The persons recognized as victims by the Valech Commission who live outside Chile do not receive the health care benefits, which “may only be taken advantage of in the country.” 72 In addition, Law No. 19,992 and its Regulations had already established that the pension was incompatible with those granted by Laws Nos. 19,234, No. 19,582 and No. 19,881, so that if someone was already receiving one of the latter pensions, he or she would have to choose between that one and the pension established by Law No. 19,992. Once “the interested person had chosen, he or she would have the right to a one-time bonus payment of $3,000,000.00” (three million Chilean pesos). 74. Article 15 of Law No. 19,992 contained a clause concerning the “confidential” nature of the “documents, testimony and background information provided by the victims before the [Valech] Commission”; it established that “no persons, group of persons, authority or judge shall have access to [them]” for “50 years,” and also indicated that this was “without prejudice to the personal right of the owners of the documents, reports, statements and testimony included in them to publicize them or provide them to third parties of their own volition.” 73. B.2) Measures of reparation granted to Mr. García Lucero by the State 75. In order to be considered “a person dismissed for political reasons,” Mr. García Lucero sent a letter dated December 23, 1993, from London, United Kingdom, to the Program for the Recognition of those Dismissed from their Employment for Political Reasons in Chile (supra para. 69). In a communication of December 1, 1994, the State acknowledged receipt of the “background information” concerning Mr. García Lucero’s request in relation to Law No. 19,234. In his letter, among other matters, Mr. García Lucero referred to the torture he had endured “while he was detained” and to the “injuries caused by the torture received.” He stated that: [His] upper teeth had been kicked out; [his] left arm had been broken by blows from the butt of a rifle, and a blow from a rifle butt to the forehead had disfigured [him] and [he] almost lost an eye. [He] had to have an emergency operation for a hernia (in the groin) in a tent in “Chacabuco” by a FACH doctor. The hernia appeared because [he] was hung from his wrists with a bag of wet cement tied to each of [his] ankles (this took places in the National Stadium). Also [he] was placed in a barrel of water which was connected to the electricity, and given electric shocks, etc. etc. The numerous blows to the head (throughout one whole night) with a rubber truncheon, caused serious health problems which meant that [he] could not work […] in England, where he is registered as an invalid. Also, [in England, he] had to have surgery on a tendon in [his] right leg. This was also the result of having been hung up, while [he] was detained, as [he had] explained. 74 72 Testimonial statement of María Luisa Sepúlveda provided by affidavit on March 11, 2013 (merits file, tome II, fs. 576 to 625). 73 In relation article 15 of Law No.19,992, the State indicated that “this article merely gives the deponent the right to state the information that he possesses, granting the required legal safeguards to the members of the Commission [Valech. I]t was precisely this norm that made a major contribution to the success of the investigation conducted by the Valech Commission into the torture and political imprisonment that took place during the military regime, as well as the adoption of a plan of measures of reparation for the victims of these crimes and their families, including Leopoldo García.” 74 Cf. Note dated December 23, 1973 (sic), addressed by Mr. García Lucero to the Department of the Program for the Recognition of those Dismissed from their Employment for Political Reasons of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Chile, supra. Regarding the request submitted by Mr. García Lucero there is also a note of December 1, 1994, addressed to him by the National Coordinator of the Program for the Recognition of those Dismissed from their Employment for Political Reasons, Humberto Lagos Schuffeneger, who stated that the Program “[h]ad received the documentation in which he applied to be eligible for the welfare benefits established by Law No. 19,234 for those who are classified as persons dismissed for political reasons” (file before the Commission, tome I, f. 746). 25