6 Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. f) The Inter-American Court should conclude that the State has not complied with the provisional measures requested by the Court, which, in light of the Convention, constitutes a grave situation, without precedent in the inter-American system for the protection of human rights, because it endangers the lives and safety of human rights defenders; g) “[O]ne of the officials the State […] had assigned [to protect Liliana Ortega] is being prosecuted as a hired assassin in the alleged murder of an opposition leader; and h) “[W]hen planning these measures of protection, the following should also be taken in account: [providing] COFAVIC personnel with bullet-proof vests for their personal protection[;] […] the assignment of [...] motorcycles […] to ensure rapid transport during the difficult moment that some members of the COFAVIC team have experienced; […] the installation of a special metal detector in the entry to COFAVIC and of a double security door at the COFAVIC offices with the characteristics and requirements determined by the COFAVIC Board of Directors; [the appointment of a national prosecutor from the Office of the Attorney General, in consultation with the petitioners, and the State [should be] requested to make a statement [...] in favor of respect and protection for the work of human rights defenders in Venezuela […].” 17. The oral arguments of the State presented in this same public hearing, which are summarized as follows: a) One of the results of the excess of democracy, the desire for prominence, and the longing to be included in the participatory democracy of the Venezuelans has been the disproportionate proliferation of nongovernmental human rights organizations; b) “It is clear that Liliana Ortega and her organization, COFAVIC, have been a concern of the Venezuelan State.” “Quite simply there has been disorder and disruption with regard to the precautionary measures and specifically the provisional measures or including them in the measures of protection for the physical and personal safety of Liliana Ortega […].” “The implementation […] of precautionary or provisional measures, [...] is not easy […] under the bureaucratic system in our countries and owing to our idiosyncrasy […]”; c) “[I]t is not at all easy, for a precautionary measure or a provisional measure of protection to be established.” Moreover, the request for provisional measures was unnecessary, because the precautionary measures were being observed, with some difficulties; d) In a country with the financial crisis that Venezuela is enduring, no cabinet minister or president of an autonomous institution has the protection requested by Liliana Ortega for herself and for COFAVIC. Also, the fact that COFAVIC has its offices in “a place where there are frequent meetings and even confrontations between supporters of the Government and the opposition” cannot be attributed to the State;

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