Juan Maino
{{Short description|Photographer and political activist}}
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Juan Bosco Maino Canales (died 1976?) was a photographer, political activist, and opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile.The Other '68ers: Student Protest and Christian Democracy in West Germany, {{ISBN|978-0-198-84952-0}} p. 175 He was a leader in the Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria (United Popular Action Movement). He was detained on May 26, 1976 by agents of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA){{Cite news|date=2005-03-22|title=New charges for Chile cult head|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4370607.stm|access-date=2021-09-13}} agents and disappeared.
Early life
Juan Maino was an engineering graduate from Universidad Técnica del Estado (State Technical University) and a militant and dirigent of the Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria. He was working on his thesis in mechanical engineering with classmate Antonio Elizondo Ormachea.The Amnesty International Report (1982), p. 121
Arrest
Two days before his arrest, on May 24, 1976, around 3 p.m., Andrés Rekas Urra, the brother of Elizabeth Rekas Urra who, in turn, was the wife of Elizondo, was arrested by DINA agents. He was driven to a secret detention and torture facility known as Villa Grimaldi. There, he was interrogated about the "activities" of his sister and brother-in-law as well as Juan. He was forced to identify his sister in a clandestine stake-out and on May 26, he was able to hear his sister screaming at Villa Grimaldi.
Maino was arrested by DINA agents on the night of May 26, 1976, at the Elizondo apartment, in Ñuñoa, Santiago, together with Elizabeth Rekas Urra. The latter was pregnant at the time and her husband, Antonio Elizondo, had been detained earlier that same day around 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Alameda Avenue and Lord Cochrane Street, in downtown Santiago. Both are also still listed as disappeared.{{cite web|title=Juan Bosco Maino Canales|publisher=geni.com|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Juan-Maino-Canales/6000000030460846786|date=January 22, 2019|access-date=September 18, 2021}}
According to witnesses, Maino and Rekas were detained by at least three agents in one car, who remained at Elizondo's house past 2.00 a.m. Days after his disappearance, Maino's mother presented a habeas corpus to the 8th Criminal Tribunal of Santiago. The court refused to investigate the case. In the Chilean criminal system, investigating, prosecuting, and judging were all then done by only one person, the criminal judge, according to Judge Juan Guzmán's autobiography, released in 2005.
Andrés Rekas Urra was released the same day, but no trace of Antonio Elizondo, Elizabeth Rekas and Juan Maino has been found since then.
Investigation
In 2005, Paul Schäfer, the former leader the enclave of Colonia Dignidad, Chile, was charged with involvement in his "disappearance" after two cars owned by Maino were found inside Colonia Dignidad.{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4370607.stm |title= New charges for Chile cult head|accessdate=2008-04-02 |author= |date= 22 March 2005|publisher=BBC News}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050323183301/http://www.usip.org/library/tc/doc/reports/chile/chile_1993_pt3_ch2_a2_e.html Truth Commissions Digital Collection: Reports: Chile] PART THREE, Chapter Two (A.2.c) 1974 through August 1977
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Category:1970s missing person cases
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