11 Hélio Bicudo, delegate; Claudio Grossman, delegate; Bertha Santoscoy, attorney, and James Anaya, assistant. For the State of Nicaragua: Edmundo Castillo Salazar, agent; Rosenaldo Castro, advisor; Betsy Baltodano, advisor, and Ligia Margarita Guevara, advisor. Witnesses offered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Jaime Castillo Felipe (Interpreter: Modesto José Frank Wilson); Charly Webster Mclean Cornelio; Theodore Macdonald Jr.; Guillermo Castilleja; Galio Claudio Enrique Gurdián Gurdián; Brooklyn Rivera Bryan; Humberto Thompson Sang, and Wilfredo Mclean Salvador. Expert witnesses offered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Rodolfo Stavenhagen Gruenbaum; Charles Rice Hale; Roque de Jesús Roldán Ortega, and Lottie Marie Cunningham de Aguirre. Witness summoned by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (art. 44(1) of the Rules of Procedure): Marco Antonio Centeno Caffarena. 63. During his appearance at the public hearing on the merits of the case on November 17, 2000, Marco Antonio Centeno Caffarena offered several documents to substantiate his testimony, and on November 21, 2000 he submitted eight documents (infra para. 79 and 95). 64. On November 24, 2000, the Court, in accordance with article 44 of its Rules of Procedure, decided that it was useful to add to the body of evidence in this case the following documents offered by Marco Antonio Centeno Caffarena: a copy, certified by a notary public, of the February 22, 1983 certification of the entry in the Public Registry of Real Estate of the Department of Zelaya, on February 10, 1917, of estate No. 2111, and the ethnographic expert opinion by Ramiro García Vásquez on the document prepared by Theodore Macdonald, “Awas Tingni an Ethnographic Study of the Community and its Territory” (infra paras. 79 and 95). The Court also asked that the State, no later than December 15, 2000, submit a copy of the complete study, “Diagnostic study of land tenure in the indigenous communities of the Atlantic Coast”, prepared by the Central American and Caribbean Research Council.

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