13 c) Testimony of María Eugenia Molina Theissen, the victim’s sister. Marco Antonio was born when the witness was 9 years old, so for her, he was the first baby in the family. In 1967, her mother worked at a night school, and during that time she was in charge of Marco Antonio. She developed such a strong bond that the family said she was Marco Antonio’s second mother. Her brother was a happy boy, who liked very much to ride his bicycle and skateboard. He was an outstanding student, to the point that in 1981 he was the standard-bearer for the Instituto Guatemalteco Israelí, that is, the highest grade-point average of the school where he studied. Her husband, like her sister Emma Guadalupe, was a member of the Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo. Members of that party told her that her sister had been detained and that they had seen her in an army vehicle. On the night of October 4th or 5th, 1981, she told her parents and Marco Antonio about what had happened to her sister, and therefore they decided to leave their home. On October 6, 1981 her mother and Marco Antonio went back to the house. Then Ana Lucrecia arrived at the house for a few minutes to tell them that Emma Guadalupe has escaped, and she left. Afterwards, some individuals came there and kidnapped Marco Antonio and took with them photographs of Emma. She believes that they took Marco Antonio as a reprisal for her sister Emma Guadalupe’s escape. After Marco Antonio disappeared, she felt great grief, anguish, anger, powerlessness, and hatred against his captors. She felt that her life had ended at that moment. Her life changed completely. She began to live in a semi-clandestine manner with her family in Guatemala. They could not rent an apartment for long, and they distanced themselves as a family. She also stopped working, for security reasons, as she worked at the University of San Carlos, which was an army target where it would have been easy for them to locate her if she had a work routine. Marco Antonio’s disappearance caused them great harm. At first they blamed each other, because they felt that they had not protected him as they should have. Her husband Héctor Hugo Alvarado Chuga was murdered on February 27, 1984. He was planning to leave for Mexico with Nadia, their daughter, but was unable to. At her husband’s funeral, strangers took pictures of the family. Afterwards, more or less on March 15, 1984, a “white van” was parked about 40 meters from her in-laws’ house. That same night the parents, the two daughters, the in-laws, a brother in law, and she herself decided to leave Guatemala. At the time of the facts, she had a house that had been allocated to her in the housing cooperative of the University of San Carlos, but when she left she lost the house, the money, her job, everything. When she arrived in Costa Rica she sought psychological aid and was in treatment roughly from 1992 to 1997 or 1998. The psychotherapy sessions were sometimes once a week, and then quarterly.