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Jurors hear of horrors of Salvadoran civil war. (Nation).(Jose Guillermo Garcia, Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova ... (834 words) |
 | Jose Guillermo Garcia and Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova have repeatedly denied that there is proof from "reliable sources" that human rights abuses took place on their respective watches. |
| Vides served under him as head of the notoriously brutal National Guard before taking over as head of the military from 1983 to 1989. |
| Carlos Mauricio held the jury spellbound as he recounted his torture in secret cells within the National Police headquarters. |
| Worldandnation: Salvadorans cleared of U.S. deaths (851 words) |
| Former Salvadoran Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia and Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, former head of the Salvadoran National Guard, were not in the courtroom for the verdict. |
| Vides Casanova, 62, said he has great respect for the families and feels tremendous pain for the loved ones they lost. |
| Garcia and Vides Casanova retired to Florida in 1989 and were granted U.S. residency because they had never been convicted of a crime. |
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