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4.
That in its Order of November 27, 2007 (supra Having Seen Clause No. 3),
the Court verified that the State convicted Mr. Vicente Cifuentes-López to serve 28
years of imprisonment, as one of the responsible parties for the disappearance and
murder of Nicholas Chapman-Blake (Operative paragraph one of the reparations
Judgment of January 22, 1999). However, the Court requested the State to submit
detailed information as to the fulfillment of several arrest warrants pending on
several persons for the facts of the instant case and it further requested the State to
refer in a particular way to each of the objections exposed by the Inter-American
Commission during the private hearing held in the instant case (Considering Clause
10 of the Order of November 27, 2007), as well as to the observations and
recommendations presented by the victims in their writ of November 21, 2007. In
that respect, the Court requested the State to submit the pertinent supporting
documentation of the actions carried out.
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5.
That the State informed that with regard to Mr. Hipólito Ramos-García, his
arrest is pending “by an order against him issued by the Second Court of the First
Instance of Huehuetenango, for the crime of Murder”. It further informed that Mr.
Ramos has not been located, reason for which there was a coordination with the
elements of the Delegación Distrital de Occidente (Western District Precinct), with
headquarters in Quetzaltenango, in order to locate him and arrest him, but that “to
date the results have been negative.” The State pointed out that, as a consequence
of the above, it requested “Interpol Guatemala the location and preventive detention
at international level and further deportation to [Guatemala] of Mr. Hipólito RamosGarcía.” As to the above, the State pointed out that the Public Prosecutor’s Office
confirmed the arrest warrant issued against Mr. Ramos and that said order has not
been yet executed by the Policía Nacional Civil - PCN (Civil National Police). The
State further informed that the arrest warrant against Mr. Mario Cano-Saucedo is still
in force, which was issued “by the Second Court of the First Instance of
Huehuetenango, on November 4, 1996. This warrant has been repeated by the
Special Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Huehuetenango to the Chief of
the Criminal Investigations Section of the Civil National Police of Huehuetenango on
October 11, 2000”. On the other hand, the State pointed out that there is also an
arrest warrant against Mr. Candelario Cano-Herrera, “who is accused of the death of
citizen Nicholas Chapman-Blake, and against whom there is an arrest warrant
pursuant to a decision issued by the Second Court of the First Instance of
Huehuetenango, on November 4, 1996” and that “the Public Prosecutor’s Office
repeated the arrest warrant on October 11, 2000 against [said] defendant, which is
still in force.” The state presented copies of the above mentioned proceedings.
Finally, it informed that “with regard to the legal situation of Messrs. Daniel
Velásquez, Ezequiel Alvarado and Emerito [sic] López, accused of the murder of
Nicholas Chapman-Blake[, …] arrest warrants were issued against [them] on July 7,