Juan Bosco Maino Canales (19 February 1949 – disappeared 26 May 1976) was a Chilean-Italian photographer, mechanical engineer, political activist and member and leader of the Popular Unitary Action Movement (MAPU).

Early life

Juan Bosco Maino Canales was born 18 February 1949 in Santiago, Chile. Maino's mother, Filma Canales (1923–2014), was a documentary filmmaker, film critic and professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Film Institute. Maino's father (–1967), a diary company manager, was a first generation Italian Chilean. A few days before his arrest on the 26 May, Maino visited the home of partner Gloria Evangelina Torres Ávila, a human rights lawyer and member of MAPU. Andrés was tortured and interrogated by DINA agents about the activities and whereabouts of his sister, brother-in-law and Maino.

References

  • Truth Commissions Digital Collection: Reports: Chile PART THREE, Chapter Two (A.2.c) 1974 through August 1977