42 69(60) On November 3, 1997, the Paraguayan National Electricity Board Workers Trade Union (SITRANDE) invited Ricardo Canese to represent Paraguay at the first meeting of the COSSEM Energy Policy Research Center (CEPEC) on November 19 and 20, 1997, in Buenos Aires.101 Ricardo Canese filed a petition for habeas corpus in order to request authorization to leave the country to take part in this meeting in Argentina. On November 14, 1997, the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay issued interlocutory order No. 1408 in which “it did not admit” the said petition for habeas corpus, because the permissions granted previously, on May 30 and October 19, 1997 (infra para. 69(62) and 69(63)), “responded to Mr. Canese’s previous procedural situation [and now] there is evidence that he has been tried and convicted.”102 69(61) On May 31, 1999, the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay issued decision and judgment No. 270, deciding to reject the “action on unconstitutionality” filed by Ricardo Canese on May 3, 1994 (supra para. 69(54) and 69(59)), because, “in any case, it had become inadmissible, since it had been filed before the legal remedies established by law had been exhausted [,… given that] the pertinent remedy of appeal had not been filed […]. Accordingly, he had acquiesced and also renounced the right to obtain the rectification of the injury caused to him by the decision contested in this special proceeding.”103 Permissions to leave the country that were granted 69(62) In May 1997, Ricardo Canese filed a petition for habeas corpus reparador before the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay requesting permission to travel to Uruguay to testify before the Uruguayan courts on June 3, 1997, in a case brought by Juan Carlos Wasmosy against the newspaper “La República”. On May 30, 1997, the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay issued interlocutory order No. 576, in which it admitted this recourse and authorized him to leave the country for five days as of June 2, 1997.104 69(63) On October 19, 1997, the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay issued interlocutory order No. 1125, in which it admitted a petition for habeas corpus reparador filed by Ricardo Canese requesting permission to leave the 101 Cf. letter of invitation from the Paraguayan Electricity Board Workers Trade Union (SITRANDE) dated November 3, 1997, to Ricardo Canese (file of attachments to the brief with requests and arguments, attachment 3, folio 569). 102 Cf. interlocutory order No. 1408 issued by the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay on November 14, 1997 (copy of the file of the criminal proceeding against Ricardo Canese for the offenses of slander and injuria before the First Criminal Trial Court, file of attachments to the brief answering the application, and with observations on the brief with requests and arguments, tome II, attachment 4, folio 1072; and file of attachments to the application, attachment 13, folio 103). 103 Cf. decision and judgment No. 270 issued by the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay on May 31, 1999 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 22, folios 316 and 317). 104 Cf. interlocutory order No. 576 issued by the Supreme Court of Justice of Paraguay on May 30, 1997 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 14, folio 104); testimony of Ricardo Nicolás Canese Krivoshein given before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on April 28, 2004; newspaper article entitled “Autorizan a Canese para ir al Uruguay” published on May 31, 1997, in the newspaper “La Nación” (file of attachments to the application, attachment 17, folio 172); and newspaper article entitled “Dos calificados testigos desnudaron la corrupción del Presidente Wasmosy” published on June 4, 1997, in the Uruguayan newspaper “La República” (file of attachments to the application, attachment 17, folio 176).