WEBVTT - Ep. 4 - I Will Never Get Tired 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.000 Wharning. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.240 This episode contains scenes that may be disturbing to some 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:14.480 of our listeners. At the end of the previous episode, 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.400 Consuelo Amaya, Captain Corral's sister in law, recalled how many 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.520 in Colombia and around the world remember Paulo's Kobar, but 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:26.000 few keep the memory alive of the anonymous heroes who 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.600 helped to end his reign of terror. This turbling time 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.960 in the mid nineties, after Pablo's Kovar fell and Captain 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.720 Coral was killed, left a trail of pain in the 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:40.600 Koral family. They were particularly difficult years in the context 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.960 of more than six decades of farmed conflict in Colombia, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.680 in which almost two hundred and seventy thousand people died. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:52.000 In addition to that figure of fatalities, it is estimated 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.080 that more than four hundred and twenty one thousand have 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:59.360 been affected in one way or another, and in this context, 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.960 the Koral family was like many others, fractured, scared, and grieving. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:09.479 One more family in mid nineties Columbia. At that time, 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.920 Los Medica Rido, the widow of Captain Corral, remembers a 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:14.959 drastic change in the attitude of her. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:16.520 Some bets an. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.600 Such a happy kid, and you know, because he was 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.759 so happy, he's restless. He danced, he sang, he acted. 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:34.959 In school, he was always asked to participate in the 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.240 place where they was singing and acting. He was a 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.920 very active child who liked to help. 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.720 Captain Corral's death was so unexpected and traumatic that it 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:55.160 left everyone in shock. The days following the murder were difficult, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.720 even logistically. A family friend lent Los Medica Rido card 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:04.400 to right fromage to Bogota, almost five hours away. They 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.840 spent the night there in Bota, and in the morning 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.359 of April twenty three, nineteen ninety four, the family took 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.440 a flight to Barankiya, the city on the coast where 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:21.160 Umberto Coural was born and raised. But Beto's attitude, behavior 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:24.679 and personality transformed after that burial in Bharanqui. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:30.760 Yes, he stood next to his father's coffin and he 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.520 walked in silence. He didn't cry, he didn't say a 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.040 word nothing. 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.440 He appeared tough, but on the inside he was a 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:44.040 child who felt tired, confused and said he knew. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.880 Jagon alas Ijegola policia. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.440 And then my son arrived at the funeral home and 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:56.600 then the police arrived. Four policemen lined up, two at 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.320 the foot of the coffin, two at the top, with 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.760 my son standing next to it with a very dry look, 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:07.520 in other words, with a hardness, without a gesture of pain, 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.720 of sadness. He had no expression on his face. Then 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.200 I called to him and I said, Pappy, come here, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.480 are you tired. I was amazed because this kid, I 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.639 remember very well, said to me from now on, I'm 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.920 not allowed to get tired. I can't get tired, and 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:25.840 I won't get tired. 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.480 Let's imagine the scene at the funeral. There's an eight 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.520 year old Beto surrounded by uniformed police officers carrying his 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.920 father's coffin, whom he had just seen a few weeks before. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.360 When they lowered the coffin into the grave, they also 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.480 lowered the promise of finally living together as a family. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.600 And from that moment in Brankiya, Beto has memories that 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.840 are almost impossible to forget. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:56.880 Yer, we arrived in Barrankuiya and everything was disorderly. Everything 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.000 was horrible. Everyone was screaming, everyone. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.800 Was Beto has a photo he shared with me. In it, 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.839 he's small in the background with a stoic gaze. He's 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:12.000 surrounded by police officers. With more people gathered around. Betto 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.760 is helping to carry the large and heavy coffin wrapped 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.920 in a huge Columbian flag. The funeral changed everything for him. 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.960 In his mind, Beto thought of his father as a 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:26.640 detail oriented, dancing, smiling and loving man. The image of 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.440 the corpse in the coffin forever altered that image in 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:30.840 Beto and Jennifer's mind. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:37.599 It's a fortunament. Unfortunately, I was able to see my 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.039 father dead in the coffin, and it's inevitable not to 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.599 remember him without seeing him dead in the casket. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.839 And it seems super terrible to me that a child 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.000 sees that. I mean, I don't understand why they took 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.440 us to see that, like, look, there's your dad dead 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:56.360 and full of cotton. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.520 The entire Koral family was devastating. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:03.479 Lona, and. