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Inter-American Court of Human Rights. On 3 January 2021, the Santiago Court of Appeals confirmed the loss of part of the judicial file, including the reserved notebooks in which the sentence handed down by Minister Jorge Zepeda Arancibia is upheld, documents that Lenin Guardia, according to his lawyer, never had access to. access. For this reason, Lenin Guardia denounced his case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
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On October 15, 2020, the perpetrators asked the authorities to unarchive Guardia Basso's judicial file. The request was presented to the Court of Appeals of Santiago due to a possible lack of precedents in the trial, and even if this were to proceed, their lawyers announced that they would go to the
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Favored by Law No. 19,856 for "outstanding conduct", in January 2007 his sentence was reduced by 8 months (López Candia received 6 months). In March 2007, he requested Sunday release through the regular channels, but was denied. Since June 17, 2007, he has had the benefit of Sunday release, and the
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During the trial, the defenses of both defendants were based on different arguments: Guardia claimed innocence and pointed out that López had deceived him, while López confessed to the crimes and claimed that the attacks were for fame. He attributed Guardia with the original idea, but he confessed
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On December 20, 2006, Lenin Guardia was transferred from Punta Peuco to the High Security Prison of Santiago, as he himself requested. According to a press release,7 Guardia made friends in Punta Peuco with inmates such as Álvaro Corbalán and Carlos Herrera Jiménez, but he requested the transfer
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Minister Zepeda gave out an prison sentence of 10 years and 300 days against both of the perpetrators for terrorist crimes. Lenin Guardia's sentence was increased by 61 days for violation of the local Weapons Law, given the unregistered weapons seized at his home. On 22 October 2002, the Sixth
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Days later, Guardia and Mery met at Mery's house. Guardia took with him two envelopes with explosives similar to those in the letter bombs, and Mery referred them to the minister in charge of the case, Jorge Zepeda, who tried to obtain more information from Guardia. He refused, so the minister
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In March 2002, Humberto López Candia acknowledged through a letter of repentance that he had fraudulently involved Guardia in the attacks, a situation that he had already sustained in the only confrontation to which Minister Jorge Zepeda Arancibia submitted them.
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at the time) for the false information, which claimed that a certain "José Antipán" was the reorganizer of the FPMR. Subsequently, these payments for information to Guardia would be denied by the undersecretary of the interior,
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chain, a charge which would later be dropped. The sentence also established that Guardia provided services for months to Nelson Mery and the then Minister of the Interior of the government of
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citing security reasons, since the other convicts in the compound would have been annoyed by the fact that he received a penalty reduction that has not been granted to them.
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Guardia was arrested on November 7, 2001, the same day as López. At the time of his arrest, authorities seized a weapon that had been given to him by General
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to report what had happened. Guardia also contacted Nelson Mery Figueroa, Chilean detective and then-director of the
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Chamber of the Santiago Court of Appeals confirmed the sentence, transferring Guardia to serve his sentence in the
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was a terrorist attack which occurred on 27 September 2001 at the United States Embassy in Chile, perpetrated by
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concluded that Guardia and López both tried to take advantage of the commotion caused by the
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accused him of obstruction of justice, ordering his arrest.
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Court of Appeals could grant him parole for good conduct.8
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and two electrical cables, arrived at the office of lawyer
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Index

Las Condes
Santiago
Mail bomb
Lenin Guardia
Humberto López
Humberto López Candia
Public Security Coordinating Council (CCSP)
Lenin Guardia Basso
transition to democracy in Chile
letter bomb
Santiago de Chile
ammonium nitrate
trinitrotoluene
clothespin
AA battery
nitrates
A battery
Luis Hermosilla
La Moneda Palace
Guillermo Miranda
MIR
La Oficina
Radio Bío-Bío
Investigations Police of Chile
Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front
Gustavo Villalobos
Isidro Solís
Francisco Javier Errázuriz
Chilean pesos
USD

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