61. The remaining members of the Herminio Deras García family were released on June 11, 1984, with the help of an attorney and the defense collective of the families of other detainees and social organizations. The family was released on bail, but they needed to pay a group bond for the crime of sedition. As a result of this detention, Sandra Hernández Deras lost her job in the Estrella store. The owner felt that she was a “risk” to the store because she was a “communist.” Marlen García Pineda was also fired from her job for the same reason. 62. Héctor García was forced to leave the country in September 1984, after a DNI agent told his father, Domingo Deras Henríquez, that there was a plan to kill him. He had to leave his children in the care of his mother, Eustaquia García Alvarado. He did not see his family again for 16 years. Héctor García died in exile in 2010, the day after he had returned from a visit to his ailing mother in Honduras. 63. Domingo Deras Henríquez committed suicide on June 12, 1987, at the age of 72, after suffering severe depression as a result of the murder of his son. 64. The family members had trouble finding work for years because of the stigma of their surnames. 67 Herminio Deras García’s mother “went into profound depression, which triggered her focal epilepsy.” In addition to the frequent epileptic seizures and breakdown of her health, she “was depressed” by the family financial problems, and her husband’s business went bankrupt. 65. On February 6, 2000, while Otilia and Elba Flores Ortiz 68 were in the Third Criminal Trial Court in San Pedro Sula to make statements as part of the criminal proceedings (infra paras. 69 to 77), they received threats from family members of Marco Tulio Regalado Hernández, an agent with Battalion 3-16 who had been charged by the Public Prosecutor for the death of Deras García, and they needed to be escorted out by the prosecutor. 66. The home where Otilia Deras Ortiz lived with her daughter Lorena Deras Flores was broken into on March 9, 2009, by three armed men wearing ski masks. They destroyed “everything in the house” and took personal documents and other things. The 15-year-old son of Lorena Deras Flores was violently taken from his bed with a weapon against his temple. The individuals took the car. Lorena Deras Flores did not report the break-in because she did not trust the authorities. Herminio Deras Flores decided to leave the country in August, 2009, and moved to Canada, where he currently resides. 69 67. That same year, Patricia Alejandra Chavarría, the 15-year-old daughter of Irma Deras García, was filmed and threatened by DNI agents; Alba Deras García, who worked for the Jesuits, received death threats because of the militarization of the radio station Radio Progreso; and the home of Luis Deras García was under surveillance by unknown persons who traveled in a green Chevrolet automobile with polarized windows and no license plates, that generally patrolled from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 68. The Deras García family remained separated for 18 years, resulting in family breakdown. During that time, they were able to get together only twice, in Nicaragua. Héctor 67 Alba Deras García said that the “constant persecution” of their families “is not something that was experienced only by Herminio’s immediate family, but also his descendants—his children and grandchildren, and the children of my brother Luis. Everyone in our family has felt this persecution, this impact on their lives, and even the inability to get jobs simply because they carry the Deras name.” Statement by Alba Luz Deras García, supra (evidence file, folio 2366). 68 Irma and Luis Deras García were also with them. 69 He said, “[i]t was not easy to leave Honduras. It meant leaving my family, everything I knew, my business, and go into the unknown.” Statement by Herminio Deras Flores, supra (evidence file, folio 2375).