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.119 It was also tough to see my grandmother suffer because 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.520 I think for a mother, it must be tough to 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.279 bury a child. To see my grandmother like that, she 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:19.520 still cries for him. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.279 But I've never heard that type of yelling in my life. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.280 The screams of my grandmother were difficult. To describe. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.159 And it's because Beto and Jennifer's grandmother, who was on 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.160 a trip in New York, traveled back home after being 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.719 told only a half truth that her son Umberto had 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.160 not survived the surgery he was scheduled to have. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.440 In a moment there they told her that my father 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.080 was killed and how he was killed. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.919 It was a funeral with a lot of people in 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.320 a cemetery in the outskirts of Bankilla, outdoors under the sun. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.840 The casket that seemed shocking and a sentatious to Beto, 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.160 seemed to go and in hand with the event. Jennifer 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.719 described it as having a certain tone of grandeur. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:06.320 A sup. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.680 It's super moving. I mean, the tributes, everything they do 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.159 is something. I mean, it's super nice because it's like 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.160 a movie. You see those military wakes in the movies 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.640 and you say, wow, how elegant all the military, but 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:28.240 really it's something super. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.240 Ugly, and at their young age, Jennifer and Betto had 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.400 a hard time understanding what was happening. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.520 Eludo Lord, the protonis moment to know for. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.680 The pain at that moment is not so strong metaphorically 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.880 because they keep telling you that he's in heaven and 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.920 that he will always be with you. So as a child, 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.520 we always take everything very literally. So I imagine that my 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.520 dad was going to come see me every. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.640 Day, and Beta waited for the day his dad would 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.960 come back to see him, but that moment would never come, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.440 although the memory of his dad helped him as he 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.240 told his mother that day to never give up, to 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:15.040 never get tired. This is Transportista who murdered Captain Correl 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:32.880 episode four, I Can't get tired. After his father died 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.720 and the family gathered at the funeral, Beto Corral made 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.160 a promise to himself to step in as the man 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:38.840 of the family. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:42.160 He was young. He was only eight years old. His 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.240 mother describes that commitment she saw in her young son. 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:46.760 Here again was. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.640 Made Daijo yotra at two. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.600 Since then, I've seen another attitude in Bettle. It was 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:58.720 a strange attitude and a kid a silence like here, 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:00.920 I am the one who take care of the family. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.240 Beto was very compassionate and understanding with his mother, who 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.360 lived through very challenging times. Beto and his sister shared 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.760 a common goal to ease their mother's pain. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:13.840 Casa. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.160 One day, I came home and I said, well, I'm 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.840 going to fix some something to eat. So I went 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.120 over to start cooking, and when I opened the fridge, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.000 I expected to see sausages. I had bought sausages for 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.920 about fifteen days to cook for them, and I also 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.560 had gotten some ham and some cheese. 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.920 Lumetti realized that all the food she had purchased for 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.760 her children for the next few days was no longer 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:40.719 in the refrigerator. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:46.640 Kip us all, it's a commune to chicail Haramon, And. 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.040 I said, what happened? Did you eat all the sausages 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.120 and ham? And you know the kids, they just looked 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.120 back at me with fear. Then they took out coins 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.960 and bills from their little box. And my daughter said, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.640 it wasn't my fault that I told me we should 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.000 make hot dogs and sandwiches and sell them in the neighborhood. 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:12.240 These kids, they sold our foot they sold our food. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.080 But they did it to make a profit, and they 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:21.160 made a profit. And they even replaced the sausages and 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.240 the ham. They got more customers. They kept selling them. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.080 When Captain Carl was murdered, the government of Columbia forgot 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.200 about them, and the family had to restart to different 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:35.640 measures to survive. 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.280 Camels seemed not. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:44.000 We were left with nothing, without receiving any money, rent, food, school, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.280 all that. I started taking care of everything, and it 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.720 wasn't too much for me because I've always worked. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.520 Before his death, the family depended largely on Captain Cordral's 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.800 salary to get by loose. Mati had always worked selling 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.720 merchandise and clothes, but it was hard to take care 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.800 of for her two young children, completely. