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Salió a bailar, desapareció y 4 años después lo encontraron muerto: el misterioso caso de Jorge Matute Johns
Era la madrugada del 20 de noviembre de 1999 y Jorge Matute Johns estaba en el boliche La Cucaracha, ubicado en Talcahuano, Chile. Tenía 23 años y había ido a bailar con un grupo de amigos. En algún momento de la noche, sin que nadie pudiera explicarlo con certeza, dejó de ser visto.
Jorge, a quien su familia llamaba “Coke”, estudiaba Ingeniería Forestal en la Universidad de Concepción y estaba cerca de terminar la carrera. Vivía con sus padres en San Pedro de la Paz y llevaba una vida que, hasta entonces, había sido tranquila.
Uno de sus amigos, Gerardo Roa, también estaba en el boliche esa misma noche. Las últimas horas de Jorge estuvieron rodeadas de versiones diferentes: algunos testimonios indicaron que había salido solo del lugar, mientras que otros mencionaron una posible pelea dentro del establecimiento.
Una desaparición misteriosa
Alrededor de las 7.30, Gerardo fue hasta la casa de la familia Matute Johns para preguntar si Jorge había vuelto. La familia comenzó a buscarlo y rápidamente entendió que algo no estaba bien.
Durante los primeros días se realizaron rastrillajes y se tomaron declaraciones a personas que habían estado aquella noche en La Cucaracha. También se produjeron llamados anónimos y pedidos de dinero a cambio de información sobre el paradero del joven.
La investigación comenzó como una “presunta desgracia”, como se denomina en Chile a los casos en los que una persona desaparece y se desconoce qué pudo haberle ocurrido.
En el avance de la causa, los agentes interrogaron al dueño del boliche, Bruno Betanzo, a su pareja, Carmen Sereño, a trabajadores y guardias de seguridad y a varios de los jóvenes que habían estado en el lugar.
También se investigó a un grupo de personas que había estado en la discoteca aquella madrugada. Siete jóvenes llegaron a ser procesados por obstrucción a la Justicia, aunque posteriormente esas acusaciones fueron descartadas.
Durante años, el expediente se caracterizó por los testimonios contradictorios y los cambios de hipótesis. La familia, mientras tanto, seguía sin saber qué había ocurrido con Jorge.
El hallazgo de los restos
El 12 de febrero de 2004, más de cuatro años después de la desaparición, restos humanos fueron encontrados a la vera del río Biobío, a la altura del kilómetro 22,6 de la Ruta de la Madera. Posteriormente, las pericias permitieron confirmar que se trataba de Jorge Matute Johns.
El hallazgo respondió una de las preguntas que durante años habían atormentado a la familia: Jorge había muerto. Pero todavía faltaba saber cómo, cuándo y, sobre todo, quién había sido el responsable.
Los primeros estudios forenses no lograron establecer con claridad la causa de muerte. La investigación continuó y se analizaron nuevamente las circunstancias de aquella madrugada en La Cucaracha.
Los restos fueron sepultados en 2005. Sin embargo, años después, la familia pidió que fueran exhumados para realizar nuevos estudios.
Una nueva hipótesis apareció años después
En 2014, la causa fue reabierta y quedó en manos de la jueza Carola Rivas. En esta ocasión, la investigación volvió a concentrarse en las circunstancias de la muerte de Jorge y se realizaron nuevos análisis de los restos, incluso en el extranjero.
Los estudios detectaron pentobarbital en los restos de Jorge. En marzo de 2018, Rivas concluyó que el joven murió por la ingesta de esa sustancia y sostuvo que se la habían suministrado terceros con la intención de dejarlo inconsciente para abusar sexualmente de él.
La conclusión marcó un nuevo giro en una causa que durante años había estado caracterizada por versiones contradictorias. La jueza descartó así la hipótesis de que Jorge hubiera muerto como consecuencia de una golpiza y centró sus conclusiones en la intoxicación con pentobarbital.
Sin embargo, la investigación no logró identificar quiénes le dieron la droga ni quiénes fueron responsables de su muerte. Tampoco pudo establecerse quiénes habrían participado del supuesto intento de abuso.
Una causa sin condenados
Después de años de investigación, la jueza Rivas decretó el sobreseimiento temporal de la causa el 31 de diciembre de 2018.
La decisión no significó que se hubiera determinado quién mató a Jorge. Por el contrario, el expediente quedó sin responsables identificados y con la posibilidad de ser reabierto si aparecían nuevos antecedentes.
Para entonces, el paso del tiempo había dejado pocas certezas y muchas preguntas. Algunas personas relacionadas con las distintas hipótesis habían muerto y la discoteca La Cucaracha ya no existía.
