Raúl Iturriaga
Raúl Iturriaga | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann |
| Nicknames | "Don Elías" "Luis Gutiérrez" "El Chico" |
| Born | 23 January 1938 |
| Allegiance | Chilean |
| Branch | Army |
| Service years | 1957–1991 |
| Rank | General |
| Unit | Member of the Foreign Affairs Department of the DINA |
| Commands | Purén Brigade from DINA |
| Alma mater | School of the Americas University of Chile |
| Spouse |
Mireya Baeza (divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann (born 23 January 1938) is a Chilean Army general and a former member of the Foreign Affairs Department of the DINA — the Chilean secret police under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship — as an analyst and in the agency's socio-economic intelligence unit, the "Purén Brigade".
Between 1975 and 1977, he studied a postgraduate degree in economics at the University of Chile, in 1981 he was Chile's military attaché in France, later serving as governor of the province of Valdivia and then of Parinacota. In 1991, he retired from the Army.
In June 2007, Iturriaga went into hiding to escape a 10-year prison sentence handed down by judge Alejandro Solís (reduced to five years by the Chilean Supreme Court) for the forced disappearance of Revolutionary Left Movement member Luis San Martín. He was finally captured in August 2007 in Viña del Mar.