A.2. Information and observations regarding the measures of security and protection adopted in favor of the beneficiary 15. According to information provided to the Court, the protection scheme assigned by the State to the beneficiary Islena Rey Rodríguez consists of a vehicle and two or three escort units, 9 support for the payment of per diem allowances, road tolls and fuel, as well as a mobile phone. In addition, “police inspections” are carried out at the beneficiary’s home and workplace. In this regard, the representatives and the State reported problems with the vehicle and the aforementioned support which, on one occasion even prompted the beneficiary to take the decision to “give up the security arrangements in the absence of an agreement on decisions related to her protection”, and on another occasion because of a reduction in the amounts provided for fuel. In that context, several contacts and discussion meetings took place between the parties where they first reached temporary solutions, and subsequently, agreements that overcame the problems. This included the assignation of a new vehicle, an increase in the amount of fuel authorized given that it was an armored vehicle and a procedure for applying for vouchers for fuel and road tolls, and for requesting an increase in the amount provided for fuel. 16. The representatives also reported on a problem concerning the beneficiary’s ability to move in the event of an emergency, and referred to the procedures required by the State to authorize such movements and the corresponding per diem allowances given that, according to the latter, there were constraints of an administrative nature. According to information provided by the representatives and the State, during the follow-up discussion meeting held on April 8, 2011, the State clarified the issue of the administrative procedure for authorizing movements within the protection scheme, and offered a solution which, according to the State, “does not [imply] avoiding the procedures, but […] speeds [these] up so that it is possible to guarantee the mobility of the scheme without problems of an administrative nature arising afterwards.” 17. In its brief of observations of February 14, 2012, the Inter-American Commission “appreciate [d] the State’s willingness [to] resolve the problems that have arisen in relation to different aspects of the protection scheme [but] note [d] that beyond specific solutions to each of those difficulties, their continuation in different areas could indicate structural failings in the implementation and coordination of the measures.” The Commission considered it necessary “that the State, based on the problems that have arisen, make the necessary efforts to ensure close and continuous monitoring of the provisional measures, in order to avoid problems of an everyday nature which, in the long run, may end up having a negative impact on the effectiveness of the protection itself.” The Commission expressed concern regarding problems related to “the amounts to facilitate [the beneficiary’s] movements, as well as the conditions and formalities that would continue to be required of her and her escorts in the context of those movements.” It emphasized that “it is essential that, in the context of the dialogue on the implementation of the provisional measures, the State take into consideration the particularities of the beneficiary’s work and the need to adopt the solutions necessary to comply with the provisional measures, bearing in mind those particularities.” 9 In the brief of February 24, 2012, the representatives stated that “the protection scheme of Islena Rey Rodríguez consists of two trusted escorts and not three escorts.” In a communication of July 16, 2012, the State reported that “currently, Mrs. Islena Rey has two (2) escort units linked through the private security operator, which is in the process of contracting the third escort unit.” 6

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