An order was delivered to remove the protesters “dead or alive.”

Prensa Libre

On day two of the Spanish Embassy massacre, the court hear testimony from witnesses that support the prosecution's case against Pedro García Arredondo.

 César Escalante served as a chauffeur for then-Spanish Ambassador Máximo Cajal.

“Police officers called another officer who was in the street and told him to dump [fuel] inside the building, and another said that no one should be left alive,” Escalante said. The witness said that when he tried to stop police from setting the fire, they assaulted him.

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Escalante said he remained outside the embassy and witnessed police attacking the Spanish ambassador as he attempted to escape the fire. Cajal and Gregorio Yujá were the only two survivors from inside the building, but Yujá was later kidnapped from the hospital and murdered. His body was dumped on the lawn at the University of San Carlos.

Other witnesses, including former Interior Ministry spokesman Elías Barahona, who arrived to the courtroom in a wheelchair, admitted to overhearing a conversation between then-Interior Minister Donaldo Álvarez and National Police Director Germán Chupina where an order was delivered to remove the protesters “dead or alive.”

Guatemala remains a country of contrasts

Guatemala is a country built on contrasts: ancient to modern; unbelievably wealthy to vastly poor; downpours of rain to warm sunshine; an Indian majority and a Spanish ruling minority; a large German population to astonishing numbers of European tourists; and diverse languages, with Spanish as the official language. 

There's such injustice in the aborted prosecution of Efrain Rios Montt yet hope for justice in the trial of García less than two years later.