A month later, another carabinero was killed in a similar attack.

A Carabinero general was one of the town's founders.

His story was related by a carabinero who was on duty:

One carabinero later died of his wounds.

The Chilean secret police on this occasion were met with a hail of automatic weapons fire, killing a carabinero and a girl.

On 6 December 1985 a carabinero was shot to death by four guerrillas who opened fire on him with submachine-guns as he walked home.

Just when their persecutors are about to call over a carabinero, Achmed makes a secret sign that causes the priestly crew to relent.

José Luis Salazar, a carabinero who was on watch, upon observing the situation, thought that the youths were concealing weapons under their coats, and prepared to respond.

As result one young Mapuche Jaime Mendoza Collio was shot dead and one carabinero was injured in the leg.

MJL guerrillas fought their way into the Sótero del Río Hospital but were forced to withdraw, after having killed four gendarmes and one carabinero.

On February 28, 1991 a carabinero policeman died in a shoot-out in Santiago with leftist guerrillas of the Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front.

In September 2007, a carabinero policeman was killed after being shot in the face and around 40 were wounded during clashes with protesters marking the 34th anniversary of the military coup.

On 24 February 1976, MIR guerrillas in a gunbattle with Chilean secret police, shot and killed a 41-year-old carabinero sergeant (Tulio Pereira Pereira).

On 28 November 1986, MIR guerrillas after having been stopped by a police vehicles, shot and killed 31-year-old carabinero Lieutenant Jaime Luis Sáenz Neira.

Before that period ended, a candidate for President was to be proposed by the Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces and Carabinero Chief General for the following period of eight years.

A military junta -led by Pinochet, Air Force General Gustavo Leigh, Navy Admiral José Toribio Merino, and Carabinero Chief General César Mendoza- was sworn in that same evening.

Gen. César Mendoza Durán, a former head of the carabinero paramilitary police force and a member of the military junta from 1973 to 1985 under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, was arrested on April 2 by order of a judge investigating the kidnapping of eight people.