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In prison, there are codes.
It's kind of like a ranking of crimes
that are more or less acceptable to the prison population.
And if a crime is too serious, too ugly,
you are doomed, as they say.
If someone is doomed at the level that I was doomed,
it's the leader's responsibility to kill them if given the chance.
All the prisoners wanted to kill me. So did half the guards.
Which I think is a normal reaction.
But not once did I feel more in danger
than the countless times I found myself in danger in the cult.
The intensity of being in prison didn't come close
to the intensity of being enslaved within a cult.
The seven members of the cult detained in Santiago jails
are under permanent protection from possible attacks in prison.
Why won't you talk?
It was a horrifying, inconceivable event,
worse than any crime we've ever reported.
According to the PDI, it's the first time there has been a human sacrifice in Chile.
Listen well to thus avoid the end of the world.
The crime is so awful
that nobody wants to look beyond that.
This was not a crime of passion.
This was not a crime where you kill to steal a car.
This was a crime to save the world.
Generally, I don't like to talk about it
because people tend not to understand how bad it really is.
If I really tell you everything,
you'll get upset, you know?
THE DOOMSDAY CULT OF ANTARES DE LA LUZ
My name is Verónica Foxley, and I'm a journalist.
I've dedicated the last 30 years of my career to investigative journalism.
And police journalism has always been my favorite.
I like crime stories because they have a lot to do with the human condition.
With those frailties in people's minds...
JOURNALIST ANTARES DE LA LUZ'S BIOGRAPHER
...those secrets must be discovered
to try to understand what makes people commit crimes.
And in this case in particular, when it comes to cults,
one of the things that interested me the most when I first started the case
was the motive.
The motive was to save the world.
That's when you say, "This is delirium, a story I should look into."
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHERN CHILE
I'd never been as happy in my life
as when I joined the cult.
FORMER MEMBER OF THE COLLIGUAY CULT
It was a group of people who had awakened
to serve this higher good.
To serve the light, love, to cleanse the whole world.
They took me in. They accepted me for who I was.
And I'd never belonged to anything before.
HEADQUARTERS INVESTIGATIONS POLICE OF CHILE
I remember that in December,
they came to the brigade.
DEPUTY CHIEF SPECIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION BRIGADE (BIPE) 2009-2014
They were family members of a woman
who started saying that their sister belonged to a cult.
The Cult Act, specifically in Chile,
says that no one can be discriminated against
due to their religious beliefs.
- Here! - Back there.
Since there are no restrictions,
investigating a cult is more complicated.
Keep looking!
Go on!
Hey, buddy!
Royal! Let's take a look.
It was a new crime for all the detectives working in that unit.
We didn't have the know-how. We didn't know how to investigate a cult.
What allowed us to investigate the Colliguay cult
was the ayahuasca trafficked from Peru to Chile.
Then everything changed when we found out there'd been a murder.
Tests were carried out confirming human bones.
I see. Positive?
We'll wait for the DA and begin due diligence.
A horrific homicide.
In April 2013,
I got a call from the Santiago Metropolitan Prosecutor,
notifying me of a big case that was going to be transferred
to the Quilpué Prosecutor's Office.
I was told I'd get more information from the police leading the case,
which was the Investigations Police.
Santiago Police had started the investigation in late 2012.
They had determined there were human remains
in Colliguay that pretty much matched
the primary information we had about that cult.
The prosecutor immediately granted us an arrest warrant
for the members of the Colliguay cult.
This case has affected me the most in terms of
human brutality.
Do you regret it?
Do you regret belonging to a cult?
It was a challenge for us.
How do we deal with something unprecedented?
In particular, it was up to me to interview the youngsters.
And it was truly very complex.
THE TESTIMONIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE TRIAL
WERE RECREATED USING OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS FROM THE CASE.
SOME STATEMENTS WERE SIMPLIFIED FOR CLARITY.
David Pastén Rojas.
FORMER MEMBER OF THE COLLIGUAY CULT
These people had spent years
as victims dominated by Antares.
Carolina Vargas San Martín, 15...
And this subjugation then turns into threats...
Pablo Undurraga Atria.
...that create the fear that keeps them together.
Josefina Isabel López Núñez.
Natalia Guerra Jequier.
FORMER MEMBER OF THE COLLIGUAY CULT
María del Pilar Álvarez Fuenzalida.
In particular, Pablo Undurraga,
second in charge of this cult group...
Karla Franchy Arana.
...was the most scared of all.
I was a very solitary guy.
And all of a sudden, I found myself with a family,
instantly,
with people who loved me and wanted me there.
Pablo was a very happy kid,
very connected to nature.
He was really happy until he started school...
PABLO UNDURRAGA'S FATHER
...third or fourth grade.
Pablo had a fatal combination of traits in elementary school.
He was small, had braces and glasses, and didn't like soccer.
I mean, come on. He was the perfect target for bullies.
I spent my days drawing. I liked studying.
I got good grades.
Fuck, I was an easy target, man.
I thought it was unfair.
It made me so angry. I didn't understand why I was bullied.
I didn't know then what I know now.
I was really upset, frustrated,
with a lot of emotions I didn't know how to handle.
By the time I was about 18, I was depressed, you know?
Eventually, toward the end of high school,
I stopped trying to fit in at school and began looking for friends elsewhere.
I couldn't wait to leave school.
And when I finally did, I went to college.
I discovered music.
I sang in a band.
I realized, "Wow, music is good for me." I fell in love with it.
Little by little, I started to have more normal relationships.
I started dating.
I began to have true friends.
Until finally, I met the mother of my oldest son.
He is now 16 years old.
I found out I was going to be a dad at 23
and became a dad at 24.
People think that being 24 means you are an adult.
My ID said I was an adult.
But emotionally, I was not.
I looked at myself and said, "You know what? I'm a mess."
"I have to sort myself out."
"I want to be good for my son,
and I want the world to be good for my son," you know?
Climate change, deforestation,
accelerated population growth...
Two hundred fourteen people were arrested...
...troops ordered to be ready.
Is that the World Trade Center?
They say a plane crashed!
I started to believe in everything that was offered to me.
I did Reiki, I began going to temascals, I started reading Buddhism,
anything that wasn't Catholic.
And one day, my Reiki master said, "I've got the perfect workshop for you."
"In fact, it's pretty close to your house."
So I went, not knowing what it was, and I met Antares.
Before he was Antares de la Luz,
his name was Ramón Castillo Gaete.
A working-class kid from Peñalolén who played ball,
had friends in the neighborhood, rode a bike,
tutored kids in a town in Lo Hermida,
and was committed to political and social causes.
A youngster who studied music.
He loved Andean music.
He was in a band called Amaru.
And he was a pretty good musician.
He was excellent at the clarinet, the saxophone, and the charango.
I really admired that Ramón in Antares.
He had the ability to tune into other people's needs and help them.
FORMER ANTARES FOLLOWER
From a very young age, Ramón Castillo Gaete
began experiencing body pain.
The pain left him immobile, made him suffer a lot,
and kept him awake at night.
He told me the pain was so bad he'd rather be dead.
He said he was going to take ayahuasca
because he'd taken it once, two years before, and it had helped.
