Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega Díaz, who for years
unflinchingly supported Venezuela’s government, has since late March become a
strong critical voice within chavismo. Regardless of her motivations, for the
first time she’s fully exercising her powers to challenge the foundations of
President Nicolás Maduro’s repressive machinery. This hasn’t changed the
situation on the ground, because the courts have long since been captured by
the executive. But one important consequence of Ortega’s initiatives and the
justice system’s reaction to them has been to create a paper trail of what is
probably the heart of today’s institutional crisis in `Venezuela: the absolute
lack of judicial independence. More…
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