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Efraín’s name is one of more than 600 others listed as “desaparecidos y desaparecidas” for the years 1970 to 1979 on the Monument to Memory and Truth in Cuscatlán Park—a fraction of the nearly 30,000 total victims memorialized. “This is an act of closure and healing for our hearts,” said Efraín Arévalo’s nephew, Roberto Castillo, speaking in front of the wall of names. In 1977, when Roberto was just eight years old, he accompanied his grandmother to the morgues and other places where authorities had reported deaths, to confirm whether any of the bodies were his uncle’s. Roberto says that he remembers how every day his grandmother would sit in the doorway of her house waiting for Efraín to return. Originally, the family was from the municipality of Santa Elena, in the department of Usulután, where in 1981 the Salvadoran Army massacred more than 30 people. Photo credit/ El Faro.