Word: sibrian
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...national guard. They were apprehended, underwent lie-detector tests, confessed and were formally arrested. Both were at the Sheraton Hotel on the night of Jan. 3, 1981, serving as plain-clothes bodyguards for police officers visiting the hotel. One of those officers was Lieut. Rodolfo Isidro López Sibrian, 26, known as "Posorito," or "Little Match," for his naming red hair, fiery temper and anti-Communist views...
...enlisted men said in their confessions that López Sibrian told them: "Look, inside the hotel is Viera and two other fair-skinned men. You are going to kill them." Soon after, López Sibrian handed Gómez González a 9-mm Ingram submachine gun. Meanwhile another officer, Captain Eduardo Avila, slapped a .45-cal. submachine gun, equipped with a silencer, in Valle Acevedo's hands...
...Sibrian, who denied being at the Sheraton that night, was put in a lineup to be viewed by witnesses of the incident. However, before appearing, he was allowed to dye his red hair black, cut it and shave off his mustache. Although nobody recognized him in the lineup, he was later identified by the killers. López Sibrian was also ordered to undergo a lie-detector test, and failed...
Although López Sibrian is now in military custody, U.S. officials are frustrated at the reluctance of the Salvadoran judiciary to pursue the case. American officials are also upset at the public support that Avila and López Sibrian have received from Roberto d'Aubuisson, the right-wing former army officer who became president of El Salvador's constituent assembly this year. D'Aubuisson called the accused officers "my colleagues and my friends. I am honored to be their friend. I know they are good soldiers...