6 p) From April 10, 2002 to the first week in May, no public service vehicle, whether transporting passengers or freight, entered or left San José de Apartadó. Neither the teachers nor the health staff have been able to enter the hamlet. Those who are seriously ill “must be taken down on mule back and even on oxen” to receive medical attention. Certain products such as “primitivo” (a type of small banana) have begun to go to waste. q) On April 16, 2002, members of the Peace Community attempted to hire a truck to transport harvests at risk of going to waste due to the blockade. It was not possible to hire the truck due to death threats against the staff of the trucking companies. Those threats also caused the disintegration of the truckers’ Association in San José. r) On that same day, April 16, a third driver, Gonzalo Trejo, who drove on the route between Apartadó and San José, was murdered. s) On April 29, 2002, armed men in combat fatigues, linked to the “covert military strategy”, murdered Fernando Puerta, who was involved in community work in the Peace Community. t) On May 1, 2002 farmers Darío Graciano Usuga, Alexander Graciano and Samuel Graciano were murdered in the roadside community of El Porvenir, in the district of San José de Apartadó, during a “covert military action, carried out by at least 200 men with shoulder weapons in combat fatigues, some with armbands of the ‘Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia’, AUC.” u) On May 4, 2002, 200 men involved in the “clandestine military strategy” entered the hamlet of La Unión. Most of the inhabitants fled and the armed civilians searched the homes of the inhabitants of this Community, taking food, clothing, and several animals. v) On May 6, 2002, Moisés Sepúlveda Puerta disappeared while going toward San José de Apartadó, after leaving a store in Apartadó. 7. The April 26, 2002 Order of the President, the first operative paragraph of which decided: To summon the Inter-American Commission and the State to a public hearing to be held at the seat of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on June 13, 2002, at 15:00 hours, so as to hear their viewpoints on recent events in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, according to reports by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. 8. The June 13, 2002 Order of the Court, the first operative paragraph of which decided: To commission the President, Judge Antônio A. Cançado Trindade, the Vice-President, Judge Alirio Abreu Burelli, Judge Hernán Salgado Pesantes and Judge Sergio García Ramírez to attend the public hearing summoned for [that same day] at the seat of the Court, with respect to provisional measures ordered in the instant case. 9. The public hearing on the instant provisional measures, held at the seat of the Inter-American Court on June 13, 2002. There appeared at that hearing: