Indigenous peoples, winners of the judicial election: Hugo Aguilar

Carolina Gómez Mena

La Jornada newspaper
Sunday, August 10, 2025, p. 4

After the National Council of Indigenous Peoples (CNPI) made an energetic call to the conservative political forces and its spokesmen to refrain from issuing racist and discriminatory expressions against Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, next president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), the Mixtec lawyer thanked the support provided in the judicial election in which he obtained 6.2 million suffrages.

The success that we achieve in the last electoral process has many explanations and a foundation from below, from the heart of the people. There have been many criticisms, one of them is that we are the product of the accordionhe said.

In the ceremony for the International Day of Indigenous Peoples in the Los Pinos Cultural Complex, the It could be! Yes, it could be!before which the teacher in constitutional law said that shout Enchina the skin, squeezes the heart and compromises us.

To the members of the CNPI and authorities of the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) and other dependencies, he told them: I am proud of you because the candidacy endorsed. Hugo Aguilar does not win, the indigenous and Afromexican peoples of Mexico win. I want to thank you from the heart.

In his speech, he celebrated the determination of the CNPI, through the 70 indigenous peoples and the Afromexican people, to deliver the baton to the nine ministers and ministers of the new SCJN and invited them to go to the highest court.

“I wait for you on September 1 to do the take of the Court for the people. The people are going to enter the Court through all its doors and we will assume control of this judiciary that was battered. They are invited, brothers and sisters, we are going to do the takeit will be a moment of party to print a new seal; one of justice, of dignity. A stamp in which corruption, nepotism, begin its purification and cleaning. The indigenous peoples will be main actors to clean the judiciary of the country. ”

He stressed that Things begin to change. Before it was only assumed that justice was western and all its categories, its values and its emblems were of that cut. Today, the command cane will arrive as a symbol of justice and authority to the new SCJN, and that is due to existence, resistance and the struggle of the peoples, and in particular of all and all of you.

Yaneth Cruz Gómez, coordinator of the CNPI, criticized those who minimize the support of the native peoples to Aguilar Ortiz, as well as those who do not recognize their long professional career and work with indigenous and Afromexican communities and those who already They deny that their triumph was the result of our determined support.

In a positioning, the CNPI recognized the reform of the Judiciary, which made its renewal and purification Through the past elections, and on the next electoral reform he said that he must guarantee the rights of participation and representation of our peopleswhile demanding indigenous and Afromexican participation in the works of the Reforma Commission.

Adelfo Regino Montes, head of the INPI, acknowledged Aguilar Ortiz. We are excited, there is joy in our hearts and thoughts, because with Hugo we are taking a historical step in national life. Described it as a Brother and fighting partner And he stressed that for seven years he was coordinator of indigenous rights at INPI.