DECISION BY MILITARY COMMANDERS TO REQUEST THAT THE PRESIDENT REOPEN THE LEGAL CASE AGAINST THE OFFICERS IMPLICATED IN THE MURDER OF UNITED STATES CITIZENS

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2018
• Case Number: F-2017-01411
• Publication Date: November 1, 1982

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TEXT: 1.
AT A MEETING OF THE
SALVADORAN MILITARY HIGH COMMAND
AND OTHER KEY MILITARY COMMANDERS
AGREED THAT GENERAL JOSE GUILLERM
IT WAS
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((GAPCIA)), MINISTR OF
DEFENSE, WOULD REQUEST THAT PRESIDENT ALVARO ((MAGANA)) (b)(3)
ARRANGE FOR THE SUPREME COURT 10 REOPEN THE CASE AGAINST
CAPTAIN EDUARDO ERNESTO ALFONSO ((AVILA Y AVILA)) AND
LIEUTENANT RODOLFO ISIDRO ((LOPEZ)) SIBRIAN WHO ARE INPLICATED
IN THE MURDERS OF TWO UNITED STATES CITIZENS IN EL SALVADOR.
GENERAL GARCIA AND COLONEL RAFAEL ((FLORES)) LIMA. CHIEF OF THE
ARMED FORCES GENERAL STAFF, PLAN TO USE THEIR INFLUENCE TO
PROMOTE THE PROSECUTION OF LOPEZ AND AVILA Y AVILA. FLORES LIMA
NOTED THAT THE ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT,
AT THE TIME
THE TWO ACCUSED WERE RELEASED. WAS
AN UNCLE
OF AVILA Y AVILA. COMMENT:
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COMMANDERS CONSIDER THAT LOPEZ IS MENTALLY UNSTABLE).
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