While some voters said they felt pushed to vote in an election they felt would determine the fate of the country’s democracy, many more expressed a deep sense of apathy, citing disillusionment due to ...

Low turnout and fears over democratic backsliding marked Mexico’s shift to electing judges, which opens the way for the ...

Despite these efforts, the country’s recent judicial elections sent the wrong message, turning Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum called her country's judicial election 'extraordinary,' despite turnout of less than 13%. Mexico becomes the first country on Earth to elect all its judges, from ...

The elections are the brainchild of ex-President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — who, like Trump, often clashed with the judiciary, complaining that unelected judges were thwarting his aspirations for a ...

Sunday’s election will decide 881 federal judicial positions nationwide, including the nine seats on Mexico’s reconstituted ...

Everyone agrees the justice system in Mexico needs to be revamped. But where the ruling power sees its new reform as a leap ...

A lawyer who once represented drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has won a judgeship in the northern Mexican state of ...

Of the 2,600 judges elected for the first time by Mexicans earlier this month, Silvia Delgado Garcia received more attention ...

Silvia Delgado, a former lawyer for drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in 2016, receives her electoral certification ...

Ordinary citizens often face a justice system that feels distant or rigged against them. But instead of addressing these ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico held its first-ever judicial elections Sunday, stirring controversy and sowing confusion among voters who struggled to understand a process set to transform the country ...