15 The family received three telephone calls from her daughter while she was abducted. During these calls, she felt that her daughter was a little anxious. From the time she was given the terrible news that her daughter had been abducted, she was distressed and her health deteriorated. She had always been healthy, but, since the events, she suffers from diabetes. While her daughter was abducted, the family’s largest expenses were the international and national telephone calls they made. At the time of the events, she had a small business selling clothes and, as a result of her daughter’s abduction, her clients decided to stop buying from her. During the six years her daughter was in exile, she visited her about 20 times. d. Testimony of Edmundo Urrutia García, brother of the alleged victim22 When he heard of his sister’s abduction, he felt that he had lost her. He had little hope, owing to the unfortunate history of his country. He visited all the media in order to find his sister. He visited all the written press several times. He visited people he knew and who were important in the country. He made telephone calls to the United States, in order to mobilize the people he knew there, and he was in permanent contact with them. He also visited institutions such as the Guatemalan Archdiocesan Human Rights Office (ODHAG), the Universidad de San Carlos, and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He made a great effort to ensure that his sister’s abduction was known in different national and international spheres in order to generate pressure so that she would be alive when she appeared. He did not take any steps with governmental institutions; he left this to his father who went to the Office of the Public Prosecutor (Procuraduría) and to the National Police. From the moment Maritza disappear, he did not return to his work. When he saw the televised statement that his sister issued, he was at home with his wife. He had the very unpleasant surprise of hearing his sister mention his name with veiled insinuations that he was the person who had introduced her to subversive activities. It was obvious that the statements were unnatural. She looked very different, she was very stiff, and many of the things she said were inexact. In the moments following his sister’s liberation, he found her very much affected, traumatized and frightened. When they left the Office of the Attorney General, they took her to the Archdiocese and from there they initiated the process to get Maritza out of the country. Since he was married to a United States citizen, an Embassy official, they came by his house that same day, after the statement had been broadcast, and took them to a hotel in Guatemala City, under heavy protection. They were there for several days because they felt very insecure. They did not return to their home and they did not go back to see the apartment they were building to live together, because they went into exile. Returning to Guatemala in that situation meant living with fear, anxiety and uncertainty. One part of him agreed to go into exile, but the family and affective part of him told him that he should remain in Guatemala, because he had a 12-year old daughter and he considered that his presence was fundamental for her 22 He provided a statement on the measures adopted to find Maritza Urrutia and to take her out of Guatemala and also on other information related to the case.