Attached please find a copy of the above-mentioned document and accompanying introductory remarks by Dr. Philip Heymann, Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice of Harvard University, to the 17 July 1990 hearing of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives. The Subcommittee was considering options for United States policy towards Guatemala. The document provides information on the reasons that the Harvard Law School withdrew their support and participation from a USAID project that focused on reforming the Guatemalan judicial system.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.

United States Congress, House of Representatives, Committee of Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs. 1990. Options for United States Policy Towards Guatemala: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, July 17, 1990. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, pp. 4-44.