{"id":100268,"date":"2024-09-12T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T19:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/09\/12\/will-directly-electing-judges-help-mexico-fight-corruption-in-its-justice-system\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T19:04:51","slug":"will-directly-electing-judges-help-mexico-fight-corruption-in-its-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/09\/12\/will-directly-electing-judges-help-mexico-fight-corruption-in-its-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Will directly electing judges help Mexico fight corruption in its justice system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mexico\u2019s outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has used his party&rsquo;s overwhelming democratic mandate to pass a series of reforms that will make the country the first in the world to elect almost all of its judges by popular vote. It\u2019s a reform that the left-wing leader has championed as a crucial step to curtail the widespread corruption in Mexico\u2019s judiciary \u2013 but some are worried it may leave the newly elected judges open to pressure from the country&rsquo;s powerful drug cartels, or even usher in a return to de facto one-party rule.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico\u2019s outgoing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has used his party&rsquo;s overwhelming democratic mandate to pass a series of reforms that will make the country the first in the world to elect almost all of its judges by popular vote. It\u2019s a reform that the left-wing leader has championed as a crucial step to curtail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-100268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-news","tag-monde","tag-world","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}