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next report the State forward[ed] information with regard to this paragraph pending
fulfillment.”6 In its report of August 14, 2008, Colombia pointed out that on June 12, 2008,
it paid the above mentioned amount of 44,342,183.00 (forty-four millions, three hundred
and forty-two thousand, one hundred and eighty-three Colombian pesos) to Iván Andrés
Caballero-Parra, and it attached the respective deposit voucher. This State report and the
appendixes attached thereto were timely forwarded by the Court to the representatives,
who did not present any observations to the amount deposited or claims for other amounts
pending with regard to the CD in favor of Iván Caballero, despite the repeated requests
made by the Court and the elapsing of more than seventeen months since the above
mentioned payment (supra Having Seen clauses No. 6, 7 and 14). Therefore, the Court
observes that neither the representatives nor the Inter-American Commission have any
objections to the amount deposited by the State to said beneficiary, reason for which it
concludes that Colombia has complied with this reparation measure.
17.
That regarding the difference of USD 500.00 (five hundred United States dollars)
between the amount of the CD and the sum ordered in the Judgment, Colombia informed
that on November 19, 2008 it paid said difference. However, the Court has not been
provided a document evidencing the informed payment; consequently, the State shall
forward it with its next report.
18.
That at the monitoring hearing held on February 4, 2008, the representatives stated
that since December 2006, the State had not delivered Mrs. María Nodelia Parra the
monthly yields of the CD issued in favor of her son, Iván Andrés Caballero-Parra. However,
in its report of June 2008, the State submitted deposit vouchers to the savings account of
Mrs. María Nodelia Parra dated between December 2006 and January 2008. Most of these
documents had been delivered to the representatives during the above mentioned hearing
and, although more than twenty-one months have gone by since that moment, the
representatives did not present their considerations as to the vouchers nor did they claim
any other debts pending with regard to the above mentioned yields. In view of the above,
the Court concludes that the State has complied with the duty to pay the legal
representative of Iván Andrés Caballero-Parra the yields of the CD until January 2008. The
Court requests the State to forward, together with its next report, a copy of the documents
evidencing payment of the yields corresponding to the term between February and June 12,
2006, date on which the CD was paid.
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19.
That regarding the obligation to investigate and punish those responsible for the
disappearance and alleged death of the victims (fifth operative paragraph of the Judgment
on the merits), the State repeated its request to the Court not to mention in any public
document the information that the parties provide on the investigation of these facts, as it is
in a preliminary stage under gag order. The State again reminded the different investigation
measures adopted in the past and the existence of an investigation at the Unidad de
Derechos Humanos de la Fiscalía General de la Nación [Human Rights Unit of the National
Solicitor General]. As to these proceedings, it submitted a brief summary of the most
important progress, and it enhanced that since 2006, the investigation was assigned to a
new Prosecutor, who has made the proceedings move forward and has effected several
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Case of Caballero-Delgado and Santana v. Colombia. Monitoring Compliance with Judgment. Order of the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights of February 6, 2008, Considering Clause No. eight.