2 1) Provide protection as required by journalists Ibéyise Pacheco, Patricia Poleo, Marta Colomina and Marianela Salazar, to safeguard their right to life and to humane treatment, pursuant to Articles 4 and 5 of the American Convention. 2) Conduct an exhaustive investigation of the facts that took place on January 31, 2002 at the main offices of the daily “Así es la Noticia” and the threats received by journalists Ibéyise Pacheco, Patricia Poleo, Marta Colomina and Marianela Salazar. 3) Adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect full exercise of freedom of expression by the journalists, pursuant to Article 13 of the Convention. 4) Abstain from any action that might have the effect of intimidating journalists Ibéyise Pacheco, Patricia Poleo, Marta Colomina and Marianela Salazar. c. the precautionary measures ordered by the Commission to protect the life and the right to humane treatment of Marta Colomina were ineffective, as aggressions against her have not ceased and investigations have been fruitless; d. at daybreak on Friday, June 27, 2003, Marta Colomina was heading toward the television channel TELEVEN (hereinafter “TELEVEN”), in her car, driven by Héctor José Herrera, her “chauffeur-bodyguard”, to present the daily program “La Entrevista”, which starts at 5:55 a.m. That morning, Liliana Velásquez, the producer of the program, was following Marta Colomina in her own vehicle. A short distance from their destination, the vehicles were intercepted and blocked in a synchronized manner by two vehicles with eight individuals. Then, four of them, with their faces covered by ski masks, went toward Marta Colomina’s vehicle aiming their guns both at the chauffeur and at the journalist. An individual whose face was not covered went to the back of his vehicle, from where he took a “gigantic Molotov” type bomb. The other four individuals, who also had ski masks, got out of the vehicle and aimed their weapons in all directions. The “Molotov” bomb, made with a large , 19gallon, thick glass bottle, of the type used to sell water, hit the windshield of the journalist’s vehicle which was protected by a special security coating against riots, for which reason it resisted the impact, sinking and splintering, so that the bomb did not enter the car and only spilled the gasoline that it contained. However, the individual who tried to make the bomb explode, “perturbed by the unexpected reaction of journalist Liliana Velasquez, who insistently and unceasingly honked the horn, making a great amount of noise at daybreak, was unable to activate it.” Finally, the individuals desisted from the attempted action and fled. e. twenty days after the attempt against Marta Colomina, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has not opened any investigation, as ordered by the Criminal Procedures Code. Neither Colomina and Velásquez nor the TELEVEN security staff who arrived at the site have been summoned to render testimony before the Public Prosecutor’s Office. Only the chauffeur-bodyguard Héctor José Herrera was summoned by a Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for a “conversation.” There is no knowledge of an ongoing investigation or that any type of information or evidence was requested. f. “the only protection that [Marta Colomina] ha[s] received, as a consequence of the precautionary measures, was from the Mayor of the