INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS CASE OF THE AFRO-DESCENDANT COMMUNITIES DISPLACED FROM THE CACARICA RIVER BASIN (OPERATION GENESIS) v. COLOMBIA JUDGMENT OF NOVEMBER 20, 2013 (Preliminary objections, merits, reparations and costs) In the Case of the Afro-descendant Communities displaced from the Cacarica River Basin (Operation Genesis),* the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter “the Inter-American Court” or “the Court”), composed as follows:** Diego García-Sayán, President Manuel E. Ventura Robles, Vice President Alberto Pérez Pérez, Judge Eduardo Vio Grossi, Judge Roberto F. Caldas, Judge, and Eduardo Ferrer McGregor Poisot, Judge also present, Pablo Saavedra Alessandri, Secretary, and Emilia Segares Rodríguez, Deputy Secretary pursuant to Articles 62(3) and 63(1) of the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter, “the American Convention” or “the Convention”) and Articles 31, 32, 41, 42, 65 and 67 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court (hereinafter also “the Rules of Procedure”), delivers this Judgment. * This case was processed before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and also during the proceedings on the contentious case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as “Marino López et al. (Operation Genesis) v. Colombia.” However, by a decision of the Court, this Judgment is issued under the name of the Case of the Afro-descendant Communities displaced from the Cacarica River Basin (Operation Genesis) v. Colombia. ** Judge Humberto Antonio Sierra Porto, a Colombian national, did not take part in the processing of this case or in the deliberation and signature of this Judgment pursuant to Article 19(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the InterAmerican Court applicable to this case, which establish that “[i]n the cases referred to in Article 44 of the Convention, a judge who is a national of the respondent State shall not be able to participate in the hearing and deliberation of the case.”