27 The witness returned to Bucaramanga. The whole family was waiting for her and, when they saw she had not come back with her husband and brother, the family was filled with grief. The witness continued filing reports and continued struggling. She went to the Attorney General's office and to the SIJIN to ask them to detain the vehicle if it was seen driving around. She also went to the headquarters of the Bucaramanga Battalion, where she found the lieutenant who had received her report earlier at the Bárbula Battalion. Recognizing him, she approached him to ask about her report and the lieutenant asked her whether it was about the case of “those guerrillas who had been killed.” When the lieutenant said this to her, the witness was frightened and asked why, if he knew that and had seen how anxious she was when she filed the report, he had not given her an answer that day at the Battalion Bárbula. The witness stated that her husband and her brother were not guerrillas. On one occasion, the witness received a telephone call telling her she should go to Cúcuta because they might free her husband. The witness thought the call had been made by the State authorities. When the witness arrived at the Cúcuta terminal, which was six hours from where she lived, some men were waiting for her in a black vehicle. She got into the vehicle and asked them about her husband and her brother, but they told her what had happened was a “settling of accounts.” They told her she should go home and her husband would arrive for Christmas. The witness told her family and they gathered together at Christmas time to wait for her husband and brother. It was terrible when the latter did not appear; it was a cruel lie. The witness found out what had happened to her husband and brother in the media and thinks the “paramilitary personnel” who operate in the region were responsible for the disappearance of her husband and brother. Although, from the first moment, the authorities told her they would keep her informed about the investigations into the disappearance of her husband and brother, the witness has not received any telephone calls from any authority, or any response, much less, compensation. The witness and her family have been very affected by the “disappearance” of her husband and brother. She is very depressed because she does not know the whereabouts of his remains. The witness did not get married again, because she was afraid of something happening and being left alone again. The witness's children have grown up with the decompensation resulting from the absence of their father, and are therefore unsure of themselves and fear that something may happen to the witness. The witness has been both mother and father to her children and has had to work to maintain them. The witness was very afraid to testify, because, in her country, when people talk, they are “shut up”; but she was also very brave because she wants justice to be done. c. Testimonial statement by Jorge Corzo Viviescas, padre of the alleged victim, Reinaldo Corzo Vargas At the time of the facts, Reinaldo had seven siblings and worked as a tradesman, selling merchandise, mainly groceries and electrical household appliances that he acquired in Cúcuta. He usually took the route Cúcuta-Ocaña, Ocaña-San Alberto and San Alberto-Barranca. Reinaldo helped his family financially.