4 (mother), Mayela Banda González (sister), Gema Iris González (sister), Karla Arizbeth Hernández Banda (niece), Jacqueline Hernández (niece), Carlos Hernández Llamas (brother-in-law), and Laura Berenice Ramos Monárrez and her next of kin: Benita Monárrez Salgado (mother), Claudia Ivonne Ramos Monárrez (sister), Daniel Ramos Monárrez (brother), Ramón Antonio Aragón Monárrez (brother), Claudia Dayana Bermúdez Ramos (niece), Itzel Arely Bermúdez Ramos (niece), Paola Alexandra Bermúdez Ramos (niece) and Atziri Geraldine Bermúdez Ramos (niece).4 Furthermore, in this order, the Court examined the State’s refusal to forward specific evidence that it had requested and decided that it could consider proven any facts that could only be confirmed by the evidence that the State refused to forward.5 10. In an order of March 18, 2009,6 the President required the submission of some of the testimony and expert opinions offered, at the appropriate moment by the parties, by means of statements made before notary publics (affidavit). In addition, the parties were convened to attend a private hearing to hear the testimony, offered by the State, of Patricia González Rodríguez, provided she renounced her status as a Deputy Agent. In addition, a public hearing was convened to hear the testimonies proposed by the Commission, the State, and the representatives, as well as the final oral arguments on the preliminary objection and the possible merits, reparations and costs. Lastly, the President granted the parties until June 1, 2009, to present their respective briefs with final arguments. 11. In an order of April 3, 2009, the Court decided to accept the confirmation of Patricia González Rodríguez as the State’s Deputy Agent and, consequently, the State’s waiver of its offer of her informative statement at a private hearing7 (supra para. 10). 12. The public hearing was held on April 28 and 29, 2009, during the XXXIX Extraordinary Period of Sessions of the Court held in Santiago, Republic of Chile.8 4 Cf. Case of González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico. Order of the Court of January 19, 2009, second operative paragraph. 5 Cf. Case of González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico, supra note 4, fourth operative paragraph. 6 Cf. Case of González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico. Order of the President of the Court of March 18, 2009. 7 Cf. Case of González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico. Order of the Court of April 3, 2009, first operative paragraph. 8 The following persons attended the hearing: (a) for the Inter-American Commission: Florentín Meléndez, Commissioner; Elizabeth Abi-Mershed, Deputy Executive Secretary; Juan Pablo Albán Alencastro, adviser; Rosa Celorio, adviser, and Fiorella Melzi, adviser; (b) for the alleged victims: Alfredo Limas Hernández, representative; Andrea de la Barreda Montpellier, representative; Andrea Medina Rosas, representative; Ariel E. Dulitzky, adviser; David Peña Rodríguez, representative; Emilio Ginés Santidrián, adviser; Héctor Faúndez Ledesma, adviser; Héctor Pérez Rivera, adviser; Ivonne I. Mendoza Salazar, representative; María del Carmen Herrera García, adviser; María Edith López Hernández, adviser; Karla Micheel Salas Ramírez, representative, and Sonia Josefina Torres Hernández, common intervener, and (c) for the State: Alejandro Negrín Muñoz, Agent, Director General of Human Rights and Democracy of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mario Leal Campos, adviser to the Ambassador of Mexico to Chile; Patricia González Rodríguez, Deputy Agent, Attorney General of the state of Chihuahua; Mario Alberto Prado Rodríguez, adviser, Coordinator of Advisory Services for the Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Secretariat of Government; Mauricio Elpidio Montes de Oca Durán, adviser, Deputy Director General for Investigation and Attention to Human Rights Cases of the Secretariat of Government; Víctor Manuel Uribe Aviña, adviser, Assistant Legal Consultant to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Arturo Licón Baeza, adviser, Assistant Prosecutor for Human Rights and Services to Victims of Crime of the state of Chihuahua; Pablo Navarrete Gutiérrez, adviser, Legal Affairs Coordinator of the National Women’s Institute; Carlos Garduño Salinas, adviser, Director for Human Rights of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic; Fernando Tiscareño Luján, adviser, Adviser to the Secretary General of Government of the state of Chihuahua; Rodolfo Leyva Martínez, adviser, public official of the Office of the Assistant Prosecutor for Human Rights and Services to Victims of Crime of the state of Chihuahua; José Ignacio Martín del Campo Covarrubias, adviser, Director of the International Human Rights Litigation Area of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ximena Mariscal de Alba, adviser, Deputy Director of the International Human Rights Litigation Area