I mean, it was two or three hours that he didn't feel any pain.
And to him, that was incredible.
Ramón Castillo turned up at my house once, like many other people.
SHAMAN
Back then, I'd hold weekly ceremonies at my place.
He came to my house looking for medicine, as many others did.
We held a ceremony.
Ramón was here,
the master of ceremonies there.
I shut my eyes.
And from where I knew Ramón was sitting,
I began to feel a lot of light.
There are thousands of plants in the jungle.
Each plant has medicine.
Each plant has a spirit.
And ayahuasca is like a synthesis of that entire world,
having a little bit of each of those plants out there.
In a way, they are incorporated into two plants,
chacruna and ayahuasca.
And how you cook them is the trick to attaining wisdom.
It has a lot of purposes,
but healing is the main one, along with awareness.
After taking the medicine a few times,
he said he didn't feel comfortable with us calling him Ramón.
He preferred we call him Antares.
Look, ayahuasca can evidently help you in many ways,
but a very direct way is making you aware of yourself.
Ramón Castillo called himself Antares de la Luz
in reference to the brightest star of the Scorpio constellation.
He and his partner at the time and a friend,
who we could say were his first followers,
went to a gathering called Rainbow.
And there, he met people who were on a similar journey.
I was super open...
FORMER ANTARES DE LA LUZ FOLLOWER
...super receptive.
Of course, with what I was experiencing, I saw three beings.
One was Ramón, with a really long beard,
sitting on a rock in the middle of the river.
They said, "Sit with us and meditate."
"I'll teach you meditation."
He teaches me meditation,
and it was like, "Wow, what the heck?"
"What's this I'm feeling?"
It was the second time he'd visited the Rainbow Community.
And, well, he came with two people.
FORMER ANTARES DE LA LUZ FOLLOWER
And he began creating this group that meditated with him.
I remember there was a river there, a big river.
One day, I was walking along the river, and I saw them all meditating.
I walked over.
And that was the key moment where we all felt closeness.
I felt something inside me, something that you can't understand.
Antares de la Luz was a magnetic guy.
And his magnetism was due to several reasons.
First and foremost, his appearance. He was pretty tall.
He had an imposing build.
His presence was impressive.
He was very different from the rest.
With the voice of a master, the stance of a master,
the beard of a master,
the bald head of a master.
His confidence
in the philosophy he was into gave you that same confidence.
I was in love with him.
I wasn't with him because he asked me to be,
but because I felt so much love.
Antares came with other people who also had powers,
people who were already more advanced.
They were like "superiors."
My Reiki master was there, and also another Reiki master.
There were these guys that I felt were heavyweights, you know?
And they all looked up to Antares with great reverence.
He was 100% the incarnation of my idea of a master.
He had a lot of knowledge that he'd studied and memorized.
And he'd turned that into a pastiche or spiritual collage.
He talked a lot about Carlos Castaneda,
the Mayan prophecy...
FORMER ANTARES DE LA LUZ FOLLOWER
...and about Viracocha.
Any question that you, as an attendee at a seminar, might ask
was met by a very attractive person.
And the answer would always be a certain quote.
It would always have some kind of special content
and a source of information.
Carlos Castaneda.
The Teachings of Don Juan,
an icon during the hippy era
in the United States.
Carlos Castaneda was a guru of US counterculture.
He was a source of inspiration for cinema directors, writers, musicians.
He was very influential at that time.
CARLOS CASTANEDA'S VOICE
Ramón, just like any other human being, read and kept reading.
And Ramón says that his purpose in life...
was helping people.
JANUARY 2009
Five minutes after starting the workshop, I was totally into it.
Those were the tools I was looking for.
It was an awakening of your inner self,
the Activation of Chakras and Inner Self Workshop.
He made you sit down in lotus position
and gave you a guided meditation.
We had to imagine walking down some stairs and reaching a door.
Imagine a descending stairway.
We reach a door.
I'm going to put a box on your left-hand side.
"In that box, there is a golden key. Pick up the key."
"Use the key to get to a door at the bottom of that staircase."
Open the door.
Go in.
"You're now in a space, the space where your inner self lives."
Try to hug your inner self.
I felt as though I was hugging a body
and was flooded with a sense of liberation.
He always insinuated
that the answer to all questions was in working with your inner self.
And being able to reach those answers depended on how disciplined you were,
on how willing you really were to find the truth.
I felt as though I was on the brink of true knowledge.
Profound truths, deep truths.
Answers to existence.
I thought, "This may be the answer to why I've been depressed for so long."
I began to feel better.
I'd been dating Pablo Undurraga for a year.
EXCERPTS FROM INVESTIGATION FILE
That relationship was pure torture.
I hated the fact that he smoked marijuana.
We broke up and were separated for three months.
I started hanging out with Pablo again,
and he told me that he'd been to a self-healing seminar
that had really helped him, and he no longer felt stressed.
PABLO'S APARTMENT
In a way, Pablo was a magnet or a nexus
among his friends or loved ones to join the cult.
He invited David Pastén to live at his home,
an apartment he had on Los Militares street.
I saw huge changes in his behavior.
EXCERPTS FROM INVESTIGATION FILE
I mean, I witnessed how much he admired Antares.
David Pastén introduced him to his girlfriend, Pilar.
This formed a group of people surrounding him
who were all Pablo's friends.
My life was improving, you know?
I wanted my best friend to benefit from it too,
for my girlfriend and everyone to find this tool that was real.
Pablo has this awakening process
and becomes one of the most disciplined soldiers.
The awakening was a turning point.
It was the point when someone really joined the group.
The awakening is the moment you find out that Antares is
the incarnation of God.
That Antares's inner self is God.
JUNE 2009
He brought us all together at one point.
There were about ten of us doing the meditation sessions.
He told us he had some news, something he wanted us to see.
I remember we started to drink some ayahuasca, just a little.
And we meditated.
Just before the workshop, Antares told me, "Sit in the back."
"Just take the energy you know I'm going to channel to you,
and today, your inner self will tell you its name."
I go to my inner self.
Everyone is doing the exercise, and Antares walks across the room.
My eyes are closed, and Antares tells me,
"Now ask him who I am."
I remember seeing a huge being
kind of emanating energy in the room.
And when he said,
"Do you know who I am?"
it was like... we all wanted to tell him, but nobody wanted to say it.
Something split open in my mind.
And I began to see a lot of consecutive visions,
each of them very intense.
They were like two or three-second flashes of certain times,
with different clothes, ages, and scenarios.
I saw many suicides.
I saw lots of feelings,
as if my neck broke, as if my arms broke,
and a lot of anguish and sorrow.
A lot of pain, a lot of shame.
And after all this kind of cascade of images,
I finally see some sort of biblical scene.
There was a crowd of people.
At the center of this crowd was someone with their back to me.
And this person was glowing.
That person turned around,
and he had Antares's face.
His posture was everything that I associated with the image of Jesus.
The workshop ended,
and Antares said to me, "So, what did your inner self tell you?"
I said, "It showed me a lot. I'm processing it. Tell you later."
I'd agreed to drive Antares back to the house he was staying at.
I was quiet all the way.
