-18- c) Benildo José Ricardo Herrera, father of Elides Ricardo Pérez and Luis Carlos Ricardo Pérez When the facts occurred, the witness lived in Pueblo Bello with his wife and children; he was a pastor of the Presbyterian Church. That day, he saw “a number of soldiers and police. They took the men to the central square; […] there was a great deal of confusion and that was when they began to put the people into the ‘jaulas’ [cattle trucks].” When the villagers began to look for people, they realized that 10 young members of the Church were missing; they were “young men who led good lives. [The witness) knew them well; they enlivened the village life[. His] two sons were among those missing. People were crying, […] some people had visions from the Holy Spirit […]. The villagers knew the men were “tangueros”; consequently they knew that they had killed the [men they took away].” The following day, when they were passing through the military roadblock, the judge who was part of the committee that had been formed asked the lieutenant whether he had seen the “jaulas” pass by and the lieutenant became very nervous and said that they had not passed through the roadblock. The witness said he considered that the State “knows what happened, knows who did it, and should at least have provided reparation.” The witness said that, following the facts, life in Pueblo Bello changed, “because then the Army came and established about 200 soldiers, who had not been there before. Now the guerrilla could not come through the village and it made people’s lives impossible; [therefore,] they began to abandon their homes.” In Pueblo Bello, he and his family had four lots, but they had to almost give them away, because his wife received threats; so “he had to sell them off,” and only received 120,000 pesos for them. Consequently, Mr. Ricardo Herrera moved to Barranquilla with his family. The witness’s grandchildren, children of Elides Ricardo, want to go to university, but “they do not have the means […] and, since they have no father, they have no one to help them.” His wife became “very thin; she cries all the time; this was terrible […]; all she thinks about is her sons.” Mr. Ricardo Herrera said that he would like at least some acknowledgment and compensation for the next of kin of the alleged disappeared so they “can live in peace and so that the children of [the disappeared] can live decently and study, and will not end up in the gutter, smoking bazuco.” d) María Cecilia Ruiz de Álvarez, wife of José del Carmen Álvarez Blanco Mrs. Ruiz de Álvarez stated that on the day of the facts, a truck “covered with a tarpaulin, or a cattle truck” arrived in Pueblo Bello. She told her husband that it was the Army or the guerrilla, but whichever they were, they were armed men. They began to round up people, including her husband. The armed men beat the women who did not want their family members to be taken away. Suddenly, the men began to start fires; the electricity began to fail and went off. The witness “began to ask about [her] husband, but no one knew anything.” Following the facts, Mrs. Ruiz de Álvarez went to the Montería hospital to identify some corpses, which were “spread out on the floor; there was just enough room to walk between them to identify them. Some bodies were very badly damaged, because [they were] told […] that they had been dug out with machinery.” She went