17 Panamanian health care system to provide specialized medical care to the next of kin of Heliodoro Portugal; (l) Rolando Alberto Rodríguez Chong, witness proposed by the State, is a lawyer and worked for the Attorney General’s Office from 1984 to 2005. He testified on the actions of the Attorney General’s Office and his own efforts in the criminal proceeding relating to the alleged disappearance and death of Heliodoro Portugal; (m) María Victoria González de Espinioza, witness proposed by the State, is the Director of the Judiciary’s Publications and Editorial Department and testified on the actions of the courts in relation to the proceeding opened in the Heliodoro Portugal case; (n) Carlos Manuel Lee Vásquez, expert witness proposed by the representatives, is a defense lawyer and was a consultant to the Panama Truth Commission. He gave an opinion on the alleged general context of human rights violations during the military regime in Panama, the actions taken by the administration of justice during that period and to date in dealing with these cases, and the actions taken by the administration of justice in the specific case of Heliodoro Portugal; (o) Freddy Armando Peccerelli, expert witness proposed by the representatives, is the Executive Director of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala. He gave an opinion on the scientific technology and tests used to examine and identify the osseous remains, as well as his opinion on the procedure used in the recovery of the remains found in the Las Pumas Barracks in Tocumen, and (p) Carlos Enrique Muñoz Pope, expert witness proposed by the State, is a lawyer and full professor of criminal law of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Universidad de Panama. He gave an opinion on the remedies available in the Panamanian competence under criminal procedure; the development of the preliminary proceedings and trial in criminal cases; the impact of the fundamental guarantees of presumption of innocence and due process in the investigation and prosecution of offenses; the development of the case opened in Panama on the alleged disappearance and death of Heliodoro Portugal; the mechanism for appealing before the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Panama for compensation for damage resulting from de facto acts carried out by State officials, and the right to property in Panama. 66. During the public hearing in this case, the Court received the testimony of the following witnesses and expert witnesses:28 (a) Patria Portugal, witness proposed by the Inter-American Commission and the representatives, is Heliodoro Portugal’s daughter, and she testified on the measures taken by her family to discover the truth about what happened to her father; the actions of the judicial authorities and the alleged obstacles that the family faced in their search for justice; the discovery and identification of the remains of Heliodoro Portugal; the consequences of Heliodoro Portugal’s alleged disappearance and the alleged lack of justice on her personal life and that of her family; the State’s attitude towards the recommendations of the Inter-American Commission and the presumed consequences and impact that the alleged disappearance had on the Portugal family; 28 In its communication of January 24, 2008, the State informed the Court that it desisted from the offer of the testimony of Heraclio Sanjur.

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