9 enter the School of Engineering. Marco Antonio said that he was going to make her a house once he was an engineer, but it was all cut short. On October 6, 1981 she was at home together with Marco Antonio when three armed men arrived, only two of whom was she able to see, and these were the ones who entered the house with guns in their hands. Then, they shackled her son to an armchair, and they placed masking tape over his mouth so that he could not yell. One of the men grabbed her, pulled her around the house and emptied everything he could search. While one of the men tried to lock her up, pushing and hitting her, the other man took her son out of the house. When one of the men let go of the door, she was able to go outside and realized that her son, whose head they had covered with a sack, was being taken in the back of a pick up truck, with official license plate No. 17675. Afterwards her family found out that that license plate belonged to the G2, that is, the Intelligence service of the Guatemalan Army. Since her son was kidnapped, she and her husband took many steps to find him. Immediately after the facts they filed habeas corpus remedies, four or five, none of which were fruitful. They searched by other means, talked to the police director at the time, and to other commanders of military bases, to no avail. One of the persons whom they contacted to find out about their son even charged them money. Afterwards they found out that he worked for the Intelligence service of the Guatemalan Army. When Efraín Ríos Montt came to power they tried to communicate with him, but he would not receive them. For years she has wondered why they kidnapped her son Marco Antonio. Before what happened to Marco Antonio, her daughter Emma Guadalupe was kidnapped, kept in solitary confinement, raped and tortured at the military base in Quetzaltenango, from where she was able to escape after being kidnapped for nine days. She is certain that it was the military who took Marco Antonio away. When she heard about the kidnapping of Emma Guadalupe and that she managed to escape, it was logical to think that what happened to her son was revenge by the military, as Marco Antonio was not politically militant in any way. Since her son Marco Antonio disappeared, she feels completely defenseless. Due to the facts, she felt that she was no longer a regular human being but rather “worth nothing”; she became an outcast within her own country, and this continued because there was more ill-treatment, surveillance and persecution. Guatemala was ruled with impunity. Marco Antonio’s disappearance affected the family because it was a tragedy for each member in their relationship. No government institution or agency helped them, there was no justice at the time, and each one, each family group, sought refuge however they could. They felt that they were clandestine, because there was no other way due to the fear itself, the grief that they felt repressed them. In 1984, they moved from one place to another, eating whenever they could, sleeping wherever they could. Then the family suffered another blow, they killed her daughter María Eugenia’s husband in the “most vile and brutal” manner. They were under surveillance by what at the time was called the “white van,” in which people were taken away and made to disappear. She had no other option but to seek a way to leave and to free her remaining children, and that was how they arrived at the Ecuadorian Embassy, where