Raúl Iturriaga, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Raúl Iturriaga

Chilean army general

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1938

Place of Birth: Linares, Maule Region, Chile

Profession: military personnel

Nationality: Chile

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Raúl Iturriaga

  • Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann (born 23 January 1938) is a Chilean Army general and a former deputy director of the DINA, the Chilean secret police under the Augusto Pinochet military dictatorship.
  • He was in charge of a secret detention center known as La Venda Sexy ("Sexy Blindfold") and La Discothèque — because of the sexual abuse inflicted on blindfolded prisoners as loud music masked their screams.
  • An aide to General Manuel Contreras, head of the DINA, he was in charge of several assassinations carried out as part of Operation Condor.
  • He has been condemned in absentia in Italy for the failed murder of Christian-Democrat Bernardo Leighton, and is wanted both in Spain and in Argentina.
  • In the latter country, he is accused of the assassination of General Carlos Prats.In June 2007 Iturriaga went into hiding as a result of the 10-year prison sentence handed out to him by judge Alejandro Solís (reduced to five years by the Chilean Supreme Court) for the sequestration of Revolutionary Left Movement member Luis San Martín.
  • He was finally captured in August 2007 in Viña del Mar.

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