13 Suárez, and also the expert report of César Alba Cije, all of them made before notary public (affidavits) (supra para. 30), as required by the President in an order of May 26, 2004 (supra para. 29).18 The Court will now summarize the relevant parts of these statements: a) Testimony of Rodrigo Carpio Arrivillaga, son of Mr. Carpio Nicolle He was a journalist with “El Gráfico” from 1979 to 1998. He was Managing Director of the company that owned this newspaper from 1979 to 1989 and Director General from 1989 to 1994. “El Gráfico” reflected the opinions of a democratic newspaper, and the philosophy, image and activities of the UCN. The newspaper had the technology to produce publications, and radio and television broadcasts in the same building, which made it easy to alternate the work of the newspaper with that of the UCN, since they were complementary. “El Gráfico” was the newspaper with the second highest circulation in Guatemala, and its prestige and democratic principles had converted it into a defender of the less privileged grass-roots population. Mr. Carpio Nicolle was Director General of the newspaper for many years. In addition to managing the newspaper, he held meetings with UCN members in his offices. General Secretaries of departments, deputies and candidates frequented the offices of “El Gráfico,” and party assemblies, workshops and strategy planning meetings were held there. From the inception of the UCN, Mr. Carpio Nicolle entrusted Mr. Carpio Arrivillaga with the task of communicating its political messages via the press, radio and television. Hence, he was the Organization and Propaganda Secretary of the UCN National Executive Committee. Within the UCN, he helped define the party’s long-term political vision and designed strategies for the 1994 presidential elections; statistical figures showed that Mr. Carpio Nicolle was the “unstoppable” winner. The UCN was a party with a centrist ideology. The essential purpose of its centrism was to create a new society where everyone would participate and benefit. The party’s record of total respect for democracy and its actions and influence in the 1980s is irrefutable; its legacy is still in evidence. Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s murder was a political crime, the result of a politicomilitary conspiracy, planned with malice, premeditation and to benefit those sectors. The murder showed how to silence the ideas of a brilliant, democratic leader in Latin America. Mr. Carpio Nicolle wanted to be President of the Republic of Guatemala; he wanted to be a national leader and be remembered as such; he was a political leader with good intentions and unyielding integrity. His failure to negotiate with enemy groups was his only error of any significance and, because of this, he was murdered. Mr. Carpio Arrivillaga had always had a very close relationship with his father. At the professional level, his work was directly related to Mr. Carpio Nicolle, 18 Cf. brief on merits, reparations, and costs, tome II, folios 566 to 620.