previously indicated in this judgment (supra Chapter VII.2), the State must conduct the
necessary investigations to determine the responsibility for the facts that occurred to the
detriment of David Octavio Díaz Loreto, Robert Ignacio Díaz Loreto and Octavio Ignacio Díaz
Álvarez, and of their family members.
C. Measures of satisfaction
C.1. Publication and dissemination of the judgment
144. The representatives asked that the Court require the publication of the sections on
context and proven facts, together with the operative paragraphs of the judgment, in the
Official Gazette and in a national newspaper. Neither the Commission nor the State referred
to this request.
145. The Court establishes, as it has in other cases,174 that the State must publish, within six
months of notification of this judgment: (a) the official summary of this judgment prepared
by the Court, once, in the Official Gazette and in a national newspaper with widespread
circulation in the State of Venezuela, in an adequate and legible font, and (b) this judgment
in its entirety, available for at least one year on a website of the Public Prosecution Service,
in a way that is accessible to the public from the home page of this website.
146. The State must advise the Court immediately when it has made each of the said
publications, regardless of the one-year time frame to present its first report established in
the ninth operative paragraph of this judgment.
C.2. Public act to acknowledge international responsibility
147. The representatives asked that the Court order the holding of a public act in Aragua
state to acknowledge international responsibility and make a public apology in relation to the
facts of this case.
148. As it has in other cases,175 this Court finds it necessary, in order to redress the harm
caused to the victims, to avoid events such as those of this case being repeated, and in
response to the request of the representatives, to require the State to organize a public act
in Aragua state to acknowledge international responsibility in relation to the facts of this case.
During this act, the State must refer to the facts and human rights violations declared in this
judgment, and it must take place in a public ceremony that must be disseminated by the
media and attended by senior state officials. In addition, the participation of those who have
been declared victims in this judgment must be ensured. The place, date and other details of
this public ceremony must be duly consulted with the victims or their representatives. The
State must comply with this obligation within one year of notification of this judgment.
C.3. Other measures of satisfaction requested
149. In their brief with final arguments, the representatives asked that the State be ordered
to take all necessary administrative or civil measures to facilitate the return to the living
members Díaz Loreto family of the ownership and possession of the family home located in
La Segundera, Cagua. They also asked that the Court order the State to grant a scholarship
to Arianna Leaneth Díaz Doubain. The State, in its final written arguments, indicated that the
factual framework of the proceedings was constituted by the facts contained in the Merits
Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru. Reparations and costs. Judgment of December 3, 2001. Series C
No. 88, para. 79, and Case of Romero Feris v. Argentina, para. 185.
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Cf. Case of Cantoral Benavides v. Peru, para. 81, and Case of Women Victims of Sexual Torture in Atenco
v. Mexico, paras. 347 and 348.
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