I walked him to the doorway, and he said, "Now."
And I asked, "Hey, Antares, are you Jesus?"
His face changed. His expression changed.
He turned very serious, very stern, and said,
"Pablo, sit down and tell me what you saw."
I told him everything I just told you.
"The truth is, yes, I am Jesus."
"But I am Jesus
in the sense that Jesus was an incarnation of God."
"The thing is, Pablo, I am God."
"Do you have any doubt that I am God?"
"No. I just saw you are God."
"So it seems to me I know you are God."
And, fuck, I burst into tears.
Antares tells me, "Pablo, don't worry."
"This thing that just happened to you is your awakening."
"You just awoke to the truth of what is going on."
"I have incarnated many times."
"The purpose of some of those incarnations has been to teach."
"When I was Jesus, I came to teach."
"When I was Buddha, when I was Krishna, I came to teach."
"In this incarnation, I didn't come to teach."
"In this incarnation, I came to defeat darkness."
In the years prior to 2012,
information began to circulate through social media, through Google,
through unofficial channels, let's say,
that the end of the world was near.
According to the ancient Mayan calendar,
December 21st, 2012 will be the end of the world.
December 2012,
the day of no dawn.
Will the world end like the ancient cultures foreshadowed?
He began to reveal this context.
The real context, the context
in which I had been called to help.
There was a battle between light and darkness,
and this battle was near its end.
And that end was December 21st, 2012.
Imagine a person whose self-esteem has been so badly eroded,
then this guru suddenly comes along and says,
"You will save the world."
I decided to believe him.
I thought I saw it, and then I decided to act on it.
So they probably thought that they'd seen it as well.
Some earlier, others later,
decided that they had to follow him.
When I awakened, Antares told me,
"You just joined the most exclusive club in the world."
"Be prepared because this club isn't about having fun."
"It's about hard work."
His tone changed.
He went from being this very parsimonious, focused, and soft-spoken master
to speaking very harshly.
"The first thing you need to know is that I'm not here to ask for favors."
"I give orders."
Well, the guy speaking to me was God. So I said, "Sure, give me orders."
I received a lot of orders in the first two months,
but small orders, you know?
Always very close to the limit of what someone is able to sacrifice.
For instance,
"I want you to delete all of your photos."
Photos with,
I don't know, my son's birth, my son's childhood.
You know, my photos.
I had a small room in my apartment where my son stayed.
He lived with me half the time.
And Antares says, "Pablo, I'm moving in with you."
"Shit, Master Antares, I humbly understand that you need somewhere to live,
but I have a responsibility to my son."
"And I think I have this son for a reason. I believe that..."
"Who the hell do you think you're talking to?"
"I'm not asking for some kind of bullshit."
"I'm giving you an order."
"I'm informing you that I'm going to live in that room."
"Remember, you are talking to God. Mind your place."
There had been no physical violence up till then.
But there was a lot of rage on his part.
A lot of exhaustion.
Like a challenge.
It was always like Ramón was,
not punishing me, but rather challenging me.
As in, "You're not focused. You're not meditating."
Deep down, Antares basically wanted no one to question him.
They were to follow his instructions with the discipline he demanded,
surrendering to him all of their material possessions,
all that was dear to them,
and suppress their emotions.
Antares was our leader, our teacher, our spiritual guide.
We were considered warriors
who had to fight our selves to suppress our egos.
Therefore, we had to do whatever he ordered,
even if we didn't want to.
There was this whole protocol around living with him.
You couldn't talk directly to his face. You couldn't touch him.
We had to read all of Carlos Castaneda's books,
read certain parts of the Bible,
and stay away from people who were "asleep."
We had to get rid of as many material possessions as possible.
We had to shave our heads
because hair accumulates negative energy.
We could only wear colorful clothes, nothing black.
I was forbidden to whistle.
I was never allowed to whistle or sing again.
I obviously couldn't write music. It was, "What the hell? You're recording?"
"You should be focusing on helping me save the world."
He was building a path of warriors.
And each warrior had to become more and more impeccable and relentless.
According to Castaneda's books,
a warrior was an extremely powerful being.
They were extremely powerful because they had no ego,
because they had no attachments,
because they had no superfluous earthly emotions.
They didn't self-sabotage based on a morality constructed by society.
Once an action was decided,
we stopped questioning whether it should be done or not.
Fuck, he was a beast.
There are three types of beings: pure, impure, and dark.
Pure beings had always been in the light.
Impure beings had committed crimes against the universal laws
dictated by God during creation.
And dark beings were beings created by Lucifer, the Devil,
to go into an astral war.
He said that the mom of one of the girls had a dark inner self.
I could see inside her eyes were other, different eyes. Metallic.
I'd be talking with this person,
and at the same time, inside of me,
I was wrapping myself with my wings, blocking attacks.
And I saw serpents of black energy coming from her.
I pulled them out and shooed them away.
Then I felt something sticking to me.
The conversation was casual, and I...
So it was a state of absolute war, constant war, you know?
Antares, at one point,
after taking ayahuasca,
he sees Pablo's cat and says she's cursed.
We were living at the apartment, and my cat got pregnant.
So, Antares got really intense
and said, "Man, you think this is a game?"
"Who are the inner beings of those kittens that are coming here?"
"Because this could easily be an attack by Lucifer."
"The inner self of the cat that impregnated Witch,
that cat's inner being could be Lucifer,
with the intention of bringing the main five dark beings
to my house to attack me."
"So, let's see what these kittens are, Pablo."
So he put my cat inside a Tupperware box.
Just as he put her in there,
I saw some kind of cloud of black energy emanate from my cat.
I thought, "This shit is real!" Her hair bristled while she shrunk.
She got furious.
He took me near the San Carlos Canal.
He got out of the car,
went to a bridge, and threw the Tupperware with my cat into the river.
That was the first time we had to kill a dark being.
In March 2010,
we decided to change our place of residence and move to Olmué.
So we moved from the city where my family lived
and went to live away from the city.
The explanation Antares gave us to move away was that houses have power.
Therefore, the house we rented in Olmué had more power than our former apartment.
That's when I was told that they wanted to set up a healing center in Olmué.
In fact, that's when they asked me
if I could lend them the money to pay a full year's rent
because it'd be cheaper.
One of the things that was part of the path of the warrior
was the art of stalking,
which is basically a strategic lie to achieve a greater good.
They presented me with a business plan, brilliantly thought out.
It was a ruse.
In line with the obligation of reading Castaneda's books,
we had to learn the art of stalking.
We had to "stalk" everyone who was "asleep."
Like Neo in The Matrix,
we couldn't tell the truth to whoever was "asleep."
How could we tell the truth? They'd never understand.
The best thing we could do for them to awaken eventually
was to trick them for their own good.
And they paid me punctually because that was part of the plan.
When we started living together in that house,
we considered ourselves to be a community.
We devoted our time to forming the Calypso Production Company
in the audiovisual field.
We sold sushi and organized self-healing seminars.
In the end, we were six or seven people,
all working to meet Antares's needs.
And Antares was not a particularly hard worker.
Quite the contrary.
They had to tend to him.
Pablo had to take him out for walks.
