Found some interesting patterns in how they've shifted from agenda-setting to more direct policy formulation over time.

If you're interested in human rights courts or policy implementation, the paper examines how these decisions translate to real-world changes.

The Court ordered Brazil to include the crime of enforced disappearance in its criminal law, and to elaborate a diagnosis of the situation of death squads in the Rio de Janeiro region.

The diagnosis may be a good idea, as it will inform future evidence based policy developments.

The judgment in Spanish can be found here:

www.corteidh.or.cr/docs/casos/a...

The IACtHR ordered several (really broad) structural remedies, including ensuring measures to ensure electoral transparency; allow access of candidates to public media; and adopting measures to ensure that the judiciary and electoral authorities are independent.

It further considered the need to adopt measures to restrain the use of power of the incumbents, who could easily abuse their position of power to get re elected.

The Court considered found Capriles to be a victim of his political rights, as electoral integrity

Electoral integrity includes: (1) transparency (including finances and results); (2) use of all types of media, (3) preventing abusive use of power, (4) independent judicial and electoral authorities.

The Court's analysis is one of the few cases on political rights during elections.

The Court found Venezuela responsible for arbitrarily using the State apparatus to favour the incumbent candidate, including the local Supreme Court and electoral authorities, to the detriment of Mr. Capriles.