(PROBIDAD/IFEX) – Journalist Rodolfo Bluske has received no response so far to a letter he recently sent to the Presidential Anti-Corruption Delegation (Delegación Presidencial Anticorrupción), requesting information needed for an analysis of corruption cases reported in the Department of Tarija and the counter-measures taken by the Delegation there. The journalist’s right to a response is […]
(PROBIDAD/IFEX) – Journalist Rodolfo Bluske has received no response so far to a letter he recently sent to the Presidential Anti-Corruption Delegation (Delegación Presidencial Anticorrupción), requesting information needed for an analysis of corruption cases reported in the Department of Tarija and the counter-measures taken by the Delegation there.
The journalist’s right to a response is guaranteed by Decree 28168 of 17 March 2005, regarding access to information. According to the decree, institutions must provide the information requested within a maximum of 15 days. Bluske has informed PROBIDAD by letter that his request was officially received on 31 May and that he later went to the Tarija Delegation office where he was told that his request had been sent to the La Paz office for a response which the Tarija officials had so far not received.
Bluske has now filed a complaint with the Ombudsman’s Office regarding the violation of the right to information, guaranteeed under the Constitution. The Office will decide on the admissibility of the complaint within 7 days.
PROBIDAD is calling for all legal provisions to be respected in order to ensure that Bluske obtains the documentation he has requested, given that this lack of response to his request is a violation of decree 28168 and a clear demonstration that the state’s own norms are not being complied with.
To view Bluske’s letter to the newspaper “El País” see: http://denunciasydefensa.blogspot.com/2005/07/delegacin-presidencial-anticorrupcin.html
