Luis Acevedo Andrade

Luis Bernardo Acevedo Andrade (5 February 1943 – disappeared 30 April 1974) was a Chilean Communist Party politician, Mayor of Coelemu, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Coelemu and lumber worker. Acevedo was arrested and forcibly disappeared on 30 April 1974.

Detention

On September 11, 1973, when Augusto Pinochet Coup d'État took place, Luis Acevedo Andrade held the post of Mayor and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Coelemu, was arrested several times and interrogated, and because of lack of evidence released, but one day - just before May 1, 1974 - he was arrested and again taken to the 1st Commissioner of Concepción and transferred to Tomé along with his 19 colleagues, Ten days later, 17 of the 20 prisoners were released from Coelemu prison, two were transferred to the Naval Base of Talcahuano, who reported that when they were transferred to the Naval Base of Talcahuano, and Luis Andrade no longer went in the group, while the fate of Mayor Acevedo Andrade was still unknown. Since that date he has been missing.

Guillermo Sanhueza, one of those prisoners released from the jail, expose the whole story of Luis Acevedo Andrade and told to her wife . However, when she attended the police station Asked about her husband's situation, they told her that Luis Bernardo Acevedo Andrade had been released on May 1 and to prove this they showed his illiterate wife a book (Novedades) allegedly with her housband's fingerprint. This was absolutely false, as her housband could not be a mayor without ability to write and to sign while she could find her housband's signature on his Identification card.

Justice in 2014 To enforce justice, the resolution required to constitute the offense of qualified kidnapping, provided for in article 141 of the Criminal Code.

Forty years elapsed and on November 20, 2014, a new step for justice was taken in his case to confirm the conviction against three former carabineros for the crimes of illegal detention and qualified kidnapping of former Coelemu mayor in 1974. Finally, in a unanimous decision of the court (case roll 1837–2011), the Fourth Chamber of the Court of Appeals - made up of ministers Juan Manuel Muñoz Pardo, Dobra Lusic and Tomas Gray - confirmed in almost all the sentence issued by Minister Solís.

"There is no sign of justice, again as a family we feel quite upset by the decisions of the courts, because the facility has been given freedom to these gentlemen who committed crimes against humanity. We still can not find our family, and they have never said where they were buried, or what they did with them, so I say that today justice in Chile is not complying with due international process, "Jose Acevedo told Radio Bio Bio.

Confession Following Pinochet's defeat in the 1988 plebiscite, the 1991 Rettig Commission, a multipartisan effort from the Aylwin administration to discover the truth about the human-rights violations, listed a number of torture and detention centers (such as Colonia Dignidad, Víctor Jara Stadium)...etc. and found that at least 3,200 people were killed or disappeared by the regime.

Personal life Acevedo was married to Eglantina Alegría Osses, with whom he had five children.