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:11.640 A cargarnin having then, so I started. 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:15.080 Taking kids to school, selling lunches and groceries at home. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.120 I wanted to say, wow, I can take care of 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.600 my kids. I can provide them what they need instead 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.199 of going to my parents' house. So I had to 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.079 make a lot of effort to maintain the same standard 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:27.480 of living. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.719 All this while the Coral family continued to deal with 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:38.439 such a painful loss, but Beto didn't give up. He 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.959 suffered seeing his mother working so hard and finding herself 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:46.199 in such a difficult situations. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.240 The name of mine Crusio Ntonia. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:51.360 The community. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.960 There were years when my mom didn't even have enough 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.839 to feed us, and she would come home crying. She 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:59.640 would say, we have nothing, I have nothing. To feed you, 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.079 I learned to eat something called warus. Warus is the 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.560 food that poor people eat in Colombia when they only 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:10.160 have rice and water, no oil or salt, so they 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.000 mix the rice with water, cook it and the rice 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.520 turns into a watery mass and we ate that for 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.640 many nights because we have no money. 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.559 These brutal shortcomings could have been less severe if the 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.720 state has supported louse Matti with a pension. However, in life, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.120 Captain Corral omitted something that could have solved many problems 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.439 for them. LUs Medi, Ga Rio and Numerto Corral never 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.800 got married, and as we mentioned in the previous episode, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.760 Captain Corral was no saint. LuSE Medi found out something 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:42.440 at the funeral that broke her heart. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:50.319 Leaziroyu, but my dad had another boy from another woman 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.079 and another daughter from another woman, who I must say, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.440 are wonderful. They're my siblings. I have nothing against them. 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.000 Better remembers that his mother, in addition to feeling pain, 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:05.079 felt anger equipies exclusive. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.640 The blame is solely on my dad for exposing us 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.720 like this. But my mom was not married to my dad, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.360 and the law in Colombia at that time was absurd 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.839 and did not allow the presumption of union that the 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.760 facto marital union can exist. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.480 That is, if a couple has been together for at 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.920 least two years, then the state can allow it to 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.560 be considered a marriage. Therefore, she was left with nothing, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.719 but all the four children of Captain Corral have the 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:37.319 right to receive a small amount. Economics were not the 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.040 only hardship the family suffered. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:43.439 And in ya yavivia komo tromundo and in ya yametko 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:49.559 concie lokio. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:55.160 My daughter appeared. She'd already been to see psychologists, speech 0:12:55.280 --> 0:13:00.079 therapists or language therapy because she was completely blocked in 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.120 the classroom. She wouldn't talk. She was very scattered, and 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.160 once the psychologists asked Jennifer, tell me what do you want, 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.000 and she answered, I want to go see my dad 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:13.600 and then I'll come back. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.280 While for many girls and boys, elementary school is a 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.640 fun and joyful period, for Jennifer it was the opposite. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.520 In the momento. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.000 Upi k yoya ga. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.360 At that moment when they found out at my school 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.840 that I had become an orphan, I was the object 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.160 of teasing and bullying. Like I remember so much that 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.600 your dad went to hell for killing Escobar, like your 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.679 dad will pull your legs at night, and they made 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:43.079 fun of me. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.439 She had to enjoy the bullying from her classmates, and 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.800 the mother of the family had to use what little 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.520 money she had to pay for private school to wish. 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:53.840 Joe is doing. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.199 I studied in private schools because I was not accepted 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.080 in Napoli school. They did not accept me. They did 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:01.959 not give me a spot. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.640 Since Beto was the son of a police officer of 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:10.199 that rank, a captain posthumously promoted to major, they assumed 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.400 he would have the right to study in a public 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:13.240 police school. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.840 But he was the nightest spot or. 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:22.160 So lamentestleau because they were orphans only until eighth grade. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:23.560 My mom managed to get a. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.160 Spot LUSMDI had multiple jobs at the same time. She 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.360 fought daily to give her children the education they deserved. