Luz Marina Bernal: “Tenía un ángel conmigo“

Fair Leonardo Porras was disappeared and extrajudicially executed. It happened in Colombia in 2008. He died in a confrontation with the army, authorities claim. His mother, Luz Marina Bernal, knows this isn't true. She decides to fight in search of the truth. And she uncovers a perverse plot. The courts recognize his case, the first of the "false positives," as a crime against humanity. The Colombian army has orders to wipe out leftist guerrillas. Every enemy kill is rewarded with promotions, money, and days off. Many soldiers are willing to obtain these incentives, even if it means taking innocent lives. Fair Leonardo Porras was deceived into taking him to Ocaña, a municipality located more than 600 km from his family home in Soacha. There, a retired colonel sold him to Colombian army soldiers who executed him extrajudicially. They later reported to their superiors that a guerrilla commander had been killed in combat. In fact, the murdered man was Fair Leonardo Porras. A 26-year-old young man who, as his mother says, was “a boy in a man’s body.” He had a physical disability and intellectual developmental disorders because she had been hit by a vehicle during her pregnancy. Luz Marina Bernal went from being a homemaker to a human rights defender, proving to the state and the entire world that her son was an innocent person.