They would execute the Cordovan that is 24 years ago in the "death row" in Texas

CORDOBA.
Víctor Saldaño, the death sentence sentenced to death in Texas, would be executed in November. He has been on death row for 24 years, and a few days ago his former lawyer in the United States told him that the second appeal of his conviction will fail and that the death penalty will be executed before the end of his sentence. l & # 39; year. The only possibility to avoid is that the
The United States complies with the order of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to remove it from the corridor.

Lidia Guerrero, Víctor's mother, visited him a week ago for five days with his eldest daughter. A few days earlier, Jonhatan Miller, an American lawyer who had collaborated with Argentine Juan Carlos Vega in the defense of Cordovan during the second trial, had warned them by a message saying that he would go to see Victor.

"He came, he made me sign papers and he told me that in November they would execute me because the second call would be rejected." These are the words with which Victor communicated the news to his mother. "I think God will decide on your life, hopefully," she said, who believes in it a lot. Consulted today by
THE NATION He added, "It seems to me perverse to be like that."

Vega and Miller have not worked together for years because they had a different defensive strategy and Saldaño revoked more than a year ago all the powers of the American "for loss of confidence in them". Today, Cordoba does not have an advocate in the United States; Vega is before the IACHR.

In dialogue with
THE NATION Vega admitted that it was "perfectly possible" that it was the date of execution. "The fifth circuit, which has the second appeal, has already rejected one, it's like the Federal Chamber that includes several southwestern states and that's the last instance." The Supreme Court, which follows, will no longer intervene; In 2000, when he canceled the first trial, Victor was already more than average on death row. "

Vega points out that there is no other way to prevent enforcement that the United States complies with the order of the IACHR; the
In 2016, the agency released a report on the merits, a "binding" legal statement for the United States, according to which its death sentences correspond to two null processes.

"The first consequence is that, in this case, the guilt of Saldaño could not be proven, and the second is that the state is obliged to comply with it, not to do so would an act of political, legal and ethical irresponsibility, "explains Vega.

For the lawyer, Saldaño will be executed "being technically innocent, the nullities declared by the IACHR imply that the American justice has not managed to prove its guilt to revive its presumption of innocence".

Yesterday, after the sentenced mother told him the news, Vega made a presentation to the Chancellor

Jorge Faurie

requesting his intervention to ask the United States to comply with the mandates of the Commission and to release Cordovan.

CHANCELLER

In the document submitted, it is stated that the Argentine State has breached the legal obligations it has in this case and that these are based on the American Convention on Human Rights: " Through the intermediary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he is obliged "to adopt measures" (…). Failure to comply with this rule entails an international responsibility of the State and criminal responsibility of officials " .

At the consulate of Argentina, they told Saldaño's mother that they were not aware of the date mentioned by Miller; Vega asks that, in the organization, they continue to receive Miller and that they accompany him to the prison when he is no longer a Cordovan attorney.

Saldaño's mother stated that during her visit, she had seen him "more calm and coherent enough, he is neat and controlled, he was not very excited, I l & # 39; I found it more reasonable, he was happy to see us and the third day he started asking when we would come back. "

Guerrero insists that he "has full confidence" in Vega's actions and that she also does not know Miller as a lawyer, but that Victor visits him "as some priests and people who go in prison and we can not forbid it ". He reiterates that the second trial – in which he was also sentenced to death – "there was no guarantee, he was crazy and they did not even let me testify".

Saldaño is convicted of the merchant crime on the occasion of the robbery committed in 1995; when they arrested the Córdoba man, he used the watch and had the weapon in his pocket. Twice he was sentenced to death.