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.840 Her life was not easy, and on top of that, 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.400 because she was a woman and a widow, there were 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.920 men who took advantage of her. She managed to get 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.000 a spot for him at the police school when Betta 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.440 started the eighth grade, the last year of middle school 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.160 in Columbia when he was fourteen. 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.400 However, Aman. 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:58.640 Erector, this hypoca materk. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.520 Not the way she got it. I remember to this 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.720 day the principal at that time, she begged and pursued 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.360 him to give us a spot for her two children. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:11.000 At that moment, he asked her out, and every time 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.760 my mom went to his office she had to endure 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.800 the harassment from that man in order to get us 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.520 a spot. My mom even suffers sexual harassment from police 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.920 officers at that time, and it was very, very painful 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.320 to see my mom have to humiliate herself that way. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.560 At that time, you saw it as normal, although my 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.360 mom told us, yes, he's asking me out from my mom, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.080 what can we do? So I'm going to go out 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:40.040 with him? And it was very sad. Now I understand 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.040 it today and it angers me even more now today. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.120 And that's how it was. Those were very tough years. 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.840 It's another case of sexual harassment in a country and 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.800 a region where this type of violence is so common 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.600 that it is seen as an epidemic that threatens women, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.680 but it was not, and this is not acceptable or tolerable. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.760 Those years put the whole family to the test, but 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.160 Beto swore he wouldn't give up. Despite the difficulties. Both 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:16.000 Jennifer and Beto graduated from school, and as Beto grew up, 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.640 he began to develop an increasingly strong interest in following 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.560 his father's footsteps police here. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.240 I always wanted to be a police officer. I wanted 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:26.200 to be like my dad. 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.240 Every time he tried, he made a mistake that set 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.640 of alarms within the institution in country. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.040 In every interview, I told the details of my father's murder. 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:41.520 Beto had grown up witnessing injustices and he wanted to 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.920 remedy them however he could. But every time he sat 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.200 down for an interview at the police academy, his words 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:50.480 made them uncomfortable. 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:57.400 Adam Laurei lasanrevist tels mean this, and you're meeting Tolos 0:16:57.440 --> 0:16:59.120 Anti Santus Catinian of Amelia. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.920 So clearly during the interviews they would say, well, this 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:05.399 gentleman look at all the family's background and with seemed 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.640 talking too much about his dad. So I passed all 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.640 the exams, but when it came to the final stage, 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.320 the psychologist gave me a negative assessment and they rejected 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.760 me because they noticed in me a quite contentious personality. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.760 That ended Beto's dream as a teenager to honor his 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:30.320 father's memory by following in his footsteps, and he was 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.600 rejected from the same institution where his father stood out 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.680 and was decorated. But Beto had a vocation that he 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:43.160 was not going to give up. In two thousand and eight, 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.879 he was accepted to study law at the Cooperative University 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.280 of Columbia in Ivagi, a private university. To pay tuition, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:55.440 like he'd done his whole life, Beto worked, He prepared 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.960 and sold pork tamalis, and drove a taxi. Studying law 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.520 made him feel more confident among his classmates. 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:07.399 On Yo kaistoria ila ras polacology, I reach into the 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:08.480 camp because bndia. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.359 When I told my story and the reasons why I 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.240 was studying law, people were a little surprised by it. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.040 They were a little shocked by how he was killed. 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.879 And as he progressed in life and acquired greater knowledge 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.560 in the field of law, he dealt more and more 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.800 into the facts and circumstances surrounding his father's murder. He 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.120 also became very active on social media and started using 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:36.159 it to dig into the past. It was during this 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:40.320 period that one day his mother received a strange phone call. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.000 She picked up the receiver and heard a. 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:51.399 Voice and said tell your son. They didn't ask for anything, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.280 but it said tell your son to stop digging or 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:56.400 end up like his father. 0:18:58.160 --> 0:18:59.600 Louse Matti was terrified. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:04.159 Immediately, she contacted Beto and she found out something that 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:07.640 Beto had been hiding from her, that he, on his own, 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.920 had been investigating the events that led to his father's murder. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:17.320 The kid starts telling me everything, and I'm amazed. 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.280 He had been doing it for years without telling his family. