 He joined the ranks of more than 30,000 citizens "disappeared" by the military rulers of Guatemala during the 1980s as part of the Guatemalan Civil War.Nothing was known of his fate until 1999, when his name appeared in "", a document published in Harper's Magazine containing photographs and information on the capture and execution of 183 people, and in which he was listed as number 135.From this source, it became known that he had been killed on June 6, 1984, about three weeks after his abduction.