74 246. The Court notes, however, that the formula used to calculate and distribute an award for loss of income in the domestic proceedings is distinct from the formula used by this Tribunal. This Court finds that the award for lost income includes income that the victim would have received during his or her remaining life expectancy. That amount, therefore, is considered the property of the deceased victim, but is delivered to his or her next of kin. For these reasons, the Court will determine the appropriate amounts that it deems pertinent to order. 247. The Court is satisfied that the next of kin of deceased victims Carlos Fernando Castillo Zapata, Benhur Iván Guasca Castro and Orlando Morales Cárdenas file an administrative claim but were not awarded lost earnings, and the next of kin of Arnulfo Mejía Duarte did not bring a contentious administrative claim. In this regard, and in line with its jurisprudence, the Court deems it proper to award lost earnings to each of the four deceased victims mentioned above. 248. As it has done in other cases,244 the Tribunal determines the following awards in equity for the loss of income of the twelve deceased victims. In doing so, the Court takes into account such aspects as the victim’s occupation and corresponding remuneration, the victim’s age and life expectancy, as well as the award granted him or her at the domestic level (supra para. 245): Deceased Victims 1. Mariela Morales Caro 2. Pablo Antonio Beltrán Palomino 3. Virgilio Hernández Serrano 4. Carlos Fernando Castillo Zapata 5. Luis Orlando Hernández Muñoz 6. Yul Germán Monroy Ramírez 7. Gabriel Enrique Vesga Fonseca 8. Cesar Augusto Morales Cepeda 9. Benhur Iván Guasca Castro 10. Orlando Morales Cárdenas 11. Arnulfo Mejía Duarte 12. Samuel Vargas Páez Compensation for the loss of income US$ 280,000.00 US$ 265,000.00 US$ 230,000.00 US$ 230,000.00 US$ 160,000.00 US$ 160,000.00 US$ 150,000.00 US$ 150,000.00 US$ 150,000.00 US$ 150,000.00 US$ 100,000.00 US$ 100,000.00 249. The awards calculated in the preceding paragraph should be distributed among the next of kin of the deceased victims, in conformity with the criteria in paragraph 237 of the present Judgment. The State should effectuate the payment of these amounts within a period of one year, counted from the time of service of the present Judgment upon the State. 250. Likewise, at the moment of distributing the reparations ordered by this Court in paragraph 248, the State may discount, for each family, the amount granted to that family in the domestic contentious administrative proceedings for a loss of income. In the event that the award ordered in those internal proceedings is larger than the award ordered by 244 Cf. Case of the Ituango Massacres, supra note 15, para. 373; Case of the Pueblo Bello Massacre, supra note 12, para. 248; and Case of Blanco Romero et al., supra note 119, para. 80.

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