I just know that it was the greatest demonstration of love I’m giving my sister. That she’s going to be okay, that I managed to get her heard. I hope to continue fighting for justice for my sister. It’s all a fact; it was approved. The rest is something private that we will handle as a family,” she wrote.

This was the accident that changed Erika’s life.

On August 2, 2021, Érika, then 17, went out with her friends to a bar in Pasto (Nariño). There, apparently in the middle of an argument,  Morales was hit with a whiskey bottle while in the bathroom,  causing multiple strokes and a severe spinal cord injury, leaving her with quadriplegia.

This event radically transformed her life, affecting not only her physical health but also her emotional well-being. A year and seven