Physician Milvio Carrera Guzmán, close friend of the late Cuban physician Jorge Enriquillo Salgado, who also died in unexplained circumstances, was found dead in the bushes off Autopista Duarte Km. 10-1/2. His friend, the late Dr. Salgado was initially said to have committed suicide, but later the forensic reports indicated he had died in unexplained circumstances. Dr. Salgado was the anesthesiologist involved in the case of the late Air Force reserve General Luis Santiago Pérez, who was beaten to death by overzealous PLD campaign activists during the past congressional and municipal elections campaign. The late Dr. Carrera’s corpse was found in advanced stage of decay with a belt around his neck and several knife wounds. The death certificate establishes that he was strangled and died because of being beaten on the head. A graduate of the state university, he specialized at the Hospital Luis Eduardo Aybar en el 1992. He worked at the Hospital Darío Contreras and at the Clínica Independencia, from where he disappeared on 5 July. He was 39 years old and lived in the Urb. El Pensador, Avenida Mirador del Este. His relatives have asked for the intervention of President Leonel Fernández and the Chief of the Police José Aníbal Sanz Jiminián so that an in-depth investigation be carried out to find the culprits. The Police said some 10 persons are being investigated.
