11 mother who lived on the Guaduas District; that for that reason she left San Rafael, where she lived, at about twelve-thirty in the afternoon and arrived in San Alberto at about three; that in route she met a group of about ten army soldiers who searched a bag that she was carrying, and that one soldier from the coast who was swarthy, tall, and husky detained her and did not allow her to continue on her way; that the father of her daughter is a Corporal Second-Class in the Army, and, therefore, she is familiar with soldiers who can be recognized by their haircut and their uniform; that she knew that the group that detained her was Army because they wore the standard uniform boots; that the man who the soldiers called "commander" had little stars, and the soldiers did not have them; that the commander was white, had light colored eyes,a mustache, and wore a thick gold chain; that Caballero-Delgado and his companion were in the group along with the soldiers, and she recognized him because on Sunday when she was at her mother's house, she was introduced to him; that she did not speak with him or greet him; that Caballero-Delgado was dressed in the same Army uniform, but that his companion was totally nude with her hands tied behind her back; that she spent the night in a hut and arrived the following day at her mother's house, where she heard talk that they had captured Caballero-Delgado and his companion; that the guerrillas use rubber boots, have long hair and carry machetes tied with straps, while the Army does not use rubber boots or machetes; that she encountered the military patrol at around five-thirty in the afternoon; that she did not try to converse with Caballero-Delgado; that she has not testified earlier; that she had seen Rosa Delia Valderrama before, but that she did not know her name; that from her mother's house to that of Mrs. Valderrama it is three hours on foot, and from Mrs. Valderrama's to the site where she met the military patrol it is about ten minutes; that Caballero-Delgado had a mustache, straight hair, was tall but not very tall, and had an average build; that she has not commented about what took place to anyone except Mrs. Valderrama; that the woman was tied up, but Caballero-Delgado was not, and that he was standing leaning against a mango tree; that the woman had straight hair with a rounded haircut, brown eyes, and was rather short, about twenty years of age, and that she recognized her by her hair, and because she had seen her in her house on Sunday; that she did not denounce what she had seen to any authority because she was afraid; that she verified that she had not testified before the Court previously, but she had testified in the internal Columbian proceeding, and that her testimony was the same; that she had not received threats, but that the rest of the family had; and that she knows from the neighbors' comments that Caballero-Delgado had been put to death. 37. Witness Ricardo Vargas-López testified that he is a member of the Technical Corps of Investigation of the National Office of the Attorney General; that he retired from the police with the rank of Captain and then joined the Technical Corps of Criminal Investigation in Bucara-manga; that at the end of January 1992 his superior, Doctor Víctor Enrique Navarro-Jiménez, National Sub-director of Criminal Investigations, went to Bucaramanga to investigate the case of Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana, and he was chosen to work with him; that they went to the San Alberto Zone and took testimony from five or six persons, including Carmen Belén Aparicio, Rosa Delia Valderrama and Javier Páez, who all asserted that members of the Army had captured Isidro Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana; that those witnesses did not waver in saying that the perpetrators had been members of the Army; that Dr. Navarro returned to Bogotá and turned over the remainder of the investigation to the declarant; that Javier Páez accused two persons, Gonzalo Arias-Alturo and Gonzalo Pinzón-Fontecha, of being part of the group that captured him; that he tried to locate those two persons, and he found out

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