Fargarson cross examines Karl

This morning we watched the cross examination of Professor Karl by Fargarson. The questioning included a very long series of questions asking very specific things about very old and non-descriptive conferences on Central American issues. Most of which were lost on myself and certainly the jury. Fargarson quizzed Karl about her experience in El Salvador over the last 2 decades and change. Fargarson pointed out that the Truth Commission report put together by the U. N. after the (non) war makes no mention of Carranza by name and that the state was overwhelming to blame for all of the murders committed by it’s own low level people. Fargarson asks Karl about her expert testimony in two other lawsuits filed on behalf of the Center for Justice and Accountability (once in Florida (Romagoza et al v. Garcia and Vides Casanova) and once in California (Doe V. Saravia)). Fargarson produces as exhibits a couple of library books with photographs. The first book has photos of a young man in plain clothes carrying a machine gun. The second book has a photo of a bridge that may or may not have been the bridge blown up during a border war with Honduras. I’m more confused by this point. When asked if she could give examples of anything positive Carranza did while on the job she mentions he once published a signed statement rallying against the death squads and he once handed out recordings of the Treasury Police Band at press conference hoping to improve the department’s image. I wonder what those records are fetching on eBay these days.