8 the events; on life expectancy in Colombia which is 73 years; on an update of Mr. Caballero-Delgado's salary at the time of his disappearance, provided by the Santander Teachers' Union; and on the assumption that Colombian law recognizes additional social security benefits of two months salary for each year worked. 28. The Government alleged that those calculations contained probatory defects, "such as any proof that María del Carmen Santana was in any kind of full employment at the time of the events, or the assumption that she was earning the legal minimum wage, in addition to her social security benefits." It also pointed out that no deduction had been made in the calculation for sums the victims would have spent on their own upkeep, which would account for 25 percent to 50 percent of their income; that it had used fourteen-month years, thereby distorting the calculation; that the award of loss of earnings to María del Carmen Santana's companion would only be reasonable if there were children of the union; that it was proper to award it to the parents until such time as the victim would have reached the age of twenty-five, and to children until the beneficiary reached adulthood. The Government also questioned the idea of payment of six percent annual interest, arguing that arithmetical errors had been made in the calculations of both victims' future loss of earnings. X 29. The Commission requested that the Court award a sum of US$ 150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the United States of America) per family for moral damage "directly sustained by the victims themselves", which would be "equitably distributed between the families, depending on the number of beneficiaries and on the distribution criteria already established by the Court in other cases." 30. In that connection, the Government argued that it was not reasonable to suppose that Isidro Caballero-Delgado and María del Carmen Santana had suffered moral damage, inasmuch as the circumstances of their disappearance or death were unknown. 31. The Commission also requested that the Court grant an indemnity for the moral damage sustained by the victims' relatives and to use "as a minimum applicable" to that calculation the maximum judicial assessment for such cases in Colombia, that is, an amount equivalent to one thousand grams of gold for each person, who suffered moral damage, other than the victim. 32. While the Government acknowledged the presumption of moral damages sustained by the victims' relatives, it maintained that if the sums demanded by the Commission were converted, the moral damages for each person affected in the case of María del Carmen Santana would be equivalent to four-thousand seven-hundred grams of gold, and in the case of Isidro Caballero-Delgado to three thousand one hundred and fifty grams of gold. Therefore, in its view, the amounts requested should be reduced. XI 33. The Commission also requested the Court to order in its Judgment on reparations the adoption of certain measures relating to its main petitions, namely that Colombia recognize interest on the final amounts of the compensation from the date of the Judgment until the time of the actual payment, on the basis of the bank interest rate in effect in Colombia on the date the Judgment is delivered, that the payments be made in cash and not in public bonds or credit instruments, and that the Court decide to supervise fulfillment of the