9 those of Nicholas Blake. Seven years had passed since his brother's disappearance and his family had made more than 20 visits to Guatemala and had met on many occasions with Government and U.S. Embassy officials, and the Government had issued his brother's death certificate. Guatemala had neither investigated nor prosecuted those responsible, although their identities had been known to them since 1988. The witness was aware that Vicente Cifuentes, one of those identified as being responsible, had been detained, but had no knowledge of any prosecution of the other persons responsible. Felipe Alva had not been arrested for the murder or for burning the remains. Members of his family had never met with a judge, because the Guatemalan Government had told them that they should speak to the military authorities since they controlled the area where Mr. Nicholas Blake and Mr. Griffith Davis had disappeared. He did not know whether the civil authorities had made any effort to arrest, investigate or denounce the other patrolmen. b. Testimony of Justo Victoriano Martínez-Morales, a teacher, who investigated the facts relating to Mr. Nicholas Blake's detention, disappearance and death. The witness testified that he had been a teacher from 1986 to 1992; in 1987 he had come to know the Blake family when he helped them locate the remains of Nicholas Blake and Griffith Davis, who had disappeared near El Llano. He had initiated the investigation in January 1987. He had asked people who came to Las Majadas about the Americans' whereabouts and learned that they had been arrested in El Llano and disappeared in 1985. Mario Cano, Commander of the El Llano Civil Patrol, had ordered Candelario Cano-Herrera, Vicente Cifuentes and Hipólito García, members of the civil patrol, to take the American journalists to a military zone in the Department of El Quiché, take them out of Huehuetenango, and kill them if they wished. He had later been told that Hipólito García had shot Griffith Davis, that two other patrolmen had shot Nicholas Blake, and that the bodies had been left in the hills until 1987 when Felipe Alva ordered them to be collected and burned. The order to burn the corpses had been given to Daniel Velásquez, Commander of Las Majadas, who passed it on to Mario Cano. He discovered that in August or September 1987 the patrolmen had made a bonfire in which some of the bones were burned. He had subsequently visited the site and found the circle where the bonfire had been. The remains had been burned because the patrolmen were afraid they would be killed. The people of this place knew who the authors of the crime were. Two photos had been taken of Candelario Cano-Herrera and Mario Cano in 1988 or 1989 and sent to Ricardo Roberto, the Consul in Guatemala. The authors of the crime were summoned to the military zone of Huehuetenango to be interviewed by Colonel George Hooker of the United States Embassy but did not appear. When the U.S. Embassy officials asked for the files to ascertain the names of the patrolmen, the Army said that no such files existed, he told Samuel Blake that Felipe Alva could help him locate his brother's remains, since, as Commander-in-Chief of the Patrol, he knew who had been responsible for his brother's disappearance. He learned that Alva would be organizing a search for the remains and later discovered that Mr. Michael Shawcross and Mr. Felipe Alva had taken part in it. He had transferred back to the school in San Lorenzo because the parents of his students in Las Majadas no longer wanted him there because they knew that he was passing information to the United States Embassy.