Verena’s family.
Devany Beleño Caamaño is accused of murdering Verena Hernández Ponce and injuring her 14-year-old daughter in an apartment in the Zaragocilla neighborhood in Cartagena. Read: Verena’s alleged femicide is discharged and the judge sends him to jail
“You always saw his non-conformity biases, friends, cousins, couldn’t get close to her, because he was very jealous. If she went out, the phone was ringing all the time and if she didn’t answer, he would call a friend of hers.”
Beleño, prosecuted for the crime, did not feel comfortable at his ex-partner’s family gatherings; even, on some occasions, Verena, after going out with him, returned home alone “because he made her feel bad”.
“They fought and even referred to her with profanity, minimizing and demeaning words that today have become normalized in toxic relationships. In my family many times they asked her if she needed help from her, that she separate from him, that she take him away from her life and that of her daughter. She said no, that that scared her,” says the relative of the deceased architect.
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Verena’s family.
“We learned that when she mentioned the subject to him, Devany told her that then he was going to take his own life, that he would commit suicide.” This kind of blackmail, added to the love that Verena had for him, was what apparently prevented the relationship from ending definitively.
“During the wake, several people told us that his parents went to the apartment, they knew about the relationship (…) Verena had flaws, like everyone else, and that does not take away from what a good person she was. And it also does not give another person the right to take your life. It’s sad, it’s painful and it’s frustrating,” says the source. Read: “Not one more”: with a wake they reject the femicide of Verena Hernández
“I think the issue of violence comes from education, from how they teach us to love ourselves and to love another person. If someone already begins to question you, to check your cell phone, that borders on the negative, but people do not perceive these things, ”she adds.
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Verena felt that urge to leave when he called her, to run.
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Verena was silently mistreated.
“Women are exposed to abuse from men,” says the relative. “She managed to tell her to get out of the apartment,” she says. Read: Another woman is murdered in her house: there are 3 femicides in Bolívar in 15 days
“As women, they reduce us to the fact that we do not have the right to go out partying, to have friends, it is a call to solidarity because we women ourselves attack each other. Women have been the ones who comment the most when there is a case of femicide. Saying that she was to blame. Here there is talk of an age gap that is not relevant, both were adults. And he murdered her, but the crime is not spoken of as such. Let’s not victimize the aggressor and let’s not be afraid to say ‘they are mistreating me’, to report it”, Verena’s family member finally highlights.
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