Based on the arguments of fact and law set forth above: THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, DECIDES: 1. To declare the present case admissible. 2. To send this report to the State and the petitioner. 3. To make itself available to the parties with a view to arriving at a settlement grounded in respect for the rights recognized in the American Convention, and to invite the parties to respond within 30 days on whether they wish to invoke the friendly settlement proceeding established in Article 48(1)(f) of the Convention. 4. To continue its analysis of the issues of substance. 5. To publish this report and to include it in its Annual Report to the General Assembly of the OAS. Approved by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in the city of Washington, D.C. on the 25th day of the month of September 1998. (Signed): Carlos Ayala Corao, Chairman; Robert K. Goldman, Vice Chairman; Jean Joseph Exume, Second Vice Chairman; Commissioners Alvaro Tirado Mejía, Claudio Grossman and Henry Forde. 4