He had to have massages all the time.
Antares never swept a floor, never picked up a broom.
Antares never worked.
His job was to save humanity.
And he had the task of taking on this darkness.
His job was bearing the pain of carrying this darkness inside of him.
His job was to survive.
His job was not to die.
Such was their belief in the story that they believed anything.
For six, seven, eight months,
I had believed I had to do everything Antares said.
It's as if... I'd lost my will.
As if I didn't need to think because someone else told me what to do.
And you'd say, "What's my little brain for?"
"What's my heart for?"
"What's my will for?"
"Why am I free if God tells me everything I have to do?"
FEBRUARY 2011
Pablo called me and said,
"In a ceremony,
he has to hit you three times on a chakra."
"That will make you heal so much."
First, we shaved our heads.
And he said, "Take your clothes off."
So we took off our clothes.
And then, they gave us
three blows on the first chakra, here.
Three blows with a stick.
It obviously hurt.
More than fear, I felt guilt
because I felt I never did enough to help Ramón.
It had the opposite results.
Instead of going back to how he was before,
his distortion of reality magnified.
I'd think, "Wow, it's so crazy someone could believe him in that state."
OCTOBER 2011
One day, he ordered me not to ever see my son again.
"No more son in your life."
"I'm so sorry. I know how much you love him."
"But there's only a year left till 2012."
"And your mission
as a servant of this crucial mission
requires your undivided attention."
"You're wasting too much energy on your son. So, I'm sorry."
"I know it'll hurt."
"But... you'll have to find a way to trick your son's mom."
"Give her some excuse...
to make it permanent."
"You must remove your son from your life."
"He can't turn up here anymore."
The kid was a sweetheart.
Pablo came by a lot.
Pablo saw him every fortnight.
He'd take him to Olmué.
Now, had I known what was going on in Olmué,
my hair would've been on end, but I didn't know.
There are no words to describe such a degree of sorrow.
I think anyone with kids
would empathize with that.
It destroyed me. It completely destroyed me.
I'd always wanted to be a dad.
And despite the fact that I was an idiot and had a load of problems,
it was important for me to be a dad.
I was in a constant state of religious ecstasy,
of absolute pain.
But it's the pain of a martyr.
"Damn, I lost it all, everything hurts,
but think of the long-term benefit." You know?
So, in a weird way,
it was one of the moments I was the happiest.
Moments I cried out of happiness.
Antares decided to move again.
This time, they had to rent a house in Mantagua.
There, they held healing seminars.
Lots of people went,
but only a handful of them, the ones chosen by Antares,
were allowed to spend time intimately with the group.
They were the only ones who could go in and out of the house.
There were moments of happiness when they felt true ecstasy.
There are love stories embedded there.
Because Pablo was with Natalia, David was with Pilar.
Therefore, there was a trend of love relationships that were there.
It was like an adventure,
a spiritual journey started as a couple.
But Antares started to take control even of those relationships.
During that time, I ended my relationship with Pablo
because Antares told Pablo that he had to give Carolina therapy.
And he fell in love with Carolina.
Antares ordered him to be with her because she was his soul mate.
With regard to the relationships,
Antares hooked up and broke up relationships as he saw fit
or to get rid of something that was distracting his servants.
One of the activities carried out within the community
was known as "taking,"
where Antares would take ayahuasca.
After taking ayahuasca, Antares is ordered by his inner self
to make Natalia his woman.
Ramón told me I had to be his woman,
which meant that we had to be in a relationship
and that the order was a revelation from his inner self.
That this was inevitable, that he was God.
He made me take ayahuasca for three nights.
The first two nights, I told him I didn't want to be with him.
But the third night, Antares said that if I didn't obey the order,
his inner self would burn me alive on Judgment Day.
DECEMBER 2011
And suddenly...
things started to get out of hand.
That's when this girl, Natalia Guerra, gets pregnant.
Here's where I think things start to get out of hand.
Here's where it starts to take a tortuous turn,
the story.
Antares said he couldn't impregnate women
because his mission in this incarnation wasn't to have kids.
His mission was to save the world.
Natalia got pregnant.
So we were all, "Hey, what the hell? You said you couldn't have kids."
Antares said, "I don't know what's going on. I should take ayahuasca."
"Because I've known this wasn't supposed to happen for a long time."
"So until I know whether this baby is dark or light,
I can't have Natalia here pregnant under the same roof."
"Because if the inner being is dark,
and it attacks me at night, it'll ruin everything."
"We need to get Natalia her own house so she can be pregnant elsewhere."
What Natalia had to do was go through a pregnancy,
a pregnancy she didn't want.
In addition,
she had to sustain a constant lie with her family.
JUNE 2012
He told me to come up with a story to tell my parents,
because nobody could know that I was pregnant.
And the story was that I was going to travel around Latin America.
Antares takes ayahuasca, and he says he found out
that the child's inner self
was Lucifer.
He said that, as a human,
he could give life to Lucifer at any point.
It would be like the climax of the salvation of Earth.
Because if he gave life to Lucifer,
he was going to have to kill him.
There always comes a time, which for me is the most magical,
when you find that person
who can show you the big picture.
And in the case of this particular story,
it was an anonymous woman.
She is the protected witness.
She went to file a complaint while the cult was still operating.
LOS ANDES HOUSE - 2012
She couldn't handle that situation anymore.
It was too stressful, too dangerous. So she left.
But she left knowing that Natalia was pregnant,
knowing that Antares killed puppies.
She left knowing how intense and crazy everything was.
She went to a police station to tell her story.
What she wanted was to warn the police that serious things could happen here.
The sisters of María del Pilar
went to the Metropolitan Special Investigations Brigade
together with the protected witness, who, on that occasion,
told us about the cult.
The information the witness gave us was clear.
It was urgent we found out what had happened to that child and Natalia.
When they arrived,
Antares told her, "My love, you have to be strong."
"All of this is your karma."
"You can do this."
"I understand everything now. Now I know how I'll heal the world."
"This child could be Lucifer."
"At last, I trapped him in you."
Trying to create
trusting and collaborative relationships with the families of the members,
we managed to talk to Natalia's mother.
What she knew at that point was that her daughter was abroad.
We told her that wasn't the case
and that it was highly probable that something had happened to Natalia.
NOVEMBER 2012
A month before the birth of Jesús,
he said, "I just saw everything. Everything's fine."
"Jesús will be born exactly on December 18th,
after a ten-month pregnancy."
"What do you mean ten months?"
"It's my child, it's a miracle. It'll be born one month late."
And his inner self had instructed him
to go south to rest before the last battle against darkness in Colliguay.
So we had to take him on holiday to Icalma.
And we had to rent him a cabin there for a week.
Every time I asked Antares
what we were going to do if Natalia had the baby before December,
he scolded me.
But in November, Natalia had already gone into labor.
"I'm screwed."
"It can't be. My inner self showed me."
"This means that what I saw wasn't him. It was shown to me by the darkness."
"It was an attack. We must figure out what to do."
"Grab our stuff. We're leaving in an hour."
And the next day, an endless marathon began.
I had to drive around 1,400 kilometers
so that Antares could take ayahuasca.
