Thousands of Mexicans, mainly court employees and law students, demonstrated in the country's capital on Sunday (September 8) against a controversial...
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United States (US) Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said Thursday (8/22) that plans to overhaul Mexico's justice system threaten the country's democracy and its important trade relationship with the US. The controversial overhaul, which is set to go to a vote next month, proposes that judges, including Supreme Court justices, be chosen by popular vote. “In my opinion, direct election of judges by the people constitutes a major risk to the functioning of Mexican democracy,” Salazar said in a statement. The comments are by far the strongest made by Mexico's largest trading partner and indicate a significant escalation in tensions between the two countries on the issue. Claudia Sheinbaum, the president-elect who will take office in October, has defended outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's proposals. Sheinbaum said she agrees that judges should be elected. Salazar said the debate over the overhaul, and the politics of the process, should the plan pass, would threaten the U.S.-Mexico trade relationship, “which relies on a level of investor confidence in Mexico’s legal framework.” “A judicial reform must have some kind of proper safeguards that will ensure that the judicial branch will be strengthened and not become a target for political corruption,” he continued. …
Thousands of Mexicans, mainly court employees and law students, demonstrated in the country's capital on Sunday (September 8) against a controversial...
Thousands of Mexicans, mainly court employees and law students, demonstrated in the country's capital on Sunday (September 8) against a controversial...
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s Senate approved early today a sweeping judicial reform that will overhaul the country’s judiciary by...
Mexico's Senate voted early Wednesday to overhaul the country's judiciary, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision...
The upper house approved a contentious overhaul of the country's judiciary that will allow voters to elect judges.
Controversial overhaul that will see judges elected approved 86-41 after debate interrupted by hundreds of protesters.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Sunday that he had signed into law controversial judicial reforms making Mexico the world's only...
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Sunday that he had signed into law controversial judicial reforms making Mexico the world's only...
The reform, which would see federal judges elected by popular vote, should be enacted on Sunday, the president says.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The lower house of Mexico’s Congress approved contentious legislation Wednesday that would launch the most sweeping judicial...