{"id":502319,"date":"2026-03-16T21:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/lawyer-maria-mieses-warns-about-the-weakening-of-judicial-independence-in-the-dr\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:47:19","slug":"lawyer-maria-mieses-warns-about-the-weakening-of-judicial-independence-in-the-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/lawyer-maria-mieses-warns-about-the-weakening-of-judicial-independence-in-the-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer Mar\u00eda Mieses warns about the weakening of judicial independence in the DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Justice is not fixed with technology alone; we need judges shielded from the pressures of power,&#8221; says the jurist.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>. \u2013 Lawyer Mar\u00eda Mieses expressed today her deep concern about the current state of the Judiciary in the Dominican Republic, noting that the independence of judges runs the risk of becoming a &#8220;social media phrase&#8221; instead of an effective constitutional guarantee.\n\nDespite the administrative advances recorded since 2019 under the management of magistrate Luis Henry Molina Pe\u00f1a, Mieses maintains that the efficiency in numbers and technological modernization are concealing a critical vulnerability in the system: the lack of real protection for judges against the sectors of power.\n\nFor Mieses, the current approach of the Judicial Council seems to be more focused on the perception of efficiency than on protecting the integrity of the judge.\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>You can also read: <\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n&#8220;It is of no use for a system to be fast if judges continue to feel vulnerable to calls and pressure from the powerful,&#8221; said the jurist. &#8220;Technology cannot be a distraction from not addressing the usual problem, she indicated that the lack of guarantees for a judge to rule without fear of the consequences on their career or their position.&#8221;\n\nMieses emphasized that under the current leadership, political and economic pressures have not disappeared, but have become more subtle. He criticized the centralization of the system, which, in his opinion, leaves the magistrates unprotected.\n\nThe jurist concluded by calling on the judicial leadership to take responsibility for closing the doors to external influences.\n\n&#8220;As long as the administrative image is prioritized over real independence, justice will continue to be seen as a tool for a few, leaving out the common citizen,&#8221; he stated.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Justice is not fixed with technology alone; we need judges shielded from the pressures of power,&#8221; says the jurist. Santo Domingo. \u2013 Lawyer Mar\u00eda Mieses expressed today her deep concern about the current state of the Judiciary in the Dominican Republic, noting that the independence of judges runs the risk of becoming a &#8220;social media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26FV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}