15 or take them to see a house, etc. While they were driving around, she saw two persons who at the time were party militants. When they returned that night, the men said that they would send her to Guatemala City for them to make her talk, and she was afraid that they would kill her. The men did not come on the nights of the seventh and eighth day. By then, she was in a very bad state psychologically, she felt very weak, and all that time she had not eaten or drunk water, and her stomach hurt. She began to call the soldiers, because she wanted to know what they intended to do to her. In the midst of her desperation, she was able to free herself from the shackles, realized that the window was open, jumped into the hallway, walked down it, arrived at an auditorium where there were some individuals who said nothing to her, and then she realized that they did not know what was going on, so she kept on walking and when she arrived at the courtyard she went toward the guard post. The guard asked her what she was doing inside and whom she was with; she answered that she was with the “cancha pelón” who was inside there. She believes that the guard thought she was a prostitute. When she was outside she took a cab and went to the house of one of her militant friends, to hide and for protection. Then she went to the southern coast of Guatemala. On January 16, 1982 she was able to leave the country toward Mexico with support from members of the party. In early May 1982, when she was already in Mexico, she heard that Marco Antonio had been kidnapped. The news was like a “finishing shot.” At that moment she was in a very grave state of psychological deterioration, with a very high level of irrationality, she was completely terrified, for which reason the disappearance of her brother caused her an indescribable grief, an enormous feeling of guilt mixed in with the terror. The impact of her brother’s disappearance gave her very destructive feelings of guilt for many years. When she arrived in Mexico she sought help. In late 1983 and early 1984, a psychologist saw her almost daily and did not charge her. When she arrived in Costa Rica she made some attempts to obtain psychological support; at this time her emotional deterioration –the terror and the guilt- led her into self-destructive behaviors. In the midst of this situation, she went to the office of María de los Ángeles Coto, her psychologist, and for 9 years she has undergone therapy to restructure herself in all regards, to recompose, to have an identity and the will to live. At first she went to therapy sessions two or three times a week, then once a week, and in recent years once every ten days. She realizes that no reparation is complete and true because when they took her brother’s life they took her family’s life, but she believes that to attenuate what happened, somewhat, it is necessary for the State to reveal to the family what happened, where her brother is, and in this way to attain closure in the grieving process, and at least to feel that her brother’s remains will rest in peace. She also demands that justice be done, for those responsible to be punished, for society to honor the victims of so much suffering through symbolic measures that ensure remembrance of them, such as the creation of a missing children’s hall, of a monument to life, not to death or to her brother’s disappearance, and to establish the possibility of knowing about human rights in Guatemala.