00:04In multiple occasions, the common citizen, the people who don't have why
00:11to be aware of the terminology that especially is used in the legal world,
00:17hears expressions that they don't understand or that they don't understand, but they don't
00:24profundize what is their real content and in that measure, even in many occasions,
00:32they lose opportunities to exercise the rights, to seek protection, to come to
00:41certain authorities that are instituted in benefit of the citizens in the sense that
00:48they are their protectors, they are the ones who need to help.
00:54Let's say that this introduction has to do with a notion that eventually,
00:59we repeat, we usually hear but that people don't understand their content.
01:05The concept of which we are referring to is what is called the
01:10Ministerial Public. What is the Ministerial Public and for what is the Ministerial Public?
01:17The people can think that by their name could be a more dependent on the
01:25government, as well as there is the Ministerial of Defense, the Ministerial of
01:28Health, the Ministerial of Justice. Well, a person who is not very
01:32aware of the issue, repeat, would think that the Ministerial Public is a more dependent on the
01:39structure of the national government. But no. The Ministerial Public has its
01:45reason to be in the need to protect the most weak in the structure, organization and
01:54functioning of the State. Let's say that when we analyze in its
01:58conjunto what is the State, we find that in the last one are the citizens. And the
02:05citizen, individually considered, is absolutely weak. It is weak because it is
02:11subject to all that structure, to all that is the exercise of power, the authority. And
02:20in that medida, from a long time ago, from the
02:24constitutions colombianas of the 19th century,
02:27se instituted, then, the figure of the Ministerial Public.
02:30So, what is, resumiendo, the Ministerial Public is that part of the
02:37structure of the State whose function, whose task is to help the
02:43citizens, defend the citizens, represent the citizens,
02:48to velate because the citizens should be respected as a
02:51government, their rights, their rights, their
02:53rights.
02:55So, what is the Ministerial Public, according to our
02:59system and the structure of our State?
03:03Basically, the Ministerial Public in Colombia
03:06ejerce three entities.
03:09In the first place, and the most important, the
03:12Procuraduría General de la Nación.
03:14In the second place, the
03:19Defensoría del Pueblo.
03:21In the third place, for
03:23all the people who have very
03:25present, are the
03:26Personerías Municipales.
03:28If we start from the
03:30supposed to
03:31that the Ministerial Public
03:33seeks to defend
03:34the citizens,
03:35to
03:36guarantee their rights,
03:38then
03:39there should be
03:41Ministerial Public
03:41in all the
03:43country.
03:43Why?
03:43Because the citizens live in
03:45all the municipalities.
03:46For that reason,
03:48in all the
03:49municipalities,
03:50in all
03:50what is known as
03:51municipalities,
03:52from the point of view
03:53of what is
03:54the
03:55Ordening
03:55Territorial,
03:56there is
03:57a person.
03:59What are
03:59the most important
04:01functions
04:01of the
04:04Ministerial Public
04:04in favor
04:05of the
04:06citizens?
04:07So,
04:08the most important
04:11is
04:11to
04:12to
04:12to
04:12take
04:12the
04:14laws
04:20understand
04:22the
04:22rights of the
04:23citizens.
04:25In second place,
04:27the
04:27Ministerial Public
04:28has the
04:29possibility to
04:30intervene in the
04:31process
04:31judicial
04:32with the same
04:33purpose,
04:34because the
04:36rights of
04:37the
04:37procesados y de las partes en los litigios se respeten. En tercer lugar, y aquí juega un papel
04:43muy importante la defensoría del pueblo, velar por la protección de los derechos humanos. En cuarto
04:51lugar, una función muy importante que va concatenada con su misión como es la del ejercicio del poder
04:58disciplinario. O sea, si la Procuraduría, por ejemplo, tiene que garantizar que un servidor
05:04público actúe cumpliendo la ley, obviamente, en beneficio de un ciudadano, si ese servidor público
05:11omite el cumplimiento de sus deberes, pues la Procuraduría tiene entonces la facultad de ejercer
05:18el poder disciplinario. Eso es, en resumidas cuentas, entonces, el Ministerio Público. Por eso, ciudadanos,
05:27hay que acudir al Ministerio Público. Cuando ustedes vean que los están agrediendo, que les están
05:33milipendiando, que les están desconociendo sus derechos, acudan al Ministerio Público, Procuraduría,
05:40Defensoría y Personerías. Y allí no les están haciendo o no les harán un favor. Allí, en ejercicio
05:46del deber que la ley les impone, tendrán que salir en su defensa, en su protección, porque para eso existe
05:55el Ministerio Público. Esperamos haber llevado un poco de ilustración sobre este importante tema
06:01y, como siempre, invitamos a todas las personas a que hagan uso de las herramientas que la Constitución
06:08y la ley les otorgan para hacer valer sus derechos.
06:25Gracias.
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