4 the CBRV , which was developed in the Organic Law of Amparo of Constitutional Rights and Guarantees and in some binding judgments of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which could have been an effective remedy in Venezuela if immediately or directly taken, for the case there were no regular actions capable of protecting the persons demanding justice within the Venezuelan legal system. It spring from the court records followed before this Court that no action for constitutional amparo was lodged in order to protect or reestablish the rights allegedly violated or threatened to be violated, which are enshrined and regulated, in a similar way, under the American Convention on Human Rights, as previously discussed. Moreover, it should be mentioned that a possible decision of amparo could have satisfied some or all the claims contained in the petition which were transcribed supra- and that, in a similar and expanded way, were requested by the alleged victims in its autonomous brief- for example, by ordering the adoption of those measures necessary to prevent that actions of the State’s agents as well as of private individuals from keep hindering the search, reception and dissemination of information urging the law enforcement personnel to take specific steps to avoid the repetition of events such as these; or by guaranteeing the identified petitioners the exercise of the right to freedom of thought and expression; specially , the exercise of their profession; or by ordering, as an example of an action for amparo against judgments or against the omission of actions, an impartial and thorough investigation in order to prosecute and punish all the responsible for the facts mentioned in the complaint. Moreover, outside the framework of the constitutional law but within the scope of Venezuelan administrative proceedings, it is worth mentioning that administrative courts do not only hear about statements of the government (of administrative acts, administrative contracts) but it also hear about the omissions or deficiency (of public utilities for instance) as well as about the control over de facto proceedings or material or ordinary behavior of the administration itself, having constitucional authority (article 259 of the CBRV3) to order the necessary measures to restore the subjective legal situations harmed by administrative actions . Progressively, the judicial protection the Venezuelan State was providing by means of its judiciary, regarding these last proceedings (de facto proceedings or material or ordinary proceedings) was formally and positively provided for in the Venezuelan legislation inasmuch as it enshrined the possibility for administrative courts to hear about claims against de facto proceedings attributable to organs of the National Executive branch and other national high-ranking authorities that exercise the Public Power (article 5 (27), consistent with the first paragraph of the same article, all of them of the Organic Law of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela). It follows that claims tending to control the de facto proceedings that may have conducted the organs of the Executive and other national high-rank authorities exercising the public power, might have been lodged and processed by means of this action stipulated in the domestic legislation. Moreover, by way of example, the pecuniary claims contained in the autonomous brief of requests, pleadings and evidence of the victims (page 619, of the measures of full reparation requested by the victims that were included in numeral 21 (rectius10), lodged 3 Article 259. The administrative and adjudicatory jurisdiction corresponds to the Supreme Court of Justice and other courts determined by law. The administrative organs have the authority to annul the general or individual administrative acts that are contrary to law, even because of misuse of power; condemn the payment of sums of money and the reparation of damages originated under the responsibility of the Administration; hear about claims in relation to public utilities and order the necessary measures to restore the subjective legal situations impaired by the administrative actions.

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