The case of the confrontation of the government of Lopez workshop with the supreme Court of Justice is not the only one in Latin America. Other examples illustrate how political power has been confronting the other powers that in every republic are foreseen as its counterweightespecially the can judicialwhich has caused enormous tensions that aggravate the democratic drift experienced by several nations in the region.
After the president Lopez workshop stated that the Supreme Court “violated the constitution” after annulling the first part of his electoral reforms contained in the so-called Plan B.the tensions between the two powers reached their maximum level, in addition to demonstrating their insistence on trying to neutralize their powers by proposing a Plan C. for 2024with which he seeks ministers and judges to be elected by the people.
Other countries of Latin America have suffered this type of conflict before and ended with the open dissolution, absorption or annulment of the judiciary, such is the case of Venezuela and Nicaragua.
The example of the Ortega and Maduro regimes
Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua since 2007 and Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela since 2010.
In case of Venezuela has been much discussed in recent times: a country that has suffered a generalized crisis since 2010, when the former president Hugo chavez came to power. Like this one, his successor, Nicholas Ripehas definitely succeeded in undermining the independence of the system judicial with the lack of transparency in the election of judges and prosecutors, as well as the constant interference in their work.
In 2020, a Supreme justice court completely at the command of the government and, that same year, they were appointed 624 judgesall provisionalwhich negatively affects the civil servant’s right to stability in his position as a guarantee of independence and autonomy.
Daniel Ortegacurrent president of Nicaraguahas achieved absolute control of the can judicial in the country from his 16 consecutive years as president since 2007, and 20 in totalif its first government from 1985 to 1990 is added.
Every year new protests arise from the opponents to his government, but ortega remains in power and has expelled, stripping them of their nationality, more than 300 Nicaraguans who oppose their abuses under the accusation of conspiracy and treason to the motherland
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Chile, a separate case
Gabriel Boric, President of Chile.
In ChiliAfter the Court supreme seek to deny the authorization of pardons granted by the president Gabriel Boric to a dozen young people imprisoned after the violent acts of the social outbreak of 2019, the president chose to rely on the existing law, and not seek to create a conflict through a nullification of the can judicialwhich is based on the powers that the Constitution grants him as President of the Republic.
In Colombiaa few days ago, the president Gustavo Petro intensified his confrontation with the attorney general, Francisco barbosawhen pointing out: “The prosecutor forgets one thing that the Constitution orders him to do. I am the head of state. Therefore, the head of him”. In response, Barbosa has denounced that President Petro is showing claims to be “a dictator”. For its part, the Supreme Court called for sanity, but firmly rejecting Petro’s statements.
Although the latest news is that the “frictions” have been overcome, according to the president Petroit is clear that the vision that he maintains of the division of powers and of his hierarchical level clashes with the interpretation that the judiciary has.
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