(20 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico – 17 May 2025
1. Silvia Delgado García, former lawyer for drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, handing out flyers at Mexico-U.S. border bridge
2. Close of Delgado García
3. Close of Delgado García holding flyers
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Silvia Delgado García, former lawyer for drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán:
"I think they (critics) speak out of ignorance because the fact of having represented this or that person does not convert you by osmosis into that person. What I defend are the individual guarantees of people and I will do it and will continue to do it if someone asks me for help if for some reason I do not become a judge."
5. Delgado García handing out flyers
6. Delgado García speaking with street vendor, UPSOUND (Spanish): "To run in the election, we must meet the requirements." Vendor: "But what party are you from?" Delgado García: "None, none."
7. Delgado García handing out flyers
8. Delgado García on the street
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Culiacan, Mexico – 17 May 2025
9. Market exterior
10. Pan on photos of missing people
11. Various of Delia Quiroa, activist searching for her missing brother, handing out flyers
12. Person holding flyer of Quiroa
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Delia Quiroa, searches for her missing brother:
"I decided to run (for judge) because I have experienced firsthand the abuses of the government."
14. Photo of missing person on wall
15. Quiroa handing out flyers
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Delia Quiroa, searches for her missing brother:
"I don’t want people to suffer what I have suffered. I want someone to be there for them and support them and help them."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City – 19 May 2025
17. Various of signs promoting judicial election
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City – 14 May 2025
18. Various close of lawyer Mauricio Tapia Maltos hanging handwritten papers promoting his candidacy
19. Tapia Maltos setting up stand
20. Tapia Maltos standing at Zocalo square; cathedral in background
21. Close of banner showing Tapia Maltos’s candidate number, Instagram account and voting district
22. Tapia Maltos answering questions from passersby
23. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mauricio Tapia Maltos, lawyer at the Supreme Court:
"A lot of people, even those who are not from here, see the sign, see me and say: ‘We need young people, we need a generational change, we need new – I don’t want to say new youth – we need new ideas in the judiciary.’"
24. Tapia Maltos explaining to man how to vote
25. Close of Tapia Maltos’s candidate number 45 written on ballot sample
26. Tapia Maltos standing in Zocalo square; National Palace in background
STORYLINE:
Mexico is heading to a judicial election on June 1 – it’s first ever in it’s history – where more than 2,600 contenders are vying for 881 positions from Mexico’s Supreme Court down to district courts across the country.
Those on the June 1 ballots won a lottery after being screened by committees made up of people from the three branches of government.
In order to qualify, they had to have a law degree, at least five years of professional practice, write an essay and collect letters of recommendation from friends and colleagues.
Foreign governments, including the United States, and civil society organizations in Mexico criticized the change, warning that it would lead to a politicization of the judiciary and weaken its independence.
The political majority behind the contentious reform justify it as the way to root out corruption by making judges accountable to the people.
Here are some of the candidates:
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