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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