Capture of Raúl Iturriaga

Date: August 2, 2007 • Location: Viña del Mar, Chile

Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run following a kidnapping conviction.

Raúl Eduardo Iturriaga Neumann 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".