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a)
with regard to Anstraun Aman Villagrán Morales, his mother, Matilde
Reyna Morales García, and his siblings, Lorena Dianeth, Reyna Dalila and
Gerardo Villagrán Morales;
b)
with regard to Henry Giovanni Contreras, his mother, Ana María
Contreras, and his siblings, Mónica Renata Agreda Contreras, Shirley Marlen
Agreda Contreras and Osman Ravid Agreda Contreras. The Commission also
includes Wilson Ravid Agreda Vásquez, who it indicates is the victim’s son;
c)
with regard to Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval, his grandmother,
Margarita Urbina;
d)
with regard to Federico Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, his mother, Marta
Isabel Túnchez Palencia, his father, Federico Facundo Figueroa, and his
siblings, if there are any; and
e)
with regard to Jovito Josué Juárez Cifuentes, his mother, Noemí
Cifuentes, his father, Jorge Juárez, and his siblings, if there are any.
The State’s arguments
77.
On this point, the State indicated that:
a)
with regard to pecuniary damage, the judgment on reparations should
take into account those who had suffered violations and, when this was not
feasible, the direct next of kin. Therefore it recognizes as direct victims:
Anstraun Aman Villagrán Morales, Henry Giovanni Contreras, Federico
Clemente Figueroa Túnchez, Julio Roberto Caal Sandoval and Jovito Josué
Juárez Cifuentes and, consequently, as a result of the violations that they
suffered directly, Ana María Contreras, Matilde Reyna Morales García, Rosa
Carlota Sandoval, Margarita Urbina, Marta Isabel Túnchez Palencia and Noemí
Cifuentes. The State does not recognize that any other person has a right to
receive reparations;
b)
the Commission did not provide hard evidence to prove that those who
died had held continuous, stable and permanent employment. The same loss
of earnings criterion should not be applied to all those who died, as the
Commission has done, without taking into account their real age and hard
evidence to demonstrate their working activities. Accordingly, it opposes the
Commission’s calculation for this item. Moreover, the Court should accept as
proved that the victims and their families did not have a close emotional
relationship, so that it cannot be claimed that there was a financial
collaboration between them: and
c)
the calculations should be made on the basis of the concept of ‘life
expectancy [...]’, based on the concept of ‘life expectancy at birth’, less the
years of life of the victims72, and it is therefore necessary to take into
72
According to the State, information provided by the National Institute of Statistics of Guatemala
(INE) should be used; according to this, the life expectancy at birth for the years 1990-1995 was 59.78
years for men, and for the effects of this brief, is rounded up to 60 years.
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