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.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Hugo Aguilar campaigned for Mexico’s Supreme Court with the simple message that he would finally give Indigenous Mexicans a ...

Judicial candidates closely linked to Mexico’s ruling party have swept every position on the nation's newly transformed ...

Sunday’s judiciary election was a government power grab cynically disguised as an exercise in democracy. It won’t lead to a ...