The first Indigenous chief justice will be sworn in on September 1 after Hugo Aguilar Ortiz won the most votes in the June 1 ...

The vote ends three decades of checks and balances, returning the nation to a competitive authoritarian regime.

The judicial election not only exposed the challenges of legitimizing a complex process amid polarization but also opened the ...

Only 13% of voters turned out to vote over the weekend, amid concerns that the unprecedented national election of thousands of judges was designed to favor the governing Morena party.

COMMENTARY The partisan leash Mexico's ruling party just clamped on the country's judiciary should be a warning that ...

Hugo Aguilar, an Indigenous rights defender and former advisor to Mexico's Zapatista guerrilla movement, won election to ...

Mexico elected more than 2,600 judges and magistrates, but there is concern that major drug cartels will take advantage of ...

All nine seats on Mexico’s Supreme Court were taken by people with links to the ruling party. A new disciplinary tribunal ...

Hugo Aguilar, Mexico's first Indigenous Supreme Court justice, faces scrutiny over past work with ruling party and ...

The Confederation has criticized the election as being improvised, lacking the necessary guarantees for a free and informed ...