the provisional measures in the matter of the Aragua Penitentiary Center “Tocorón Prison” required by the Court in its Order of November 24, 2010 (supra having seen paragraph 2). 5. The briefs of March 4 and April 12, 2011, in which the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (hereinafter “the State” or “Venezuela”) presented two bi-monthly reports on the implementation of the provisional measures in which it referred both to the four matters joindered in the Order of November 24, 2009 (supra having seen paragraph 1), and, in the same brief, to the implementation of the provisional measures in the matter of the Aragua Penitentiary Center “Tocorón Prison,” required by the Court in the Order of November 24, 2010 (supra having seen paragraph 2). 6. The brief of May 10, 2011, in which the representatives of the beneficiaries submitted their observations on the State’s bi-monthly report of March 4, 2011 (supra having seen paragraph 5). 7. The notes of the Secretariat of the Court of March 24, April 15, and May 9 and 12, 2011, regarding the provisional measures in the four matters joindered in the Order of November 24, 2009, in which it informed the representatives of the beneficiaries and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the time frame for presenting their respective observations on the reports submitted by the State (supra having seen paragraph 5), in accordance with the third operative paragraph of the Order of November 24, 2009 (supra having seen paragraph 1). CONSIDERING THAT: 1. Venezuela has been a State Party to the American Convention since August 9, 1977, and, in accordance with Article 62 of the Convention, accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court on June 24, 1981. 2. Article 63(2) of the American Convention provides that, “[i]n cases of extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court shall adopt such provisional measures as it deems pertinent in matters it has under consideration. With respect to a case not yet submitted to the Court, it may act at the request of the Commission.” 3. The Court observes that, of their own initiative and without the Court having requested this previously, the State and the representatives have each presented in a single brief (supra having seen paragraphs 4 and 5) consolidated information regarding the implementation of both the four matters joindered in the Order of November 24, 2009, and on the provisional measures ordered in the matter of the Aragua Penitentiary Center “Tocorón Prison.” 4. In this regard, although in the Order of November 24, 2009, the Court decided “to joinder procedurally the processing” of the provisional measures in the four matters concerning Venezuelan penitentiary centers (supra having seen paragraph 1) and, subsequently, in the Order of November 24, 2010, it required the adoption of provisional measures in the matter of the Aragua Penitentiary Center “Tocorón Prison” (supra having seen paragraph 2), to date, the latter has been processed separately from the four matters that were joindered. Based on the principle of procedural economy, as well as in the interests of a more satisfactory processing and analysis of the information, the Court finds it appropriate to joinder the processing of all five 2

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