US EditionMexico’s Supreme Court Holds Its First Session Outside Mexico City, in Chiapas
About 2,000 locals attended the session aimed at increasing transparency and accountability, with cases including femicide discussed by the popularly elected Supreme Court justices.
- Thursday, Mexico's Supreme Court held its first session outside its neoclassical building in Mexico City in Tenejapa, Chiapas, starting a plan to reach far-flung corners of the country.
- Under a constitutional reform, the court's justices were popularly elected last year, with supporters saying it would increase accountability despite low turnout and candidates tied to the governing party winning seats.
- In the central square, Indigenous leaders held signs reading `right to self-determination` as La Candelaria's self-rule case was discussed Thursday.
- Victims and advocates welcomed, noting `Hugo Aguilar, Chief Justice`, said `that you see how we deliberate, that you know what we say, how we consider and make a decision`, and praised the court's femicide ruling and 55-year sentence.
- Despite criticism, critics who say the move politicizes the court note its record of progressive human-rights rulings that are not always enforced, Aguilar said Thursday.
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For the first time in 201 years, SCJN did not sit on CDMX, did it in Tenejapa, Chiapas, and some ministers arrived in usual truckertons.
Tenejapa, Chis., Under a huge tent installed in the main square of the municipality of Tenejapa, more than 2,000 people from indigenous communities of the Altos de Chiapas gathered to testify to an unprecedented scene: the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) sitting outside its headquarters, in front of the public, to solve a case whose ruling set a criterion of national scope in favor of the original peoples.
Los Angeles Times
Independent EspañolSome of those present, authorities and indigenous leaders, wore posters with the slogan “right to self-determination”.
The Superior Auditor of the Federation, David Colmenares Páramo, acknowledged the relevance of the message of the Minister President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, regarding the need to bring the institutions to the territory. After an unprecedented session of the highest court in the community of La Candelaria, in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Colmenares celebrated that justice approaches the co…
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