Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights∗ of July 1, 2009 Case of Castañeda Gutman v. Mexico (Monitoring Compliance with Judgment) HAVING SEEN: 1. The Judgment on preliminary objections, merits, reparations and costs (hereinafter referred to as “the Judgment”) of August 6, 2008, whereby the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (hereinafter, the “Inter-American Court”, “the Court,” or “the Tribunal”) ruled, inter alia, as follows: […] 6. The State shall, within a reasonable time, complete the adaptation of its domestic law to the Convention, in order to adapt the secondary legislation and the norms that regulate the action for the protection of the rights of the citizen to the provisions of the constitutional reform of November 13, 2007, so that, using this remedy, citizens are effectively guaranteed the possibility of contesting the constitutionality of the legal regulation of the right to be elected, in the terms of paragraphs 227 to 231 of th[e] judgment. 7. The State shall publish once in the official gazette and in another daily newspaper with widespread circulation, paragraphs 77 to 133 of th[e] judgment, without the footnotes, and its operative paragraphs within six months of notification of th[e] judgment, in the terms of paragraphs 232 to 235 [t]hereof. 8. The State shall pay Jorge Castañeda Gutman the amount established in paragraph 244 of th[e] judgment, for reimbursement of costs and expenses, within six months of notification of th judgment. 9. The Court will monitor full compliance with th[e] judgment, in the exercise of its attributes and in compliance with its obligations under the American Convention, and will close this case when the State has complied fully with its terms. Within one year from notification of th[e] judgment, the State shall provide the Court with a report on the measures adopted to comply with the judgment. […] 2. The brief of March 2, 2009 and the appendixes thereto, whereby the United Mexican States (hereinafter, “the State” or “Mexico”) reported on compliance with the Judgment. ∗ On May 7, 2007, Judge Sergio García Ramírez disqualified himself from hearing the instant case under Articles 19(2) of the Statute and Article 19 of the Rules of Procedure in force at the time of the case, on account of his Mexican nationality, and the Tribunal allowed that disqualification. Accordingly, Judge García-Ramírez was not involved in the deliberations or the signing of the Judgment or this Order.