Investigation Overview: The Bureaucracy of Death – Executions in Chile 1973
ArchivosChile investigated the bureaucratic circuit of death among four state institutions around the massive political executions that occurred in the...
Bureaucracy of Death
Executions 1973.
Inside the Instituto Médico Legal (I): Bodies at dawn
The Santiago morgue was flooded with corpses picked up from the street or left by military trucks, which filled rooms,...
Inside the Instituto Médico Legal (II): “Cursory autopsies”
Despite the evident involvement of third parties in the deaths of the executed, the large number of bodies forced doctors...
Inside the Instituto Médico Legal (III): From the morgue to the cemetery
A comparison of data on the movement of bodies from the Santiago morgue to the cemetery in 1973 reveals that...
Political Executions: 150 new cases?
150 possible new cases of political executions of people who died during the first three months of the Chilean military...
Crossed identities and bodies without names at the Registro Civil
Serious mistakes were made in the identification of the deceased in the Santiago morgue in 1973, casting doubt on the...
The black hole of the military prosecutors’ offices
Military prosecutors took jurisdictional control of the deaths of 785 people whose deaths they were legally obliged to investigate from...
Pyromania in 1989: Incinerated Files
Years of files were incinerated during the months before the military regime handed over power to the civilian government of...
Military Courts: Execute first, judge second
After the Chilean military coup in 1973, military courts opened investigations into people who had been dead or missing for...
Wartime Tribunals: Absolute Authority
How the wartime tribunals began to operate in 1973 as opposed to peacetime military tribunals
