96 respect to establishing a mechanism for the compliance of this Judgment. Considering the State’s commitment to comply with this Judgment, there is no need for such a requirement. D. Indemnifications, costs, and expenses 286. The representatives informed that Mr. Juan Gelman had affirmed his decision to be excluded as a beneficiary of the reparations regarding compensation, and the Court will therefore abstain from determining this. 287. The State cited several provisions of the aforementioned Law 18.596 of September 18, 2009, and stated that “it is in accordance with guidelines established therein that the victims shall be compensated.” D.1. Pecuniary damage 288. The Commission requested that, without detriment to the representatives’ wishes, “the Court fix in equity an amount of compensation that corresponds to consequential damages and loss of earnings.” 289. The representatives included in this concept the expenses that Maria Macarena Gelman has had to incur in order to seek justice and the truth, as well as covering medical and psychological expenses since she learned of the events. They claimed that as of ten years ago and up until today, María Macarena has incurred expenses related to travel, lodging, transportation, telephone calls, and administrative and judicial costs, for all of which she does not have receipts, since such expenses took place over the years. Therefore, they petitioned, that an amount be fixed, in equity and for consequential damages, for the State to reimburse María Macarena Gelman García for incurred expenses. They added that Maria Macarena Gelman has “decid[ed] to donate to the non-governmental organization Childrens Villages SOS [‘Aldeas Infantiles SOS’]” the amount that, eventually, the Court establish for this. 290. The Court has developed in its jurisprudence the concept of pecuniary damage and the amounts corresponding. It has established that pecuniary damage encompass the “loss of, or detriment to, the victims’ income, expenses made as a result of facts and consequences of a pecuniary nature with a causal connection to the facts of the case.” 321 291. The Court fixes an amount, of $ 5,000.00 (five thousand dollars of the United States of America) in favor of María Macarena Gelman for expenses incurred as a result of the search of her mother. 292. As of loss of income, the representatives indicated that María Claudia Garcia was 19 years old at the time of her disappearance, and that, according to available data regarding life expectancy in Argentina in that era it was of 72 years, to which                                                          321 Cf. Case of Bámaca Velásquez V. Guatemala. Reparations and Costs. Judgment of February 22, 2002. Series C No. 91, para. 43; Case of Gomes Lund et al. (Guerrilha do Araguaia), supra note 16, para. 298, and Case of Cabrera García and Montiel Flores, supra note 16, para. 248.

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