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Weekly Report - 13 November 2014 (WR-14-45)

PARAGUAY: Medina murder puts judicial corruption in spotlight

A massive 25% of judges in Paraguay are corrupt, the president of the country’s council of magistrates, Enrique Riera Escudero, claimed this week. Riera said this was the number of judges that, in his judgement, should have been sanctioned since he was appointed to his position by the government of President Horacio Cartes 14 months ago with the remit of revamping the deficient justice system. Riera made the startling claim in the wake of the murder on 16 October of a journalist for the national daily ABC Color and his assistant [WR-14-44]. The murders—allegedly masterminded by a mayor belonging to the ruling Asociación Nacional Republicana-Partido Colorado (ANR-PC) with ties to drug traffickers—have ignited a debate about the alleged links of politicians, judges and prosecutors with drug-trafficking.

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