time he received phone calls from numerous unknown individuals repeating the warning to “shut up or die;" iv. As of December 21, 2009, when Mr. Galdámez was able to leave the Brazilian Embassy, he began to be subjected to surveillance by two vehicles, one green and with an extended cab the other one white and with an extended cab. The latter vehicle also watched his house; v. During the year 2010, Mr. Galdámez received numerous text messages, insults, and threats from identified cell phone numbers. The day following the death of journalist David Meza, which took place on March 11, 2010, he received a message reading: “You’re next;" On September 14, 2010, after concluding his news broadcast on Canal Globo, Mr. Galdámez was returning home at 11:30 PM, accompanied by his son Ramón Israel, when three individuals approach them and fired several times. Mr. Galdámez was armed and was able to repel the attack. The attackers fled in a green Honda Accord with tinted windows and no license plates. Mr. Galdámez communicated twice with the police spokesperson, asking for an explanation of what happened and requesting his presence. Despite this, approximately two hours passed before two officers came to his house. They left without doing any investigation or collecting evidence and stated that “his case was not a priority." On September 16, 2010, two officers came to his house to examine the area and found only one 40mm bullet. As of this date, Mr. Galdámez does not know the result of the investigations; and vi. On October 12, 2010, Mr. Galdámez covered the presence of a businessman and president of the National Association of Industry (ANDI in its Spanish acronym) in the Casa Presidencial. After Mr. Galdámez asked him a series of questions, that individual tried to hit him. According to what the representatives reported to the Commission, this incident placed Mr. Galdámez in a highly vulnerable situation, given the accusations that this individual was linked to the coup d’état and to the current president, and vii. g) On November 2, 2010, the Secretariat for External Relations reported that on September 24, 2010, a meeting was held in which the following protective measures for the possible beneficiaries were agreed upon: i) patrols around his house and work, to be extended to his children and companion; ii) the establishment of budgetary funds for hiring private and permanent security personnel, and iii) the holding of regular meetings which can be requested by Mr. Galdámez in writing and, in cases of emergency, immediately. 3. The Commission’s arguments on which it based its request for provisional measures, to wit: a) "The situation of extreme gravity and urgency required under Article 63(2) of the American Convention in order for the Court to order provisional measures is verified under that article by the existence of cycles of threats, attacks, and harassment against Mr. Galdámez and his relatives and the continuation of acts of persecution, intimidation, and harassment against him;”