Overview

• Human-rights judge Álvaro Mesa launched a judicial investigation, and officials cautioned that there is still no forensic certainty the Argentine woman is Vera.
• Chilevisión and Reportea tracked down a woman in Miramar whose DNI shares Vera’s birth day and month but lists a different year, and her son reportedly recognized her while she declined to comment.
• Swedish Migration Service records cited by reporters show a visa and residence granted in 1978 and an identity document issued in 1984, with associates of MIR militant Svante Grände saying they hosted “Anita” in Sweden.
• The case is being examined within Chile’s Plan Nacional de Búsqueda, which seeks to reconstruct the trajectories of dictatorship-era victims and could force updates to official registries and reparations files if identity is confirmed.
• A political dispute over timing has erupted as ex-PDI official Sandro Gaete claims authorities had leads more than a year earlier, while the government says concrete documentation arrived in May 2025 and a reserved court file is reviewing the handling.