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Extortion is crippling businesses across Mexico, forcing many to shut down. A Mexico City shop owner shared his ordeal, which began in 2019 with threatening calls demanding payments.
Julie Ear’s mom risked everything to raise a family in the U.S. She left it all behind to prioritize her safety as an ...
Aguilar was elected in Mexico's first judicial election, a process that's been criticized as weakening Mexico's system of checks and balances.
After the Zapatista uprising in 1994, a guerrilla movement fighting for Indigenous rights in southern Mexico, Aguilar worked to carry out constitutional reforms recognizing the basic rights of ...
Hugo Aguilar campaigned for Mexico’s Supreme Court with the simple message that he would finally give Indigenous Mexicans a voice at one of the highest levels of government. Aguilar said before ...
Critics attributed his win to Mexico’s highly popular president repeatedly saying she wanted an Indigenous judge on the Supreme Court in the lead up to the election.