Secretary of State under the last Administration. And the case of Gomez. I say with all the confidence that I am capable of feeling. is precisely the case of Barrundia. except that Gomez was charged only as a political refugee. while Barrundia was charged with the crimes of murder and the embezzlement of public funds. The case of Gomez was the case of a Nicaraguan who. being a political refugee. took passage on a vessel in a port of Guatemala for a port in Costa Rica with the knowledge that this vessel on its course would come within the jurisdiction of Nicaragua. whose Government he had offended. The United States minister took it upon himself to say that under those circumstances the Nicaraguan Government had not a right to arrest Gomez while in the port of Nicaragua. Mr.