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Consequently, it requested the Court to declare that Venezuela had violated:
a)
the right to life of the following persons: Miguel Angel Aguilera La
Rosa, Armando Antonio Castellanos Canelones, Luis Manuel Colmenares, Juan
José Garrido Blanco, Daniel Guevara Ramos, Gustavo Pedro Guía Laya,
Mercedes Hernández Gonzáles, Crisanto Mederos, Francisco Antonio Moncada
Gutiérrez, Héctor Ortega Zapata, Richard José Páez Páez, Carlos Elías Ojeda
Parra, José del Carmen Pirela León, José Vicente Pérez Rivas, Jorge Daniel
Quintana, Wolfgang Waldemar
Quintana Vivas, Yurima Milagros Ramos
Mendoza, Iván Rey, Rubén Javier Rojas Campos, Esteban Luciano Rosillo
García, Leobardo Antonio Salas Guillén, Tirso Cruz Tezara Álvarez, José
Miguel Liscano Betancourt, Juan Acasio Mena Bello, Benito del Carmen Aldana
Bastidas, Jesús Calixto Blanco, Boris Eduardo Bolívar Marcano, Jesús Alberto
Cartaya, Julio César Freites, Héctor Lugo Cabriles, José Ramón Montenegro,
Elsa Ramírez Caminero, Sabas Reyes Gómez, Fidel Romero Castro, Alís Flores
Torres, Roberto Valbuena Borjas and José Valero Suárez;
b)
the right to personal liberty of the following persons: Luis Manuel
Colmenares, Boris Eduardo Bolívar Marcano, José Ramón Montenegro, Juan
Acasio Mena Bello and José Miguel Liscano Betancourt;
c)
the right to humane treatment of the following persons: Gregoria
Matilde Castillo, Henry Herrera Hurtado and Noraima Sosa Ríos;
d)
the right to a fair trial and judicial protection of the 44 victims in this
case, because their next of kin and lawyers were not heard with due
guarantees and within a reasonable time by a competent tribunal, since
access to the case files was restricted for over ten years. The victims and
their next of kin did not have access to a simple, prompt and effective
recourse against the actions that violated their fundamental rights.
e)
Article 27.3 (Suspension of Guarantees), because it did not comply
with the obligation to inform the other States Parties to the Convention,
through the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, that it
had suspended constitutional guarantees during the events of February and
March 1989; and
f)
the obligation to respect the human rights and guarantees imposed by
Article 1.1 of the Convention and the undertaking to adopt measures under
domestic law established in Article 2 of the Convention.
Furthermore, the Commission requested the Court to order Venezuela:
a)
to conduct an investigation in order to identify, prosecute and
criminally punish those responsible for the extrajudicial execution of 35
persons, the disappearance of two persons and the injuries to three during
the events of February and March 1989. Likewise, to investigate the facts
relating to Jesús Cedeño, Abelardo Antonio Pérez, Andrés Eloy Suárez
Sánchez and Jesús Rafael Villalobos in which the State is not directly
responsible;
b)
to adopt the necessary measures so that the next of kin of the persons
who died, disappeared or were permanently injured during the events of