code (supra para. 207). After the State works out the individual amounts to be paid to each person, it must so notify the beneficiaries and their representatives as soon as possible. 233. The State must disburse the compensation for nonpecuniary damage determined herein directly to the people named in the judgment, according to the information given in Annex 1, as well as payment for court costs and attorney fees directly to the people named in paragraph 231, within one year of the date of notification of this judgment. 234. If beneficiaries have passed away or should pass away prior to the payment of their due compensation, the money shall be delivered directly to their heirs under the terms of applicable domestic legislation. This Court acknowledges that the representatives have no information about the heirs of victims María Graciela Cisternas Cisternas, María Apolina Lara Pereira and Heriberto Antonio Martínez Salazar. The Court deems, in this regard, that in order to determine these peoples’ heirs, the State must run a notice in at least three editions of the Official Gazette, over the course of six months, calling on the next of kin of these individuals to report with the necessary information and informing them of the procedure to be followed for these purposes. 235. The State must fulfill all its monetary obligations by means of payment in United States dollars or the equivalent in national currency, calculated according to the exchange rate on the market as published or calculated by a qualified banking or financial authority on the day nearest to the date of payment. 236. If for causes attributable to the beneficiaries of the compensation or their heirs it should prove impossible to pay the amounts established within the required term, the State shall deposit the amount in their names into accounts or certificates of deposit in a sound Chilean financial institution, in United States dollars, under the most favorable financial conditions allowed by law and by banking practice. If the compensation has not been claimed after ten years, the money shall revert to the State with interest. 237. The amounts allocated in this judgment as compensation for restitution, nonpecuniary damage and reimbursement of costs and expenses shall be disbursed in their entirety to the assigned beneficiaries, as ordered in this judgment, with no deductions for possible fiscal fees. 238. If the State should fall behind on payments, it must pay interest on the amounts owed, based on overdue interest rates in effect for banks the Republic of Chile. X OPERATIVE PARAGRAPHS 239. Therefore, THE COURT DECIDES, Unanimously: 1. To dismiss the preliminary objection regarding failure to exhaust domestic remedies, as discussed in paragraphs 20 to 27 of this judgment. DECLARES, Unanimously, that: 73

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