Notoriously inadmissible, the eventual lawsuit against the president
Of the writing
La Jornada newspaper
Friday, September 26, 2025, p. 4
In the light of the statement of Ricardo Salinas Pliego, in the sense that she will sue the president of the United Mexican States before Cortes of the United States, the following considerations are formulated:
– From 1975, in the neighboring country the immunity law of the foreign sovereign is in force. It prevents both states and states chiefs from enjoying sovereign immunity.
In the case of Mexico, this prerogative was recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States at the end of the 70s, when resolving the appeal of Certioari raised in relation to the litigation linked to the emblematic case of the explosion of the Pimex Ixtoc well.
–Asimism, the Court of the Southern District of Connecticut assumed the thesis of sovereign immunity, by ruling on the claims made to former President Ernesto Zedillo for victims of the Matanza de Actteal.
The above allows us to conclude that Salinas Pliego’s demand would be inadmissible.
Moreover because the heads of state enjoy diplomatic immunity in terms of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, of which Mexico and the United States are high contracting parts.
