ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF JUNE 1, 2011 VICTIMS’ LEGAL ASSISTANCE FUND CASE OF NESTOR JOSÉ AND LUIS UZCÁTEGUI ET AL. v. VENEZUELA HAVING SEEN: 1. The brief of November 11, 2010, and its attachments, in which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) submitted a case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”). 2. The brief of March 1, 2011, and its attachments, in which the representatives of the presumed victims 1 (hereinafter “the representatives”) presented their brief with pleadings, motions and evidence (hereinafter the “pleadings and motions brief”) and, based on the Court’s Rules of Procedure on the Operation of the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund (hereinafter “the Rules of Procedure of the Assistance Fund”), 2 included a request “for legal assistance for the next of kin of Néstor José Uzcátegui to cover some costs [which they specified] related to the production of evidence during the proceedings in this case before the Court.” 3. The brief of May 13, 2011, in which the State of Venezuela (hereinafter “the State”) forwarded the answer to the brief presenting the case and its observations on the pleadings and motions brief. CONSIDERING THAT: 1. Venezuela ratified the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the American Convention” or “the Convention”) on August 9, 1977, and accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court on June 24, 1981. 2. In 2008, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (hereinafter the “OAS”) created the Legal Assistance Fund of the Inter-American Human Rights System (hereinafter “the Inter-American System’s Assistance Fund) and commissioned the OAS 1 The organizations that have acted as representatives of the presumed victims in this case are the Comité de Familiares de Víctimas de los Sucesos de Febrero-Marzo de 1989 (COFAVIC) [Committee of Relatives of the Victims of the Events of February-March], and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL). 2 Cf. Rules of procedure of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the Operation of the Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund approved by the Court on February 4, 2010