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Hélio Bicudo, delegate;
Claudio Grossman, delegate;
Bertha Santoscoy, attorney, and
James Anaya, assistant.
For the State of Nicaragua:
Edmundo Castillo Salazar, agent;
Rosenaldo Castro, advisor;
Betsy Baltodano, advisor, and
Ligia Margarita Guevara, advisor.
Witnesses offered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:
Jaime Castillo Felipe (Interpreter: Modesto José Frank Wilson);
Charly Webster Mclean Cornelio;
Theodore Macdonald Jr.;
Guillermo Castilleja;
Galio Claudio Enrique Gurdián Gurdián;
Brooklyn Rivera Bryan;
Humberto Thompson Sang, and
Wilfredo Mclean Salvador.
Expert witnesses offered by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights:
Rodolfo Stavenhagen Gruenbaum;
Charles Rice Hale;
Roque de Jesús Roldán Ortega, and
Lottie Marie Cunningham de Aguirre.
Witness summoned by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (art. 44(1) of the
Rules of Procedure):
Marco Antonio Centeno Caffarena.
63.
During his appearance at the public hearing on the merits of the case on
November 17, 2000, Marco Antonio Centeno Caffarena offered several documents to
substantiate his testimony, and on November 21, 2000 he submitted eight
documents (infra para. 79 and 95).
64.
On November 24, 2000, the Court, in accordance with article 44 of its Rules of
Procedure, decided that it was useful to add to the body of evidence in this case the
following documents offered by Marco Antonio Centeno Caffarena: a copy, certified
by a notary public, of the February 22, 1983 certification of the entry in the Public
Registry of Real Estate of the Department of Zelaya, on February 10, 1917, of estate
No. 2111, and the ethnographic expert opinion by Ramiro García Vásquez on the
document prepared by Theodore Macdonald, “Awas Tingni an Ethnographic Study of
the Community and its Territory” (infra paras. 79 and 95). The Court also asked that
the State, no later than December 15, 2000, submit a copy of the complete study,
“Diagnostic study of land tenure in the indigenous communities of the Atlantic
Coast”, prepared by the Central American and Caribbean Research Council.