-7- Cf. Case of Ramírez Escobar et al. v. Guatemala. Victims’ Legal Assistance Fund. Order of the President of the Court of October 14, 2016. Available at: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/asuntos/Ramírezescobar_fv_16.pdf 3 On April 21, 2016, the State appointed Carlos Rafael Asturias Ruiz, Steffany Rebeca Vásquez Barillas and Cesar Javier Moreira Cabrera as Agents. Subsequently, in its answering brief of November 23, 2016, it indicated that Guatemala would be represented in this case by the President of the Presidential Commission for the Coordination of the Executive’s Human Rights Policy (COPREDEH), Victor Hugo Godoy, and by the Executive Director of COPREDEH, María José Ortiz Samayoa. On September 26, 2017, Guatemala advised of the appointment of the new President of COPREDEH, Jorge Luis Borrayo Reyes. On November 6, 2017, it advised of the appointment of the new Executive Director of COPREDEH, Felipe Sánchez González. Therefore, the Court understands that, at the time this judgment is issued, the State’s Agents for this case are Jorge Luis Borrayo Reyes, President of COPREDEH, and Felipe Sánchez González, Executive Director of COPREDEH. 4 Cf. Case of Ramírez Escobar et al. v. Guatemala. Call to a hearing. Order of the President of the Court of April 11, 2017. Available at: http://www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/asuntos/Ramírez_11_04_17.pdf. 5 In the President’s order of April 11, 2017, the witness proposed by the State, Erick Benjamín Patzán Jiménez, was called to testify during the public hearing. However, on May 9, 2017, the State advised that it “did not have the necessary and sufficient resources to cover the travel expenses” of Erick Benjamín Patzán and, therefore, asked that he be allowed to present his statement by affidavit. On May 12, 2017, in notes of the Secretariat, the parties and the Commission were advised that, given the impossibility of Erick Benjamín Patzán being present at the public hearing, the President had ordered that witness Patzán’s statement be received by affidavit. 6 At this hearing, there appeared: (a) for the Inter-American Commission: the Executive Secretariat lawyers, Silvia Serrano Guzmán and Selene Soto Rodríguez; (b) for the alleged victims’ representatives: for CEJIL, Marcia Aguiluz, Gisela De León Esther Beceiro and Carlos Luis Escoffié, and for El Refugio de la Niñez, Monica Mayorga and Leonel Dubón, and (c) for the State of Guatemala: Ambassador Juan Carlos Orellana Juárez, the President of COPREDEH, Víctor Hugo Godoy, and the COPREDEH Director for the Monitoring of International Cases, Wendy Cuellar Arrecis. 7