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Hugo Salas Wenzel is the first senior member of Augusto Pinochet’s military government to be given a life sentence for human rights abuses committed between 1973 and 1990. (24) He was the head of the intelligence service in the National Information Center which carried out the killings of twelve young rebels who’ve taken part in a failed attempt to assassinate the former military leader Augusto Pinochet in September 1986. The military said at the time that the members of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front had died in gun battles with the security forces. A later investigation found that they had been detained and shot in cold blood.