30 154. On July 1, 1992 a visual inspection of the canton of La Joya was conducted. Pedro 160 Chicas Romero was present to provide information on the location of the bodies. 155. On July 8, 1992 a visual inspection was conducted in the canton of Guacamaya. On July 161 14, 1992 the sketches and photographs from that inspection were delivered. 156. On July 13, 1992 the Second Court issued a decision requesting the Director of the Dr. Roberto Masferrer Legal Medicine Institute to send to professor Josset Daves [sic] at the Maples Center for Forensic Medicine in Miami, Florida, the skeletal remains found in El Mozote, and particularly in the house of Benita Diaz, for analysis and study to determine whether they belonged to the same person, and to establish that person’s age and sex, the time of death, and if possible the cause of death, as well as 162 the length of time the bones had been interred or lying on the surface. 157. On July 15, 1992 a visual inspection was conducted in the village of Ranchería. The 163 photographs and sketches from that inspection were submitted on August 19, 1992 . The witnesses Juan Bautista Marquez and Irma Ramos Martinez participated, providing valuable information. Various 164 bones, “apparently human”, were found. 158. On July 16, 1992 the Second Court issued a decision to send to the Dr. Roberto Masferrer Legal Medicine Institute for examination the remaining bones found during the visual inspection 165 of the village of Ranchería. 159. On July 17, 1992 the Legal Medicine Institute sent a letter to the Second Court indicating that “as the Truth Commission is now in the country, it would be appropriate to proceed with the exhumation and the relevant judicial and expert proceedings in the El Mozote case. My Institute is fully prepared, both materially and technically, to carry out the inspections (...) but I believe that if the action of the Salvadoran judiciary is to be perfectly clear (...) its authorities should make an official request, through the Supreme Court of Justice, and via the Ministry of Foreign Relations, to the governments of Argentina, England and United States of America to cooperate by appointing as quickly as possible a forensic 166 anthropologist, or at least a physical anthropologist, to act as a collaborator.” 160. On July 21, 1992 the sketches and photographs from the visual inspection of the village 167 of Ranchería were submitted. 161. On that same day, the minister of defense sent an official letter in which, under instructions from the President of the Republic, he indicated: 160 Visual inspection report of July 1, 1992. Court record (Annex 2 to the petitioners’ communication of July 7, 2006); and decision of the judge of the Second Court of September 27, 1993 (attached to the communication from the State of October 14, 1993). 161 Decision of the judge of the Second Court of September 27, 1993 (attached to the communication from the State of October 14, 1993). 162 Ibid. 163 Visual inspection report of July 8, 1992. Court record (Annex 2 to the petitioners’ communication of July 7, 2006); and decision of the judge of the Second Court of September 27, 1993 (attached to the communication from the State of October 14, 1993). 164 Ibid. 165 Writ of the Second Court of July 16, 1992. Court record (Annex 2 to the petitioners’ communication of July 7, 2006); and decision of the judge of the Second Court of September 27, 1993 (attached to the communication from the State of October 14, 1993). 166 Decision of the judge of the Second Court of September 27, 1993 (attached to the communication from the State of October 14, 1993). 167 Ibid.