By MARK LORENZANA The federal government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), through Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), is seeking to appropriate several private properties from the major business district of Santa Fe, located in the Cuajimalpa de Morelos and Álvaro Obregón boroughs of Mexico City — but without paying compensation to the owners. The López
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By MARK LORENZANA Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) will limit the applications of amparos (habeas corpus injunctions), which it says have been “abused excessively” by lawyers. On Tuesday, June 7, the court approved a jurisprudence that would limit, specifically, amparos known as “seekers,” which have been requested by people who suspect they are under investigation for a crime, but
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER Mexican Public Health (SSA) Secretary Jorge Alcocer Varela could be the first high-level employee in the current leftist administration to be given a judicial order of dismissal, not just for ignoring a federal judicial order, but also for signing into law an official strategy that does not even come under his jurisdiction, that is the de
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