The crass error of these legislators was to organize a protest in their favor in the Plaza de la ConstituciEn [in Guatemala City], where they provided a forum for hundreds of ex-PAC [members of civil patrols which were responsible for civil war death squads.] Also sacrificed were the prostituted "leaders" of the magisterio, Joviel Acevedo and Nery Barrios, and the Unidad de AcciEn Sindical y Popular (
UASP) [Union of Labor and popular Action], who are at the service of Colom and Sandra Torres.