-28that, but now that they have taken the people, you come to report it. This must be revenge; you exchanged people for cattle.’” The witness stated that they asked the lieutenant “to carry out an immediate raid on the ‘Las Tangas’ ranch, but he refused to do this, alleging that he did ‘not have enough troops to send to ‘Las Tangas’ and it involved a certain procedure and he had to request permission.’” Subsequently, the witness stated that he reported the facts on the television and in the press; but without any success as regards obtaining help in locating the alleged victims. Likewise, he stated that he met with the military authorities in his search for information on the whereabouts of his father and the other disappeared persons, without any results. Finally, Mr. Jiménez Romero stated that he had to abandon the region for safety reasons. Subsequently, he had to leave Colombia and go into exile in Sweden, because he “saw that there was evident danger and if [he] did not leave the country, they would kill [him].” b) Mariano Manuel Martínez, father of Jorge David Martínez At the time of the facts, Mariano Manuel Martínez had been living in Pueblo Bello for 18 days. He had moved there for work-related reasons, because he had seen “that it was a good place to work and support a family.” The day of the facts, two vehicles entered the village with armed men. He saw how they took men at gunpoint to where the vehicles were parked. He stated that the armed men “threw [the men from Pueblo Bello] face down on the ground.” The witness stated that he observed “more or less 12 soldiers from the San Pedro de Urabá base.” The witness stated that, the day after the facts, the next of kin of the alleged disappeared went to the base in San Pedro to look for the disappeared and the lieutenant at this base showed no interest in helping them; “he did not pay any attention.” Mr. Martínez did not tell this lieutenant that there had been soldiers from his base, because he “felt it would cause problems to contradict a solider who was on duty.” He said that three days after the events, members of the Army came to Pueblo Bello and began to hand out envelopes with 50,000 pesos for each family. “Some of the people present, parents of the disappeared, did not want to receive the money.” He also stated that another man, whose son had also been taken, “[took] the envelope and […] threw it at the feet of one of [the soldiers … saying to them] that he had not sold them an animal, for them to come and pay him 50,000 pesos.” Mariano Manuel Martínez stated that the next of kin of the alleged disappeared were advised that they should go to the Montería hospital to identify some corpses, and he identified the body of his son among them. Finally, the witness stated that he had to abandon his farm, because he had to leave, displaced. His son who allegedly disappeared “was the one who helped [him] most.” At the present time, he has no financial resources for his subsistence. Witnesses proposed by the representatives c) Rubén Díaz Romero, father of Ariel Díaz Delgado At the time of the facts, Mr. Díaz Romero lived in Pueblo Bello with his wife and seven children. Ariel, his disappeared son, was 19 years of age. The day after the