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advising the Court that “after overcoming technical obstacles [...] [t]he payments [of
the compensation ordered] [would] be carried out by the Banco de Guatemala
making deposits in the Banco Internacional de Costa Rica, so that [they could be]
collected in this Bank’s agency in Miami […].”
These deposits amounted to
US$172,892.96 (one hundred and seventy-two thousand, eight hundred and ninetytwo United States dollars and ninety-six cents) and included the interest the State
had to pay “because it had not complied with the judgment on reparations within the
original time limit.” The State also advised that, on January 31, 2000, the Court for
Criminal Judgments, Drug-trafficking, and Crimes against the Environment of the
Department of Huehuetenango had sentenced “Vicente Cifuentes López, as the
perpetrator of the crime of continuous assassination committed against Nicholas
Chapman Blake and Griffith Williams Davis” to 28 years of imprisonment.
10.
The note of the Secretariat of June 8, 2000, in which it requested the
Commission and the representatives of the victim’s next of kin to submit detailed
information on compliance with “each operative paragraph of the judgment,” so that
the Court could make a final decision about compliance with this judgment.
11.
The communication of the Commission of July 10, 2000, advising that the
next of kin of the victim had received payment of the compensation ordered in the
second, third and fourth operative paragraphs of the judgment on reparations, for
the amounts and as mentioned in Guatemala’s biannual report. With regard to the
first operative paragraph of this judgment, it indicated that the State “ha[d] only
complied partially,” because only Vicente Cifuentes López had been convicted as a
perpetrator of the “crime of continuous assassination” of Nicholas Chapman Blake
and Griffith Williams Davis, and not other individuals who allegedly helped commit
the crime and who had not been investigated by the State.
12.
The note of the Secretariat of July 13, 2000, to the representatives of the
victim’s next of kin reiterating that they should submit a report on the status of
compliance with the judgment on reparations in this case (supra tenth having seen
paragraph).
13.
The notes of the Secretariat of August 16 and September 28, 2000, in which,
on the instructions of the Court, it reiterated to the State the request that it present
detailed information on compliance with each operative paragraph of the judgment in
order to “adopt a decision on compliance with judgment in the instant case.”
14.
The communication of Richard Blake of March 9, 2001, stating that
Guatemala had not complied fully with the judgment on reparations as regards
investigation of the facts and punishment of all those responsible, since it had not
found and captured the other individuals who were allegedly involved in the
disappearance of his brother.
15.
The notes of the Secretariat of March 26 and June 1, 2001, in which, on the
instructions of the Court, it again requested the State to submit a report on
compliance with “complementary information on the other persons who were
[allegedly] responsible.”
16.
The brief of the State of July 3, 2001, in which it reported that “it had
complied effectively with the compensatory payment to the next of kin of Nicholas
Chapman Blake and also with the criminal prosecution of […] Vicente Cifuentes
López, who had been sentenced to 21 years’ imprisonment, plus one-third, which
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