“The system knows how and where to allocates the represssion.  There are persons who have to lived under the pressure of anonymity. Some people  are leaders under rural and urban centers, who are killed, who are displaced, or who are dissapeared and society is not aware of these facts.  Even today when things and news are more difficult to hide, it ends up trascending barreers.  There is where the State asumes and institutionalizes these cases, it processes and tabulates them (…). Then the State research on the deaths, managing justice for the more probable authors of death, it absolves them, and continues committing again these crimes.  It has on its power all of the social control in the criminalization process”.

Eduardo Umaña Mendoza

 

“It is worth to life for something than to life for anything”
Eduardo Umaña Mendoza.

 

"Once, there was a persons in an event to pay tribute to my dad,  who told me that my dad was a real social defender very difficult to  find in this country. I remember that to my house many people arrived asking for help to my dad,  Because they were victims and were suffering from some atrocity, looking for advise, claiming for an alternative, desesperate for a solution.  On those times of intense execution of the natural right, my father understood that the defense of human rights was not just a legal but judicial issue, not just judicial but as well a political issue, not just political, also it is social and not just social, it is intimate and from intimate, the action of awareness. My father understood that lonelyness sorrounds those who are in the struggle for justice, and that the love and dedication will be your only companion"

Camilo Umaña Hernández-  Son of Eduardo Umaña Mendoza