Caballero Delgado y Santana
Case- Summary
The facts of this case account for the forced disappearance of Isidro Caballero Delgado and María del Carmen Santana, who were arrested in February 1989 by the Colombian Army’s patrol and by various civilians who were collaborating with them, in the province of San Alberto, Cesar region. The arrest was due to Isidro Caballero Delgado’s active participation as a faculty union leader and their involvement in the April 19 Movement. The victims’ families and different trade union and human rights organizations initiated their search in various military installations once the authorities denied that the two activists had been seized, however achieved no results.
The facts of the case illustrate the pattern of impunity relating to serious human rights violations committed in Columbia, given that when faced with the occurrence of these events, the victims’ relatives initiated judicial and administrative proceedings to locate the whereabouts of the disappeared and to punish those directly responsible, without these processes yielding positive results
- Status
- Active
- Country
- Presentation to the IACommission
- Apr 4, 1989
- Submission to the IACourt
- Dec 24, 1992
- IACourt / Judgment: rights violated
ACHR 7, 4, 1.1 5 2, 8, 25 51.2, 44
- Descriptors
- Forced disappearance
- Court documents
- Caballero Delgado and Santana. Order of the IACourt. February 27, 2012
- Caballero Delgado and Santana. Order of the IACourt. February 6, 2008
- Caballero Delgado and Santana. Order of the IACourt. November 17, 2009
- Caballero Delgado and Santana. Order of the IACourt. November 27, 2003
- Caballero Delgado y Santana. Judgment. December 8, 1995
- Caballero Delgado y Santana. Judgment. January 21, 1994
- Caballero Delgado y Santana. Judgment. January 29, 1997
- Caballero Delgado y Santana. Order of the IACourt. November 22, 2019
- Caballero Delgado y Santana. Order of the IACourt. November 27, 2002
- Caballero Delgado y Santana. Order of the President. December 10, 2007
- Geolocalización de los hechos
- Geolocalización de los hechos (linked Place of the events)
- Caballero Delgado y Santana