Aida Castro

Aida Castro is the fiscal of the Ministerio Público in Panama, known for her expertise in legal matters related to criminal justice. Recently, she was in the news for expressing concerns about a newly approved legislative project that allows for victim forgiveness to extinguish penalties for certain crimes. Castro highlighted the potential confusion between this new forgiveness concept and the existing legal mechanism of withdrawing criminal actions, emphasizing the importance of judicial oversight to protect victims' rights and ensure that the law does not undermine the certainty of punishment.