4 this vehicle matched the characteristics of the one that was prowling suspiciously around his children’s residence. In the said communication, the Inter-American Commission requested the Court to order the State: d) To provide forthwith effective safety measures to protect the life and safety of Jorge Guillermo Lemus Alvarado and his next of kin; e) To coordinate the measures of protection described in subparagraph (a) supra with the persons to be protected, in order to ensure the effectiveness and pertinence of such measures; and f) To adopt, as an essential element of the obligation to protect, effective measures to investigate the facts that gave rise to this expansion of the measures, in order to identify and punish those responsible for such acts in accordance with due process. 5. The documentation provided by the parties to the proceedings in Myrna Mack Chang v. Guatemala, being processed before this Court, which include the statement made by Jorge Guillermo Lemus Alvarado on November 16, 1995, before the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Guatemala and the judgment delivered on October 3, 2002, by the Third Criminal Court for Drug-related Activities and Crimes against the Environment of the Republic of Guatemala. 6. The Order of the President of April 25, 2003, in which he decided: 1. To call upon the State to adopt forthwith all necessary measures to protect the life and safety of Jorge Guillermo Lemus Alvarado and his next of kin, so that the Court may examine the request for expansion of the provisional measures adopted in favor of Helen Mack Chang et al. 2. To call upon the State to carry out the planning and implementation of the required measures in collaboration with the beneficiaries of such measures or their representatives and, in general, to keep them informed about progress in the measures. 3. To call upon the State to investigate the facts reported that gave rise to these measures in order to identify and punish those responsible. 4. To call upon the State to inform the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of the measures adopted to comply with this Order, within 15 days of receiving the corresponding notification. 5. To call upon the beneficiaries of the measures or their representatives and upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present their comments on the State’s report, within two weeks of receiving it. 6. To call upon the State, following its first communication (fourth operative paragraph), to continue informing the Inter-American Court of Human Rights about these measures in the respective report that it should present every two months on the measures ordered in favor of Helen Mack Chang et al., and to call upon the beneficiaries or their representatives to continue submitting their comments on these reports of the State within four weeks of receiving them and upon the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to present its comments within six weeks of receiving notification of the respective State reports.

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