the necessary financial assistance would be granted to cover the reasonable expenses for the
preparation and mailing of four affidavits indicated by the representatives.
246. On June 1, 2021, the report on the disbursements made in this case in application of the
Legal Assistance Fund was forwarded to the State. These amounted to US$685.32 (six
hundred and eighty-five United States dollars and thirty-two cents) and, as established in
Article 5 of the Court’s Rules for the Operation of the said Fund, Paraguay was granted a time
frame for presenting any comments it deemed pertinent. The State presented a brief on June
11, 2021, in which it indicated that, according to Article 2 of the Court’s Rules for the Operation
of the Fund, the presumed victims “must demonstrate satisfactorily […] that they lack the
economic resources necessary to cover the costs of litigation,” and therefore asked the Court
to make a “prudent assessment of the need for the State to make this reimbursement, given
the particularities of the case.”
247. In this regard, the Court recalls that, on the President’s instructions, in communications
of July 28, 2020, the parties were informed that “the request presented by the representatives
of the presumed victims to access the Fund was admissible,” precisely because they had met
the requirements of the Court’s Rules for the Operation of the said Fund. The same
communications noted that, in its answering brief, the Paraguayan State “had not contested
the authorization to apply” the Fund. In the said order of the President of December 11, 2020,
based on the contents of the communications of July 28, that year, “application of the Fund
was declared admissible.”
248. Thus, the comment made by Paraguay refers to a matter examined and decided at the
proper procedural moment, so that it is not in order for this judgment to include further
considerations in this regard, especially when the State has failed to make any specific
arguments addressed at questioning the application of the Fund in this specific case and did
not do so in its answering brief either.
249. Consequently, the Court orders the State to reimburse the said Fund the sum of
US$685,32 (six hundred and eighty-five United States dollars and thirty-two cents). This
amount must be reimbursed within six months of notification of this judgment.
H. Method of complying with the payments ordered
250. The State shall pay the compensation established in this judgment in favor of Bonifacio
Ríos Ávalos for the concepts of restitution, pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage, and to
reimburse costs and expenses directly to him, within one year of notification of this judgment.
If the beneficiary should die before the respective compensation is delivered to him, this shall
be delivered directly to his heirs pursuant to the applicable domestic law.
251. In the case of the compensation established in favor of Carlos Fernández Gadea for
pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage, and to reimburse costs and expenses, the State shall
pay this as indicated in paragraphs 215, 228 and 243, within one year of notification of this
judgment.
252. The State shall comply with the monetary obligations by payment in United States dollars
or the equivalent in domestic currency, using the market exchange rate published or calculated
by a pertinent banking or financial authority on the date nearest to the day of payment.
253. If, for causes that can be attributed to the beneficiaries of the compensation or their
heirs, it is not possible to pay the amounts established within the indicated time frame, the
State shall deposit the said amounts in their favor in a deposit account or certificate in a
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