Prosecutor Devoe led debate in Bolívar and Monagas on transformation of the criminal justice system
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Published at: 06/10/2026 05:23 PM
In the Caroní municipality of Bolívar state, members of the Popular Power, social movements, workers, university students, community sectors and judicial authorities discussed proposals that help the profound transformation of the Venezuelan criminal justice system.
The day was led by the Attorney General of the Republic and executive secretary of the Presidential Commission for the National Consultation on Criminal Justice Reform, Larry Devoe Márquez, who urged overcoming the procedural delay through a collective and objective diagnosis, according to a press release from the Public Ministry (MP).
“For a diagnosis to be objective, it must recognize strengths, but we must also identify weaknesses, challenges, challenges,” emphasized the authority, while inviting us to build a road map with concrete goals and solutions in the short, medium and long term.
For her part, the governor of the state of Bolivar, Yulisbeth García, ratified the regional commitment to move towards an equitable judicial model focused on the defense of human rights.
In this regard, he announced the deployment of a multidisciplinary team in the entity to systematize the contributions that emerged from the grassroots.
The meeting was also attended by Judge Carmen Marisela Castro, president of the Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), who highlighted the approach of courts to communities through mechanisms such as street courts and justice of the peace, stressing the importance of building reform based on citizen proposals.
This consultation seeks to lay the foundations for consolidating a more transparent, efficient and inclusive judicial system that strengthens institutions and restores trust to the Venezuelan people.
Subsequently, a high-level commission to carry out the process of “The Grand National Consultation on Criminal Justice Reform” was transferred to Monagas state.
The governor of the entity, Ernesto Luna, received the delegation, made up of the president of the Supreme Court, Caryslia Rodríguez; the Attorney General of the Republic, Larry Daniel Devoe Márquez; the president of the Criminal Cassation Chamber, Marisela Castro Gilly; the Minister for Penitentiary Services, Julio Zerpa; the general public defender, Daniel Ramírez, and other magistrates.
On June 1, 2026, this commission received guidance from the President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, to hold this open debate throughout the national territory, with Monagas being the 16th state in which they are running this day, on the premise of moving towards a true social State of law and justice.
For his part, the Attorney General stated that this participatory initiative is based on article 26 of the Constitution, which states that the State shall guarantee free, accessible, impartial, appropriate, transparent, autonomous, independent, responsible, equitable and expeditious justice.
To this end, they will thoroughly review the Criminal System together with the people, receiving proposals that guarantee the construction of a shared diagnosis of this structure, marking a road map for building a new design that corresponds to administering justice in the criminal proceedings of the parties involved.
“We plan to reduce the procedural delay while respecting the rights of the victims and/or those mentioned, the decongestion of prisons, the reduction of the sentence adjusted to the transparency of the judicial process and rapid, fair, respectful and efficient care,” he said.
The president of the Supreme Court stressed that through this deployment they will make whatever corrections may be made, understanding, Rodríguez said, that Venezuela has one of the best legal systems in the world.
“This consultation is not for specialists at all, this consultation belongs to the Venezuelan people,” he said.
Meanwhile, the general public defender asserted that it is a matter of administering a more humanized justice that goes beyond a criminal code and that avoids procedural delay.
“Behind every file there is a family, a victim, a defendant whose presumption of innocence must be respected; that is why the consultation must go beyond a cayapa plan, subpoenas from the courts, presentation of evidence, reintegration into society or factors that prevent an oral and public trial,” Ramírez said.
Mazo News Team