30. In this context, the domestic courts are called on to play a crucial role, because they are one of the principle vehicles for the State to be able to convert the obligations contained in the international human rights treaties into domestic law, by applying them in their jurisprudence and daily proceedings. 24 Evidently, not only must they guarantee rights by ensuring the effectiveness of domestic judicial remedies, but they must also put in practice the binding decisions of the Inter-American Court that interpret and define the international laws and standards for the protection of human rights. 25 31. The active participation of the domestic courts in guaranteeing human rights creates a favorable environment for reinforcing their capacity to use procedures and criteria that are increasingly in conformity with international laws and standards for human rights protection, and this ensures the enhanced implementation of those laws and standards at the domestic level. 32. Consequently, one of the main purposes of the interaction between the international and national bodies of laws is to improve the national protection systems. This encourages the national jurisdictional organs to deal with violations of rights and to do whatever is possible to repair them, if they occur. “In the international guarantee there is a general interest, in addition to a merely subjective one, to foster the effectiveness of the State system. International protection should not act as a substitute for domestic protection; its function is to complete and promote the latter’s increased effectiveness.” 26 33. The highest courts of Latin America have been nourishing themselves from the Court’s case law in a process that can be referred to as the “nationalization” of international human rights law. 27 For this important process of interaction between the region’s national and international courts to take place, in which the former are called on to apply international human rights law and observe the provisions of the Inter-American Court’s case law, constant incentives must be provided for the substantive dialogue that allows this. Within the framework of the different types of actions that encourage this dialogue, the Inter-American Court’s decision to assess positively the measures taken in the domestic sphere to make reparation for the pecuniary damage constitute an important step on this path. Diego García-Sayán Judge 24 GARCÍA-SAYÁN, Diego, “Una Viva Interacción: Corte Interamericana y Tribunales Internos”, in The Inter-American Court de Derechos Humanos: Un Cuarto de Siglo: 1979-2004, Corte Interamericana of Human Rights, San José, Costa Rica, 2005, p. 330. 25 GARCÍA-SAYÁN, Diego, “Una Viva Interacción: Corte Interamericana y Tribunales Internos”, op. cit., p. 330, and Diego García-Sayán “Justicia interamericana and tribunales nacionales”, op. cit., p. 379. 26 PEREZ TREMPS, Pablo, “Las garantías constitucionales y la jurisdicción internacional en la protección de los derechos fundamentales”, in Anuario de la Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Extremadura, No. 10, 1992, p. 81. 27 GARCÍA-SAYÁN, Diego, “Una Viva Interacción: Corte Interamericana y Tribunales Internos”, op. cit., p. 325-331. 8