congressman Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz had taken place during the assault on the COB.12. The I/A Court H.R. reached the same conclusion as part of the context reconstructed in the case of Ticona Estrada et al. v. Bolivia.13 B. Regarding Juan Carlos Flores Bedregal and his family members, and events relating to his disappearance 26. Juan Carlos Flores Bedregal was born on February 4, 1953 in La Paz, Bolivia.14 His father was Fidel Flores Carrasco and his mother Carmen Bedregal Iturri, both of whom died in 1977. 15 His sisters are Verónica, Eliana Isabela, Liliana Teresa, and Olga Flores Bedregal.16 In 1970, he began his medical studies and since then had been a student leader in a variety of activities. He began being an active member of the Revolutionary Workers Party in 1973 and in 1979 was elected as an alternate deputy member of Congress for the department of Chuquisaca after being placed on the lists of candidates for Unidad Democrática y Popular. He took up his position in Congress at the beginning of 1980.17 At the time of the facts of the case, Mr. Flores Bedregal had also been on the National Committee for the Defense of Democracy. 27. The findings of investigations in the domestic jurisdiction into the events surrounding the disappearance of Mr. Flores Bedregal are contained in the case file. The judicial authorities determined that the alleged victim had been at COB headquarters when the armed assault on it took place on July 17, 1980, in connection with the military coup referred to in the foregoing section, and when a meeting was being held of the National Committee for the Defense of Democracy, of which congressman and socialist leader Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz and congressman Juan Carlos Flores Bedregal were members. 18 The State has not questioned those facts in its communications with the IACHR and has accepted the findings of fact in said rulings. 28. First, the Supreme Court of Justice found in a judgment handed down on April 15, 1993 that: In a military operation called "Avispón" (hornet), the Bolivian Confederation of Workers building was captured by force of arms and some 50 trade union and political leaders were arrested and two killed (Carlos Flores Bedregal and Gualberto Vega Yapura) while another was fatally wounded (the leader of the Socialist Party, Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz.19 29. That same judgment reviewed the testimony of several people who had been present in the COB during the armed attack on July 17, 1980. One of the witnesses declared that: It was when I was going down the steps and on the first landing that I saw a corner in which there were two bodies: there was one body whose face I didn't see, I just saw the back, probably he was dead; from later information I heard that it had been our fellow worker Flores; but lying across that body, in the same corner of that landing, lay the body of Don Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz. There were no signs of blood; nothing; they must have brought the bodies up there from lower floors where the bodies had been attacked, hauling them like See: IACHR. Resolution No. 27/81. Case 7.458, Bolivia. June 25, 1981; and IACHR. Report on the Situation of Human Rights in the Republic of Bolivia. OEA/Ser.L/V/II.53 doc.6 rev.2. October 13, 1981. Chapter IV on political rights. 13 I/A Court HR. Case of Ticona Estrada et al. Bolivia. Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of November 27, 2008. Series C No. 191, para. 46. 14 Appendix 2. Birth certificate in the name of Juan Carlos Flores Bedregal. Registration No. 0489541. Attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 10, 2012. 15 Communication of the IACHR of Sunday, June 10, 2012 16 Appendix 3. Birth certificates for Olga Beatriz, Eliana Isabela, Verónica, and Lilian Teresa Flores Bedregal. Attached to the petitioners’ communication of June 10, 2012. 17 Appendix 4. Publication entitled Carta inconclusa a mi hermano Carlos (Unfinished letter to my brother Carlos), written by Olga Flores Bedregal, Editorial Primigenias, La Paz, 2005, pp.80-84. Enclosed with the original petition received on June 14, 2006, and petitioner's communication of June 10, 2012. 18 See: Appendix 5. Judgment handed down by the Second Criminal Settlement Enforcement Court of the Higher Court of the District of La Paz on December 12, 2007. Attached to the State’s communication of December 9, 2011. 19 Appendix 1. Decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation handed down on April 15, 1993, p. 45. Attached to the State’s communication of March 25, 2010. 12 6