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representative, and later they took testimony from Doña Rosa and her family, and
they went to the Líbano Base and later to the Morrison Base and to La Palma; that
they were treated badly at the Líbano Base and told that those there did not know
anything, and that maybe people at the Morrison Base knew something; that at
Morrison they were not allowed to enter, but Colonel Velandia told Nodelia that he
did not know anything but that the counter-guerrillas, a special army that combats
guerrillas, was around there; that then they went to La Palma, and that they did all
of this in only one day; that he continues working in Indupalma, although not in San
Alberto, because he has received death threats, and he returned to Bucaramanga;
that he was told by the Red Cross that he is on the paramilitary's list of persons who
they are going to kill; that previously he had testified that he had not seen Santana;
and that Doña Rosa Delia told him that Caballero-Delgado arrived after mid-day.
40.
Witness Luis Alberto Gil-Castillo testified that he is a school teacher, activist,
and currently the President of the Santander Educators' Union and a Delegate in the
Assembly of Santander; that he knew Caballero-Delgado from 1969 to 1970 when he
was a student; that they agreed with the democratic ideas of the old M-19; that
Caballero-Delgado carried out political activities and was arrested in 1985 for illegally
carrying weapons; that later he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Workers'
Trade Union of Santander (USITRAS); that in 1985 the disappearances started; that
in 1987 there was a strike, and Caballero-Delgado was one of the organizers; that
the organizers were thought to be instruments of the guerrillas; that they asked for
protection for Caballero-Delgado, but he was only given a union commission; that it
fell to Caballero-Delgado to organize the Forums for Peace in Bucaramanga, San
Alberto, and Aguachica; that the military command of M-19 advised him of the
capture of Caballero-Delgado; that the declarant went to the Morrison Base, and
Colonel Velandia denied everything; that one of the points put forward in the
negotiations between the Government and the M-19 was the realization of regional
forums; and that in 1989 the M-19 was a clandestine movement, and it was risky for
him to admit his militancy.
41.
Witness Doctor Víctor Enrique Navarro-Jiménez, Sub-Director of the Technical
Corps of the National Office of the Attorney General at the time of the events and
currently its Director, testified that he had attended four meetings in the Ministry of
Foreign Relations about disappearances, and that one had been about the CaballeroDelgado Case; that they had reached an agreement with the Military Prosecutors to
send personnel, and he went to Guaduas where they interviewed Carmen Aparicio,
and they took photographs of the farm; that that woman was in charge of the El
Danubio Farm, and she testified that she had been threatened; that his assistant
Ricardo Vargas made contact with one of the paramilitaries, Arias-Alturo, who had
just finished serving his time for assault, and with another by the last name of
Fontecha who had been identified by a scar; that in this case he could not confirm
that they were involved with soldiers; that Arias-Alturo confessed the facts to Vargas
but he was afraid, and they offered him money so that he could move to a safe
place, and then he disappeared; that all this occurred in 1992; and that they were
waiting to detain Caballero-Delgado.
42.
Witness Doctor Armando Sarmiento-Mantilla, the National Director of
Prosecutors, testified that he coordinated all the investigation policies of the National
Office of General Prosecutors, and that the Government had never interfered with his
duties; that the Unit of Prosecutors had been created and was dedicated exclusively
to the investigation of violations of human rights; that in Santander there was a
climate of violence probably due to subversion, drug trafficking, paramilitaries, and