{"id":125037,"date":"2019-04-09T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T18:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=125037"},"modified":"2019-04-10T01:09:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T01:09:05","slug":"first-remarks-by-luis-henry-molina-president-of-the-supreme-court-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/09\/first-remarks-by-luis-henry-molina-president-of-the-supreme-court-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"First remarks by Luis Henry Molina, president of the Supreme Court of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Henry-Molina-Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125097\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Henry-Molina-Facebook.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Henry-Molina-Facebook-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Luis Hery Molina \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In his first remarks as president of the Supreme Court of Justice, new incumbent Luis Henry Molina Pe\u00f1a spoke of the great challenges ahead. \u201cJustice gives power to those who have no power\u201d, he said. He hopes to \u201cconvince and not defeat.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He equated justice to independence but said it cannot operate in a void.  \u201cIt needs of government, parliament, academia, civil society, the media and all citizens,\u201d he said. He spoke of the importance of political consensus and social agreements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molina remarked when receiving the position from former president Mariano Germ\u00e1n at the Presidency: <br> \u201cEven so, huge challenges remain. Old problems resist being overcome: an environment that forces us to face those problems with new energies, too. Citizens demand more and better access to justice, crime violates the right to justice. We will be confronting this task with determination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur Judicial Branch has to be a guarantor of rights, of fair compliance with the laws, a letter of presentation of our national community before the communities of the world as a free society, governed by the best aspirations for equity and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other sworn in as Supreme Court of Justices were: Vanessa Acosta Peralta, Samuel Arias Arzeno, Anselmo Alejandro Bello, Napoleon Est\u00e9vez Lavandier, Mar\u00eda G. Garabito, Justiciano Montero Montero, Nancy Salcedo Fern\u00e1ndez and Rafael V\u00e1squez Goico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/justicia\/nuevo-presidente-de-la-suprema-corte-de-justicia-dice-que-es-mejor-convencer-que-vencer-DH12517433\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his first remarks as president of the Supreme Court of Justice, new incumbent Luis Henry Molina Pe\u00f1a spoke of the great challenges ahead. \u201cJustice gives power to those who have no power\u201d, he said. He hopes to \u201cconvince and not defeat.\u201d He equated justice to independence but said it cannot operate in a void. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/09\/first-remarks-by-luis-henry-molina-president-of-the-supreme-court-of-justice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125098,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125037\/revisions\/125098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}