48 102. Regarding the above, the Court has discretionary authority to evaluate statements and pronouncements submitted to the Court. For this purpose, the Court will conduct an appropriate appraisal of the evidence, following the rules of “competent analysis”.13 VII PROVEN FACTS 103. After examining the documents, testimony, expert opinions, and the statements by the State and by the Commission, in the course of the instant proceedings, this Court finds that the following facts have been established: a. the Awas Tingni Community is an indigenous community of the Mayagna or Sumo ethnic group, located in the Northern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua; 14 b. the administrative organization of the RAAN is formed by a Regional Council, a Regional Coordinator, municipal and communal authorities, and other bodies corresponding to the administrative subdivision of the municipalities;15 c. the organization of the Awas Tingni Community includes a Board of Directors whose members are the Town Judge, the Syndic, the Deputy Syndic, and the Person Responsible for the Forest. These members are elected in an assembly of all adult members of the Community, and they answer directly to that assembly;16 13 cfr. Cesti Hurtado case. Reparations (art. 63.1 American Convention on Human Rights. Judgment of May 31, 2001. C Series No. 78, para. 23; “Street Children” case (Villagrán Morales et al. case). Reparations, supra note 11, par 42; “White van” case (Paniagua Morales et al. case). Reparations (art. 63.1 American Convention on Human Rights). Judgment of May 25, 2001. C Series No. 76, par 52. 14 cfr. official letter DSDG-RMS-02-Crono-014-10-98, of October 8, 1998 by Rosario Meza Soto, Deputy General Director of the National Institute of Statistics and the Census (INEC), to Fernando Robleto Lang, Secretary of the Presidency; document “Annex A Research Universe”; testimony of Charly Webster Mclean Cornelio before the Inter-American Court on November 16, 2000; “General diagnostic study on land tenure in the indigenous communities of the Atlantic Coast. General framework”, prepared by the Central American and Caribbean Research Council; amparo remedy filed on September 11, 1995, before the Appellate Court of Matagalpa by María Luisa Acosta Castellón, as special agent for Jaime Castillo Felipe, Marcial Salomón Sebastián and Siriaco Castillo Fenley, Syndic and Deputy Syndic, respectively, of the Mayagna Awas Tingni Community, against Milton Caldera Cardenal, Minister of MARENA; Roberto Araquistain, Director of the National Forestry Service of MARENA, and Alejandro Láinez, Director of the National Forest Administration of MARENA, and the January, 1994 document “Territorial Rights of the Awas Tingni Indigenous Community”, prepared by the University of Iowa as part of its “Project in Support of the Awas Tingni Community”. 15 cfr. Law No. 28 “Statute on the Autonomy of the Regions of the Northern Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua”, published in the official newspaper La Gaceta No. 238 on October 30, 1987. 16 cfr. January, 1994 document “Territorial Rights of the Awas Tingni Indigenous Community” prepared by the University of Iowa as part of its “Project in Support of the Awas Tingni Community”; amparo remedy filed on September 11, 1995, before the Appellate Court of Matagalpa by María Luisa Acosta Castellón, as special agent for Jaime Castillo Felipe, Marcial Salomón Sebastián and Siriaco Castillo Fenley, Syndic and Deputy Syndics, respectively, of the Awas Tingni Mayagna Community, against Milton Caldera Cardenal, Minister of MARENA, Roberto Araquistain, Director of the National Forestry Service of MARENA, and Alejandro Láinez, Director of the National Forestry Administration of MARENA; February 27, 1997 judgment No. 11 of the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice of Nicaragua on the amparo remedy filed on September 11, 1995 before the Appellate Court of Matagalpa by María Luisa Acosta Castellón, as special agent for Jaime Castillo Felipe, Marcial Salomón Sebastián and Siriaco Castillo Fenley, Syndic and Deputy Syndics, respectively, of the Awas Tingni Mayagna Community, against Milton Caldera Cardenal, Minister of MARENA, Roberto Araquistain, Director of the National Forestry Service of