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(c)
When she learned of her son’s detention, Carlos José Mancuello
Bareiro’s mother, Ana Arminda Bareiro de Mancuello went to the
Investigations Department and to the Police Headquarters but she was
ejected on several occasions. It was only one month later that they
told her that her son, her daughter-in-law and her granddaughter were
in the prison of the Investigations Department. She asked for her baby
grandchild, Claudia Anahí, to be handed over to her and she raised the
child for almost three years while her daughter-in-law was in prison.
Mrs. Bareiro de Mancuello took all the measures while her son, Carlos,
was detained on her own, because her husband, Mario Mancuello, and
another of her sons, Hugo Alberto, were also detained. She washed
her son Carlos’ dirty clothes, and could therefore see the bloodstains
resulting from his torture. Months after having been taking food to her
son, she received the news that “he had escaped”;
(d)
Ana Elizabeth, Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro’s sister, accompanied her
mother in the search for her brother and was subjected to humiliations
and physical mistreatment by the various security agents to whom
they resorted, “some of them even asked for sexual favors from [her]
in exchange for letting [them] see [her] brother, or by promising [her]
mother that they would release him”;
(e)
Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro’s younger brother, Emilio Raúl, who was
12 years old at the time of the facts, was responsible for taking food to
his brother, Carlos, every day and was subjected to mistreatment and
insults; and
(f)
María Magdalena Galeano Rotela, Benjamín Ramírez Villalba’s
companion, was detained with him, and heard and saw when he was
tortured while he was shackled and handcuffed. She remained in
prison for more than three years.
101. The Court has also verified the situations experienced by the next of kin
following the detention and disappearance of the victims:
(a)
Dr. Goiburú’s wife and children had to remain in exile until the fall of
General Stroessner’s dictatorship. Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro’s wife
was expelled from Paraguay; when she left the country she took her
two sons who were approximately four years old and two years old
with her. She did not return to Paraguay until the dictatorship had
fallen;
(b)
Following Dr. Goiburú’s disappearance, his children had to abandon
school and work in different jobs and his wife worked as a seamstress.
Of the three children, only Rogelio completed professional studies with
“incredible sacrifice, enduring poverty and lacking essentials.” The
other two children could not do this owing to “financial constraints”;
(c)
Following his release, Carlos José Mancuello Bareiro’s father was
obliged to sign in every day from 1975 until the fall of the dictatorship.
Also, “no one wanted to give work” either to him or to Carlos José
Mancuello Bareiro’s siblings;
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