Female Politicians Use Meritless Lawsuits to Censor Journalists in Mexico, Lawyer Says - Committee to Protect Journalists

Female politicians use meritless lawsuits to censor journalists in Mexico, lawyer says - Committee to Protect Journalists

Mexico City, May 29, 2025—Mexican journalist Héctor de Mauleón will be watching Sunday’s historic judicial elections with interest — not simply because June 1 marks the first time that Mexicans get to vote for their judges but also because one of the candidates has barred him from reporting critically about her. On May 15, the Tamaulipas Electoral Institute (IETAM) ordered de Mauleón – one of Mexico’s most well-known investigative journalists – …

MEXICO CITY—Mexicans will elect their judges for the first time on Sunday from hundreds of candidates they barely know. In theory, no party should promote them, but the campaign of the controversial judicial elections has so far left signs of the opposite. The National Electoral Institute (INE), in charge of the call, established a series of rules and restrictions for the campaign—which concluded on Wednesday—in an attempt to ensure that there i…

BEHIND MEXICO’S JUDICIAL ELECTIONS: THE LAW IS NOT THE SAME AS JUSTICE - RegeneraciónMX

This interview with Federico Anaya Gallardo by Oscar David Rojas Silva, Carolina Hernández Calvario, Mylai Burgos Matamoros, and Luis Lorenzo Córdova Arellano appeared in the […] La entrada BEHIND MEXICO’S JUDICIAL ELECTIONS: THE LAW IS NOT THE SAME AS JUSTICE se publicó primero en RegeneraciónMX.

Mexico faces a judicial election that could consolidate political control over the justice system, endangering impartiality and the rule of law. By Fabiola Sánchez CITY DE MEXICO (AP) — Mexicans will elect their judges for the first time on Sunday from hundreds of candidates they barely know. In theory, no party should promote them, but the campaign of the controversial judicial elections has so far left signs of the contrary.

What will be the consequences of the judicial reform on investment and respect for private property? This question will be answered to a large extent in the outcome of the election of the federal commercial court in Nuevo León

Mexicans will elect their judges for the first time on Sunday from hundreds of candidates they barely know. In theory, no party should promote them, but the campaign of the controversial judicial elections has so far left signs of the contrary.