64 vi. Mr. Carpio Nicolle took the inevitable risk of sometimes obtaining the private sector’s support and, at other times, not obtaining it, and suffering a financial boycott from this sector, which withdrew its advertisements as a way of harming “El Gráfico” and other newspapers, and vii. The State considers that the independent auditors’ report on “El Gráfico” of June 7, 2004, is not an audit, and the Court should therefore reject it; e) Regarding the political party, the National Union of the Center: i. There is no objective estimate of the damage caused by the State as regards the collapse of the UCN political party, because, according to democratic principles and domestic legislation, political parties have a collective structure where power cannot be concentrated in the hands of a single person, but belongs to all the members; ii. The party’s funds are derived from contributions by members, businessmen and industrialists, and also State contributions to the party during elections; iii. After the facts of the instant case, one of the events that affected the UCN party was the fragmentation of its leaders and members. This political circumstance relates to the internal order of the party, and cannot objectively be attributed to the State; iv. The UCN political party took part in two general elections after Jorge Carpio Nicolle’s death, in 1995 and 1999. After each electoral event, the State grants a subsidy to political parties, and those who benefit most are the ones who have attained most votes. Since the UCN was a party that took part in the final round of two presidential elections, the State’s contribution was significant, and v. The UCN political party was legally dissolved in 1999, in accordance with article 93(b) of the Electoral and Political Parties Constitutional Law, because it had not obtained a sufficient number of votes to subsist legally; f) Regarding the Monte Rosa farm: i. The only income of Juan Vicente Villacorta’s family came from the coffee production of the Monte Rosa farm; ii. Juan Villacorta coordinated agricultural tasks with a reliable farm manager, who had worked for him for more than 30 years. Consequently, at the time of Mr. Villacorta’s death, there was a reliable person who had a thorough knowledge of the task of administering the farm; therefore, the family’s losses in the coffee business were not fully justified, and

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