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 49

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