PhD. in Constitutional and Administrative Law

The crisis of the judicial system in Bolivia has ceased to be a novelty and become part of our daily resignation. We have grown accustomed to the progressive deterioration of the justice system, yet an alarming figure in Sucre starkly reflects the true magnitude of this institutional predicament; at the Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP), more than 20,000 cases currently accumulate without even having been assigned by lot for the issuance of their respective judgments, gathering dust instead in the Admission Commission.

It is worth pausing to consider the significance of this figure. These are not complex rulings in the drafting stage, but rather backlogged case files waiting to enter the lottery system to be assigned to a reporting magistrate. This transcends any merely administrative deficiency; it constitutes objective evidence that the supreme interpreter of the Constitution has failed to fulfill its essential function of guaranteeing prompt and timely justice.

To grasp the gravity of this procedural backlog, one need only recall the nature of the matters that reach this forum. Minor disputes do not come before the TCP, but rather writs of habeas corpus, constitutional amparo remedies, challenges against unlawful tax assessments, or actions of unconstitutionality, among others. They........

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