With regard to the other requirements, the Inter-American Court will perform the
corresponding analysis in the next chapter.
IV
ANALYSIS OF THE ADMISSIBILITY OF THE REQUEST FOR
INTERPRETATION
8.
The Court will now examine the representative’s request to determine whether, in
accordance with the law and the standards developed in its case law, it is admissible to
clarify the meaning or scope of any point of the judgment.
9.
The Court has found that a request for interpretation of judgment cannot be used
to challenge a decision whose interpretation is being requested. The exclusive purpose of
such a request is to determine the meaning of a judgment when one of the parties finds
that the text of its operative paragraphs or its considerations are unclear or imprecise, as
long as these considerations have an impact on the operative paragraphs. Therefore, the
modification or annulment of the judgment in question cannot be requested through a
request for interpretation.3
10. The Court has also held that it is inadmissible to use a request for interpretation to
submit considerations on matters of fact and law that were already raised at the proper
procedural moment and regarding which the Court has already issued a decision, 4 or to
ask the Court to reassess matters that it has already ruled on in its judgment. 5 This
proceeding can also not be used to broaden the scope of a measure of reparation ordered
at the proper procedural moment.6
11. Hereinafter, the Inter-American Court will examine the issues raised in the following
order: a) the request for interpretation regarding the compensation for non-pecuniary
damage with respect to the impact on the victims' life project, and b) the request for
interpretation regarding the compensation for non-pecuniary damages in relation to the
alleged effect resulting from the content of Decree 1025/96.
Request for interpretation regarding the compensation for non-pecuniary
damage with respect to the impact on the victims' life project
A.1. Arguments of the parties and of the Commission
12. The representative asked to clarify paragraph 311 of the judgment, which
indicates that the Court “establishes, in equity, the sum of USD$40,000.00 (forty
thousand United States dollars) that the State must pay to each of the victims—Anatole
Alejandro Larrabeiti Yáñez and Claudia Victoria Larrabeiti Yáñez” in non-pecuniary
damages. According to the representative, the paragraph cited did not expressly specify
Cf. Case of Loayza Tamayo v. Peru. Interpretation of Judgment on Merits. Order of the Court of March 8,
1998. Series C No. 47, para. 16, and Case of Manuela et al. v. El Salvador. Interpretation of Judgment of
Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of July 27, 2022. Series C No. 461, para. 10.
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Cf. Case of Loayza Tamayo v. Peru. Interpretation of Judgment on Reparations and Costs. Judgment of
June 3, 1999. Series C No. 53, para. 15, and Case of Manuela et al. v. El Salvador. Interpretation of Judgment
of Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, supra, para. 11.
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Cf. Case of Salvador Chiriboga v. Ecuador. Interpretation of Judgment on Reparations and Costs. Judgment
of August 29, 2011. Series C No. 230, para. 30, and Case of Manuela et al. v. El Salvador. Interpretation of
Judgment of Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, supra, para. 11.
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Cf. Case of Escher et al. v. Brazil. Interpretation of Judgment of Preliminary Objections, Merits,
Reparations, and Costs. Judgment of November 20, 2009. Series C No. 208, para. 11, and Case of Manuela et
al. v. El Salvador. Interpretation of Judgment of Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs, supra,
para. 11.
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