After driving all those kilometers,
I had to take ayahuasca all night.
Meanwhile, Natalia was in labor.
I was in labor for three days.
Antares came with ayahuasca.
He told me it couldn't be born there, but rather in a powerful place.
And that place was Colliguay.
Places were really important for Antares.
He believed some places had power.
The hill in Colliguay, that shack in Colliguay,
was the place where he had received his awakening, his illumination,
where he had proclaimed himself a master.
The baby had to be born in that shack.
I own the Colliguay farm.
I was introduced to this guy.
A guy with light eyes...
OWNER OF COLLIGUAY HOUSE ESTATE
...very nice, whose name was Ramón,
and he was a music teacher.
He asked for my permission to come once a year,
saying my house was beautiful and emanated beautiful energy.
And I let him come once a year
to stay there.
It was around 11:00 p.m.
The place was dark.
We got to the adobe house,
where the conditions weren't adequate
for any kind of birth.
There was no water, no electricity either.
It was just Natalia and me inside the house.
Antares had ordered
that Natalia had to be dressed in a Calypso tunic
that covered her whole body except her eyes.
We had to try to tend to a natural childbirth
under an absurd level of stress.
A mom is obviously not going to relax having a baby that way.
Antares shouted at Carolina to take it out of me quick,
saying it was attacking him hard
and that it had two heads.
Antares put Caro in charge of having a contingency plan
for C-sections.
I said no.
I didn't have anything to do a C-section with.
Antares insisted I cut her belly,
saying that if I didn't do it, he would.
Natalia was about to pass out from the pain.
She was very weak.
Her pulse was very low.
So I told Antares, using his language,
that if I did what he was ordering me to do,
I would kill a light being.
That was like a bucket of cold water for Antares.
And he said, "No!"
"There's no way that bastard will make me kill one of my light beings."
"We'll save Natalia. I'll protect her."
So we headed for the clinic in Reñaca, about two and a half hours away.
We were in Colliguay,
about 15 kilometers along a dirt track to the next highway, and then...
It was far. We were in the middle of nowhere.
I was not doing well.
Antares shouted at me that I had to fight.
That a warrior is always above her limits.
And that I was an impeccable warrior,
the only one that had been saved, and that my inner self was now pure.
He said my inner self was now pure, and if I died, he'd resuscitate me.
We had to come up with a story about why we were there
with a woman in labor
who had never been to checkups or seen a doctor.
We kind of came up with this story
that we'd found this girl walking in the middle of nowhere.
And that she'd come from this group of hippies
that had attempted a natural birth, and the midwife didn't turn up.
We said something had happened, and we picked her up and rescued her.
We were somewhere on the road that led to the clinic.
Antares got off the truck and hid.
Pablo took us to the Reñaca Clinic ER and drove off.
Natalia was only wearing the Calypso tunic.
No underwear, barefoot,
covered in dirt, mud, and blood.
And I was in a similar condition.
But all this didn't attract any attention.
I only had one thought.
I hoped they'd call the police so I could tell them everything.
That could have been the moment this whole thing ended.
But no, the story worked.
She gave birth at 6:31 in the morning.
He was more than three kilos and healthy.
She named him Jesús because that's what Antares had said.
They gave him to me the next day.
At around 3:30 p.m.
It was super nice because
I breastfed him, and it was
an amazing feeling.
I had extremely mixed feelings.
Maternal instincts are very strong.
NOVEMBER 21ST, 2012
And when they left the clinic,
Natalia wanted to have minimum contact with this baby
because...
she was in warrior mode.
At the house in Mantagua, Antares shaved my head
and washed me with cold water.
He took me to the living room and made me listen to a song.
He told me that his inner self had told him what he had to do.
I said I didn't care.
He said, "Dear child,
we're gonna be okay."
"We'll be in the light, and we'll all be free."
He kept talking to himself, cursing the whole time.
"Fuck, you won't defeat me."
"I know how I can beat you."
It was like he was talking to Lucifer,
to Lucifer's being.
Carolina locked herself in.
Around 3:00 p.m., he told us we had to go to Colliguay.
Josefina and Pablo were waiting for us, ready to light the fire when we got there.
There was an old latrine,
a one-by-one-meter hole that was maybe two meters deep.
Antares made a fire in that hole.
So, at around 11:00 p.m.,
he made us get in the truck,
I remember it was Carla's truck, to go deep into the farm.
Pablo was driving.
I was in the back with Carolina and Pilar.
And in the front seat
were Natalia and the baby.
We had to stay in the truck with Natalia at one point while he lit the fire.
I was upset and could hear Antares's voice in the background.
I couldn't hear what he was saying, but I could hear his voice.
I felt the crackling of the fire and could see
its glow from afar.
Then Pablo got out and said,
"Look, these are the orders."
"You've got to take Jesús's clothes off,
tie his feet and hands together,
put a sock in his mouth, and cover his eyes with tape."
We had to take Jesús about halfway between the truck and the fire.
And there...
Antares took the baby from me,
and Pablo took me as far as he could.
I think that the second Antares took his son,
what was gonna happen finally dawned on us.
Antares went there
to kill his son.
NOVEMBER 23RD, 2012
At that point, it was too late to stop him.
The people we were back then weren't capable of stopping him.
And halfway back to the truck, Natalia burst into tears.
When we reached the truck,
I also burst into tears.
I was crying. I couldn't stop crying.
It was as if a bomb had gone off close by and we were both disoriented.
We didn't really know where we were.
I looked straight ahead of the truck,
and Antares showed up in front of its lights with two oven gloves.
He ordered me to feed the fire and keep it burning.
I got to the fire about a minute after he had thrown his son in.
There was no sound coming from it.
I've always thought that
he must have killed him before throwing him in.
Plus, he'd told us that morning
to get him the sharpest knife we had.
I went to Antares to find out what had happened.
He said that he didn't want to see me.
Natalia was badly shaken.
I knew how much she wanted to have children.
Antares asked Natalia and Josefina to cook.
Some ate, others didn't.
Antares kept saying that the world was starting to cleanse from darkness
and that now he knew why the baby had been born before the right time.
Then he told us to sort out our sleeping arrangements.
We were a tent short.
So I asked Antares if I could sleep in the truck.
In the truck, I burst into tears because
I saw some of the baby's clothes.
I broke down.
Something I probably couldn't have done in the tents
without being scolded.
I felt so much sorrow, so much pain.
But I couldn't show it because that's self-pity,
and self-pity is ego, something that I couldn't show.
We woke up the next day, and Antares said,
"You have to go to Viña to buy wood to make some furniture."
Not a word was said about it.
Nothing.
I mean, the area where the fire had been burning,
we didn't even get close.
With that warrior attitude,
"Come on. It's 21 days until the end of the world."
"We're gonna be free."
"All of this will end."
You'd think the group would have changed after that night,
becoming divided or split up,
but it was quite the opposite.
Everyone became hyper-disciplined and entered into warrior mode
as if what had happened had been just another battle in the war.
An intense battle, a hard battle, but one more battle in the war.
One more to add to the dozens that we'd fought in the last year.
What happened?
What transformed...
