"The samples gave positive to the cocaine presence." With these words, an antinarcotic agent of the division (DEA) of the PNC narrowed yesterday a little plus the wall that the American Office of the public prosecutor tries to close on ex- Salvadoran deputy Eliú Martinez, defendant of drug traffic towards the United States.

In the second day of the judgment that is followed against Martinez in the federal Court of the district of Columbia, in Washington, D.C., the agent of DEA it explained that it had participated in the inspection of a property in the urbanization Four Winds, the matting of Jaltepeque, La Paz, a farm rented by Eliú between end of 1999 and 2002. The samples that confirmed the presence of the drug in the property were taken the 26 from January of 2004 of the walls, the ground, the beams of a warehouse and the back part of a boat located in the middle of the property.

Also there were rest of drug in found fiber glass pieces in the house of the farm. The witness said that other samples obtained by one of their colleagues in a registry to another property rented by Eliú in the corner the Islets, and that she analyzed in laboratory, also they gave positive. Nevertheless, he accepted that for the PNC both registries were not absolutely satisfactory. "the surprise was that we did not find drug in great amounts", recognized questions of the defense.

Also it admitted that the laboratory tests do not allow to determine in what date was the drug in the property. The defender of Martinez asked if it were possible that the cocaine had been taken to the property after November of 2003, when Eliú was arrested in Panama. The witness responded affirmatively, and added that, in fact, also she could be taken several years before and the instruments still would have detected it.

Gasoline in the Chepona Another Salvadoran police, third taken to the estrado one by the single Office of the public prosecutor in two days, related a registry in the small village the Chepona, in Usulután, conducted the 22 of February of 2001. In the house were 33 cans that contained ethyl gasoline with oil, several pairs of plastic boots, impermeable clothes and one radio. Each container had capacity for 22 gallons. The public prosecutor asked why he had to be suspicious to find cans with gasoline in that zone. "By the amount", he clarified the agent. The defense, nevertheless, insisted on asking if there were evidence in which Martinez had been in the place. "the people of the laboratory arrived and I do not have information that the tracks of Mr. Martinez were found", determined the agent.

To date, the Office of the public prosecutor, led by Michael Speck, has tried to demonstrate that Martinez rented properties to store cocaine, like part of the drug trafficking network of the Guatemalan narcotics trafficker Otto Herrera, and who made construct boats to transport it. Nevertheless, not yet they have proven that the defendant has participated actively in the drug transfer. The sustained defense that the ex- deputy was used and who did not know of the hidden businesses of the Guatemalan, leader of the poster of the gulf. High walls and the businesses of Eliú friends constructed walls around several of the properties that rented for Herrera in several points of the Salvadoran coast.

During both years and means that Eliú Martinez rented to a farm in the corner Islets, in San Pedro Masahuat, department of La Paz, it constructed a wall, it put an iron inner door to him and it made build several rooms in the land. "he said Me that she wanted to make improvements to the property, and in our country when a renter proposes something thus, the custom is that one accepts it", the owner of the place explained yesterday before the cut. "He improved the property near the 80 percent", said of the farm that Martinez began to rent in March of 1997 by 3 thousand colons to the month.

Soon, in 1999, he rented by 5 thousand colons another land of the same proprietor, located in the corner the Jewel, near Zacatecoluca. This time, Martinez said that clients who commercialized food and vegetables in Central America needed a place to make interchanges of load. In this case, Martinez elevated 1,2 meters the wall of the entrance, that she gives to the highway, reason why the frontal part of the property was left cover by a wall of three meters.

Witness, that when identifying to Martinez she affirmed unfortunately that he is "just a little bit haggard,", assured to have seen a boat of about three meters in length, with a motor was hut, mounted on a tow in the farm the Islets, but she affirmed that that is not strange "since almost all in the place have boats". Another witness, to whom the defendant rented by two months the property in Four Winds, declared that Martinez "wanted it for Guatemalan friends that they wanted it with sport aims, of fishing".

The proprietor said to have seen Eliú in the place, accompanied by his wife, her daughter twice and other relatives. In the warehouse of the place were the cocaine remainders. A witness clarified that yes Michael Mihm knew Eliú, federal judge assigned to Illinois, entered room 3 yesterday of the federal Court of the district of Columbia visibly displeased. They were the 10:50 in the morning, 20 minutes after the decided hour so that it gave to beginning the second day of the judgment against William Eliú Martinez.

Briefly, the judge explained the lawyers of the parts that the delay had at that several members of the jury had arrived late. Hardly two minutes later appeared the 15 people who the future have in their hands of the ex- deputy santaneco to that the United States she accuses to comprise of a tie drug trafficking network with Colombian and Mexican capos. "When I say to them that they come to one hour is an order, and not to fulfill it is a violation to the law", affirmed a severe Mihm, explaining that if the situation were repeated would cause that the tardistas had to declare in public record the reason of their delay, and advancing that if this did not convince it would process them by disrespect.

Near the 11 in the morning, the last witness of the previous day concluded his participation explaining that when in 2001 July it said to the Salvadoran authorities that Martinez did not know Eliú referred to that nothing of its deprived life knew, although yes they had met, an only time, to make specific the renting of a property in the Chepona