Lawyers, experts in international criminal law, celebrate a legal breakfast in Ospina Abogados together with the former Colombian Minister of Justice and the exiled Antonio Ledezma.
The so-called political economy, in which the actions of governments and the possibility of drastic course changes The judiciary has become the main determinant of economic performance and there are frequent interventions and instability that threaten democracy.
It’s the most important thing Conclusion of the legal breakfast organized by Ospina Abogadosone of the best lawyers in international criminal law, received today in their offices the former Colombian Minister of Justice Wilson Ruiz Orejuela and the former mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma, who were accompanied at the dialogue table by the criminal lawyers Juan Antonio García Jabaloy and Juan Gonzalo Ospina have fifty experts in geopolitics and international relations brought together to “Human rights and the principle of legality in an international context.
The speakers’ presentation led them to a rough analysis of Latin America. Thus, the Venezuelan opponent Antonio Ledezma, who was in exile in Spain for six years, spoke of an “overflow of the rule of law in Venezuela” and pointed out in detail how the government of Nicolas Maduro uses drugs as an element of economic management and maintaining irregular armed forces. “Maduro is not the president of Venezuela, he is the head of a criminal organization,” he defends that “the flower of democracy is the justice system” and calls for its diligence.
“With all due respect, I must say that Colombia is not Venezuela. In Colombia, despite the forced withdrawal of more than sixty senior military and police officials to combat democracy, the institutional framework is very strong.“, explained Wilson Ruiz Orejuela, calling for the “progress” of countries in human rights, without forgetting places that are not very visible, which is an example of the situation that Congo is suffering from. For the former minister, it is noteworthy that there are 450,000 lawyers in Colombia, the result of very short training cycles, which, in his opinion, must be corrected to protect the proper functioning of the judiciary in the country.
For his part, Juan Antonio García Jabaloy, expert in international criminal law, emphasized the tasks of the International Criminal Court. the correct application of the Rome Statute and the need to “profile” many international norms that conflict with each other, which the lawyer confirmed based on the solvency that his twelve years as prosecutor at the National Court gave him.Above all, he was head of the Spanish delegation to Eurojust for six years, where, among other things, he chaired the working group set up by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).
The event was moderated by the director of the firm, Juango Ospina, who appreciated the other members of the table and their extensive experience, calling on lawyers to “raise their voices in the face of injustice, from respecting legality to avoiding perversions of the rule of law.” .”