In the middle of the afternoon on June 12, a Saturday, tourism worker Antonio Rengifo Vargas left his home in Santa Rosa (Peru), crossed the Solimões River by boat, and arrived in Tabatinga (AM) to celebrate his 20th birthday from the day before.
He was then detained by the Military Police of Amazonas, and found dead the following day in the city’s garbage dump, alongside two other bodies. After investigating on his own, his father, tourism businessman Antonio Rengifo Baldino, 50, has no doubt that he was tortured and murdered by the military police. Feeling threatened, he did not seek out any Brazilian authorities and went to the Colombian consulate in the city.
The son of a Brazilian and, like his son, of dual Peruvian and Colombian nationality, the businessman was the only one —among the family of the seven dead and two disappearances attributed to the Military Police of Amazonas—who agreed to give an interview for security reasons.
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