Extraordinarily, it was a double of Rodríguez Díaz’s who was committing the crimes. After Rodríguez Díaz has slowly come to realize what was happening (he found it hard to convince the law of his theory) he decided to start writing down everything he did – where he was, meetings, phone calls. In March 2000, having learned that the robber did his work at the start or end of the banking day, he decided to visit a notary each morning to prove his whereabouts, and having gathered 117 notary affidavits, it was the 118th which proved that he could not possibly have committed a robbery which took place on July 4, 2000. The lookalike, Fernando Alberto Pérez Fernández, known as El Dandy or El ladrón del peluquín, has now been arrested. Unsurprisingly, Rodríguez Díaz intends to take El Dandy to court. But the question remains: how did the El País journalist who interviewed him know he was interviewing the right man? I hereby reserve the right to write, one day, the film script of this twisted tale.

And here’s more crime, given a thought-provoking twist by the journalists, in their first eye-grabbing paragraph, as an instance of questionable U.S. influence on Central America.
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