Back

Andean Group - August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)

COLOMBIA: End of executive/judiciary truce

President Juan Manuel Santos’s effective truce with the judiciary after taking office a year ago this month, seems to have come to a sudden end. The current congressional debate over a proposed judiciary reform, aimed at easing the workload of prosecutors and magistrates alike, has been unequivocally slammed by the country’s top judicial authorities: the supreme court (CSJ) and the council of state (Consejo de Estado, CE). Furthermore, the initiative promoted by Senator Juan Manuel Corzo, the newly-elected head of both chambers of congress, to re-instate the privilege of immunity for members of the legislative (fuero) has been dubbed ‘Crozo’s crusade’ and slammed as a ‘tailor-made’ reform.

End of preview - This article contains approximately 604 words.

Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article

Not a Subscriber?

Choose from one of the following options

Back

Articles in this issue