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Precinct of the highest court, in the CDMX. Photo Víctor Camacho / file
This Monday, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) will begin its first session of 2022, among the first cases to be resolved are the 18 constitutional controversies promoted by municipalities of Chihuahua by the conflict of the La Boquilla dam and the compliance with the international water treaty with the United States.
At noon on January 3, the Plenary of Ministers of the highest court, in a solemn session, will hear the report of the ministers Margarita Ríos Farjat and Yasmín Esquivel Mossa, members of the recess commission, who processed the matters that reached the SCJN during the last half of last December.
Among these, the second suspension granted once morest the decision of the National Electoral Institute (INE) to suspend the exercise of revocation of mandate stands out.
In this same session, the presiding minister, Arturo Zaldívar, will make a recount of the issues that the SCJN will address in its first session of the year, where the controversies promoted once morest “the orders of the Federal Executive to dispose of the water stored in the La Boquilla dam to pay the debts of the International Water Distribution Treaty between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, as well as their acts of execution through the National Guard ”.
It is regarding the conflict that started since 2020, when the federal government announced its intention to comply with the bilateral treaty.
The then governor of Chihuahua, Javier Corral Jurado, expressed his opposition to this action and allowed a mobilization of border landowners who occupied the La Boquilla dam, violently confronting the elements of the National Guard that protected it.
Over several months, the conflict left a death toll of a woman and the apprehension of four people.
Although last October, the current governor of Chihuahua, Maru Campos Galván, signed an agreement with the federal government to comply with the bilateral treaty, constitutional controversies remain that must be resolved by the SCJN.
Also in its first week of work, on Tuesday, January 4, the SCJN will formally welcome the new Minister Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, who in a solemn session will receive the cap and gown corresponding to her position, with which she will begin to participate in the sessions of the Plenary and of the Second Chamber, where he will occupy the seat left by Minister Fernando Franco.
