Daniel Kempken Versión en español aquí. Violence and insecurity in Ecuador have increased exponentially since around 2019. Dramatic events culminated in January 2024, when a wave of violence swept across the country. A television channel was hijacked during a live broadcast. Criminal groups assassinated mayors and prosecutors. The powerful drug lord «Fito» managed to escape from prison. The […]
Daniel Kempken* Versión en español aquí. In the middle of the last decade, Ecuador was considered an island of peace in a continent characterized by high levels of violence. But since around 2019, violence and insecurity have increased exponentially in the country. This extraordinary and worrying increase in crime and threats to citizen security is […]
Ursula Indacochea Prevost* Versión en español aquí. Last Wednesday, March 16, a public hearing was held before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to address the situation of judicial independence in El Salvador. In it, the petitioning organizations presented to this international body a reading of various decisions, facts and arbitrary reforms that occurred […]
Prof. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán** The political attack on justice is a central moment in the processes of democratic erosion. When we look at the cases of autocratization in Latin America and the European Union we find that the capture of justice (especially the capture of constitutional courts) is the decisive, and often irreversible, moment in the […]
Justicia en las Américas 