University of Chile awards posthumous degree to disappeared student Pincheira

The University of Chile posthumously awarded a medical degree to Héctor Ricardo Pincheira Núñez, a student detained and disappeared during the Pinochet dictatorship. This symbolic act of institutional recognition continues Chile's ongoing reckoning with human rights abuses, though it carries no legal or financial implications. The gesture underscores persistent societal attention to historical cases of forced disappearance.