The president of the Supreme Court of Justice Jorge Subero Isa said that there has been a progressive deterioration in the government’s public prosecutors (Ministerio Publico) in recent months. He told students gathered at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) that all the work that went into preparing government prosecutors has been undone. The new government authorities hired new personnel upon taking office. Subero Isa praised the advances made in the judiciary under former district attorneys Guillermo Moreno and Francisco Dominguez Brito. He told his audience that the judiciary has two legs — public prosecutors and the judges. He said corruption has been eliminated in the court rooms, with influence pedaling a thing of the past. Nevertheless he said that for good administration of justice there needs to be rulings that establish the independence of public prosecutors so that they can’t be removed from their positions with a mere telephone call. He also said cases accumulate because of the many delays permitted by the present legal codes.
