Lawyer Nubia Vivanco filed a formal request for a particular pardon for former Carabineros captain Patricio Maturana with the Ministry of Justice on March 12. Maturana is serving a 12-year sentence for illegal coercion causing serious injuries to Senator Fabiola Campillai. The request comes amid President José Antonio Kast's announcements on pardons for uniformed personnel linked to the social outbreak.
Lawyer Nubia Vivanco, who has defended Patricio Maturana since his sentence was upheld, submitted an envelope with the formal particular pardon request to the Ministry of Justice's intake office on March 12. Maturana, a former Carabineros captain, is serving a 12-year effective prison term at Molina penitentiary for illegal coercion causing very serious injuries that blinded Senator Fabiola Campillai during the 2019 social outbreak. Vivanco focused on the ex-officer's prison safety and secured penitentiary benefits from Gendarmería. At the end of January, Maturana was granted weekend leave approval for good behavior, with the first on February 8. This prompted Campillai to voice “pain and anguish” and criticize Gendarmería director Rubén Pérez and President Kast, whom she accused of wanting to free her attacker. Campillai filed a motion with the San Bernardo Guarantee Court to revoke the benefit, but the judge dismissed it on March 12, the day after Kast's inauguration. Armed with that ruling, Vivanco filed the pardon request, including it as evidence. “For us, the first priority was always to access weekend leave [...] we believe it is absolutely justified,” Vivanco told La Tercera. That night, Kast stated in TV interviews that his government would use pardons for uniformed personnel jailed over social outbreak incidents, including Maturana's case, whom he visited in prison in March 2025 while campaigning and pledged to review for pardon. The Ministry of Justice's Social Reintegration Division will process the request.
