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Navy” and her husband was transferred to Paraguay, from where he escaped months
later and took refuge in Chile, before returning to his family in Argentina.
Subsequently, they moved to another province, where her husband worked in the
San Martín Hospital, which he had just left when he was disappeared.
The witness described the measures taken to find her husband, filing a “report
before the Police, then resorting to the courts [… but] the results were unsuccessful
[…], the Paraguayan authorities never responded to” her. She “was never able to
find him.”
Mrs. Benítez Feliu de Goiburú declared that her husband “was the pater familias and,
consequently, the one who supported the family.” Following his disappearance, the
family used up “all their savings. [Her] children had to abandon their education and
their life projects for many years. [Only her] son, Rogelio, could complete his
professional studies with an incredible sacrifice, enduring poverty and the lack of
essentials.” She also stated that her husband was very emotional and sensitive,
affectionate, but responsible and with strong opinions about the correct education of
his children.” The witness stated that Dr. Goiburú’s disappearance “has affected
[her] physically and emotionally”; to such an extent that she “even lost her memory
and the ability to talk.” She also indicated that she suffered from “other physical
problems that could be attributed to what she had suffered. The witness’s children
“lost their appetite, abandoned their education [and] had difficulty in relating to their
friends.” In addition, she stated that she is “in despair because she does not know
what happened to [her husband] and his remains.” She indicated that this causes
them “anguish, despair, traumas, fear, illnesses, total depression.”
The witness said she wanted the State to compensate them for the violations and
“abuse of power suffered by [her] family and, in particular, [her] husband.” She also
indicated that she “would like a human rights course [to be introduced] in schools
and colleges,” and that hospitals bearing her husband’s name should be established
to provide free medical care. She also “hopes that the expenses will be reimbursed
so that [her] seven grandchildren can study.”
(c)
Julio Darío Ramírez Villalba, brother of Rodolfo and Benjamín Ramírez
Villalba
Julio Darío Ramírez Villalba declared that his brothers were “democrats, members of
the Colorado party, and that they sympathized with […] MOPOCO.” He stated that his
brother Benjamín was detained when he was “visit[ing] his companion, Magdalena
Galeano, and that his brother Rodolfo was detained in the province of Formosa, in
Argentina. He stated that both of them “were tortured in the worst possible way
while they were detained in the Investigations Department, with electric cattle prods,
and submerged in a small tank until they became unconscious; they were beaten
with clubs, kicked and punched, their nails were pulled out with pliers, [and] they
suffered all the types of physical and mental abuse that a human being can
imagine.” He declared that, as stated by other witnesses and former political
prisoners, “the ‘ley de fuga’ [the escape law] was applied to [his] brothers; in prison
argot, this means they were murdered or executed.”
The witness stated that “when [he] heard that [his] brothers had disappeared, [he]
visited several public institutions, [accompanied by his mother, but] neither [he nor
his] family ever received an official response from the Paraguayan authorities about
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