More Answers Wanted In Chile Embassy Tragedy
It's been two years since the tragedy at the Chilean Embassy in San José and the families of the Chilean diplomats killed are still asking questions of what really happened and are now asking for a "deep" investigation.

Yesterday morning, Vice-President and Justice Minister, Laura Chinchilla, met privately with members of the affected families and listened to arguments for more answers than what they have already gotten.

The group seemed to have left the meeting satisfied, feeling that Chinchilla really paid attention to their case.

It was on July 27, 2004, when José Orlando Jiménez, a police officer of the Fuerza Pública, assigned as a guard to the embassy, killed three Chilean officials inside.

The families complain that they still don't know what really happened and why.

Jorge Sariego, the father of Rocío Sariego, one of the three killed, made his own forensic investigation that found that his daughter and consul Christian Yuseff lived from three to five hours after being shot by Jiménez. The third victim, Roberto Nieto, died instantly after being shot, the investigation revealed.

Sariego claims that the real tragedy was the lack of action by Costa Rican officials in storming the embassy and letting the injured suffer and die.

"There was a clear lack of police action as they did not enter when they clearly had information what has occurring inside and knew from  minute 11 of the siege that the man did not pose any more threat", said Sariego.

In addition to appealing to Chinchilla for more answers, Sariego has made official requests of his own president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet and to that of Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias. The father of the dead diplomat feels that both the Costa Rican and Chilean governments are responsible for not authorizing the police action to storm the embassy.

Sariego has been very vocal in his belief that the official reports are full or errors, containing false affirmations, like the seizure of the embassy by Jiménez, when it is clear that the police officer fired shots immediately when he entered the diplomatic centre.

Sariego also denies having accepted payment of us$97.000 from the Costa Rican government as it was announced a few days ago. In his case, he will wait a full investigation.