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:24.640 LUs Metti learned that Beto began his own investigation when 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:25.840 he was an early teen. 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:32.840 So I said to him, please tell me everything. I 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.879 need to know everything. Then he says to me, I 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:39.040 sent two letters to the president at the time, the 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:42.679 president was al Royuribe, and he sent him two letters. 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:44.080 He was just a kid. 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:48.359 I don't know, thirteen, fourteen years old, maybe fifteen, but 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.040 he was a kid, and he said, I remember, he 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.879 says to me. In the year that I sent the 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.800 letter to the President of the Republic, Mom, I wasn't 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.960 asking for food or housing. I wasn't asking for help 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:06.520 with my homework or school. I was asking for my 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:08.600 father's death not to go unpunished. 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.800 Better revealed the details of his investigation and his contact 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:16.399 with President Alberto U rive only after his mom received 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.320 that call, and they weren't just threatening him through his mom. 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.800 Recie woman ass asked de mortenell dos Mila Kinz. 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.800 I received that threats in twenty fifteen. Throughout the entire year, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.680 because I was insistent on my social media talking about 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:36.440 the subject, I would write many generals and policemen looking 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:36.840 for them. 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:41.040 Beto conducted his investigation on his own, with his own means. 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:44.280 He didn't have access to an official file that would 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:48.040 reveal any truth or omission to him. He sought high 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:52.360 ranking police officers, constantly pressuring them to share with him 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.200 and the world what they knew or hid about his 0:20:55.320 --> 0:21:00.240 father's murder. However, these threats sometimes confused. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:05.159 Lejama this is police yes okay, went on that I 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:08.119 sometimes took the calls from these police officers as like. 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.600 Friendly, until one day it all made sense. 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:21.600 A call from a police general alerted me. At first, 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:25.160 it was funny because hello, hi General, how are you good? 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:29.159 Good beto? All good, bit Beto. Look stop that let 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.600 it go, brother. They're going to kill you out there, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.200 and you're going to leave your mom alone. It's in 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.840 the past well man, thank you very much. Well take 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:40.320 care of yourself. God bless you, God bless you General. 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:44.440 I hung up after two minutes. This man who just 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.639 told me that if I continued, they will kill me. 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:49.760 I took it as a dead threat. 0:21:51.600 --> 0:21:55.560 Beto felt restless and scared, like at his father's funeral. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.280 He prefers not to reveal the identity of the police 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.160 officer who gave him that chilling message over the phone, 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.879 but it was clear and it disturbed Beto to the 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:09.080 point where he began to plan escape roots and strategies 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:09.919 in secret. 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:16.960 Mami, and one day I told Mom, I think I'm 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.639 gonna have to leave because they're going to kill me. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.359 And yes, I'm afraid I might do something to you. 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:26.520 Because of his background and academic training, better knew his 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:33.639 country and the extreme violence that was possible. Time passed, 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:37.879 Beto had two children, He started a new chapter. He 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:41.080 began to study law. It was then that he received 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:43.320 a threat targeting one of his sons, and. 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:47.480 We read Socialist the photos I had my social networks 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:50.000 with photos of him. I was sent photos of him 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:51.120 threatening to kill him. 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.480 They had sent him a message by email threatening his son. 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:58.280 Beto knew he had to leave the country and fast. 0:23:02.080 --> 0:23:04.840 I had to buy an urgent ticket on December twenty second, 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.200 because they were going to tell me they were going 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:08.320 to kill me before the end. 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:08.640 Of the year. 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:12.360 This terrifying message meant that he could no longer stay 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:15.600 in Colombia. He had seen it happen too many times, 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:20.120 and each time was worse than the last. This time 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:22.680 they were not only messing with him or his mom, 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:26.600 but his son. Beto couldn't come up with another option, 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:28.760 so he shared his plans to his mom. 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:31.800 JOm me, really. 0:23:34.080 --> 0:23:34.119 No. 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:42.040 I had a meltdown. I completely rejected that. I said 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:45.720 to him, no, you're not leaving. He said, hug me, 0:23:46.040 --> 0:23:48.359 give me a hug and say goodbye. Don't let me 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:53.280 leave without hugging my family. I didn't say goodbye. I 0:23:53.400 --> 0:23:55.920 saw how determined he was, but I thought to myself, 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.800 if I don't say goodbye, he won't leave. I don't 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:00.920 want to say goodbye. I don't want to see him go. 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.159 So I went home and the phone started ringing at 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:07.920 seven in the morning. I saw messages on WhatsApp saying, Mom, 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:11.240