What transformed the mind
of Ramón, or Antares de la Luz,
that made him think...
that sacrificing a three-day-old baby would solve the world's problems?
There were five days left in November,
and Antares's inner self's orders
were that on December 1st, we had to start living there
and be there 21 days until the end.
There were five days left to get the house ready
for those 21 days of taking ayahuasca.
If it's possible to say this, Antares unleashed even more.
Antares ordered me and Carolina to be with him.
A situation that had a negative effect on Carolina.
This triggered a massive punishment
in which Antares ordered
the most severe beating I've ever witnessed in my life.
We had to stand there naked
and be beaten.
And he started with Caro.
My girl was a tiny woman.
She's skinny.
This son of a bitch was as tall as me, 1.85 meters.
And the motherfucker slashed her back open, man.
He broke one hand.
Her body's reaction was to put a hand behind her.
So he hit her wrist full-on and broke her wrist.
That fracture went unattended for a month.
He hit Caro 11 times.
Then it was my turn.
On the sixth or maybe eighth lashing,
my vision was closing in, and then it went black.
Fuck, I started to black out, and I passed out, man.
He said, "Asshole, get up! We're not finished."
And I went, "Yes, sorry," while I slapped myself, "Stay awake."
So I took the 20 remaining lashes.
And I thanked him.
And I went and sat down.
He made us get dressed. We were all naked.
When I told Antares he had broken my hand,
he said, "Dear girl, it's your karma."
"Can't you see you're crazy?"
And I said, "Yes."
I was sure he could kill me.
You'd say, "Why didn't they escape if these terrible things were happening?"
Well, they were absolutely convinced that they were God's soldiers,
that the world was ending,
and that this was the last step they had to take.
We were preparing for the end of the world.
Antares started taking ayahuasca on the first day of December 2012.
Every night.
Which would bring enlightenment
on December 21st, that day.
The rest of the community, including myself,
began taking ayahuasca
from December 11th to the 21st, 2012.
All the ayahuasca sessions and all those days were endless battles,
with many angels, wings, swords, demons,
battlefields with screaming, with blood, with hell,
with light, with hope, with...
madness, pure madness.
They were the last days of the world.
To me, there was no December 22nd, 2012.
Anyway, on the last day, the hours went by.
No one had...
No one was looking at the clock because...
I mean, no one checks what time it is when Judgment Day is coming.
It happens when it happens.
But time went by, and nothing happened. Nothing.
We were all quiet.
And all of a sudden,
Antares says...
He bursts out laughing and says,
"Stupid idiots, you thought after four years of hard work,
you'd ascend and reach freedom."
"Man, you're so naive."
"That's not the way it works. Things don't change straight away."
"And my inner self just explained to me that freedom
won't come right now."
"It takes three more months, and it'll be in Ecuador."
And he acted as if it was okay.
He acted like it was all a big joke.
That was it.
We finished taking ayahuasca and went to bed.
The next day, I saw that it was December 22nd, 2012,
and that date was never meant to exist.
That's what finally created a split in the group.
It was like my brain was saying, "Dude, my contract was till December 21st, 2012."
"It's the 22nd."
Some of us asked ourselves, "Shit, what do we do?"
"I mean, the world didn't come to an end."
We were all deep in debt.
We had to keep living, and there was no cash.
On that date that didn't exist, December 23rd,
we had told our families we'd spend Christmas with them.
It was all a lie, you know?
I'd told my family we'd spend Christmas with them, me and my girlfriend Caro.
I told Pablo I couldn't take it anymore,
living with Antares.
That if he ordered stuff like me being his woman again,
I'd kill myself.
And Caro tells me,
"The fucker always talks about Jesus and the apostles,
and that we must sacrifice ourselves like the apostles."
"But you know? The apostles were with Jesus out of love."
"Right now, I'm here out of fear."
And wow.
That added to the doubts that I felt inside me.
"If we want to go, we can't go and live in Santiago."
"We've gotta scram."
"We've gotta hide in the south, in the middle of nowhere,
because the fucker will find us and kill us."
When Pablo and Carolina escape south, they're in a total state of paranoia.
We hid in my stepmom's house for a week.
From there, we emailed each of the members,
saying that we weren't going back
and letting Antares know that
we still believed in him but weren't doing it anymore.
And Natalia calls me and says, "I'm screwed."
"I'm with the Investigations Police. They know everything."
INVESTIGATIONS POLICE OF CHILE
Then Natalia emailed me at the secret address I'd given her.
"Pablo. I've got a problem."
"Fuck, the PDI came. They're talking to my family."
"They're talking, asking where the baby is."
"They're asking what's going on, what this is."
And she said, "They're asking about a cult."
And I said, "Dude, a cult
is a bunch of satanic motherfuckers that wear black hoods,
worship the devil, and do mass suicides."
"We're not a cult."
So, I search "cult" on Google.
And I start reading.
It was 100% my life over the last four years.
I was in a cult.
Fuck, I was in shock.
It was all a fucking lie, man.
That baby wasn't Lucifer. It was just a baby.
All this changes
when they learn
that there'd been...
That a baby was murdered.
On February 19th, Antares left Chile...
FORENSIC REPORT STOCK PHOTOGRAPHS
...because Natalia Guerra told them they were under investigation by the PDI.
AIRPORT
FEBRUARY 19TH, 2013
Antares had no choice,
knowing that they'd all talk about what happened to that baby.
He had to escape to Perú.
They realized they each shared responsibility for what happened,
at least those who were there the night of the crime.
Natalia went to make a statement before the others.
She was in a state of paranoia
and wanted to speak before someone else did
because another cult member
could attribute a certain amount of responsibility to her.
I got to the office where Natalia was with the other detectives,
and I asked her if they actually burned the baby.
She replied, "Yes."
But I saw no regret,
nothing to make me believe
there was actually...
Because there were no tears, nothing.
The next day, when we took her to Colliguay,
we saw the hole where they burned the baby.
She broke down and cried her eyes out.
There was no consoling her.
It was as if they'd thrown a bucket of cold water at me.
They said, "This happened on your farm."
As simple as that.
They took me to the hospital. I had a heart attack.
Here it is.
- Is it? - Yeah.
Then leave it there.
The biggest piece of evidence we were able to gather at the scene
was a bone fragment.
The left ilium bone from the baby's hip.
On November 23rd,
Pablo and Carolina took the baby to Reñaca Clinic
for a test to rule out genetic disorders,
which is mandatory for newborns in Chile.
Five drops of blood were drawn from him.
And those five drops of blood
were key to determine what had happened to Jesús
and to know if that baby's DNA
matched Antares's and Natalia's.
Thanks to that,
we managed to obtain all the respective arrest warrants
to capture the remaining cult members.
At 10:30 p.m., Pablo calls me with a solemn voice.
He says, "I need you to come with Mom tomorrow."
"You must."
"What's wrong?" "I can't tell you over the phone."
During the flight, our heads were a mess.
We reached the airport, and Pablo and Carolina were there.
They weren't themselves. They looked like death.
So, we got into Pablo's Jeep.
And in a calm voice, Pablo tells me,
"First, I'll tell you the things that are true,
then I'll tell you what is a lie."
"It's true, we have this Jeep."
