17 Following his brother’s death, his mother and he remained in the same house. He continued to work and study and his mother had to work as a maid to maintain the home and support him while he completed his schooling. There was no one else to help. He now works to support his mother. His brother’s assassination has affected him considerably. He heard from the news or from the conversations of neighbors that his brother died tortured by agents of the State. He asks the State to see that justice is done and that those responsible are identified. He feels “a little nervous and sad”, appearing before the Court, because he is being reminded of something that happened a long time ago and because justice has not been done. e) Testimony of Miriam Enoé Zelada Chinchilla, sister of Erick Leonardo Chinchilla She lives in Guatemala City and works in a pharmaceutical company. They were a very close family. At the time of Erick Leonardo’s death, she, three siblings – Sandra del Carmen, Hugo Alejandro and Ingrid Aracely – and the victim lived in the house of her mother, María Luisa Chinchilla Ruano. Erick was the fifth child, the youngest, and within the family, they helped him and guided him “so that he would grow up and obtain better jobs than [they] had.” The victim went to school, but as his mother was left alone, he only finished basic primary education and, at 15 years of age, he started to work in her bakery. The family received approximately Q1,000.00 (one thousand quetzales) a month for the work they did in the business. From the moment her brother was no longer there, the business declined, because her mother lost her will to work and, due to her diabetes – resulting from the death of her son – she could not continue working. They heard about what had happened through a police agent, and it was the witness, with another brother, who identified the body. Her mother fainted on receiving the news and then she became ill. Subsequently, no authority came to investigate the fact. When they wanted to file a claim they received telephone threats, telling them that if they continued to try and find out about the death of the victim, there would be reprisals against the family. Furthermore, the house was shot at on two occasions and they were told that it was a warning and that they could be killed, so they did not continue the investigation because they were afraid. Her mother has to have medical treatment due to her diabetes and the medicines cost Q1,500.00 (one thousand five hundred quetzales) a month. Her mother visits her brother in the cemetery every day and sits by his grave talking to him for an hour. She and her other siblings cannot fill the vacuum that her mother feels. Her mother continues to cry every day, does not want to continue to take her medicines and, recently, had two small heart attacks. She and her siblings have tried to make her think of other things, but for her mother “there can be no distraction, [...] she just asks to be taken to the cemetery.”