for the provision of equipped ambulances, the design of food security and nutrition programs for the families of the victims, “potable water services” and “education services,” all of them requested by the representatives. Nevertheless, the State indicated that “it was unable to undertake” to provide free electricity to the Pacux settlement. However, it “offered to arrange with the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the National Reparations Program” for the reconstruction of the social fabric and the Maya Achí culture, “in keeping with their institutional mandates.” Despite the foregoing, during the public hearing and in its final written arguments, the State asked the Court to consider that some of the victims in the instant case had received reparation “under different measures of reparation granted by the National Electricity Institute.” 283. The Court will now analyze the relevant aspects of these arguments. However, first, the Court emphasizes that, in accordance with Article 41(1) of the Rules of Procedure, the appropriate procedural moment for the State to present its observations on the reparations requested by the Commission and the representatives is in its answer to the submission of the case. In the said brief, the State did not refer to the supposed measures of reparation granted through the National Electricity Institute to some of the victims in the instant case. Thus, the requests made by Guatemala during the public hearing and in its final written arguments regarding the said measures are time-barred and will therefore not be analyzed by the Court. C.1.4.1. Infrastructure and basic services 284. The Court takes note of the State’s willingness to facilitate several measures addressed at improving the living conditions of the members of the community of Río Negro who live in the Pacux settlement (supra para. 282). In view of the precarious living conditions of the victims of this case who were displaced and subsequently resettled by the State in the Pacux settlement (supra para. 183), the Court establishes that Guatemala must implement, in the said place, following consultation with the victims or their representatives, and irrespective of the other public works included in the national budget for the Pacux settlement or for the region where it is located, the following measures: (a) the improvement of the Pacux health center by the provision of permanent human resources qualified to provide physical, psychological and dental health care, medicines and equipped ambulances; (b) the design and implementation of food security and nutrition programs; (c) the improvement of the streets and avenues in the settlement; (d) the implementation of a drainage system, treatment of sewage or residual waters, and supply of potable water, and (e) the reconstruction or improvement of the elementary schools in Pacux and the establishment of a bilingual, Spanish and Maya Achí, high school education program. The State must implement the said programs within five years of notification of this Judgment.356 Lastly, within one year of notification of this Judgment, the State must guarantee the supply of electricity to the inhabitants of the Pacux settlement at an accessible cost. C.1.4.2. Project to rescue the Maya Achí culture 285. In this Judgment (supra paras. 160 to 162), the Court has established that the living conditions in the settlement of Pacux have harmed the cultural integrity of the Río Negro community, making a negative impact on the Maya Achí cosmovision and culture, and the 356 Cf. Case of the Plan de Sánchez Massacre v. Guatemala. Reparations and costs, supra, paras. 110 and 111. 97

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