judges

Bolivian President swears in judges of the judiciary

Published on: December 31, 2024
10:52

La Paz, 31 December (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Luis Arce today swore in the 19 permanent and substitute judges of the Judiciary elected on December 15.

Bolivian president Arce attends judicial elections

Published on: December 15, 2024
07:00

La Paz, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) The president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Luis Arce, will be attending Sunday the country’s partial judicial elections, after arriving Saturday night from the 24th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), in Caracas, Venezuela.

Pope Francis upholds the State’s role to guarantee social justice

Published on: November 12, 2024
15:33

Montevideo, Nov 12 (Prensa Latina) Pope Francis reportedly sent a message to Uruguayan judges upholding the State's role against the market to guarantee social justice.

Judges and a former legislator arrested in Ecuador

Published on: March 4, 2024
12:26

Quito, Mar 4 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador's Attorney General's Office announced an operation that has already left a dozen people arrested, among them several judges and a former legislator, for the alleged crime of organized crime.

Cubans to cast their votes for over 11,300 lay judges

Published on: October 11, 2023
17:15

Havana, Oct 11 (Prensa Latina) Mass and student organizations and representatives of all Cuban social sectors are currently participating in the election process of 11,347 lay judges, local press announced on Wednesday.

Mexico Judges accused of obstructing fight against money laundering

Published on: June 27, 2023
15:14

Mexico City, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) Mexico's Judicial Power is once again in the public pillory after being accused by the Financial Investigation Unit (UIF) of slowing down the fight against money laundering with its rulings.

Mexico’s presidential pre-candidate to abolish judicial empire

Published on: June 26, 2023
13:47

Mexico City, Jun 26 (Prensa Latina) Mexico's presidential pre-candidate for the ruling Morena party, Adán Augusto López, today proclaimed the need to put an end to the rule of judges.

BINUH concerns over violence against Haitian police officers, judges

Published on: May 19, 2023
17:02

Port-au-Prince, May 19 (Prensa Latina) The UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) on Friday expressed deep concerns over threats, intimidations and violent acts against police officers, judges and judicial actors.

Lopez Obrador reveals multimillion-dollar trust fund

Published on: March 8, 2023
14:16

Mexico, Mar 8 (Prensa Latina) Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador revealed on Wednesday that the Judicial Power has a trust fund worth more than 1.117 billion dollars and it says say it does not have enough money.

2 Pa. judges ordered to pay M to kids-for-cash scandal victims

Published on: August 17, 2022
19:01

Washington, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit prisons in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay over million to hundreds who fell victim to their crimes, CBS reported on Wednesday. In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan judges locked up a country-run juvenile detention center and accepted .8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups.

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