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Daniel Wilkinson, counsel for Human Rights Watchs Americas
Division, wrote this report. Joanne Mariner, deputy director of the Americas
Division, Wilder Tayler, Human Rights Watchs Legal and Policy Director, and
Joseph Saunders, Deputy Program Director, edited it. Americas Division
associates Ximena Casas and Jennifer Nagle helped with the production. Interns
Nikolas Steinberg and Martin Austermuhle provided invaluable research support.
Human Rights Watch would like to thank the numerous
organizations, government officials and individuals that contributed to this
report. In particular, we would like to thank Supreme Court President Ivan
Rincón Urdaneta, Attorney General Isaías Rodríguez, Ombudsman Germán Mundarain,
and other officials who met with us in the course of our investigation.