A Chilean judge has sentenced 35 agents from the former dictator’s Augusto Pinochet repressive forces for the disappearance of a 29-year-old woman who was five months pregnant at the time of her arrest in December 1976. One of the leading officers involved has seen his total sentence raised to 500 years. The victim, Reinalda Pereira Plaza, was a medical technologist and member of the Communist Party of Chile that had helped shelter those persecuted by the military dictatorship, according to the ruling handed down by special judge Miguel Vasquez of the Court of Appeals of Santiago. The ruling dictated that the case was part of “a large-scale operation that obeyed a policy of investigation, persecution and disarticulation of the Communist Party and not, an isolated fact.”
— source telesurtv.net 2017-10-20