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Indigenous Lawyer Elected to Head Mexico’s Supreme Court

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In Mexico, nine newly elected Supreme Court justices received their certificates of victory following the country’s first-ever judicial elections in May. The incoming head of the Supreme Court is Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, a Mixtec Indigenous lawyer from Oaxaca, who becomes the first Indigenous person to hold Mexico’s highest judicial office. Ortiz spoke during the election certification ceremony. Hugo Aguilar Ortiz: “The days when our words, our reque…

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Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, president-elect of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) for the first two years after the judicial election, said that no party put him in office, so he asked for a vote of confidence for the new Supreme Court that will start functions on September 1. After receiving from the president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Guadalupe Taddei, the record that credits him as the most voted candidate, and that wa…

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Mixteco lawyer Hugo Aguilar Ortiz will preside over the new Supreme Court for the first two years, starting September 1st

Hugo Aguilar, the future minister of the Supreme Court, was an unknown man until fifteen minutes ago. I dare say that an overwhelming majority of Mexicans had not even heard his name until the first time he appeared in the fraudulent accordions. However, as a result of the state operation orchestrated by the working class regime, he will hold, as of September 1, the most prestigious public office for a lawyer in Mexico. He will preside, nothing …

No minister can have a salary higher than that of the president of the Republic and all privileges will be terminated PORTAVOZ/AGENCIAS 168 years have passed before the spirit of republican austerity proclaimed by Benito Juárez García returns to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, which will be headed from September 2025 by another Oaxacan indigenous.

COMMUNICATE The Oaxacan senator Antonino Morales Toledo congratulated the elected ministers who received his record and affirmed that with Hugo Aguilar, as president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, progress is made with a firm step towards an inclusive justice, close to the people and taking as a reference the community values. “As a result of a transparent electoral process and with the legitimacy of millions of votes, our origin…

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La Jornada Baja California broke the news in on Sunday, June 15, 2025.
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