Bolivia’s Top Judge Flees Country, Alleging Persecution
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Judge Romer Saucedo said that he was exiled and accused the government of his country of seeking judicial control, although he said that he will not resign but that the Justice investigates him for his closeness with a prosecutor arrested for drug trafficking.From Spain, President Rodrigo Paz found the judge's departure encouraging.Dean Rosmery Ruiz assumed as an alternate in the Supreme Court and granted him a six-day period to reinstate.
La Paz, Bolivia, AFP.- The president of the highest court of justice of Bolivia, Romer Saucedo, reported on Wednesday that he left the country for an alleged "persecution" of the government of Rodrigo Paz, after the prosecution ordered his arrest in an investigation for drug trafficking. Since October, several high officials of the judicial system have been arrested [...]
Romer Saucedo fled abroad with his family, denouncing government pressure. More...
Romer Saucedo announced his departure from Bolivia and Rosmery Ruiz was appointed temporary president of the TSJ The entry Rosmery Ruiz assumes the temporary presidency of the TSJ was first published in La Patria Bolivia.
The full chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) appointed the dean of that instance, Rosmery Ruiz Martínez, as acting temporary president, in the absence of Romer Saucedo, who on Wednesday announced that he had left Bolivia with his family. This decision was taken during a session of Sala Plena installed shortly after 14:30, in which the judicial authorities analyzed the institutional situation generated by Saucedo's announcement about hi…
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