Central American and Caribbean Judicial Council

It is a regional organ that promotes and creates policies in matters of adjudication and legal certainty between the Judicial Branches of its party-members. It creates channels of communication and coordination for the adoption of several institutional commitments. Some of its mains objectives are: to foster institutional cooperation and solidarity amongst Judicial Branches; to submit concrete proposals about judicial matters; to promote extensive cooperation between Judicial Branches or jurisdictional bodies and to harmonize instances of judicial aid, and to create consensus on strategies that will encourage the creation of new projects in the Ibero-American Judicial Summit and other international forums.  

In accordance to Mexico’s position as a Regional Observer in the Integration System of Central America since 2004, the Judicial Branch of Mexico has participated as an observer during the ordinary meetings of the Judicial Council of Central America and the Caribbean. The last ordinary meeting was held on the 28th and 29th of March 2019 in the city of Antigua, Guatemala. To said meeting, Councilor Rosa Elena Gonzalez Tirado of the Federal Judicial Council of Mexico, assisted as an observer and representative of the Mexican Judicial Branch, where the Chief Justice of the host´s Supreme Court and Judicial Body, Nester Vasquez Pimentel, was appointed as President Pro Tempore 2019 of the Executive Committee of the Integration System of Central America.