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The February murders in Guatemala of three members of Parlacen from El Salvador along with their driver remain unsolved, as do the subsequent murders of four policemen while in jail on charges stemming from the original crime (see NotiCen, 2007-02-22 and 2007-03-01). As hopes of finding the intellectual authors of the killings fade, the political fallout has begun. Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann was forced to resign his post, and President Oscar Berger moved swiftly to replace him. Chief of the Policia Nacional Civil (PNC) Erwin Sperisen has also resigned.
After the deaths of the jailed cops, police next arrested Linda Castillo Orellana de Solis, owner of the car used in the assassination of the deputies, her half brother Carlos Amilcar Orellana Donis, Mario Javier Lemus, and Obdulio Estuardo Waldemar de Leon Lemus. The half brother owns a gas station where gasoline allegedly used in the incineration of the deputies was bought, and the last two were accused of buying the gas after they were identified on closed-circuit TV at the Texaco station on the route taken by the deputies on their last ride.
The arrests did not entirely satisfy El Salvador's President Antonio Saca, who has been applying heavy pressure on the Berger administration, or Saca's police chief Rodrigo Avila, who said, "This does not end the investigation."
Nor does it end the mounting confusion in the case. The four arrested suspects were also fingered in testimony from Marvin Roberto Contreras Natareno, an agent of the Division de Investigacion Criminal (DINC) of the PNC. Contreras, too, is in prison. He voluntarily gave himself up after briefly being a fugitive in the case. Had he been arrested along with the four officers who were killed in prison, he might have suffered the...
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