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When Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed could not say Iran is a bigger threat to the U.S. than Israel, it was a warning of elections in a post-Oct. 7 world, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) president Morton Klein says.
American and even Israeli leaders are failing to show strength against hate as anti-Zionist voices gain power, Klein told Digital in a Monday interview.
«Ilhan Omar is one of the most vicious Jew haters in America,» Klein said, speaking on behalf of himself and not as the leader of the ZOA. «And it is very painful to me that the leaders of the Democratic Party have not continuously and vigorously condemned her» and other antisemitic political leaders, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., El-Sayed and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
They are not merely «pro-Palestinian» voices, Klein says: «They’re anti-Israel voices. They don’t really give a damn about the Palestinians either. They just hate Jews in the Jewish state. That’s my opinion.»
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The ZOA is a 501(c)(3) that is unpermitted by law to talk candidacies as opposed to their positions, Klein stressed, before unloading on the voices that take aim at Israel and ostensibly handing political power to the antisemites and terrorists – which even includes Israeli elections just two weeks from now.
«Viciously antisemitic members of Congress have not been condemned in any significant way by the Democratic Party,» he continued. «So it’s disappointing to me as an American that we don’t condemn people who are filled with hate and not filled with what’s best for America.»
Anti-Israel rhetoric has moved from the political fringe into elected office, he said, warning that Democrats have not forcefully condemned members of their own party who he says traffic in antisemitism.
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It has even forced Israeli leaders to move toward a dangerous level of «appeasement,» according to Klein.
«I blame the Jewish leaders and the Israeli leaders themselves: You might find that surprising,» he said. «The Israeli government over the years has not made it clear that the Hamas Charter has two clauses that say, murder every Jew on earth, destroy Israel. And, most recently, El-Sayed not only refused to clearly name Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, as a greater threat than Israel during a Michigan Senate debate, «he said worse,» Klein lamented.
«He said both of them are dangerous to America, and he said Israel is as evil as Hamas,» he continued.
«The Democratic Party has not condemned him. Worse, [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer endorsed him, has given him tens of millions of dollars to run,» Klein said. «Elissa Slotkin, the senator from Michigan, Jewish senator, has endorsed him. And [Dana] Nessel, the attorney general, Jewish attorney general has endorsed them. This is disgraceful.»
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«If this guy was unequivocally anti-Black, they would have all condemned him. Why don’t they condemn people who hate Jews for no reason whatsoever? It’s very, very frightening,» he said.
During his push to hold the Michigan Senate seat for Democrats, Abdul El-Sayed described Judaism as «a light unto the world,» expressing deep gratitude for the Jewish community’s contributions.
«My commitment to Jewish safety is equivalent to the commitment to the safety of my own daughters,» he said.
Klein also weighed in on Mamdani for declining to condemn the phrase «globalize the intifada,» a call to violence against Jews around the world, he warned.
«Mamdani was asked to condemn the phrase, globalize the intifada … he refused to condemn this phrase,» Klein said. «This guy is a monster. He is a jihadist Jew-hater supporter of terrorism.»
Despite the criticism, Mamdani has pledged to «protect our Jewish neighbors» and stated his commitment to «mourning with them, and committing to fight against evil and antisemitism.»
As Mamdani has done explicitly, Israel is often portrayed as the aggressor and perpetrator of a so-called «genocide» in Gaza, Klein observed, stating that the reality is those atrocities were committed by Hamas terrorists Oct. 7, when terrorists invaded Israel specifically to kill «Jews,» not merely «people,» Klein said.
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«They went in house to house, door to door, murdering every single family,» Klein said. «Can you imagine? They go in and there’s a mother and a father and children sitting, they’re scared out of their minds, and they shoot them to death. And oftentimes they raped the mother first and then they murdered them. Then they put babies into ovens and killed them that way. It’s just a nightmare what they did.»
«Yes, their goal is to murder every single Jew. In fact, the leaders of Hamas have said repeatedly: ‘We will have many, many more Oct. 7s; you wait, many, more Oct. 7s,» he added.
Klein said any future Israeli government after the Oct. 27 elections must be «as tough as nails, responding with overwhelming force for any terrorism,» and do as the «the people demanded: destroy Hamas.»
Klein warned, however, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be weakened politically if he is forced to form an alliance with left-of-center parties after Israel’s elections.
«The polls show that it’s likely that Netanyahu will win again, but he may have to have a broader coalition to bring in people from the left of center,» Klein warned. «I think the odds are high Bibi will continue to be the prime minister. But his hands will be somewhat tied if he’s forced, and I think he will be forced, to bring people from left of the center to have coalition.»
