el salvador—investigation of murders

el salvador—investigation of murders Sec. 538. Of the amounts made available by this Act for military assistance and financing for El Salvador under chapters 2 and 5 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and under the Arms Export Control Act, $5,000,000 may not be expended until the President reports, following the conclusion of the Appeals process in the case of Captain Avila, to the Committees on Appropriations that the Government of El Salvador has (1) substantially concluded all investigative action with respect to those responsible for the January 1981 deaths of the two United States land reform consultants Michael Hammer and Mark Pearlman and the Salvadoran Land Reform Institute Director Jose Rodolfo Viera, (2) pursued all legal avenues to bring to trial and obtain a verdict of those who ordered and carried out the January 1981 murders, and (3) pursued all legal avenues to bring to trial those who ordered and carried out the September 1988 massacre of ten peasants near the town of San Francisco, El Salvador, and to obtain a verdict.