17 The events of July 3, 1993, marked his life forever, leaving him heartbroken, a wound that has not completed healed. The immense impact of those events, considering that he was only 15 years old at the time, resulted in psychological damage that sometimes makes him sad, and also makes him doubt and distrust security agents and the Government. As an individual, as a victim, and as a Guatemalan, he asks that the State publicly acknowledge its guilt in the Carpio case. He asks for reparation but, above all, he asks for justice and that the murderers who planned everything, and who were members of the President’s staff be punished. d) Testimony of Ricardo San Pedro Suárez, business administrator He formed part of the management of “El Gráfico” from 1977 to 1996. Together with Mr. Carpio Nicolle, he was also a co-founder of the UCN. He accompanied him in 90% of his political tours throughout Guatemala until the day of his murder. For 10 years, he was an adviser to the UCN. He had also been a friend of Mr. Carpio Nicolle and his family for many years. On July 3, 1993, the witness left with Mr. Carpio Nicolle on a political tour. Their purposes were to present the party’s proposed agenda and begin preparing the ground for the 1995 elections. On the way to Chichicastenango, fifteen to twenty individuals ambushed them with their faces covered by balaclava helmets. The men threw the witness on the ground, and he heard several shots. The men pointed their weapons at him and kicked him. He was able to see two bodies on the pavement behind the microbus. Then, the men fled. The witness boarded the vehicle and they left the site. Mr. Carpio Nicolle and Mr. Villacorta Fajardo were injured. They went to Chichicastenango and arrived at the hospital of “the good Samaritan.” After leaving Mr. Carpio Nicolle in the hospital, he returned to the vehicle together with Mr. Shaw Arrivillaga to help Mr. Villacorta Fajardo, but it appeared that the latter was already dead. One of the hospital doctors told them that it would be better to transfer Mr. Carpio Nicolle to El Quiché, because they did not have adequate equipment to look after him. Consequently, he went by ambulance with Mr. Carpio Nicolle and Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio to the hospital in Santa Cruz del Quiché, where Mr. Carpio Nicolle died a few minutes after they arrived. Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s murder was a political crime, owing to his critical stance against the Government’s activities, in both the political sphere and as a journalist and, particularly, owing to his attitude during the events of May 1993, when constitutional provisions were violated and he refused to accept the draft amnesty laws designed to benefit those who had taken part in the fake coup d’état that the President had organized on May 25, 1993. The above events have affected him psychologically and emotionally for a long time, at both the personal and the family level. The damage is irreversible. The best compensation would be to see that justice was done, the case clarified, and those responsible punished.