These are not isolated events; they happen because state officials in Mexico protect organized crime—not occasionally but routinely, at various levels of government. Often, officials face a simple ...

The judicial reform on which the judicial election of 1 June 2025 is based goes back to the first corresponding announcements by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in 2023. As early ...

Turnout in Mexico’s judicial elections was pathetic. ... Ms Sheinbaum’s predecessor and the architect of the judicial reform. ... (Mr López Obrador is widely known as AMLO).

The Real Trouble With Mexico’s Judicial Overhaul Sunday’s judiciary election was a government power grab cynically disguised as an exercise in democracy. It won’t lead to a more just Mexico.

DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the ...

This deep-rooted crisis of confidence cannot be disentangled from its political origins. The judicial reform was spearheaded by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who made a ...

Ordinary citizens often face a justice system that feels distant or rigged against them. But instead of addressing these ...

Reasoning for the judicial reform. Karhi said, "To be at the whim of [Supreme Court Chief Justice] Isaac Amit and [Attorney-General] Gali Bahrav-Miara is not a democracy. Majority rules!" ...

Demonstrators shouts slogans against the country’s first judicial elections, while holding signs that read in Spanish, “RIP Democracy” at a protest in Mexico City, Sunday, June 1, 2025.

Mexico becomes the first country in the world to elect all of its judges. President Claudia Sheinbaum has cast the judicial reform as a key component of her efforts to curb Mexican criminal ...

This judicial reform constituted the centerpiece of a collection of 20 constitutional amendments López Obrador presented, crowning his final year as president in 2024, and very nearly causing a ...

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday defended a judicial election meant to transform the country's court system, as poll workers tallied votes after a weekend marked by low ...