-24paramilitary group, who were armed, some of them disguised with army uniforms, some with police uniforms and others in civilian clothing.” The witness declared that, at the time of the events in Pueblo Bello, neither the Army nor the police were present. He said that “the authorities did nothing to prevent the raid on the village, even though they had heard the rumors that the ‘tangueros’ were going to take Pueblo Bello”. Following the events, a Committee was established with members of the alleged disappeared and it went to the Turbo mayor’s office to ask the authorities to help them find their next of kin. There was no response from the authorities. When they returned from Turbo, the Army was in Pueblo Bello and had ransacked the village. Robinson Petro Pérez began to take part in ASFADDES meetings and to take steps to look for the alleged disappeared. The people of Montería told him that he “should be careful because Fidel Castaño’s people worked in the prosecutor’s office in Montería.” Immediately after the events, he also made a statement before the judicial police, but they have never asked him to make another statement. The witness stated that “when they disappeared [his] father, the family had no financial support, because it was [his] father who paid the bills.” The witness “was greatly affected by what happened to [his] father,” so he decided to train with a paramilitary group in order to find out what had happened to the disappeared. Robinson Petro Pérez said that “if [his] father had not been disappeared, [his] life would be better, because [his] father had said that he would pay for [him] to study whatever [he] wanted, and if [he] had been able to study, everything would have been different.” He said that, after what happened, life in Pueblo Bello changed. “You could feel a great deal of fear; those who could departed, and only the poorest people stayed.” The witness stated that he hopes that the Inter-American Court “will make those who were really responsible […] pay for what happened and receive the punishment they deserve, and that [the Court] will help [them] find the remains of [their] family members.” k) Expert evidence of Alfredo Molano Bravo concerning the dynamics of the armed men in different regions of the country, particularly in Urabá The expert referred to the social and political context of Pueblo Bello, which is a hamlet located to the northwest of Turbo, in Urabá Antioqueño, on the border between the departments of Antioquia and Córdoba. Owing to the region’s biodiversity, the forest has been thinned out and intense logging operations have been carried out; this has given rise to confrontations between the local population and the logging companies. The logging companies are protected by the paramilitary groups, while the peasants are supported by the guerrilla. Logging has extended towards the south, and represents an enormous source of revenue. This exploitation has opened up the land to peasant settlements and facilitates the concentration of land in the hands of the large-scale livestock ranches owned by Antioqueños, supported by the paramilitary groups.