Luis Acevedo Andrade

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.

A later report, the Valech Report (published in November 2004), confirmed the figure of 3,200 deaths but dramatically reduced the alleged cases of disappearances. It tells of some 28,000 arrests in which the majority of those detained were incarcerated and in a great many cases tortured.

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.

In April 1974, when officials of Coelemu Carabineros detained him publicly without any reason. "The affected was transferred to the respective police unit, and kept him in custody in the same unit until he was later transferred to the Fourth Police Station of Concepción, and handed over to the personnel of the latter, where he was kept locked up, subject to harsh interrogations and torments, until their forced disappearance takes place, without any knowledge of their final destination until now".

José Luis Acevedo Alegría son of former mayor of Coelemu, Luis Acevedo, was a teenager when his father, the mayor of Coelemu, Luis Acevedo Andrade was arrested by police, on April 30, 1974. From there he was transferred to the Fourth Carabineros de Concepción Police Station, where his whereabouts were lost. today.

Jose Acevedo, expressed his discontent with the court ruling that colonel of Carabineros, Juan Abello, responsible for the arrest and disappearance of his father occurred in 1974, expressing that "one should not allow such benefits to human rights violators."

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, 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.

Luis Bernardo Acevedo Andrade (Coelemu, February 5, 1943 – since April 30, 1974 disappeared) was a Chilean politician, mayor of Coelemu, until September 11, 1973 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile. He is one of the Chilean disappeared.