11 Nutrition Institute. She helped her parents financially with fortnightly contributions since she began to work at age nineteen. She was married and had a two-year old son, Guirvin Efraín González, whom she supported. At the time of the event she earned minimum wage. The parents of the victim and her husband covered expenses in connection with the vigil. COFAVIC covered expenses during the search for justice. At the time of the facts, the victim’s father was unemployed and the family was dependent on Mercedes Beatriz’s contributions. The victim lived at her parents’ house with her son. The witness was also wounded in a leg, and due to this she had to interrupt her university studies and work for a time. The impact of having witnessed her sister’s death is still strong. At the time of the event, the witness was in her first semester at the university; she was emotionally blocked and this left her without the will to study. Currently the family has resigned itself and accepted the loss of her sister. However, they still suffer complications at night. The mother died a few years ago. None of the members of the family have received psychological treatment due to the difficult financial situation. The witness hopes that those guilty are punished. 8. Rosa Margarita Mederos, the mother of Crisanto Mederos. Crisanto Mederos died when he was 37 years old. He was a master builder, and as hobbies he was a painter and a poet. He supported the witness and her children permanently. He was divorced and had three young children, Crisanto Bael, Leonor Pilar, and Sara Abigail. At the time of the event he earned minimum wage. The victim had many projects and was always very active, for which reason the situation of the family would have improved if he had not died. His demise was a “total calamity” for the family. Crisanto supported the witness, and therefore when he died she had to rent out her house to cover living expenses and medicine. She cannot specify how much she spent on the victim’s burial, but she became indebted, and her other children helped her pay. COFAVIC covered all travel expenses, attorneys’ fees and processing fees before civil and military courts. The reply by the State to the Inter-American Court humiliated her so much that she suffered a heart attack and is receiving medical treatment, which since then has cost her approximately six million bolívares. COFAVIC helped her obtain psychological counseling. When her son was killed she thought nothing else could be done because it was the military. She heard her son screaming when he was shot; the military made her lie down on the ground and did not let her help him. She has suffered depression, has felt disappointed and has kept away from people for a long time, because the death of a child is “an irrecoverable blow,” all the more so if it is violent and caused by the State. She still suffers insomnia. She and Crisanto’s children have suffered irreparable damage, in addition to denial of justice for more than thirteen years, because still no one has been found responsible for the homicide and the humiliation. She hopes that the proceeding before the Inter-American Court will allow justice to be attained for the deceased and missing persons, as well as identification of the bodies in the common graves.