23 afternoon, Detention Center of Catia was supplied with water. There was no water during the whole day, but at five thirty, water would start running and sewage would start leaking into these cells. The four floors had no sewer system to carry sewage into the gorge right next to the prison. The water would flow into this basement, where approximately 450 men lived; a place that could house a maximum of eighty people. Then the sewage would fill the room and they had to take all the excrement outside the hall, that is, take it to the door, forming a knee-high mound of excrement which would normally stay there for days and weeks. It is easy to imagine the smell that came from it, and the flies and all kinds of animals which surrounded that area. Inside Detention Center of Catia “the strongest dominated the weakest.” This was condoned by prison officers. In addition, this type of dominance was represented graphically by branding inmates who served as slaves. There were two types of slavery: labor slavery and sexual slavery. Labor slaves were branded with a burner, like cattle brands, which identified who owned the slave, i.e. who was the head prisoner of the hall. If they were branded on the buttocks, they were sexual slaves. VII PROVEN FACTS 60. In accordance with the acknowledgment of liability made by the State (supra para. 51), the Court finds the following facts to be proven: a) On the facts surrounding the events 60(1) The events giving rise to the instant case took place amidst extreme political unrest. On November 27, 1992, there was a second attempt at a coup d’état against the administration of the then President Carlos Andrés Pérez. The rising was carried out by a civilian-military group formed by high-ranking officers of the four branches of the Armed Forces and several civilian opponents. 60(2) The city of Caracas was particularly affected by the intense bombing targeting specific places such as the Palacio de Miraflores (the seat of government), the Helicoide and the Police Command Center. Disturbances spread across several areas of the city. The insurrection was crushed by the government on the same day, November 27, 1992, forcing the surrender, escape and subsequent asylum in Peru of over a hundred people who participated in the revolt. b) On the “Retén e Internado Judicial de Los Flores de Catia” (Detention Center of Catia) 60(3) The “Retén e Internado Judicial de Los Flores de Catia” (Detention Center of Catia), located in the west of Caracas, was composed of a small two-story building, housing administrative offices; an area of workshops, storage rooms, a dining room and a medical facility for inmates; and a building consisting of two 5-story towers, which housed the prison cells, called North Tower and South Tower, divided by an interior yard known as ‘barrio sucio’ (dirty neighborhood). The towers were connected together by five corridors distributed between the second and the third floor. Each floor was referred to as a hall.