Enrique Arancibia (October 13, 1944 – 28 April 2011)[1] was a Chilean DINA agent, who resided in unofficial exile in Buenos Aires after the assassination of Chilean Army Chief of Staff René Schneider on 25 October 1970. He was arrested by Argentine intelligence officers shortly after the extradition of Michael Townley to the US, and charged with espionage.[2] His life sentence for the 1974 assassination of General Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires was upheld in an Argentine court in August 2004, the court thereby ruling that crimes against humanity do not have a statutory limit in Argentina, including those committed during the Dirty War.[3][4] Townley was also involved in Carlos Prats' assassination.[5]
Arancibia was sentenced in 2004 by an Argentine court for the kidnapping of Laura Elgueta and another Chilean woman in Buenos Aires. Elgueta was later charged with relaying communications for the ex-Minister of Defence Vivianne Blanlot.[4][6]
Declassified documents of the FBI suggest that Arancibia had also been in conctact with Italian neo-fascist terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie.[7]
Although the Prats case was still open in Chile, Arancibia was freed under parole in July 2007, after nearly 20 years of prison.[6]
On 28 April 2011, his body was found in his flat on Lavalle street, in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, with multiple stab wounds in the back and chest.[8]