Gunmen reportedly killed a Guatemalan prosecutor who was investigating the deaths of three Salvadoran politicians in February 2007. El Salvador's President Tony Saca blamed drug gangs for gunning down Juan Carlos Martinez as he was driving his car near his home on Monday. “Someone is blocking us from knowing what they are,” said Saca who alluded of a cover-up in the investigation.The bodies of Central American Parliament members Eduardo D'Aubuisson, William Pichinte and Jose Ramon Gonzalez along with their chauffeur were found dead and charred in an abandoned car. Days after the finding, Guatemalan police arrested four cops yet they were soon killed while in jail and before they could testify.
Image- Voice of America (“Agents of the National Civil Police stand before a charred Toyota Land Cruiser where three Salvadoran representatives were assassinated and torched by alleged hit men, 20 Feb 2007.”)
Sources- The Peninsula, The Latin Americanist, Reuters UK
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