8 IV 29. The Inter-American Commission submitted with its application copies of testimony of witnesses, newspaper clippings, diagrams, maps, and reports. 30. The Government submitted to this Court voluminous records of the proceedings conducted by several civil and military authorities related to the disappearance of Isidro Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana. 31. Included among these files was the record of an investigative proceeding in the lower criminal court initiated on March 2, 1989, before the Second Mobile Court of Criminal Investigation. That action resulted in an Order of September 20, 1990, which in conjunction with the Order of the 11th of the same month, absolved for lack of evidence all of those charged and ordered their immediate release. Although the case was closed on October 3, 1990, it was reopened as of March 12, 1992 due to the alleged participation of Carlos Julio Pinzón-Fontecha in the events. He was later shown to have died on May 29, 1989. Currently, the investigation has been reopened because of the statement of an official of the Prosecutor's Office. The official who reported that, in an interview undertaken as part of an investigation, Gonzalo AriasAlturo related facts incriminating himself and others in the commission of the crime under investigation. 32. It has also been confirmed that, from February 27 to June 6, 1989, preliminary proceedings inquiring into those responsible for the kidnapping of Isidro Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana took place before the 26th Court of Military Criminal Investigation. These proceedings were suspended because, at that time, no member of the Army was connected with the events. 33. In the course of oral arguments this Court heard the testimony of witnesses called by the Commission and the Government. This testimony is summarized in the following paragraphs. Witness Doctor Zoilo Javier Jerez-Medina testified that he is President of the Committee for Human Rights of Santander; that Isidro CaballeroDelgado offered to organize a forum in San Alberto; that he could not be precise as to the date on which he had seen Caballero-Delgado for the last time, but that it was at the end of October, 1988; and that on February 9 or 10, 1989, he found out about his disappearance. 34. Witness María Nodelia Parra-Rodríguez testified that she is an educator, but that, at present, instead of working as a teacher, she is the director of the Teachers' Union of Santander; that she had lived with Caballero-Delgado since 1986; that they are co-owners of an apartment, and that they had a child in 1988; that CaballeroDelgado had many responsibilities in the Teachers' Union; that in 1984 he was arrested for illegally carrying weapons and was sentenced to 36 months in prison but was released in November 1986; that Caballero-Delgado told her that he was a militant member of the M-19 and was afraid; that in December 1987 or January 1988 members of DAS came to the Union looking for him and he also received death threats by telephone; that Caballero-Delgado told her that he was in charge of organizing a Forum for Citizens' Coexistence in San Alberto; that the Laborers' Union of Santander was affiliated with USITRAS, which is the trade union organization of the Department of Santander that sponsored the Forum; that Caballero-Delgado left for San Alberto in the middle of January, because the Forum was going to take place on February 16, and it required preparation; that he called her every week and that he called on Thursday of the week before February 7 and left a message that he