ORDER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF NOVEMBER 27, 2002 PROVISIONAL MEASURES REQUESTED BY THE INTER-AMERICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS WITH RESPECT TO THE REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA LUIS UZCÁTEGUI V. VENEZUELA HAVING SEEN: 1. The November 27, 2002 brief and its appendices, in which the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Commission” or “the Commission”) submitted to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”), pursuant to Articles 63(2) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter “the Convention” or “the American Convention”) and 74 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission, a request for Provisional Measures in favor of Luis Enrique Uzcátegui Jiménez. In said brief, the Commission asked the Court to order the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (hereinafter “the Venezuelan State”, “the State” or “Venezuela”) the following: a. To urgently adopt effective security measures to ensure the rights to life [and to] humane treatment (Articles 4 and 5 of the American Convention) of Luis Enrique Uzcátegui Jiménez. b. To coordinate the protection measures stated in subparagraph “a”, above, in agreement with Luis Enrique Uzcátegui Jiménez or the applicants. c. To adopt, as an essential component of the duty to provide protection, effective measures to investigate the facts that give rise to these measures, so as to identify and punish those responsible for such acts in accordance with due process. d. To request the State of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to ensure access to justice for Luis Enrique Uzcátegui Jiménez. e. To inform the [...] Court within a brief term of compliance with the Provisional Measures adopted in favor of Luis Enrique Uzcátegui Jiménez. 2. The grounds argued by the Inter-American Commission for its request of Provisional Measures, based on the following facts: a. that during the in loco visit conducted by the Commission to Venezuela, in May, 2002, it “received information from the Ombudsman that in Venezuela there are ‘extermination groups’ constituted by State security officials acting in the States of Portuguesa, Yaracuy, Anzoátegui, Bolívar, Miranda, and Aragua”; b. that the Commission “noted with serious concern that the ‘extermination groups’ are not only an unlawful mechanism of social control