5 15. On November 25, 1998, the Commission informed the Court that it had been able to communicate with the next of kin of the victims, Julián Salomón Gómez Ayala, William Otilio González Rivera and Pablo Corado Barrientos, and forwarded the corresponding information on their location. 16. On December 8, 1998, María Luisa Chinchilla Ruano, mother of Erick Leonardo Chinchilla, informed the Secretariat by telephone of her address and telephone number. The following day, Elizabeth Gómez Ayala, sister of Julián Salomón Gómez Ayala, also advised by telephone, her telephone number and that of the victim’s mother, Blanca Esperanza Ayala de la Cruz. 17. On December 9, 1998, the Secretariat notified the judgment of March 8, 1998, to the next of kin of Julián Salomón Gómez Ayala, William Otilio González Rivera, Pablo Corado Barrientos and Erick Leonardo Chinchilla and gave them a brief explanation of the proceeding corresponding to the reparations stage. It also sent them other pertinent documents and informed them that “[t]he period for the victims or their next of kin to submit their briefs [would] be established by the President [...] in due course” (infra 20). 18. On December 16, 1998, the State provided information on the publication of the announcements in the press and the broadcast by television and radio, executed in compliance with the order of the President (supra 13). On January 7, 1999, it also forwarded publications in newspapers, an audiotape and a videotape containing these announcements. 19. On December 23, 1998, German Giovanni Paniagua Morales submitted his brief on reparations. 20. On January 29, 1999, the President ordered: 1. To grant the victims or, when appropriate, their next of kin until March 27, 1999, to submit a brief and any evidence they ha[d] for determining the compensations and expenses. In the case of those victims or next of kin who ha[d] already submitted their briefs to the Court, it w[ould] not be necessary for them to retransmit them, and those submitted would be considered valid. 2. To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to transmit all the briefs received to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, once the period mentioned in the previous paragraph ha[d] expired. 3. To grant the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights one month, calculated from the date on which it receives the briefs mentioned in the second operative paragraph of the [said] order, to submit any additional comments that it considers pertinent with regard to reparations. 4. To instruct the Secretariat of the Court to transmit all the brief that had been submitted to the State of Guatemala, once the period referred to in the previous operative paragraph ha[d] expired. 5. To grant the State of Guatemala two months, calculated from the date on which it receive[d] the briefs referred to in the previous operative paragraph, to submit its comments and any evidence it has for determining the reparations in this case. 21. On February 3, 1999, the Court requested Mark Martel to send the powers of attorney which were granted to him by the next of kin of Oscar Vásquez, Anna Elizabeth Paniagua Morales and Manuel de Jesús González López and, to this end,