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Asked whether the process of forming a coalition could weaken Israel’s response, Klein answered, «Yes.»
«Yes, because some of the left-of-center people are appeasement-oriented,» Klein said. «They still believe just give the Arabs more, it’ll be all right.»
«And people have to understand, and these people don’t quite understand, this is not a war about land or about a Palestinian state. This is a war about destroying Israel and killing Jews.»
He argued that Israel should reject further concessions and project strength until its enemies accept that the Jewish state cannot be destroyed and the decades of calls for a Palestinian state are a proven failure.
«They had it; they controlled it,» Klein said. «They could have just said a new country of Palestine has now emerged. No, because the goal is not that. The goal is Israel’s destruction.»
«Only when they understand that, that it’s hopeless for them to destroy the Jewish state of Israel, only then might they finally lay down their arms and say, we give up.»
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Macron rechazó la violencia que sacude a Francia: “Los que intentaron derribar la República, tendrán que responder”
El presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, afirmó que “nada justifica” ni “excusa” la violencia desatada durante las protestas en Francia y advirtió que “los que intentaron derribar la República, tendrán que responder”.
Lo hizo en un discurso a la Nación transmitido por la televisión francesa, después de dos días consecutivos de saqueos, disturbios y choques entre manifestantes y fuerzas de seguridad en movilizaciones contra el costo de vida.
“Nada lo justifica, nada lo explica, nada lo excusa”, dijo Macron en su discurso televisado. Además, llamó a no confundir a los alborotadores con los cientos de miles de personas que manifestaron pacíficamente el sábado contra el encarecimiento de la vida.
También subrayó su disposición al diálogo por las reivindicaciones de los manifestantes.
Las protestas dejaron casi 2400 detenidos y 1000 policías heridos, según el ministerio del Interior.
“Violencia inédita”
Macron reconoció que los servicios de información de la policía subestimaron la violencia de la jornada de protestas del sábado.
Denunció además que las fuerzas del orden “pese a su profesionalismo tuvieron que sufrir una violencia inédita en muchas ciudades”.
Según afirmó, pidió al Ejecutivo que “saque todas las lecciones en materia de información y de anticipación para que eso no se vuelva a producir” una situación de este tipo.
“Los que destruyeron deben pagar, los que saquearon, deben devolver. Los que intentaron derribar la República, tendrán que responder”, alertó.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Sunday that four service members were killed and dozens more seriously injured after a fire broke out during military training at a base in Alberta, calling it one of the country’s worst peacetime military tragedies on domestic soil.
The deadly fire erupted Saturday at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, where fierce winds fueled flames that spread beyond the installation and into surrounding rural areas. Canadian military officials said there were no indications of terrorism, though the cause remained under investigation.
Carney said in a televised address that the families of the four service members killed had been notified and that the situation was still evolving.
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Paramedics load an injured person into an ambulance at the Wainwright Health Centre as injured military members are treated after a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, outside of Wainwright, Alberta Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
The prime minister said those affected included reservists and soldiers from Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, one of Canada’s oldest military regiments. Personnel had traveled from bases across the country to participate in training exercises at Wainwright.
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a statement on Parliament Hill following a deadly fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta, in Ottawa on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP)
Canadian Defense Minister David McGuinty initially confirmed fatalities and injuries but did not provide a casualty count, Fox News Digital previously reported.
«I cannot recall such an incident in my short time for sure as a minister, but I cannot recall an incident like this in recent memory,» McGuinty told reporters.
The exact number of injured service members remained unclear Sunday, with victims receiving treatment at hospitals in Wainwright, Edmonton, Red Deer and Calgary.
Several hospitals across Alberta activated a «Code Orange,» an emergency designation for mass-casualty incidents, as medical personnel scrambled to treat the wounded.
Paramedics work at the Wainwright Health Centre as injured military members are treated after a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, outside of Wainwright, Alberta Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (John Ulan/The Canadian Press via AP)
«This number of patients would overwhelm the city of Edmonton,» Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency department physician at Royal Alexandra Hospital, told CBC News. «It is more patients than any of us want to count right now. It’s a disaster.»
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said officers responded to reports of a fire in a training area at the base shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday. Firefighters battled intense winds, with gusts reaching up to 62 mph, as flames spread beyond the installation.
By late Saturday, local officials said the fire was being held and that property and critical infrastructure were protected. No evacuation order had been issued for nearby residents.
McGuinty said the RCMP was involved in investigating the incident, describing the situation as «very, very active and delicate.»
Carney announced that flags would fly at half-staff on federal buildings nationwide in honor of those killed and injured. He also praised emergency crews who battled the flames through the night.
Fox News Digital’s Michael Sinkewicz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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