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Luis Guajardo Zamorano, 23, a cycling enthusiast and engineering student at the University of Chile, was arrested at a bicycle repair shop in Santiago on July 20, 1974. Four days later, a priest called the Guajardo family to inform them that Luis had been hit by a car and was taken to the first aid post in the Santiago railroad station in the custody of DINA agents. According to the smuggled prisoners' report, however, a month later a witness saw DINA agents run over Guajardo's legs with a pickup truck in the courtyard...
...young victims of DINA are among at least 1,500 Chileans who have simply disappeared since the military, led by General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, seized power in September 1973. Their names also appear on two strange obituary lists that have recently surfaced outside of Chile...
...locate the O Dia offices, and the Brazilian Press Association says it has never heard of the paper. Neither has anyone been able to confirm the spectacular shoot-out in Salta involving 59 supposed terrorists. Despite the questionable validity of both reports, they have been widely publicized in Chile's government-dominated press. Said El Mercuric: "Despising all law, [the terrorists] have ended up killing each other and putting into practice the most brutal of all laws, that of vengeance...
...that of a man nearly three inches shorter, and the alleged remains of Guendelman included part of a hip bone that his mother says had been removed in surgery several years ago. Both students were last seen in Chilean detention centers, and their families fear they died in Chile at the hands of DINA...
American Banks. Conceivably, the decision may prove costly. Until recently, international publicity about political repression in Chile had undermined Pinochet's efforts to obtain desperately needed aid. In the past few weeks, however, a group of American banks that includes First National City, Bank of America, Morgan Guaranty and Chemical Bank, had put together a $70 million renewable credit for Chile. But with the furor over the apparently forged death lists growing stronger every day, what Pinochet hoped might be the beginning of a stream of foreign loans could quickly...