Even Silence Has a Witness
The Whitewashing of Ethical Corruption at the International Criminal Court
by Robert Carmona-Borjas
A documented account of how the ICC was pressed to confront an ethical breach at the heart of Venezuela I—and what that struggle reveals about victims, power, and procedural integrity.
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Why this book matters
Even Silence Has a Witness is not a grievance memoir and not a technical brief disguised as a book. It is a documented narrative of how a victim, lawyer, and exile forced the International Criminal Court to confront an ethical breach within its own prosecutorial structure in the Venezuela I situation.
The book follows the long passage from visibility to denial, from denial to procedural narrowing, and from narrowing to the belated acknowledgment that a ground for disqualification existed.
In doing so, it reveals a larger drama about victims, institutional self-protection, and the moral cost of delay inside international justice.
About the author
Robert Carmona-Borjas is a lawyer, university professor, anti-corruption advocate, and CEO/Co-Founder of Arcadia Foundation, a nonprofit established in Venezuela in 2001 and in Washington, DC since 2007.
Long engaged in the defense of democracy, constitutional order, and human rights, he has worked across law, public policy, anti-corruption investigations, civic analysis, and international advocacy.
Even Silence Has a Witness brings together legal precision, personal witness, and institutional scrutiny in a work of nonfiction written for readers who care about justice, power, and the ethics of public institutions.
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