"It's true, we were living in Caburga, in a cabin we were renting."
"Everything else I've told you the last four years is a lie."
And that's when you realize that you're faced with a mega-crisis.
It was a horrifying, inconceivable event,
worse than any crime we've ever reported.
This is the first human sacrifice in our history.
And the victim was a boy just three days old.
That's when they realized that the news was already on all the TV channels
and the police were looking for them.
They saw their face plastered on walls.
Today, four members of a religious cult were arrested
and charged for allegedly incinerating a two-day-old baby
because they believed he was the Antichrist.
He said, "I want to turn myself in." I said, "Just do it in Santiago."
That was
a very difficult drive.
Very difficult, because it was full of
a mix of rational decisions and emotions involved.
We'd stop at a service station,
and we'd see the news saying my son was on the run.
Very difficult.
Pablo Undurraga, from the moment the arrest warrants were issued
to the moment he turned himself in,
he'd been planning what he was going to say in his police interview.
The brigade calls,
saying Pablo turned himself in, and we had to interview him.
So I went to the brigade
and came across a calm Pablo Undurraga.
"Hello, I'm Pablo Undurraga, the person you are looking for."
"I was involved in the Colliguay cult."
"I'm here to turn myself in."
APRIL 2013
At eleven o'clock, the couple entered the Supervisory Courthouse in Quilpué.
They turned themselves in to the PDI this weekend
after seeing on the news that they were wanted.
This interview was difficult to conduct because he was a very smart guy,
and he had a lot of information to give me.
So, we had to do this interview in stages and compartmentalize it
in order to understand the process he went through in that community.
They were charged as accessories to the murder of the two-day-old baby,
arguing that both were a danger to society.
They have been brutally manipulated by a perverse mind, by a twisted mind.
PABLO AND CAROLINA'S DEFENSE ATTORNEY
And they have not acted freely,
which prevents them from being seriously reproached
from a criminal standpoint.
What has been claimed by the defendants, particularly my defendant,
gives me the impression that they're victims of manipulation
by this person who is currently on the run.
We know that this person left the country,
headed to Peru, and has not yet returned.
So, we coordinated with INTERPOL to issue an international warrant.
INTERPOL RED NOTICE
An intelligence group of 1,500 officers from the Peruvian Police
is on the hunt for Antares de la Luz.
He is presumed to be in Cuzco.
I think that everyone encouraged me to go to Peru
because they were all involved in the crime, and I wasn't.
I didn't really know what I was getting myself into
and what I was going to come across.
They stayed there for about a week, a week and a half,
and left shortly after
for a town near Cuzco called Ollantaytambo.
He sang. He played his instruments
and sang at bars, restaurants, whatever, and got tips.
He was very stressed, very violent.
He treated me terribly.
He beat me with a stick and locked me up,
and he told me that I couldn't leave.
I wasn't there.
I think she got scared
and took the first flight back to Santiago.
I came back, thinking he'd turn himself in
because I'd told him to do it.
When I got to Chile, the newspapers said
that they had found Ramón's body.
It has been reported that a body was found in Cuzco.
This man that you see here.
Ramón Gustavo Castillo Gaete, 35 years old,
took his own life here.
The media described this tragic end in many different ways.
Three kids went in first,
and they told me that it looked like a hanging doll.
He found himself alone, as you can imagine.
So he thought, "This is as far as I go."
"This is it."
He eluded the consequences of his actions.
And he left the rest of us paying the price on his behalf.
With the coldness of a robot,
the two main perpetrators of the sacrifice of the newborn in Colliguay
today described that fateful night to the police at the crime scene.
Pablo Undurraga and Natalia Guerra Jequier
were at the reconstruction of the scene that day.
And they told us how they prepared the baby
to be burned.
You got out of the truck. And the fire was lit, correct?
Yes.
He was there, and Antares told me to put him there.
Natalia put the baby... She put Jesús there.
As soon as she put him there, I grabbed her, and we ran away.
We ran back that way.
For us, as police, it's extremely important to establish
each person's role.
Who did what and when?
That way, we can put the facts together.
We'd just started putting sticks in, and five minutes later, David came.
Antares had ordered him
to keep bringing sticks so I wouldn't run out of firewood.
The flames were 20 centimeters higher than the hole in the ground.
When I first looked above the fire,
I saw that mixed with the real flames were black flames
that turned into a sort of black dragon head.
And it soared up.
It went up?
Is that what you saw?
I saw it. I know now it was a hallucination, but I saw it.
That sort of stuff was normal.
It's crucial to be able to understand
the role each person played at the time of committing the crime.
Tell me about when you tied the baby up.
I can't cut tape with my teeth.
So Pablo was cutting the tape while I wrapped it around the baby's feet.
Then, when Pablo told me to do the arms,
we both did it together, and Pablo finished doing the rest.
I've never been able to cut anything with my teeth.
It's true. I'd cut the tape.
- I see. - She can't cut tape with her teeth.
What I remember within that
context of who could do what according to their energy
was that we all had strict orders
that the only ones who could touch Jesús were Natalia and Carolina.
Yes, but when Pablo finished doing it,
he said, "Don't you dare tell Antares, because we didn't do it impeccably."
What I was going to finish saying is I don't remember that.
What I remember is that I didn't touch him.
But, I mean...
I mean, the context was obviously deranged.
Neither of them admitted to tying up the baby,
putting cotton in its mouth, and covering its mouth.
They both say that the other one did it.
They both carried out the act of silencing the baby before it was sacrificed.
I understand, from what Pablo said,
he kind of took it for granted
that we all knew what was going to happen that day.
And I must say, I was never given any sort of information
about what was going to happen.
Because, being possessed,
I couldn't have any kind of explanation or information about it.
Because that could've made Jesús's inner self do something to me,
like make me kill myself, or escape, or something.
So, I couldn't have absolutely any kind of information.
Sorry, did you see anything?
- No. - No.
You may not know, but Natalia ratified it in her statement today.
She said that she could see the glow.
- No, Carolina. - Sorry, Carolina.
She didn't see the fire or anything, but she could see the glow.
And she could hear the fire crackling.
- Did you know that Carolina sees energy? - No.
She sees the aura. She's much more sensitive than us.
I didn't see a thing. Can you see the house over there?
When you helped Pablo throw the stones, you brought them in wheelbarrows, right?
The stones were stacked right here.
- Where they are now? - Yes.
Shall we wrap this up?
Thank you very much.
Let's go.
ACCUSED
This is the report from April 22nd, 2013.
CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF QUILPUÉ 2011-2016
It was the day I met with the Investigations Police
in my office in Quilpué.
They brought me this information
with the info that had been compiled up to then.
As far as I knew, there hadn't been any similar cases in Chile.
The rest of the investigation
was more about determining the level of criminal responsibility
and what we would do with them legally.
To determine if they were crazy or demented.
If they were sane people or somewhere in the middle.
And from there, to make a decision in the field of law.
One of the arguments given by most of the cult members' defense teams
was that they were all under the influence of destructive mind control,
and that, at that time, they did not have the ability
to voluntarily choose what was happening.
Because they were also under what they call "shared delirium."
