Mexico recently moved to postpone its next judicial elections from 2027 to 2028 and revise the rules governing candidate selection. File Photo by Sashenka Gutierrez/EPA
June 24 (UPI) -- Mexico recently moved to postpone its next judicial elections from 2027 to 2028 and revise the rules governing candidate selection. Critics say the changes could deepen the ruling party's influence over the courts.
The controversy comes one year after Mexico began electing judges by popular vote, an unprecedented system that reflects the uneven development of democratic institutions across Latin America.
Since the encounter between Europe and the Americas began transforming the region in 1492, the region has moved uneasily between civilization and barbarism: producing cultural achievements admired the world over, from Mayan stelae to the kinetic art of Julio Le Parc and Carlos Cruz-Diez, while also refining methods of authoritarian control drawn from the Soviet Union and East Germany.
A region built on rents
