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would call her on February 7, but that call never came through; that on February 8
she received word that Caballero-Delgado had been captured the previous day by an
Army patrol; that on the 9th she filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Superior Court
of Bucaramanga and on the 10th she traveled to San Alberto where she met with the
leaders of the Union and asked them to join in the search; that they proposed that a
committee accompany her the next day to speak with the peasants, look over the
farm, take photographs, and find witnesses; that she went to the Líbano Mobile
Base, and there Sergeant Cárdenas denied that Caballero-Delgado had been
captured; that on the same day she went to the Morrison or Morrinson Base where
Lieutenant Ríos told her that he had no knowledge of the capture; that three months
later she found out that the results of the writ of habeas corpus had been negative;
that she went to the Mayor's Office in San Alberto, and from there she went with the
Municipal Representative, Doctor Isabel Monsalve, to the Guaduas District where
they talked with Rosa Delia Valderrama; that Mrs. Valderrama told them that
Caballero-Delgado had been detained and recognized him from the photograph they
showed her; that both Mrs. Valderrama and her granddaughter rendered testimony
before Doctor Monsalve and stated throughout it that the capture had been made by
members of the Army who identified themselves as such and dressed in camouflage
uniforms; that, subsequently, they went to the Morrison Military Base and there the
Commander-in-Chief, Colonel Velandia-Pastrana, denied that Caballero-Delgado had
been captured; that Caballero-Delgado was detained in the company of María del
Carmen Santana, who the witness did not know; that Doña Rosa and her
granddaughter had said that Caballero-Delgado had disappeared in the company of a
woman, and María del Carmen Santana is named in the writ of habeas corpus and all
of the judicial motions; that she requested that a judge be named for the criminal
investigation; that some of those responsible were found in the jails, including
Gonzalo Pinzón-Fontecha, who was identified in the line-up by one of the witnesses,
and Gonzalo Arias-Alturo, who was also identified as being one of the perpetrators;
that Captain Héctor Alirio Forero-Quintero could not be identified and it was then
that the telephone death threats began and that witness Javier Páez, who was going
to identify Captain Forero was also threatened and did not contact her again; that
Administrative Judge Blas Almanza told her that Captain Forero, had sent him a
threatening letter; that she had received more threats; that she had gone with sixty
teachers to the Episcopal Palace to make the authorities pass judgment on the
disappearance of Caballero-Delgado; that after these actions almost all of the
remedies to establish the whereabouts of Caballero-Delgado were exhausted; that
she subsequently continued receiving threats and that since May 1993 she has been
guarded by two officials of DAS and one from the Public Prosecutor's Office of
Bucaramanga; that she knows that witness Javier Páez and the leader of the Union
of San Alberto, Guillermo Guerrero-Zambrano, have been threatened; that twenty
teachers have been assassinated in Santander and more than four hundred have
been assassinated in the country; that Judge Blas Almanza told her that Gonzalo
Arias-Alturo had informed him, off the record, that Caballero-Delgado was dead; that
Gonzalo Arias-Alturo, Captain Héctor Alirio Forero-Quintero, and Norberto Báez-Báez
had been charged and exonerated, although the proceeding was reopened; that she
told the person in charge of the investigation to try to find Arias-Alturo, which was
done, and he informed on the persons who had ordered him to execute CaballeroDelgado and told where they had possibly buried him; that Arias-Alturo stated that
the persons who participated in the events were members of the Army; that she
knows that Arias-Alturo is at liberty; that according to witnesses Rosa Delia
Valderrama and Sobeida Quintero, the soldiers had Caballero-Delgado detained from
approximately one thirty in the afternoon until four, not in the house but about
twenty meters away; that in addition to those witnesses, Elida González saw him