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ANF, El Diario:

Advierten una estructura “casi criminal y con  impunidad” en la administración de justicia
ONE OF THE HEARINGS THAT TAKE PLACE DAILY IN THE COURTS OF JUSTICE.
UNA DE LAS AUDIENCIAS QUE A DIARIO SE DESARROLLAN EN LOS TRIBUNALES DE JUSTICIA. FOTO: LOS TIEMPOS

They warn of an “almost criminal and impunity” structure in the administration of justice

The vice president of the Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (Apdhb), Yolanda Herrera, asserted that in the entire area of Bolivian justice there is an “almost criminal” structure that violates human rights, where officials are not afraid to act like this because the “impunity” that exists to cover up their crimes.

“In principle – they act like this and no one is sentenced – because there is an almost criminal structure established throughout the system in the administration of justice, we cannot generalize, surely there are very valuable exceptions that must be recognized, but in the general scope it is “What is taking place is a structure with impunity for acts that violate human rights,” the activist told ANF.

She stressed that “justice is rotten from its foundations,” where there may be police, prosecutors, processors and judges who are the exception, but for the most part illegality has so much weight that in the end there are judges and officials who resign to avoid “submitting to this criminal conduct with impunity that has been established.”

She clarified that it cannot be said that this phenomenon of justice is only from this period of government, but that it is a “construction of many years” that has been accommodated, generating concealment and protection, so “when there is a complaint against someone in the system, that one is protected.”

Among the known complaints are cases of prosecutors reported for corruption who continue to serve, court secretaries who favor one of the parties and are not punished, judges who sell sentences and are only removed from office for a few months and return to practice, police that notify, take a photo and remove the notification.

Herrera indicated that, as an important factor, as long as judges and judicial officials do not have a stable source of employment and are subject to momentary contracts, they will basically continue to be conditioned to act “based on some corrupt instruction or line within the administration of Justice so that the entire structure is sustained.”

In that sense, she asserted that in this almost criminal structure the interest is economic, the interest is power and “the interest is to subdue any dissident voice, whether on the political level or on economic issues.”

“The administration of justice is so inefficient that we are painfully permeated by drug trafficking and there is no firm decisive action to fight against this scourge, however, they apply all the judicial demolition based on actors who have voices contrary to the policies that are being implemented or that to some extent have gone against some economic interest,” she noted.

For Herrera, this is a situation of “high risk for citizens” and is reflected in issues such as violence against women, violence against young people, the situation of enslavement of indigenous territories in the Amazon, the actions of miners. illegals who exploit gold and pollute rivers, “where they quietly establish themselves because justice is not up to what is required.”

“Access to timely, objective, impartial justice are criteria that are in the Political Constitution of the State, but that, in practice, in implementation, is completely the opposite,” the activist emphasized. (ANF)

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