Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights* Of November 25, 2008 Provisional Measures Regarding the United States of Mexico Matter of Leonel Rivero et al. Having seen: 1. The Order issued by the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, “the Inter-American Court”, “the Court” or “the Tribunal”) on October 25, 2001 and the Orders issued by the Court on November 30, 2001; April 20, 2004; June 29, 2005 and November 24, 2005. 2. The public hearing on the instant provisional measures held at the seat of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on February 5, 2008.1 3. The Order of February 6, 2008, wherein the Tribunal, among other decisions, considered it necessary to continue receiving information on the situation of Leonel Rivero and his next-of-kin for a six-month period, after which said Court would evaluate the need to maintain the provisional measures ordered in his favor, and decided: […] 2. To request the State to maintain the measures necessary to protect the life and physical integrity of Leonel Rivero-Rodríguez, María de los Ángeles Espinosa-Sánchez, Augusto César Sandino Rivero-Espinosa, Luisa Amanda Rivero-Espinosa and María Katherina Rivero-Espinosa. […] * Judge Sergio García-Ramírez, a Mexican national, excused himself from hearing this case, pursuant to Article 19 of the Statute and 19 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court, which was accepted by the Court. Therefore, Judge García-Ramírez did not take part in the deliberations and signing of this Order. 1 The following were present at this hearing: (a) for the Inter-American Commission: Florentín Meléndez, delegate, and Mario López-Garelli and Lilly Ching-Soto, advisors; (b) for the State of Mexico: Armando Vivanco-Castellanos, Deputy General Director of the General Office of Human Rights of the Foreign Affairs Secretariat; José Ignacio Martín del Campo, International Litigation Director of the Foreign Affairs Secretariat; Rodrigo Espeleta-Alandro, Deputy General Director of the Human Rights Promotion and Defense Unit of the Government’s Secretariat; Fernando Coronado-Franco, Deputy Legal and Human Rights Prosecutor of the Attorney General’s Office of the Federal District, and Ana Luisa Ramírez-Hernández, Human Rights General Director of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Mexico; and (c) for the beneficiaries’ representatives: Vanessa Coria, Luis Diego Obando and Soraya Long, of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and Leonel Rivero-Rodríguez.