There's an agreement among the defense
to claim that they had all been...
DOCTOR IN LEGAL AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
...somehow victims
of a shared psychosis
or a folie à deux, the same delusion in two people.
This is the strategy with the most possibilities.
In short, they were not psychotic people themselves,
but they could claim they were at the time of the events.
In legal terminology, they are not guilty.
The law assumes that all people are normal, not crazy.
Therefore, we all have to answer
for our actions when it comes to conduct that constitutes a crime.
Therefore, if you claim that someone who is under investigation is insane,
you have to prove it.
The trial was not going to be about whether the child had died,
or whether they had been there that day at that time.
It was going to be
about this diagnosis of shared psychosis.
It goes without saying, Your Honor,
that this new report fully ratifies the previous conclusions.
This is shared mystical delirium, mental derangement.
Legal consequence ten, number one, non-imputability.
All the psychiatrists and psychologists
concluded that these people suffered from this mental condition.
Thus, they were not imputable.
We are faced with an accumulation of evidence and reports
that were produced by the defense and went along the lines of exculpating
the members of the cult from any responsibility.
Despite establishing their responsibility, none of them would serve prison sentences.
You felt the pressure, of course.
It was something that was there every day.
During the hearings, there was always a lot of attention from the press.
The prosecutor's office had no alternative but to analyze
the background information
to see if it was susceptible to criticism or questioning
from another perspective.
I came to this case because Prosecutor Juan Emilio Gatica...
PSYCHIATRIST
...called me and said he wanted to talk with me.
He explained what it was about.
I thought it was important to answer
any questions he had.
His idea was that I would examine
the two most important,
which were Natalia Guerra and Pablo Undurraga.
But they refused to be examined,
which is why he then asked me to do an expert meta-analysis.
This means making an expert opinion on the expert opinions.
Expert opinions about the events.
OFFENSE COMMITTED
But a psychiatrist making a diagnosis about a patient without having seen them
seems to me to be a fundamental lack of ethics.
The question is, at the moment Pablo and Natalia
handed over the baby to Antares, did they have any other option?
Could they have not given him the baby?
We believe, yes, they did have another option.
Because, although they had spent years
under the stranglehold of subjugation of this person known as Antares,
they had knowledge and awareness of what they were going to do
from the time they decided to take Natalia Guerra away and hide her.
It's a context where there are rules...
PSYCHOLOGY SPECIALIST IN ABUSE-OF-CONSCIENCE VICTIMS
...obedience, a series of rules,
a leader who is in the divine position of God.
And he manipulates the person.
He impedes them from having their own point of view.
And from there, we can say that their identity has been damaged.
The person doesn't have their own judgment.
Doctor Otto Dörr actually says, "Well, yes."
"It seems that this is what happened."
"There was a shared psychotic disorder."
But, given we can't have the chance,
and never will,
to examine Ramón Castillo Gaete
because he killed himself in Cuzco, correct?
We can no longer establish that these people actually
were the induced subjects or the secondary cases,
and Ramón Castillo Gaete was the primary inducer.
We didn't want this case to go unpunished.
If it went unpunished, in the sense that these people
weren't going to be held criminally liable for what they had done,
it would be because we were undoubtedly convinced
that these people were mentally deranged.
And there, while analyzing the reports,
I was able to...
reach a first argument that somewhat demolished the reports.
The reports insofar
point out that a shared psychosis diagnosis is to be discarded
whenever the episodes in question
are framed within a context of drug consumption,
alcohol consumption, or any other type of stimulant.
And this was the case.
The facts lead us to reflect on the issue of diminished accountability.
To what degree can we accept that their reasoning ability
was hindered when the crimes were committed
for them to escape legal justice or to lessen condemnation?
To what extent can justice give value to psychiatric theories
based on shared mystical delirium
to exonerate its participants from responsibility
for crimes against human rights?
Thus, by legal mandate, the defendants Guerra and Undurraga
do not deserve alternative sentences.
And the final sentences were five years for Pablo and Natalia,
and three years for the rest as accessories.
Obviously, in the world of guilty or not guilty,
I'll find someone either guilty or not guilty.
And that's where the complexity of the situational analysis is missing.
Where it seems to me that psychiatrically, it was unfair.
The main convicted party, Natalia Guerra, mother of the murdered infant,
is not serving her sentence
and has been a fugitive for seven months.
The police are carrying out investigations to locate her whereabouts.
NAME: NATALIE GUERRA JEQUIER
She grew her hair and changed its color.
She stayed inside so as not to be recognized.
However, thanks to a piece of paper she threw in the trash,
the Investigations Police finally located her whereabouts.
Hands up!
Stay put!
Hands up!
Stay there.
I'm coming to you.
On the ground.
Hands up, over your head.
She tried to escape from the police, but she was completely surrounded.
Natalia Guerra was handed over to the Gendarmerie.
She is being held at the San Joaquín Female Penitentiary Center.
Personally, to me, Miguel Ampuero,
but not to the PDI, the Prosecutor's Office, or the judges,
each one of the members deserved a life sentence
regardless of their participation
because we have to think that this was a helpless human being.
As a society, we all have to ensure that
these victims, because they are victims...
it seems to me that they should be understood.
We should sit down with our families and say, "What happened here?"
"What's our role in an event as dramatic as this?"
Give me a minute, please.
Be patient, please.
Reintegrating is difficult.
People told me, "Fuck, dude, move abroad. Change your name."
The process of reintegrating into a normal life,
not sending it all to hell, not ending up in a drug spiral,
living in my parents' house, in a cave, you know?
It's difficult.
People have told me, "I would've killed myself."
I don't have permission to kill myself. My kids need me.
Insofar as destructive mental control, nothing is known about it.
It creates demonic scenarios.
So, I have to reinstate myself back into a society that is terrified of me.
And it should be.
It's so difficult wanting to reinstate yourself in an ecosystem
in which some components want to actively attack you.
They don't want you to be reinstated. They want you to kill yourself.
Since we are the worst human beings in the world,
people feel justified bringing out the worst version of themselves
and getting away with it.
Ten years later, I'm destroyed. I don't want to fight anymore.
I'd like to be able to work and live in peace.
But having to go around asking for forgiveness for being alive
makes it so difficult to live in peace.
I don't get it. I hate talking about it too,
because every time I talk about it, it causes me
a lot of pain.
Look, with regard to the house in Colliguay,
we're going to demolish it
so there won't be any vestiges of this misery.
Cults don't pop up out of nowhere.
They are a response to or an effect of
something that is happening in society.
There's great emptiness
and a huge need for a sense of belonging.
We are permanently surrounded by different types of influences
that show us a perfect world,
but they are perversely hiding mental control mechanisms.
PABLO UNDURRAGA SERVED TWO YEARS IN PRISON
AND WAS RELEASED ON PAROLE IN 2019.
NATALIA GUERRA SERVED TWO YEARS IN PRISON
AND WAS RELEASED ON PAROLE IN 2021.
THE REST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CULT
SERVED THEIR SENTENCES UNDER PROBATION.
THEY ARE ALL NOW FREE
AND UNDERGOING THE PROCESS OF SOCIAL REINTEGRATION.