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1.
That pursuant to Considering Clause No 14 of this Order, the Court will not continue
monitoring the compliance with Operative Paragraph 12 of the Judgment, regarding the
obligation of the State “to adopt the essential measures required to facilitate minor Aleoscar
Russeth Blanco-Iriarte’s departure from Venezuela,” since said person has reached the age
of majority.
2.
That pursuant to Considering Clause No 11 of this Order, the following orders are
pending compliance:
a)
The State is to carry out investigations and effective, unbiased judicial
proceedings on the three forced disappearances involved in the instant case,
leading to the truth of the facts and the punishment of those responsible
therefor (sixth operative paragraph of the Judgment;)
b)
The State is to adopt such measures as may be necessary to establish
the whereabouts of Messrs. Oscar José Blanco-Romero, Roberto Javier
Hernández-Paz and José Francisco Rivas-Fernández as soon as possible. Should
they be found dead, such measures are to be directed at delivering their
remains to their next of kin for burial as the latter may deem appropriate.
Should this be the case, the State is to provide the conditions required to
convey the victims’ remains to such place as may be determined by their next
of kin, and to give them decent burial at no expense for such next of kin
(seventh operative paragraph of the Judgment;)
c)
The State shall publish once, within a six-month term as from the date
it be notified of the instant Judgment, in the Diario Oficial (Official Gazette) and
in another national daily newspaper with national coverage, the Section of the
instant Judgment called Proven Facts, without its footnotes, paras. 54 to 65 in
the Section of the instant Judgment called Merits, and the operative paragraphs
hereof, (eighth operative paragraph of the Judgment;)
d)
In line with the provisions of Articles 7(6), 25 and 2 of the American
Convention on Human Rights, the State is to pass such legislative or other
measures as may be required in order for writs of habeas corpus to be
effectively processed in Venezuela in cases of forced disappearance, (ninth
operative paragraph of the Judgment;)
e)
The State is to adopt, within a reasonable time period, such measures
as may be necessary to reform its criminal laws so as to bring them in line with
the international standards on the protection of individuals in connection with
the forced disappearance of persons (tenth operative paragraph of the
Judgment;)
f)
The State is to include, as part of the education and training courses for
the officers of the Armed Forced and the Office of the Sector Director General
of the Intelligence and Preventive Services Bureau, a program regarding the
principles and rules of human rights protection, particularly the prohibition
against forced disappearance, torture and disproportionate use of force, taking
into consideration the case-law of the Inter-American System for the Protection
of Human Rights, as a mechanism to prevent the recurrence of events such as
the ones in the instant case (eleventh operative paragraph of the Judgment;)