The rule of law and access to the administration of justice in times of SARS-COVID-19 quarantine in Venezuela

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is, on the one hand, to analyze the impact that this pandemic has on the different areas of law, since law as a science is no stranger to this SARS-COVID-19 pandemic. Where a whole set of actions or omissions that the judicial system has developed by the measures adopted by the State of Alarm decreed by the executive in the need to suspend or restrict certain rights and guarantees formally as provided by the Bolivarian Constitution to the detriment of fundamental human and civil rights of citizens are highlighted. The methodology used is a bibliographic documentary research where the positions of some authors such as Ayala (2020), Fukuyama (2020), Carbonell (2020), Casal (2020), among others. A documentary review was carried out from a critical position of the literary sources selected and used for the development of the research, this to identify and expose the various consequences arising from this pandemic and the measures adopted by the State of Alarm decreed by the executive in the need to suspend or restrict certain human rights and their guarantees in a formal manner as is the rule of law. It is concluded that the need to review and reformulate strategies such as quarantine or mandatory social confinement is already creating the conditions for the impact of the disease to have dire consequences on the judicial system and therefore on access to the administration of justice, due process, and the rule of law.