30 school, a sports center with Mr. Carpio Nicolle’s name, because all the peoples of Guatemala owe their independence to him. The country’s judicial system also needed to be strengthened, because in Guatemala there are parallel powers, very powerful powers, so that the law has to be very strong in order to combat them and avoid impunity. Lastly, he requested fair and equitable compensation for the family, his father’s heirs, for the irreparable loss. e) Testimony of Silvia Arrivillaga de Villacorta, Mr. Villacorta Fajardo’s widow She married Mr. Villacorta Fajardo in 1964, and they had two daughters and three sons. He was an excellent husband, father and grandfather. He maintained the Villacorta Arrivillaga family and always provided it with a status that was “more than respectable.” When they were recently married, they established a school on their farm and, as governor of the Department of Quetzaltenango, he also established many schools. From the time of their marriage, the principal family income came from the Monte Rosa farm, which her husband had owned for more than 30 years and which, in addition to providing financial wellbeing, had great sentimental value for the family. Her children attended the best schools, went abroad to study, and studied in the best universities in Guatemala. Within the UCN, Mr. Carpio Nicolle had entrusted her husband with general coordination in the western area of the country. The Monte Rosa farm was located in this area, so Mr. Villacorta was able to continue managing the farm, with the collaboration of a manager, who had worked for him for approximately 30 years. She learned of her husband’s death through a telephone call from Mr. López Arrivillaga. The first impact was the shock of “seeing him leave, full of life [and] illusions” and, the following day, receiving his dead body. Mr. Villacorta Fajardo’s death left Mrs. Arrivillaga de Villacorta with a feeling of emptiness. Moreover, she felt defenseless when she realized that she, a housewife, was in sole charge of five children. At the time of her husband’s death her children were 17, 20, 24, 25 and 28 years old. The coffee harvest started a month after her husband’s death. Amid the “chaos” resulting from his death, the harvest was a complete failure, because he was the person who knew how to negotiate the financing for the farm work and the harvest with the banks. The results of the sale of that harvest could have been used to pay off the loans that were owed, or renegotiate the debt, but “there was nothing” to repay the loan. In addition, after her husband’s death, the entity that financed them raised the interest rate from 16% to almost double. The funds from the sale of the farm were used to pay off all the debts, because Mrs. Arrivillaga de Villacorta wanted to ensure that her husband’s name was “clean”. After Mr. Villacorta Fajardo’s death, her youngest son shut himself up in his room. He had to leave the college in which he was studying and enroll in a “very simple college.” Her two elder sons, who were in the country’s best universities, had to abandon them. One of her daughters wanted to study medicine, but had to abandon her studies. It was a devastating experience for