Manuel María Mercedes of the National Commission of Human Rights denounced the complicity of judicial authorities and the police in Constanza regarding drug traffickers.
Mercedes demanded that the Superior Council of the Public Ministry, the director of the National Police and the Judicial Branch Council to focus on Constanza and conduct a thorough investigation on practices of authorities in that jurisdiction.
It is alleged that the authorities purposefully misconstrue or poorly interpret the law in order to protect drug traffickers. As a result, cases against drug traffickers are deemed to be weak and rarely are drug traffickers convicted in the courts. Mercedes accused the judicial system operating in Constanza to be nothing more than an enabler of drug trafficking.
Mercedes said if the Superior Council of the Public Ministry, National Police director and the Judicial Branch Council do not take action, he would release to the general public, the names of those involved in the scheme.
24 March 2017
