22 Mr. Carpio Nicolle could have been murdered “for many reasons.” However, Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio stated “that the most likely reason” was his opposition to the amnesty, because many people were adversely affected. Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio intervened because it was not possible that her husband and other good and honorable individuals could be killed in such a despicable way; she had to find the inner force to demand that justice be done. At first, when they still had the newspaper and many accusations were made in it, she and Mrs. Fischer received numerous threats. A few months after her husband’s death, she realized that justice would not be done in Guatemala, so she sought international help; her first step in this regard was to take her case to Geneva. Nobody is paying for the crime that was committed; furthermore, evidence has been lost, an attempt was made to set fire to the office were the case file was kept and, on the order of then Minister of the Interior, Arnoldo Ortiz Moscoso, the weapon allegedly used to carry out the murders was taken out of the country. Accordingly, the Carpio Nicolle case is paradigmatic and an example of the lack of justice in Guatemala. Her husband’s death had a “disastrous” impact on the UCN, because he was a national leader and “the party’s wellbeing depended on him.” After Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s death, the UCN took part in one more presidential election and in the most recent elections only had candidates for deputy, because the party was “splintered” and there was no leader with “the charisma” of Mr. Carpio Nicolle to support a party of that size. In the most recent elections, it did not obtain sufficient votes for deputy, so that, based on the electoral laws, it was dissolved. Her sons’ families, and also that of Mr. Carpio Nicolle and herself, depended solely on the family company, “El Gráfico”; her husband’s absence was critical for the newspaper, because he had been its guiding light. From the time of Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s death until 1999, Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio and her sons did everything possible for “El Gráfico,” but “Jorge Carpio’s image was too strong.” Moreover, Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio’s sons were “very young, they were in their early 30s,” and she had never worked on a newspaper, so “there was a lack of confidence in the management of the paper and many advertisers withdrew.” In addition, to this President Álvaro Arzú established a financial boycott of “El Gráfico” four or five years after Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s murder. This boycott was established because the newspaper underscored when international organizations provided help to the case, which “annoyed [this President…] because it reflected badly on his Government.” The corporate assets of “El Gráfico” deteriorated until they had to close it down because Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio and her sons could not maintain it. They had to sell properties and even use Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio’s patrimony to pay off the newspaper’s creditors. The “El Gráfico” company does not exist any longer, because the newspaper ceased to exist. Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s death was a ”tremendous blow” for Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio and her sons, because “he was everything [to them], he was the most important part of [their] lives.” The impact of impunity is “tremendous”; it has caused them anger, impotence and sadness, and they have felt “totally defenseless.” In addition, she is in a difficult financial situation because she has no pension and does not receive any salary. Her sons maintain her.