downtown Santiago erupts in chaos and the hunt for
the alleged assailants begins in revenge. The Intelligence Department of the Chilean National Police
makes a quick assessment of how the assault took
place, characterizing the participants, type of weaponry and retreat. After the quick analysis, they determine their sentence: the alleged authors had been exmembers of a subversive group.

The police also then begin to circulate phone numbers
for citizens to call in for information; instigating the
public to report any movement or appearance of the
suspects, which at that point had virtually been found
guilty. Threats through the press are sent out and the
message in between the lines reads loud and clear:
they want them dead. Raids are carried out at the
houses of their comrades, their families and couples,

– Alexander M. Jacob.

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