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...days later, Garay fled El Salvador, finding refuge in an unnamed foreign country for seven years. Then, two weeks ago, he returned, apparently under a guarantee of immunity from prosecution. Saravia had also fled abroad. One night last week in Miami, Metro-Dade County police knocked on the door of his rented Kendall town house and lured him outside by claiming that his van had been involved in a hit-and-run accident. They were suddenly joined by U.S. marshals and immigration agents, who arrested him on a charge of overstaying his tourist visa. Since Garay had implicated him just...
...member of the country's legislature, D'Aubuisson cannot be prosecuted. A report by Salvadoran Attorney General Roberto Giron Flores has concluded, however, that Garay's testimony is sufficient to label the politician the "intellectual author" of the crime. Last week El Salvador's Justice Ministry began taking formal steps to convince the National Assembly that it should strip D'Aubuisson of his immunity so that he can be charged. Duarte's Christian Democratic Party has a clear majority in the legislature, 33 seats, compared with the 13 of D'Aubuisson's Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). Duarte, who defeated...
Within hours of the release of Garay's testimony, D'Aubuisson mounted a counteroffensive. The thin, chain-smoking soldier turned politician rejected all suggestions that he was involved in the killing. Claiming to have been out of the country when Romero was slain, D'Aubuisson said, "Duarte is accusing me to maintain a smoke screen to detract attention from the crisis in El Salvador...
...case, D'Aubuisson is unlikely to be convicted -- even if the legislature strips him of his immunity. Under Salvadoran law, the same witness cannot testify against two people charged with the same crime. Garay's evidence can therefore be used only against Saravia. If D'Aubuisson goes to trial, he will face judges on the country's appeals court, which includes many ardent ARENA supporters...
With the judicial odds favoring D'Aubuisson, why did Duarte choose this time to evoke the ghost of Arnulfo Romero? The U.S. had long ago supplied all the essential details to El Salvador, including the gist of Garay's testimony, the whereabouts of Saravia, and D'Aubuisson's alleged complicity. "We've known that almost from Day 1," said a Reagan Administration source. Duarte, he added, "is playing politics. He's had this in his back pocket for a long time...