83.
Octavio René Guzmán Castaneda was a student and was 21 years of age at the time
of his disappearance. The Diario Militar recorded Octavio René Guzmán as follows
42. OCTAVIO RENÉ GUZMÁN CASTAÑEDA
(alias) FRANCISCO. Member of the FERC military squad of the EGP. 17-01-84: Captured in Colonia
Primero de Julio, Zona 19. 07-02-84: 300.
84.
On January 17, 1984, he was captured by armed men at a health clinic in Zone 19 of
Guatemala City. His name was recorded by the Ministry of the Interior on the “Amnesty
International list” of disappeared persons. On July 16, 1984, and in December 1985, a judge
went to the offices of the National Police to execute a writ of habeas corpus on his behalf
and the result was negative. In September 1984, the DIT requested information from five
Units of the National Police. On August 9, 1985, the Supreme Court issued a writ of habeas
corpus for Mr. Guzmán Castaneda and ordered that information be requested from the
Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior and the country’s chiefs of police, among
others. In response, the DIT indicated that that “having examined the records and logs […]
it had verified that [Mr. Guzmán Castañeda] has not […] been charged […] or detained […]
by members of this Department.” In December 1995, a writ of habeas corpus was
implemented on his behalf before the National Police, with negative results.
6. Álvaro Zacarías Calvo Pérez81
85.
Álvaro Zacarías Calvo Pérez was 26 years old, married, and had a son. He was a
primary school teacher and was in the third year of law studies at the Universidad de San
Carlos de Guatemala, where he was a member of the Law Students’ Association. The Diario
Militar records Alvaro Calvo Pérez as follows:
47. ÁLVARO ZACARÍAS CALVO PÉREZ
(alias) FELIX. He started in the FERG, and now belongs to the EGP., he knows PGT and ORPA people.
20-01-84: He was captured at the IGSS General Hospital. 07-02-84: 300.
86.
On January 20, 1984 Mr. Calvo Pérez collected his son from his mother-in-law’s
house and went to visit a friend at the General Hospital of the Guatemalan Social Security
Institute. Later, they were on their way to the mechanic when they were intercepted by
armed men who shot Mr. Calvo Pérez in the left leg, blindfolded and gagged him and tied
his hands, while they sedated his son, José Ernesto. At around 5.30 p.m., an unknown man
24885 of the DIT of September 28, 1984, GT PN 50 S047, Nos. 11794. 11795, 11796, 11797 and 11798 (file of
annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome VI, D64, folios 12066 to 12075).
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The evidence regarding this victim is found in: Diario Militar (file of annexes to the merits report, tome I,
annex 11, folio 368); affidavit made by Ana Dolores Monroy Peralta de Calvo on November 2, 2004 (file of annexes
to the merits report, tome I, annex 39, folios 602 and 603); testimony of Ana Dolores Monroy Peralta
authenticated el March 29, 2008 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 40, folio 606); affidavit made
by José Ernesto Calvo Monroy on June 7, 2005 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 41, folio 614);
copy of entry for neighborhood identity card of Álvaro Zacarías Calvo Pérez (file of annexes presented by the State
on October 17, 2008, tome II, folio 6885); AHPN. Log, GT PN 26 S001, 11828 (file of annexes to the pleadings and
motions brief, tome VI, annex D57, folio 11993); Note No. 890/jrsdc of the Chief of Police to the First Criminal
Judge of Peace of January 21, 1984 (file of annexes to the pleadings and motions brief, tome IV, annex A86, folios
10582); Note of the First Court of Peace of Mixco on January 22, 1984, affidavit made by complainant on January
24, 1984, Note of January 24, 1984, Letter of the First Criminal for Drug-trafficking and Environmental Offenses to
the General Archive of the Courts of May 20, 2004 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 42, folios
622, 623, 624 and 627); file forwarding the complaint filed on October 9, 2006 and Record of verbal complaint
before the Office of the District Prosecutor of Guatemala of August 2, 2006 (file of annexes presented by the State
on October 17, 2008, tome II, folios 6823, 6825 and 6826), and Human Rights Office of the Archbishopric of
Guatemala (ODHAG), Guatemala Nunca Más. Informe del Proyecto Interdiocesano “Recuperación de la Memoria
Histórica, 1998, tome IV, Chapter 4, p. 418 (file of annexes to the merits report, tome II, annex 43, folio 638).
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