Osvaldo Romo

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Romo
In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Romo and the second or maternal family name is Mena.

Osvaldo Romo Carlos Mena (c. 1938 – 4 July 2007) was an agent of the

Chilean Supreme Court.[1]

Life

Osvaldo Romo became known in working-class neighborhoods before

mole for the Chilean security services.[1]

Known as Guatón Romo ("Fatso Romo") or Comandante Raúl, he was one of DINA's key

Univisión, he commented in great detail, and evidently without remorse, on the techniques that had been used in the centers. These included the application of electricity to women's nipples and genitals, the use of dogs, and insertion of rats into women's vaginas.[1]

—Would you do it again? Would you do it the same way?

—Sure, I'd do the same and more. I wouldn't leave anybody alive (...) That was one of DINA's mistakes. I was always arguing with my general: don't leave that person alive, don't let that person go free. There are consequences.
—As for throwing the corpses of the prisoners into the sea...
—I think it could have happened. (...) Throwing them into the crater of a volcano would be better... (...) Who'd go looking for them in a volcano? Nobody.
—On the day you die... what would your epitaph say? "Here lies the hangman, the torturer, the murderer..."

—Logical, logical. I accept that. But for me it was a positive thing. (...) I am at peace with my conscience and my beliefs.

— Excerpt from the interview, [2]

Life in Brazil and arrest

In 1977, Romo was sent to Brazil by his superiors, and may have participated in death squads there, according to human rights NGOs.[1] During Chile's transition to democracy, as one of the most important figures of the Pinochet regime, Romo was sought by prosecutors and found living in São Paulo with his wife and five children in June 1992.[citation needed]

Arrested by the Brazilian police, he was

disappeared in July 1974.[citation needed
]

Romo, suffering from

Cementerio General de Santiago, with no one in attendance.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Fallece Osvaldo Romo, uno de los más crueles torturadores de la dictadura de Pinochet, El País (EFE cable), 5 July 2007 (in Spanish)
  2. ^ «La escabrosa entrevista que concedió Romo a Univisión», La Tercera, 7 April 2007.
  3. Terra
    ; accessed 2 January 2018.
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