21 Mr. Carpio Nicolle and, on the other hand, the obligation of the deputies to make a monthly contribution (under the party’s internal regulations). Mr. Carpio Nicolle was a candidate for the presidency in 1985 and came in second. Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio left her teaching position in the Universidad de San Carlos to work on her husband’s campaign. During Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s second attempt to be elected President of the Republic, some people might have been upset by the appearance of new elements in the party, but it had thousands of members. In those elections, Mr. Carpio Nicolle won the first round but, in the second round, all the parties joined Mr. Serrano Elías. When Mr. Carpio Nicolle entered politics, his two sons became managing directors of “El Gráfico” and he became President of the company. The most important decisions were taken together and Mr. Carpio Nicolle provided guidelines to his sons. The only person in charge of the editorial line and the information content was Mr. Carpio Nicolle, because he wanted to maintain independence. Only Mr. Ricardo San Pedro, who worked in the industrial division of “El Gráfico,” occupied a management position in the UCN. Despite Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s participation in politics, “El Gráfico” was democratic, “even though some people said it was not”; space was given to all the other political parties and it tried to be objective. Mr. Carpio Nicolle maintained objectivity between his work with the newspaper and his participation in politics. 1983 to 1993 was the period during which “El Gráfico” achieved its highest sales. Consequently, Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s participation in politics did not affect the newspaper. When Mr. Serrano Elías organized the coup d’état against himself, Mr. Carpio Nicolle condemned it because he considered it unconstitutional. Moreover, Mr. Carpio Nicolle was under considerable pressure from different sectors and “from the Presidents of the five Central American countries and from the United States Embassy,” who asked him to support this fake coup d’état. After the fall of Mr. Serrano Elías, some people wanted to enact an amnesty law, but Mr. Carpio Nicolle “ordered his deputies not to” adopt it. Consequently, he was harassed and threatened by General García Samayoa, José Lobo, President of the Congress, and Vice President Gustavo Espina, among others. On July 3, 1993, Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s delegation was traveling along the road to Chichicastenango, where there was always a checkpoint; however, on that day there was nothing. Subsequently, some men surrounded them and, when they saw her husband, they said: “you are Jorge Carpio; we are going to destroy you.” Then they hit him with a pistol and there was “a horrendous hail of shots.” The man who gave the orders said: “kill Jorge, kill Carpio.” Then, another man “shot him three times and he fell onto [his wife’s] knees.” When the men left, the delegation took Mr. Carpio Nicolle to a clinic. Then, they took Mr. Carpio Nicolle in an ambulance to Santa Cruz de El Quiché, but he only lived for about ten minutes after their arrival. Mr. Villacorta Fajardo, Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio’s sister’s husband, and Mr. Rivas González and Mr. Ávila Guzmán died also. Sydney Shaw Díaz, Mrs. Arrivillaga de Carpio’s nephew, was seriously wounded. This was “a premeditated, malicious murder.”