Certificado [Certificate]

Certificate In Santiago, on the ninth of October of nineteenth hundred and sixty-four, I certify that on this date, LUIS GUILLERMO NUÑEZ HENRIQUEZ has been released on parole, with the obligation of signing in person the register of ex-convicts in the Aviation Prosecutor’s Office, Ministry of National Defense, and with the warning that failing to do so will result in an order of capture against him processed by the Aviation Prosecutor’s Office During War Time, cause Rol. No. 84-74. Signed by Carlos García Monasterio, Lieutenant Squadron (A), Secretary Seal of the Aviation Prosecutor’s Office During War Time, Air Force, Prosecutor, Combat Command In 1974, Guillermo Núñez was detained and tortured for several months by the Chilean military under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet for having helped a political activist. Núñez turned his release papers into an artwork, a clear condemnation of the abuses carried out by the state. Curiously, the person who signed this document, an Air Force officer called Carlos García Monasterio, had gained fame in Chile in 1972 for helping rescue a group of surviving Uruguayan rugby players whose plane had crashed in the Andes. In a further coincidence, García Monasterio would die in a plane crash in 1977, never facing justice for his role in the military repression. After his release, Núñez produced and exhibited a series of artworks about his incarceration, but he was arrested once more and, after several months, released and exiled from Chile.