A serious political movement that wants to transform working class conditions must face up to the obstacles placed in its path. Mexico’s old judiciary was such an obstacle, as are rearguard defenders of institutionalized corruption like the OAS and corporate pundits.
In Mexico, Morena-led reforms and the recent judicial election are a crucial step to overhauling a judiciary long plagued by corruption and nepotism, says Kurt Hackbarth on this apperance on Breakthrough News.
Why did Mexican corporate media dismiss this election? Did they already sense a low turnout? Or did they want to dismiss and silence an uncharted voting process?
As former Mexican Congressperson Alejandro Robles tells us, for far too long, judges at every level ruled for the rich and against the poor. That started to change in Mexico on June 1st when Mexicans began electing their entire judiciary.
The Mexican Politics Podcast discusses the unprecedented election just held by Mexico and the predictable right wing opposition to this democratic move, and also: elections in Durango and Veracruz.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on price controls, judicial elections, Durango and Veracruz municipal elections, AMLO cameo, one year presidential election anniversary, and re-announcing the teachers salary increase.
Our weekly press roundup of Mexican political stories, including… well, mostly just stories about the judicial election.
As an election, 13% voter turnout in Mexico’s judicial elections was not ideal, but as a peaceful purge of an entrenched and corrupt judiciary? That’s mass participation in a potential advance for popular democracy.
Mexico will elect ministers, magistrates and judges today by popular vote, in the first elections of its kind in Mexico and in the world. Around 100 million Mexicans are eligible to vote in the judicial elections.
The current judiciary fails to deliver justice; it administers impunity, institutionalized sexism, racism, and cowardice. This election won’t magically solve all the structural problems, but it is a deep crack in the wall of opacity and abuse.