In 2004, justice confronted Augusto Pinochet on two occasions regarding the possibility of being prosecuted. In the first instance, the judge highlighted the dictator's poor health as a justification. In the second, she reiterated her refusal despite statements from Manuel Contreras about DINA's operations: Any mission carried out always came from the President of the Republic," wrote journalist Jorge Escalante in an article published in El Mostrador in June 2013.