48 say perhaps within our agencies (the office of the Attorney General of the Republic or the Federal Police), but I believe the local and federal judiciaries have much room for improvement in this regard.” This is a clear example of the type of political message that helps create a public perception of impunity through the “revolving door” argument (the police arrest criminals and the judges let them go), and it sends a political message that attempts to transfer the responsibility for crime levels to the judicial branch. In this context, it is also public knowledge that in Mexico the office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), as a mechanism to exert pressure, persecutes judges who adopt 162 decisions against its interests in cases involving organized crime. 111. The IACHR has also received information indicating that in Ecuador there have been instances in which senior public officials from the executive branch have coerced guarantee judges into ordering pretrial detention in certain cases “under the threat of disciplinary penalties or of public scorn and denunciation.” One cited example of this was the following: In his Saturday address of July 7, 2012, President Correa said that “in the past, more than half of those detained in flagrante delicto were released and only a fraction were sent to prison. The current situation, with the transformation of the justice sector, means better citizen security, because if a criminal is let go, he will break the law again.” See: Hoy.com.ec (July 9, 2012). Similarly, during public address No. 271 of May 12, 2012, President Correa gave a list of eight judges (three responsible for in flagrante crimes) and denounced them for awarding alternative measures instead of ordering pretrial detention. 162 This matter was addressed in the report presented by the participating organizations at the hearing on Use of Pretrial Detention in the Americas, 146th regular period of sessions, organized by Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), DeJusticia, Institute of Legal Defense (IDL), et al., November 1, 2012. See, as specific sources: CNN México, Calderón to judges: “Impunity severely damages stability” (Calderón a los jueces: “La impunidad daña severamente la estabilidad”), September 7, 2011, available in Spanish at: http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/09/07/calderon-a-los-jueces-la-impunidad-dana-severamente-laestabilidad; CNN México, Judges defend the release of people detained by the federal government (Jueces defienden liberación de detenidos por el gobierno federal), September 6, 2011, available in Spanish at: http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/09/06/jueces-defienden-liberacion-de-detenidos-por-el-gobiernofederal; CNN México, Calderón uses web forum to criticize judges for releasing detainees (Calderón utiliza foro en web para criticar a jueces por liberar detenidos), September 5, 2011, available in Spanish at: http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/09/05/calderon-utiliza-foro-en-web-para-criticar-a-jueces-por-liberardetenidos; CNN México, Calderón asks judges to reconsider the evidence in the Hank Rhon case (Calderón pide a los jueces reconsiderar la evidencia del caso Hank Rhon), July 1, 2011, available in Spanish at: http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/07/01/calderon-pide-a-los-jueces-reconsiderar-la-evidencia-del-casohank-rhon; CNN México, Felipe Calderón criticized that Catholic bishops supported Hank Rhon (Felipe Calderón criticó que obispos católicos apoyaran a Hank Rhon), June 23, 2011, available in Spanish at: http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2011/06/23/felipe-calderon-critico-que-obispos-catolicos-apoyaran-a-hankrhon; La Jornada, Mexican tribunal denies to PGR the arrest of judge in “michoacanazo” (Juzgado mexiquense negó a la PGR la aprehensión del juez del “michoacanazo”), September 18, 2012, available in Spanish at: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/09/18/politica/007n1pol.