MEXICO CITY (El Universal and EFE).— President Andrés Manuel López Obrador warned yesterday during his classic morning press conference that he will reveal some cases that the Judiciary has and has not resolved, regarding the payment of taxes that large companies have not made.
At the National Palace, López Obrador insisted on reforming the Judicial Branch so that judges, magistrates and ministers are elected by citizens.
“I will testify there; that is, I will cross out names. But I will reveal some data, some cases of how the Judiciary has been holding up hearings and resolutions on the payment of taxes by large corporations for months. You won’t like it, but it’s the people’s money, these are issues that are stuck in the Judiciary, they have them detained in the Judiciary,” he said.
The President pointed out that there must be around 10 cases that mean around 100 billion pesos: “And I am going to announce the days that they have been without acting.”
Referring to the case of Emilio Lozoya, López Obrador said that “in all cases there must be justice. The country is changing, justice moving forward may take time, but it will come.”
Give explanations
Meanwhile, López Obrador revealed that during the meeting he had last Monday with US legislators, he addressed the reform of the Judicial Branch, given the concern generated by the issue.
“The day before yesterday, legislators from the United States were with me, and it was a question, also based on manipulation: What is happening with the Judiciary? (I told them) ‘nothing, what is happening is that they are trying to have judges, magistrates, ministers elected by the people, that is democracy,'” the president stressed.
“That is what we are looking for, to change more additions that have to do with the same thing, that the ministers are earning more than four times more than the president and other things,” López Obrador said.
He also said that after the explanation, the American legislators left satisfied “because they are intelligent people” and asserted that the meeting was “very good” and was on “very good terms.”
The Mexican opposition and members of the Supreme Court of Justice have criticized the reform because, in their opinion, it creates legal uncertainty and does not ensure that people with more training and studies become judges and ministers.
During the meeting, which included the participation of both Democratic and Republican legislators, the Mexican leader said he spoke to them about three cases of corruption in the judiciary.
One of them, he explained, was the release of drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero during the government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018).
“It turns out that Mr. Caro Quintero was ordered to be released by the previous government. This has been applied in Mexico for a long time, unfortunately, and it is part of the violations of the Constitution and the lack of justice and part of the corruption, that is called ‘sabadazo’,” he said.
He also told them about the release of “Don Rodo,” brother of the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera, who a judge ordered to be released within 24 hours.
AMLO asks for explanations and criticizes Norma Piña
Andrés Manuel asks the president of the Supreme Court to report on a meeting.
“what did you talk about?”
Andrés Manuel López Obrador considered that the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Minister Norma Piña Hernández, should report what she spoke with the national leader of the PRI, Alejandro Moreno, at a dinner during the last electoral process. “How is it that she agreed to go to that dinner in the middle of the electoral process?” he questioned.
Thinking badly
Andrés Manuel believes that at that meeting, both “surely reached agreements.”
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2024-07-26 05:09:03
