DECIDES: 1. To declare the petition admissible in respect of possible violations of Articles 1(1) and 25(2)(c) of the American Convention on Human Rights. 2. To notify the parties of this decision. 3. To initiate proceedings on the merits of the case. 4. Assembly. To publish this decision and include it in its Annual Report to the OAS General Done and signed at the headquarters of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in Washington, D.C., on the 10th of October, 2001. Signed by Claudio Grossman, President; Juan Méndez, First Vice-President; Marta Altolaguirre, Second Vice-President; and Commissioners Hélio Bicudo, Robert K. Goldman, Peter Laurie, and Julio Prado Vallejo.