-3all be careful.” On April 7, 2006, “Ana Diva and her next of kin decided to
move somewhere else “because they feared that “through [t]he people who
had come from the Municipality of San Pablo hauling some ‘personal
belongings’ and were staying at a rooming house located close to [her]
resid[ence …] they would find Luis José.” On April 8, 2006, Ana Diva’s stepson, who remained at their initial residence, told her that the men had been
asking about their new place and José Luis’ whereabouts. The men went back
to the Municipality of San Pablo, but left their belongings behind at the
residence they had been staying at since the previous Friday.” Ana Diva
Quintero-Quintero de Pundor told the representatives that she would “discuss
the protection measures required with her family, as they fear acts of violence
may be perpetrated against them;” and
c)
the above-stated facts “regarding the threats and harassment that the
aforementioned families have been put through and due to which they were
forced to leave their place of usual residence entail a serious and imminent
danger to their lives and physical integrity. Apparently, such danger is
attributable to […] paramilitary and guerrilla groups.” “Therefore, irrespective
of the source of the threats [,] the State is required to […] provide essential
measures of protection in order to prevent irreparable harm to their lives and
physical integrity.” These people are the next of kin of the victims in the Case
of 19 Tradesmen, and some of them have testified before the Court, “which is
why the State has a special duty of protection.”
5.
In light of the foregoing, the representatives requested that the Court call
upon the State to:
a)
Adopt provisional measures [… for] the benefit of [the nuclear families of Messrs.
Salomón Flórez and Luis José Pundor and Ana Diva Quintero-Pundor.]
b)
[…I]mplement the measures of protection requested on March 29[, 2006] for the
benefit of the next of kin of Mr. Salomón Flórez, notably the transportation of Nubia Stella
Sepúlveda, as this measure is subject to the decision of the Ministry of Education.
c)
Regarding the Quintero-Pundors, in addition to such measures of protection as may be
decided by the Court when ordering provisional measures, […] call an urgent meeting to
coordinate the protection measures requested for these particular cases.
6.
The Order of April 28, 2006, whereby the President decided, inter alia: 1) to
insist that the State take and keep in place such measures as may be required to
protect the rights to life and humane treatment of Sandra Belinda Montero-Fuentes
and her children, Juan Manuel Ayala-Montero and María Paola Casanova-Montero; 2)
to extend the scope of the measures regarding the case of 19 Tradesmen and call
upon the State to immediately adopt such measures as may be necessary to protect
the rights to life and humane treatment of Messrs. Salomón Flórez-Contreras and
Luis José Pundor-Quintero and Ana Diva Quintero-Quintero de Pundor, as well as
their respective families, taking into consideration the statements set forth in
Considering clause number eighteen of the […] Order; 3) to call upon the State to
report to the Inter-American Court, within a period of ten days as of the date of
notice of the Order, on the measures adopted in compliance therewith; and 4) to
request that, within a period of five days, the representatives advise the Court
whether the persons named in Considering clause number eighteen of such Order
are actually the ones requiring protection, or otherwise to state their names, if
necessary.