10 of the family hardworking. would have improved, because he was studious and She and her husband covered the expenses in connection with her son’s vigil, while COFAVIC covered expenses in the search for justice. When they heard of their son’s death, they went to the hospital where they were given no information, until a niece told them that their son had died. Due to the death of the victim, who was the eldest son, the father began to have problems at work, he was fired, and he left the witness, so she had to work as a seamstress to raise her two other children. The witness has not overcome the death of her son; she is pained by his absence; she suffers insomnia and depression. She has had to undergo a fibroma operation and since the death of her son she has high blood pressure. She is pained by the fact that there has been no justice after more than thirteen years. 6. Braulio Ramón Guía Laya, a brother of Pedro Gustavo Guía Laya. Pedro Gustavo Guía Laya died when he was twenty-seven. Government officials did not allow the victim to receive assistance from his next of kin. He worked as a manual laborer, waterproofing roofs. At the time of the event he earned minimum wage. He had a daughter, Franci Araceli Guía. Since he turned eighteen, he helped his family on a weekly basis, and his was the main contribution they received. Pedro Gustavo’s daughter stayed with his mother, Baldomera Laya de Guía, and since he died, all the family has had to work at whatever they could, to come through. The witness covered expenses in connection with the vigil, while COFAVIC covered all expenses regarding the search for justice. Together with his brothers, the witness has covered expenses caused by their mother’s leg disease, which she began to suffer when she took care of the victim during the seventeen days he was hospitalized until his death. All the family has suffered the blow of losing Pedro Gustavo, especially the mother and the daughter of the victim who suffered insomnia and had to take sedatives. Due to lack of financial resources, they were unable to receive psychological treatment. When he found out that his brother had been shot, he went home from work, and from there to the hospital. The seventeen days of agony of the victim at the hospital and his death were a calvary for him, for their mother and for the victim’s daughter, just as the lack of justice regarding his death has been. He still feels very uncertain about whether his brother might have been saved, if they had allowed them to help him. The witness has undertaken the responsibility of supporting their mother and his brother’s daughter. The death of his brother has caused great pain and a deep emptiness in him, and he still takes flowers to him regularly at the cemetery. 7. Xiomara Hernández, a sister of Mercedes Beatriz Hernández Daza. Mercedes Beatriz Hernández Daza was 34 when she died from a bullet wound while at her home in the presence of her sisters and their parents, Oscar Hernández and Carmen Daza. She worked as a staff analyst for the National