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inscriptions? And the lace of dyed hair? No. It would not be so easy to qualify the set.

Even though it seems incredible, something was missing in the cell of Belicena Villca: the
briefcase with all her writings. When the police knew about the content of it, and after
considering it as absolutely worthless, discounted immediately a possible entailment to the
cause of the crime: before, they tried to persuade us that the briefcase could have ended in the
Hospital incinerator, either by accident, or due to a reprisal of an annoyed nurse produced by
the excessive zeal on the care of the patient.

Chapter IV

It was well-known about Belicena Villca in the Hospital. She came in December of 1978
in an ambulance of the army. Two husky noncommissioned officers accompanied her to the
office of the Director and gave to him, a letter of the foreman of the 230 Cavalry Regiment
from Salta, Colonel Mario Pérez, with a packet containing documentation and a medical record.
In the letter, Dr. Cortez informed us later that the colonel requested to sign in Belicena Villca
as a patient of the Hospital «who suffered from a mental disease properly proven by the
military physicians who signed the attached studies». The woman natal from the Province of
Tucumán had only one son who disappeared during the Great Repression of 1977. Ignoring
where he is, and, apparently due to the certainty that the authorities refused her any
information, she started to move resolutely through many Provinces of the Argentinean North
and even she left the country, traveling through the interior of Bolivia and Peru. That behavior
resulted suspicious to the Intelligence Agencies, who submitted her to an intense surveillance
and finally arrested her.

Was during the hard interrogatories when was considered the possibility that Belicena
Villca was mentally unbalanced, and because of this, after consulting the military physicians,
was disposed her transference to the Neuropsychiatric Hospital Dr. Javier Patrón Isla. In
regard to her son, the Army knew nothing with respect to his location, neither if he militated in
a subversive organization; his disappearance warned the authorities due to, was thought that
he passed to clandestinity. This idea was stated when the surprising activity of her mother was
known, reason that finally motivated her detention. The precedent information provided by
the Colonel was to not give credit to the stories or the claims that the patient could make.

According to Dr. Cortez the tone of the letter admitted no response; was almost an

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