In Venezuela justice depends on political power, according to jurist Alvear

The legal expert Jorge Alvear, commenting on the issue of Human Rights in Venezuela, said he hoped that in the coming legislative elections Venezuelans tend to rescue those rights. On the trial of Leopoldo Lopez, opposition political leader who has been convicted by provisional judges, he stated that magistrates without stability are subject to the dictates of the government in Venezuela, where there is no separation of powers.

Here in Ecuador something similar has also occurred, where well-known cases have been solved by provisional judges, handpicked, as Judge Susana Virginia Barreiros was named, the same that sentenced Lopez.