existed at the time, to the Political Control Department in La Paz, and she went with her husband to a naval station on Lake Titicaca. She did not file an application for a writ of habeas corpus because several lawyers advised her not to do anything; at that time, habeas corpus was not granted. Furthermore, the father of José Carlos who lived in Paris made complaints at the international level. She has not ceased looking for her son for a single day over the last 30 years, asking that justice be done and trying to establish the truth about the events. The witness was dismissed from her post in a department of the national teacher training college (Instituto Normal Superior), owing to the measures she took to find her son, and had to accept another position of a lower category, which meant that her pension was reduced. The professors of the teacher training college were and still are classified as heads of districts. Currently, a teacher at the teacher training college retires with a pension of three thousand bolivianos, which amounts to approximately five hundred dollars, and a ground-level teacher receives a pension of one hundred and fifty dollars. Her competence did not lessen because of what happened to her son. Her husband, Walter, always accompanied her in the search for the victim and expressed what had happened to José Carlos in his murals and paintings. During the administration of García Meza her husband was detained and beaten by the authorities. Government agents strictly controlled the life of her family. What happened to José Carlos changed her life. She became involved in defending human rights, she was a founder of the Permanent Human Rights Assembly, she represented human rights and the Union of Bolivian Women before the Committee for the Defense of Democracy (CONADE). The day of García Meza’s coup d’état she was in CONADE and was detained together with all those who were there, she was taken to the stables, beaten and robbed. Everything that happened after the disappearance of her son is related to this disappearance; the witness’s family, her siblings and her mother were involved and affected by the disappearance of José Carlos. In 1982, during the administration of Hernán Siles Suazo, the National Investigative Committee on Disappeared Citizens was organized in La Paz. The witness was a member of this Committee and was also President of the Association of Next of Kin of the Detained-Disappeared. The members of the Committee had no investigative experience; however, an investigation was conducted and, as a result, the remains of 14 persons were found in the La Paz General Cemetery and identified, but the remains of José Carlos were not found. The National Investigative Committee on Disappeared Citizens terminated when the Government of Hernán Siles Suazo ended. Subsequent governments did not create other committees. The overall number of detained-disappeared Bolivians is 154. In about 1988, Luis Sandoval Morón initiated a lawsuit in Santa Cruz against Percy González, for the assassination of two of his brothers. The witness concurred in this action, requesting that the investigation be expanded to include what happened to José Carlos, since Mr. González was involved in his disappearance. This legal action did not prosper. In 1999, the State of Bolivia, through the Office of the Public Defender, an inappropriate instance, requested that a criminal action be opened on the forced disappearance of José Carlos Trujillo Oroza. The public defender who presented the application brief, Mary Severich, told her that the Office of the Public Defender never requested the opening of a criminal proceeding but, in this case, she