Outgoing Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has leveraged his party’s overwhelming democratic mandate to pass a series of reforms that will make the country the first in the world to elect nearly all of its judges by popular vote. It’s a reform the leftist leader has championed as a crucial step toward curbing widespread corruption in Mexico’s judiciary, but some worry it could leave newly elected judges open to pressure from the country’s powerful drug cartels — or even usher in a return to de facto one-party rule.
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Thiago Brennand is convicted again of rape in SP
The court sentenced the businessman to 10 years and 6 months in a closed regime; it is the 4th conviction...