The reasons why a professional title can be cancelled:
- Error or falsehood in the registered documents.
- Issuance of the title without the requirements established by law.
- Resolution of competent authority
- Disappearance of the educational institution empowered to issue professional titles or equivalent academic degrees; revocation of the authorization or withdrawal of official recognition of studies. The cancellation will not affect the validity of the titles or degrees granted previously.
- Dissolution of the professional association.
- Others established by laws or regulations.
Scandal days after the relief of the Court
The controversy over the alleged plagiarism of the minister, who was promoted by Andrés Manuel López Obrador to reach the highest court, came to light when the academic Guillermo Sheridan revealed that his bachelor’s thesis has paragraphs and a title identical to one presented one year before by another student.
The also researcher at the Center for Literary Studies of the UNAM, made the complaint through a column published in in Latinus and where he compares both texts and points out all the coincidences of texts and approaches of the theses called: “Ineffectiveness of the unions in the trusted workers of Article 123 Section A”.
What a scandal! Riobóo’s wife minister plagiarized her thesis. And so she wants to be president of the Court. Here are the tests https://t.co/UOWshz4AAU
— Carlos Loret de Mola (@CarlosLoret)
December 21, 2022
Both the minister and her then thesis advisor have denied plagiarism. “The report by Latinus. Now what else are they going to invent? ”, She questioned through her Twitter account.
On her social networks, the former president of the Mexico City Administrative Justice Court has shared the response of Professor Martha Rodríguez Ortiz, her thesis advisor, where she “certifies” that the thesis she directed in 1987 is original.
However, according to exclusive information from the newspaper The country , The minister’s scandal has led to the uncovering of a “chain of plagiarism” that would have occurred under the guidance and advice of Rodríguez Ortiz, having five other cases that occurred between 1986 and 2010.
President López Obrador joined his defense this morning, who once again took the focus off the alleged plagiarism and criticized Sheridan and other intellectuals by pointing out that there are “political purposes.”
“Any mistake, made by Minister Yasmin when she was a student, when she presented her undergraduate thesis, is infinitely less than the damage that they have caused to Mexico, Krauze and the man who makes the complaint, Sheridan, they have done a lot of damage to Mexico “, said.
The Supreme Court Election
The controversy in which Judge Esquivel has been involved is not minor, since if plagiarism is verified and if the University Court decides as a sanction to revoke the title, Minister Yasmín would not comply with one of the selection requirements for the presidency of the Court, which precisely, is to have a professional degree in Law.
The case occurs days after the minister president, Arturo Zaldívar, leaves the presidency of the Judiciary on January 2, to make way for the election of the minister who will replace them, a position for which Esquivel has raised his hand.
The thesis review process and sanctions, if any, they would have to be applied in a period of 10 days and, in addition to the fact that it is a short time, the UNAM is on vacation.
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