- Mr. Pacheco and family should have boarded the bus of the “El Dorado” company yesterday, Saturday, in the direction of Tambo Quemado-Arica and, to this end, this CONGECHILE provided them with tickets with this bus company and accommodation on the Friday night at the Rossel Hotel, located in front of the bus terminal. - Yesterday, when we contacted the El Dorado bus company, they informed us that citizen Pacheco and his family had been detained on boarding the bus by the local police and immigration authorities. - During the afternoon we were able to contact the Chief Adviser on Migratory Affairs (in charge of the case), Juan C. Molina, who confirmed the information, indicating that the detention occurred under a deportation order to Peru issued by the prosecutor of the Public Prosecution Service attached to the Intelligence Service, and that Mr. Pacheco and his family had been taken in two vehicles to Desaguadero, on the border with Peru and there they had been handed over to the Peruvian immigration authorities who received them, after preparing the respective record, and delivered to the Peruvian police. I have been told that Pacheco has been charged with terrorism in that country. Molina also told us that subversive materials and propaganda had been found in one of Mr. Pacheco’s suitcases related to Sendero Luminoso, letters addressed to Peruvian refugees who live in Bolivia, and some diskettes, all of which were handed over to the Peruvian police. […] 3. Faced with the unprecedented action of the local Immigration Directorate failing to respect a commitment to allow the departure of Mr. Pacheco and his family to our country, I consider that the Bolivian Government should be informed of this delicate situation. […]127 106. The foregoing reveals that the Pacheco Tineo family was handed over to immigration and police authorities in Peru. D. Facts subsequent to the deportation of the Pacheco Tineo family from Bolivia 107. The presumed victims indicated that they were detained in the border town of Puno until March 3, 2011, with their children, and were then separated from them and transferred to Lima, where they remained detained until July 3, 2001. 108. Meanwhile, in Bolivia, on March 5, 2001, the Secretariat for Migrants and Refugees in Bolivia (SEMIRE) filed a complaint before the Bolivian Ombudsman indicating that the Pacheco Tineo family had been arbitrarily detained in Bolivia and subsequently handed over to the Peruvian police authorities, and this was received the following day. 128 In answer to this complaint, on March 19, 2001, the Ombudsman’s Office sent a letter indicating that “since the petitioners had obtained refugee status in Chile, their defense counsel should plead the situation of those he represents before the pertinent legal authorities.”129 109. On March 13, 2001, the Bolivian Ombudsman issued a Detailed Record of Reception and Registration of Complaint certifying that Juan Rumaldo Pacheco Osco and Fredesvinda Tineo, represented by the Secretariat for Migrants and Refugees, had filed a complaint concerning the facts of the detention and handing over to Peru of the members of the Pacheco Tineo family.130 110. On March 30, 2001, the Human Rights Committee of the Bolivian Chamber of Representatives requested the Vice Ministry of the Internal Regime and Police of Bolivia to provide a report on these facts, owing to a complaint filed by the Permanent Human Rights 127 Cf. Communication No. 129 CONGECHILE La Paz to DIGECONSU, dated February 25, 2001 (evidence file, folios 1518 and 1519). 128 102). Cf. SEMIRE complaint filed before the Office of the Bolivian Ombudsman on March 5, 2001 (evidence file, folio 129 Cf. Response of the Office of the Bolivian Ombudsman dated March 19, 2001 (evidence file, folio 105). 130 Cf. Detailed Record of the Ombudsman’s Office of March 13, 2001 (evidence file, folios 106 to 109). 36

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