Overview
- The executive declared the Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos in reorganization, which took effect Sunday, November 15, 2026, and gave the ministry 120 calendar days to complete the process.
- The ministry’s Oficina General de Planeamiento, Presupuesto y Modernización must produce a formal technical diagnosis that identifies duplicities, superpositions or gaps of competence and reviews planning, budget, investment, process management and integrity mechanisms.
- The decree limits the reorganization to the ministry’s own administrative structure and does not directly change the internal organization of public bodies attached to the justice sector, though the diagnostic may assess how the ministry exercises rectoría, conducción and supervisión over them.
- The Ministry of Economy and Finance simultaneously put the Organismo Especializado para las Contrataciones Públicas Eficientes into a separate reorganization for up to 90 days and required a procurement diagnosis within 45 days to address operational weaknesses in certification, registry management and supervision.
- Officials and users should expect concrete reform proposals and an implementation timetable after the diagnostic reports, and the process could affect hiring, budget allocations and oversight practices that shape access to justice and procurement transparency.