91 a) they endorse the requests made by the Commission in its application regarding the pecuniary damages (consequential damages and “lost earnings”), for which reason they asked that an amount be set in fairness to establish the amount of compensation for said damages, and b) it is necessary to take into account the additional expenses incurred by the members of the Community and its leaders, regarding steps taken and trips they had to make, which do not relate to specifically judicial actions, but that have been necessary to demand justice. Pleadings of the State 192. The State alleged that the damage and detriment that might have taken place in the instant case has not been claimed before the State’s judicial system, and it objected to admission of expenses allegedly incurred for the of the Yakye Axa Community, as the invoices and other vouchers for those expenses were not previously forwarded to the State, for which reason it has had no knowledge or control over them, and has not authorized them. Considerations of the Court 193. Pecuniary damages involve loss of or detriment to the victims’ income, expenses incurred due to the facts, and pecuniary consequences that have a causal link with the sub judice case,215 for which the Court, when it is appropriate, sets a compensation for the property-related consequences of the violations found. In the instant Judgment, to rule on the claims regarding pecuniary damages, the Court will take into account the body of evidence in this case, the jurisprudence of the Court itself, and the pleadings of the parties. 194. The Court deems that in the instant case compensation for pecuniary damages must include the expenses incurred by the members of the Yakye Axa Community in the various steps they took to recover the lands they consider their own, such as going and traveling to various State agencies (supra para. 50.106). The Court deems that the State must grant compensation for said expenses, because there is a direct causal link with the facts involving violations in this case, and they are not expenses incurred in connection with access to justice.216 (infra para. 232) 195. In this regard, the Court notes that some of these expenses were made by the Tierraviva organization, representative of the victims, and they are general expenses resulting from the abridgments found in this Judgment. Therefore, the Court sets, in fairness, US$ 45,000.00 (forty-five thousand United States dollars) or their equivalent in Paraguayan currency, for said expenses incurred by the members of the Yakye Axa Community, some of which were covered by Tierraviva. Said amount will be made available to the leaders of the Community, who must reimburse Tierraviva the appropriate amount, and the remainder will be used for the purpose 215 See Case of Huilca Tecse, supra note 209, para. 93; Case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters, supra note 2, para. 150, and Case of the “Juvenile Reeducation Institute”, supra note 200, para. 283. 216 See Case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters, supra note 2, para. 152.

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