7 a) Guadalupe Jessica Salvador Chiriboga: Proposed by the Commission and the representatives; daughter of María Salvador Chiriboga. She rendered a statement on some of the details related to the judicial proceedings initiated by her mother in order to protect their rights, on the negative results regarding some of the proceedings and on the delay of the State to resolve other judicial proceedings. Among such proceedings, she focused on two mediation proceedings; one of them was suspended in October 2006, when the parties had to appear before the Inter-American Commission. Furthermore, she pointed out that despite the efforts made by the mediators, the meetings arranged within such proceeding did not continue after such appearance. She added that they have never been against the declaration of public utility of the Municipality of Quito but that they have always claimed a fair compensation. She stated that since 1991, when the Municipality declared her mother's property to be of public utility, she has been prevented from entering into a construction work inside such place. She clarified that the condemnation proceedings initiated by the Municipality of Quito began two years after the effective possession of her mother's property in 1994. Lastly, she expressed that her mother had to bear a very heavy emotional burden that had affected her health. b) Susana Salvador Chiriboga: Proposed by the Commission and the representatives; daughter of María Salvador Chiriboga. She rendered a very detailed statement on all the proceedings initiated by her mother in order to protect their rights. She pointed out that 16 years have passed since the declaration of public utility and 11 years since the beginning of the condemnation proceedings. She added that, despite the passage of the years since the beginning of said proceedings, no legal compensation has been determined. Moreover, she mentioned that the dominant role of the Municipality of Quito has affected her family, not just for the hiring of attorneys in order to defend their rights and live on alert for each municipal order, but also because of the conflicts within the family life, since some of her brothers have wanted to abandon the fight, "[...] since they thought it was impossible to fight on equal terms with the Municipality [...]". She ended up indicating that this fight marked the life of her family. c) José Luis Paredes Sánchez: Proposed by the Commission and the representatives: former owner of a property located in the area now occupied by the Metropolitan Park of Quito (hereinafter, “Metropolitan Park”). He stated that, in his capacity of former owner, he has defended the rights of other owners of pieces of property located in the same region and that is why he knows lot of people; that, due to the declaration of public utility, they had been deprived of their properties without receiving any kind of compensation. He added that the Municipality has used the time in its favor in order to force the affected people to accept the offer and exchange their properties for other properties in regions very much inferior to the ones they own. He indicated that, despite the fact that he was deprived of his property, the Municipality forces him to pay taxes. d) Margarita Beatriz Rafiha El Fil Guerra: Proposed by the Commission and the representatives; former owner of the property located in the area now occupied by the Metropolitan Park. She stated that her wealth has been reduced to three hectares as a result of the condemnation proceedings and the declarations of public utility; that, in her case, they were seizures since she has never been compensated. Moreover, she pointed out that the Municipality has