2 3. Request that the Government of Nicaragua adopt the measures necessary to conduct an exhaustive investigation that will lead to the clarification of the events which occurred on January 25 of the present year, and the identification of those responsible, so as to sentence them to the pertinent punishment. 4. Request that the Government of Nicaragua inform the Com-mission as to the provisional measures adopted in accordance with that ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. 3. The events the Commission took into account in calling upon the Government to adopt provisional measures are summarised below: 18. Dr. Arnoldo Alemán-Lacayo, 50 years old, and the Liberal Alliance Candidate for the Presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua, escaped injury in an attempt against his life at approximately 10 a.m. on January 25, 1995 (sic). The events took place in the Municipality of Wiwilí, 300 kilometers north of Managua, when Dr. Alemán was traveling throughout the zone on a campaign tour. Approximately a dozen heavily armed men attacked the motorcade of Alemán. 19. One of Dr. Alemán's body guards, identified as Luis Ángel Cruz, was killed during the course of the attack. In addition, the Deputy Chief of Police of the Department of Nueva Segovia, Orlando Selva, and Liberal party supporters Heriberto Gadea and Antonio Alemán were gravely injured. 20. The sector where the attack occurred shelters groups of heavily armed delinquents, many of whom maintain ties with bands of ex-members of the Sandinista Popular Army and the Nicaraguan Resistance who rearmed themselves as of 1990. 21. Arnoldo Alemán is the presidential candidate of a coalition of four liberal parties in the general election of this October 20. CONSIDERING: 1. That Nicaragua has been a State Party to the American Convention since September 25, 1979, and accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court on February 12, 1991. 2. That Article 63(2) of the Convention provides that, in cases of extreme gravity and urgency, and when necessary to avoid irreparable damage to persons, the Court, in matters not yet submitted to it, may adopt such provisional measures as it deems pertinent at the request of the Commission. 3. That in the instant case, independently of the fact that the merits of the matter are under consideration by the Commission, publicity in both the national and international Press, the death of one of Dr. Alemán-Lacayo's bodyguards, and the injuries sustained by others in his entourage, have invested the events on which the Commission bases its request for provisional measures with a high degree of notoriety and credibility. 4. That these circumstances entitle the Court to apply the provisions of Article 63(2) of the Convention, since it considers this to be a case of "extreme gravity and urgency" and one in which it is necessary to avoid irreparable damage to Mr. Arnoldo Alemán-Lacayo. 5. That for those reasons, Nicaragua should adopt the measures necessary to preserve the life and personal integrity of Arnoldo Alemán-Lacayo and to avoid irreparable damage to him.