March 26, 2023, 7:37 PM
March 26, 2023, 7:37 PM
This Monday March 27 arrives in Bolivia a delegation of 25 people belonging to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), based in Washington, to analyze the state of human rights in the country, within the framework of the ‘In loco’ visit.
The visit of the organism is given after 17 years in which a delegation from the entity was in the country for the first time, between November 12 and 17, 2006, when Evo Morales was president, and issued a report a year later on the reform in the administration of justice. One of his assessments was the general elections that took place in 2005.
Now, the commission will be for five days, until March 31, visiting four cities and holding multiple meetings with the four State Bodies, institutions, representatives of civil society and vulnerable sectors, as confirmed by the Vice Minister of Justice, César Siles.
The authority reported that the work team, led by the president of the IACHR, Margarette May Macaulay, will be deployed in the departments of Santa Cruz, La Paz, Cochabamba and Chuquisaca, in which they have already received around 500 hearing requests.
Siles explained that the delegation requested to visit Chonchocoro, San Pedro and Miraflores prison in La Paz. Precisely, the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, is being held in the first prison, and former president Jeanine Áñez is in the last prison, who declared that they were politically persecuted by the government of Luis Arce Catacora.
He explained that between the objectives of the IACHR in Bolivia it is dealing with the democratic institutionality with respect to the relations between the organs of the State; challenges regarding access to justice; judicial guarantees; economic, social, cultural and environmental rights; and structural discrimination against populations in situations of vulnerability with a focus on discrimination based on gender and racial ethnic origin.
“They are going to meet with representatives of the LGTBI community, with the victims of serious human rights violations in the Sacaba and Senkata massacre, with the victims of the dictatorship, with the victims of the strike in Santa Cruz, the former members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and departmental courts of 2019”, he indicated.
The Vice Minister of Justice stated that once the commission arrives in the country, it will offer a press conference in the who will announce the aforementioned objectives and then initially hold a meeting with Vice President David Choquehuancaalso with the State Chancellor, Rogelio Mayta and the Minister of Justice, Iván Lima.
On the delegation’s agenda Meetings with the Departmental Legislative Assembly of Santa Cruz, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Departmental Central Obrera (COD) and the Federation of Peasants are contemplated.
He affirmed that once the visit of the IACHR concludes, said delegation will provide a final report within a deadline established two to three months after the visit.
“On Friday they will hold a conference, after information that will be presented to the president, about the initial results they found in Bolivia in relation to human rights,” he said.
