44 transport to Guatemala City and food during about 20 days in the city); Q7,500.00 (seven thousand five hundred quetzales) for funeral expenses and transport to the capital city to this end, and Q800.00 (eight hundred quetzales) for medical consultations for two members of the family, for a total of Q14,100.00 (fourteen thousand one hundred quetzales). They also included the patrimonial damage to the household that affected his parents and also his wife and son, because the victim was responsible for supporting the latter financially and from time to time sent money to the former. Finally, they added the loss of the victim’s documents and personal effects such as a gold medal and clothes. The Commission’s arguments 113. In its briefs of August 31, 1998, and August 2, 1999, the Commission indicated the following under the general heading of “pecuniary damage”: a) regarding the loss of earnings of Julián Salomón Gómez Ayala, that the life expectancy for a man in Guatemala was 45.59 additional years; that the victim was working as a mechanic at the time of the facts and that his companion, his son “of two and half years of age” and his mother, to whom he provided financial assistance, depended on his income. In its first brief, the Commission indicated that, according to International Labor Organization data, a worker in the transport sector would have had a monthly wage of Q266.66 (two hundred and sixty-six quetzales with sixty-six cents) in 1987, and, therefore, requested compensation of US$30,528.74 (thirty thousand five hundred and twenty-eight United States dollars and seventy-four cents). However, in its second brief, the Commission endorsed the calculation of earnings claimed by the victim’s next of kin and adjusted them to the criteria established by this Court; for example, deduction of 25% for personal use, calculation of interest and of the current value of the corresponding amounts; and b) with regard to the other expenses, in its first brief, the Commission indicated that the victim’s mother and companion searched for him for 12 days, and on the following day the body appeared and was buried in Guatemala City, so that his mother had to obtain a judicial order to exhume the body and transfer the remains to “Suchitepéquez”, which involved expenses of Q4,000.00 (four thousand quetzales); the next of kin also incurred expenditures of Q7,000.00 (seven thousand quetzales) for various funeral expenses. Lastly, the Commission claimed that the victim was wearing a gold medal at the time of the facts, and the value of this should be reimbursed. In its second brief, the Commission endorsed the calculations and figures submitted by the victim’s next of kin. The State’s arguments 114. The State contested the claims and calculations made by the next of kin of Julián Salomón Gómez Ayala and the Commission, observing the following, among other matters: a) with regard to the loss of earnings of the victim, it claimed that, according to his identity card, he worked as a farm laborer and, owing to the inexistence of information on the income earned by the victim, the minimum