El Diario reports: Bolivia fell two positions in an annual measurement regarding the functioning of the Justice, according to the latest report presented by the international civil association World Justice Project. The measurement includes 113 countries adhering to the Rule of Law. The organization carries out the measurement “with the objective of strengthening the rule…
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Growing up in a prison filled with drug lords: The brutal Bolivian jail where families live alongside their criminal relatives
Sarah Dean writes in Mailonline: Growing up in a prison filled with drug lords: The brutal Bolivian jail where families live alongside their criminal relatives San Pedro prison, the biggest in Bolivia’s main city, La Paz, holds around 3,000 dangerous inmates The prison has no guards inside and is run by criminals who pay for…
Don’t Be Fooled by Bolivia’s Latest Judicial “Reform”
Roberto Ortiz writes in PanAm Post: Don’t Be Fooled by Bolivia’s Latest Judicial “Reform” Referendum a Smokescreen for Evo Morales’ Indefinite-Power Scheme In October 2011, Bolivia, for the first time in its history, elected judicial officials. But there was a catch: those who ran were selected by the government, with all notions of meritocracy left…
Delays in Bolivian Justice: Humand Rights Watch report
The Bolivian Justice System under the scrutiny of the Human Rights Watch. Excerpt of Pagina Siete follow: THE 2014 REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION SPEAKS OF BOLIVIA Human Rights Watch denounces delays in the justice system The document states that some defendants suffered violations of due process and judicial persecution. It also denounces verbal attacks…
Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York
Joseph Berger writes in The New York Times: Bolivian Jail, an Actor’s Help and Now a Return to New York A Brooklyn flooring contractor and father of five, who was jailed in Bolivia for 18 months until the intervention of the actor Sean Penn lessened his punishment to confinement under house arrest, has been spirited…
Bolivia would be better if current president would just do nothing!
Manfredo Kempff writes for El Deber: May His Excellency do nothing I hope that does not happen to H.E [His Excellency], to do nothing to improve justice in Bolivia, because if he will be committing the same rants as ever, things will go worse. The only thing that the Bolivian justice needs, is to be…
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