39 themselves reflected in it. It is quite a heavy burden that forced her to give up her personal life and spend all her time representing, with dignity, the thousands of victims who had no chance. She is not an attorney, but rather a business administrator by profession, and previously she had no knowledge on human rights. Between 1990 and 1993 she had to concentrate on the case alone and also work two shifts to obtain money from the work she did for a living. In the last two years, she has spent 100 per cent of her time on the case, and to pay the costs she had to take out a loan. The Myrna Mack Foundation, established in 1993, struggles to put an end to impunity in the case of Myrna and it also represents the case of many other Guatemalans. Starting from her sister’s case, they have seen the deficiencies that affect cases of human rights violations and that now apply to all crimes or offenses committed by organized crime. The abusive use of amparo remedies as well as other remedies, denial of information alleging official secret, and threats and acts of intimidation against witnesses and other involved in the cases are part of this pattern that protects impunity and impedes strengthening of the system of justice. The main objective of the Myrna Mack Foundation is to strengthen the justice and security system, for which they have requested pertinent reforms in the intelligence system. They make proposals to encourage the judges and prosecutors to believe in their judicial independence and in the autonomy that they must have to be able to exercise criminal prosecution, and to rescue the dignity and self-esteem of the police. The Foundation has spent close to $100,000.00 a year on her sister’s case, without including legal costs. She believes that the Presidential General Staff is responsible for the murder of her sister. Proof of this is the fact that, using as a pretext the riot that took place last week at the preventive detention center in zone 18, and in which they killed the witness in the Gerardi case, the military who have been accused in the Myrna Mack Chang case were transferred to the military headquarters without a court order. It is a notorious and publicly known fact that the Presidential General Staff was taking steps for them to be moved and they were present during the riot, to be able to take them out and to the military headquarters. Another conclusive proof is the conviction of Noel de Jesús Beteta Álvarez, who was a member of the Presidential General Staff. Finally, they believe that the State wishes to link the outcome of the domestic trial to what is discussed at the Inter-American Court, despite the fact that they are two completely different jurisdictions. e. Testimony of Rember Larios Tobar, former department of criminological investigations24 head of the In 1978 he began his career in the National Police of Guatemala, where he served for 14 years. At the time of the facts he lived in Guatemala City and worked as the head of the department of criminological investigations. At that time, his supervisor was the Director General of the Police, colonel Julio Caballeros, who between September 14 and 15, 1990, ordered him to fully investigate the Myrna Mack Chang case, no 24 He rendered testimony on the investigations carried out by the investigators on the murder of Myrna Mack Chang, on the threats that he and others received, and on the background pertaining to the object and purpose of the application.