CIPER Investigation: Remains of Up to 30 Disappeared Persons May Be Buried at Former Santiago Landfill

A 33-page report by Chile's Plan Nacional de Búsqueda, published by CIPER Chile, warns that remains of up to 30 people disappeared during the dictatorship may be buried at the former Macul municipal landfill at the intersection of Departamental and Macul avenues in Santiago's Ñuñoa district — a site now operated as an empty lot by Tanner Leasing. The suspected victims died between September 1973 and early 1974. Among the potential victims: three members of the GAP (Allende's personal guard), one Communist Party activist, three Uruguayan nationals, one Brazilian national, one eleven-year-old child, and unidentified street vendors and workers. Evidence includes 11 witness testimonies describing military trucks unloading bodies at night, medical examiner records from September–October 1973, and aerial photographs from Chile's Air Force (FACH). The site investigation was initiated in February 2022 by Judge Paola Plaza González — the same judge overseeing the Víctor Jara criminal trial — after citizen groups blocked a planned 9-building development on the property. The report was published on what would have been the 36th anniversary of Chile's return to democracy.