-22- When the witness returned home after the facts, he found his wife “as if she had been sedated, medicated with tranquilizers, because she could not stop crying, calling for Genaro, and she could not stand up or anything. Since then, she has not had a life.” Mr. Calderón Ruiz began to drink almost every day. If he was told that someone could tell him where his son was, he went. His son was a good student, a good son, hardworking; he was the son that helped him in his grocery store. He was the only one of his children who wanted to study a career. The disappearance of Genaro Benito affected the business, “the income went down, because he had helped them a great deal.” The witness stated that he had taken many steps to seek his son. He even filed a report before the Montería authorities and went to see them three times; but, since then, he has not returned to Montería. A friend of Mr. Calderón Ruiz called him to go with his wife to Montería because they had found 24 corpses on the “Las Tangas” ranch. At the hospital, no one helped them identify the people; there were no doctors or anyone from prosecutor’s office; no one took information from the next of kin, or “gave them any explanation.” The witness and his wife examined the corpses that were on the floor, “lined up[, black with mud].” They thought they would be able to identify them by their clothes, because “they did not know any other way.” The witness said that, after this, he has never received any information from any State authority, and has never been informed of the measures being taken to find his son. Mr. Calderón Ruiz said he hoped his son would appear and is still alive. If his son does not appear, the State should compensate them. He also said that he wanted an investigation to be conducted and the perpetrators to be punished. He asked for health care for his wife, because “owing to this [...] she became ill.” Finally, the witness said that “when one can bury [a son] one comes to terms with his death, but when one cannot bury him, one lives thinking that he will return.” He added that his wife “lives pending and keyed up about the paramilitary groups who are laying down their arms, because she still hopes that [her son] is alive and that he is with the paramilitary group who took him.” i) Manuel Dolores López Cuadro, brother of Miguel Ángel López Cuadro The day the facts occurred, the witness was in San Pedro. His brother lived in Pueblo Bello, mended radios, clocks and other domestic appliances, and “sponsored” a niece so that she could go to school. Manuel Dolores López Cuadro stated that, in 1989, the guerrilla had killed another of his brothers; in 1990, they had disappeared his brother, Miguel Ángel, and two years later, his father died; so “the morale of [his family] had declined greatly with all these events.” Manuel Dolores López Cuadro stated that there is a military base in the entrance to San Pedro and that there were police officials in the town of San Pedro who knew “about the livestock [of Fidel Castaño that had disappeared] and that he was going to exact revenge[. However,] the authorities did nothing to protect [them].”