The daughter of General Isidoro Martinez, Josefina Martinez, said that those who sought to close the case of the murder of Orlando Martínez used her father as scapegoat. The former General died in November 1999, of several months of severe diseases. She said that the murder of Orlando Martinez had as center of conspiracy the Secret Service of the Police, head at the time by then colonel Caonabo Reynoso and not by the Servicio de Inteligencia A-2 of the Air Force, which was head by her father. She said the case focused on her father because they knew he was too sick to be able to appear in court. She said that Retired General Joaquín Antonio Pou Castro did not convince Judge Katia Jimenez. She says she is speaking up so that one day, the lead may be followed up and the truth clarified. She said the relatives of Orlando Martínez also urged her to speak up. She criticized that the judge that prepared the case released from further investigations Colonel Ramón Antonio Abreu Rodríguez, who had declared that the Minister of the Armed Forces of the time verbally authorized him to send out Mariano Cabrera Durán, who was accused of shooting the bullet that killed the journalist in 1975. She said her father was subject to interrogations of four and five hours despite his severe physical illnesses, while the chief of the J2 was sent home. She says her father was the victim of a "Machiavellian scheme." The case is still pending in the Court of Appeals, as it was appealed by three of the four that were sentenced to 30 years in jail.
