Mexico: Indigenous President of the Supreme Court Denounces Racism · Global Voices
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Hugo Aguilar won the post in the first judicial elections held last year, his country becoming the only one in the world to elect his judges by universal suffrage. Before him, the first indigenous to have presided over the country's highest jurisdiction was in the nineteenth century Benito Juarez, considered the father of modern Mexico. "Without the reform, I would not be there," declared to the AFP this 53-year-old lawyer, native of San Agustin…
Hugo Aguilar became the first Indigenous to preside over the highest Mexican jurisdiction since Benito Juarez. His victory owes much to a reform... The article "It's because I'm Indian" launches the first indigenous president of the Supreme Court of Mexico appeared first on Le Singulier.
Mexico. An indigenous person presides over the Supreme Court of Mexico for the first time in 168 years. Hugo Aguilar says that he owes everything to the controversial judicial reform promoted by the ruling left, but still faces daily racist criticisms for "the shirt", "the shoe" or "the hairstyle." 53 years old, he was the most voted candidate of the first judicial election last year, when Mexico became the only country in the world to elect all…
In an official ceremony hosted by the Supreme Court of Nouakchott, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Dahi was sworn in today on the occasion of his assumption of the chairmanship of the National Human Rights Commission before the President of the Supreme Court, Sheikh Ahmed Sidi Ahmed.
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