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guarantees of due legal process therein. In that sense, I have ruled within this Court
in the two last years, for example, inter alia, in the arguments of my Separate
Opinions in the cases of López Álvarez v. Honduras (Judgment of February 01, 2006,
paras. 53-55 of the Opinion), Massacre de Pueblo Bello v. Colômbia (Judgment of
January 31, 2006, paras. 63-65 of the Opinion), Baldeón García v. Perú (Judgment of
April 6, 2006, para. 10 of the Opinion), and Comunidade Indígena Sawhoyamaxa v.
Paraguai (Judgment of March 29, 2006, para. 36 of the Opinion). I hope this Court
soon has the courage to take this new qualitative step in its jurisprudential
construction, since it did not take it in this Judgment of this case of Ximenes-Lopes.
From the very day on which it takes it - I hope very soon - it shall be contributing to
make it more difficult to repeat stories like Electra’s and Irene’s without punishment.
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
Judge
Pablo Saavedra-Alessandri
Secretary