Overview

• On August 12, the outgoing Supreme Court unanimously postponed two plenary projects on automatic preventive detention.
• One project by Justice Jorge Pardo Rebolledo urged compliance with the 2023 Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruling that deemed the practice incompatible with the American Convention.
• Another project by Justice Ana Margarita Ríos Farjat sought to declare unconstitutional the 2023 reform expanding the catalogue of crimes subject to preventive detention.
• Both cases will now be decided by nine newly elected ministers, identified as close to the governing Morena party, when they take office in September.
• Daniel García Rodríguez, who spent 17 years without a final sentence, appeared before the Court to demand compliance with the IACHR ruling and highlighted a November deadline for the government’s response.