Weekly Report - 08 November 2012 (WR-12-44)

Recent developments in Bolivia are being welcomed as significant steps forward for the country’s justice system. The plurinational constitutional court (TCP) ruled against both the crime of “disrespect” (desacato, encompassing defamation and slander) against top public officials as well as the retroactive application of the controversial 2010 anti-corruption law, ‘Ley Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz’. President Evo Morales is also hailing as progress the election of Ramiro Guerrero Peñaranda as the new attorney general – an appointment which has been filled in an interim basis since 2006. This has, however, been less enthusiastically received by the opposition, suspicious of Guerrero’s past links to Morales’s Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS).

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