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Esteban Luciano Rosillo García was a student, and three months before he
died he had graduated from the Naval Academy. He was single, and had a
son whom he did not acknowledge because at the time of the events the
acknowledgment procedure had not been completed. The victim contributed
all his salary from the Naval Academy to household expenses. At the time of
the event he earned minimum wage.
Due to the facts, the witness had to sell her car and became indebted to pay
the expenses in connection with the vigil. COFAVIC has covered the expenses
involved by searching for justice, except for transportation of the witness to
Caracas.
The official who killed her son has openly said that he will “not pay a death”
for his homicide. Her other children have seen and heard him say this.
Therefore, her main desire is for there to be justice. The day of the facts, the
older son went to inform the witness, thinking that his brother had only been
wounded, but at the hospital they told them that he had died. The witness
fainted, and since then she has unceasingly felt a deep sadness and a strong
feeling of powerlessness in face of impunity.
The witness spent six months in a state of shock, taking tranquilizers. Since
then, she began to sell cosmetics to support herself. All the family has been
emotionally perturbed. The witness has lost the will to live, since the victim
helped her more than anyone else in the household. She suffers insomnia
and depression, accentuated due to impunity.
21.
María Neria Guillén Pereira, the mother of Leobardo Antonio Salas
Guillén.
Leobardo Antonio Salas Guillén died at the age of twenty-two. The body was
buried in a common grave. His remains were located in 1990, exhumed and
delivered to the next of kin. He worked as a the employee in charge of
control in a parking lot. He was single and had no children. He contributed
fortnightly to the expenses of the household, which included twelve members.
At the time of the event he earned minimum wage.
The next of kin of the victim covered the costs of the vigil, without including
transportation of the body from Caracas to the place of origin of the family in
the State of Mérida. COFAVIC covered expenses involved in searching for
justice.
The witness is a housewife and receives psychological and medical treatment.
Sessions with the psychologist were at first four times a year, now twice a
year. It was a traumatic experience to witness exhumation of corpses in the
common grave to identify her son. She continues to suffer insomnia and
depression. She especially wishes that justice be served because impunity
has affected her severely.
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Olga María Álvarez, the mother of Tirso Cruz Tesara Álvarez.
Tirso Cruz Tesara Álvarez died at the age of twenty-three. He worked as a
messenger at a radio station, and had helped his father cover household