18 Esteban Luciano Rosillo García was a student, and three months before he died he had graduated from the Naval Academy. He was single, and had a son whom he did not acknowledge because at the time of the events the acknowledgment procedure had not been completed. The victim contributed all his salary from the Naval Academy to household expenses. At the time of the event he earned minimum wage. Due to the facts, the witness had to sell her car and became indebted to pay the expenses in connection with the vigil. COFAVIC has covered the expenses involved by searching for justice, except for transportation of the witness to Caracas. The official who killed her son has openly said that he will “not pay a death” for his homicide. Her other children have seen and heard him say this. Therefore, her main desire is for there to be justice. The day of the facts, the older son went to inform the witness, thinking that his brother had only been wounded, but at the hospital they told them that he had died. The witness fainted, and since then she has unceasingly felt a deep sadness and a strong feeling of powerlessness in face of impunity. The witness spent six months in a state of shock, taking tranquilizers. Since then, she began to sell cosmetics to support herself. All the family has been emotionally perturbed. The witness has lost the will to live, since the victim helped her more than anyone else in the household. She suffers insomnia and depression, accentuated due to impunity. 21. María Neria Guillén Pereira, the mother of Leobardo Antonio Salas Guillén. Leobardo Antonio Salas Guillén died at the age of twenty-two. The body was buried in a common grave. His remains were located in 1990, exhumed and delivered to the next of kin. He worked as a the employee in charge of control in a parking lot. He was single and had no children. He contributed fortnightly to the expenses of the household, which included twelve members. At the time of the event he earned minimum wage. The next of kin of the victim covered the costs of the vigil, without including transportation of the body from Caracas to the place of origin of the family in the State of Mérida. COFAVIC covered expenses involved in searching for justice. The witness is a housewife and receives psychological and medical treatment. Sessions with the psychologist were at first four times a year, now twice a year. It was a traumatic experience to witness exhumation of corpses in the common grave to identify her son. She continues to suffer insomnia and depression. She especially wishes that justice be served because impunity has affected her severely. 22. Olga María Álvarez, the mother of Tirso Cruz Tesara Álvarez. Tirso Cruz Tesara Álvarez died at the age of twenty-three. He worked as a messenger at a radio station, and had helped his father cover household

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