198. The representatives asked that the Court order the State “to investigate in a
diligent, exhaustive and timely fashion, the facts regarding the killing of Olimpiades
González.” It also asked that it “ensure the full access and the participation of family
members of the victim at every step of the investigation, as established in the American
Convention.”
199. The Court held that the State violated the right to judicial guarantees due to a
failure to investigate the death of Olimpiades González within a reasonable time (supra
para. 188). The Court, therefore, orders that the State continue and conclude, within a
reasonable time, the corresponding investigations and criminal proceedings in order to
prosecute and, if applicable, punish those responsible of the death of Mr. González, in
accordance with the domestic law. The State must also ensure full access and capacity
to act for the family members of Mr. González at every step of the investigations,
pursuant to the domestic law and the norms of the American Convention.179
C) Measures of rehabilitation
200. The Commission asked that the State be ordered “to fully repair the
consequences of the violations declared in the present case.” The representatives
maintained that Venezuela should be ordered to provide “the specialized psychiatric and
psychological treatment that the victims and their family members may require, with
their prior consent.”
201. The Court has established harm to personal integrity suffered by the victims in
the present case because of the deprivation of liberty to which they were subjected
(supra paras. 154 and 155). Therefore, the Court considers that it is necessary to
order a measure of reparation that would grant adequate attention to the
physical, psychological and/or psychiatric ailments suffered by those persons
and would treat their particularities and histories.180 Consequently, the Court orders
the State to pay a monetary amount so that María Angélica González, Belkis Mirelis
González, Fernando González and Luis Guillermo González are able to defray the costs
of the necessary treatments. The amount shall be defined in the paragraphs on
compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages (infra para. 217).
D) Measures of satisfaction
202. The representatives requested that the State publish “the official summary of
this Judgment in the Official Gazette” and “in another newspaper of widespread
circulation in the city of Maracaibo.” They also requested that “the complete Judgment
be published on the official site of the State” and that “the contents of the Judgment in
the Wayuú and in the Spanish languages” be broadcast on a “station of widespread
transmission among the members of the Community, at least four times in a period of
two weeks each one.”
179
Cf., in the same sense, Case of Guerrero, Molina et al v. Venezuela, para. 169.
Cf. Case of Barrios Altos v. Peru. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of November 30, 2001. Series C
No. 87, paras. 42 and 45 and Case of Garzón Guzmán et al. v. Ecuador, para. 114.
180
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