32 With Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s death “the peoples of Guatemala were robbed” of a political project aimed at commencing a rapid and flexible peace process. Mr. Carpio Nicolle also proposed that it was necessary to acknowledge the internal armed conflict, which had already been recognized by the United Nations. It could be considered that the UCN was the only political party in Guatemala as of 1985 or 1986. However, the project of the UCN “disintegrated” with the physical elimination of Mr. Carpio Nicolle. The same thing happened to the “El Gráfico” newspaper. After Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s murder, “unfortunately […] there was no other newspaper” like “El Gráfico” to take up the defense of human rights issues. Also, with his death, a shadow was cast on the right to provide information and the right of the Guatemalan people to be informed. Although the PAC have been “officially abolished” and apparently disbanded, in practice they are present as “a parallel power group.” Currently, there are two unified executive councils of former patrolmen organized in a manner that is “dangerous” for the State. “The [only] way to disband [them] is for international pressure to be exerted on the Guatemalan Army, which controls the situation.” The PAC are a risk factor for democracy and governance. Currently, it would appear that the PAC have almost 970,000 members; they constitute an “electoral group which can be manipulated dangerously [and, also,] a group that has threatened to violate the right to freedom of movement in Guatemala.” These people continue to be protected by the military sector. A few days prior to the hearing before the Inter-American Court, the PAC (who are apparently disbanded), threatened the whole population and the Government that they would paralyze the country if there were not paid a certain amount, even though the Constitutional Court had decided that this payment was unconstitutional. The payment requested corresponded to their work during the internal armed conflict. International reparation should be carried out at two levels. On the one hand, the victims’ next of kin should receive reparation for the non-pecuniary and pecuniary aspects. On the other hand, the Guatemalan people are also victims in this case. Consequently, quite apart from the public apologies to the next of kin and to the Guatemalan people, a report should be written and a video made, to be published and broadcast, respectively, “throughout the hemisphere.” Furthermore, the State should be requested to investigate the parallel military power that still exists in Guatemala, in conjunction with the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations. There should be a governmental institution to monitor that State officials respect human rights and that to promote the adaptation of domestic legislation to international human rights treaties. Nowadays, the figure of Ombudsman is generating increasing credibility.