60. In July 2005, employees of the Ombudsman’s Office (hereinafter “PDH”) accidentally discovered, in a former base of the National Police in Guatemala City, videos, photos and around 80 million pages, among other objects, recording the actions of the National Police for over 100 years, from 1882 to 1997. 61 This wealth of information has been called the Historical Archive of the National Police (hereinafter also “Historical Archive of the Police”). 61. The Historical Archive of the National Police contains military and police plans for counterinsurgency operations, orders from Police Headquarters, file cards with the political affiliation of individuals, surveillance reports on the population, transcripts of interrogations, applications for habeas corpus, telegrams, bulletins, and circulars. 62 The existence of the Historical Archive of the National Police had been denied by the authorities before it surfaced. The information contained in the Historical Archive of the National Police confirms and supplements the information recorded in the Diario Militar. 63 C) The forced disappearance of Edgar Fernando García 62. Edgar Fernando García was 26 years old and was married to Nineth Varenca Montenegro Cottom, with whom he had a daughter. 64 He was a primary school teacher and an administrative employee of the Industria Centro Americana de Vidrio S.A. (hereinafter “CAVISA”), where he was the Recording Secretary of the labor union. At the time of his arrest, he belonged to the Negotiating Committee on the Collective Working Conditions Agreement. He was also connected with Patriotic Youth for Labor of the Guatemalan Labor Party (hereinafter “the PGT”), the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and the “Oliverio 61 Cf. PDH, El Derecho a Saber, supra, p. IX; PDH. Informe Anual Circunstanciado. Situación de los Derechos Humanos en Guatemala, 2008, annex 7 of the Merits Report, p. 250, Available at: http://www.pdh.org.gt/index.php/documentos/informes.html, and testimony given by Velia Muralles Bautista before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing in this case. 62 Cf. Expert opinion of Rember Aroldo Larios Tobar on the police structure in the case of Edgar Fernando García provided in the domestic criminal proceedings (file of annexes to the motions and arguments brief, tome I, folios 1591, 1592, 1593, 1595, 1596, 1598, 1601, 1606, 1607); PDH, supra, pp. Xii, 49, 51, 53, 56, 60, 62, 67, 71, 73, 77, 79, 83, 86, and expert archival report prepared by Velia Muralles Bautista for the domestic criminal proceedings (file of annexes to the motions and arguments brief, tome I, folios 1742, 1911 and 1912). 63 Cf. Peace Secretariat, supra, p. 167, folio 175. 64 Cf. Copy of Edgar Fernando García’s identity document (file of annexes to the Merits Report, tome II, annex 31, folio 482); copy of the marriage certificate of Edgar Fernando García and Nineth Varenca Montenegro Cottom (file of annexes to the motions and arguments brief, tome I, annex 3, folios 1345 and 1346), and copy of the birth certificate of a Alejandra García Montenegro (file of annexes to the motions and arguments brief, tome I, annex 4, folio 1348). 21