▲ Discussion in the Senate of the Reform to the Amparo Law on Wednesday.Photo Roberto García
Andrea Becerril
La Jornada newspaper
Saturday, October 4, 2025, p. 4
Beyond the transitory over retroactivity, changes to the Amparo Law do not decrease or weaken the judgment of guarantees or affect minorities, as the opposition ensures, on the contrary, they allow access to a more agile and effective justice for the majorities, 4T senators held senators.
The Morenista Enrique Inzunza, president of the Commission of Legislative Studies, one of the ruling, referred to the statement of legislators of the PRI and PAN, in the sense that citizens who-dan at the mercy of the authority, which may freeze their bank accounts, without the possibility of protecting themselves.
PRI senator Claudia Anaya commented that this creates “uncertainty” because the presumption of innocence is violated; They are considered guilty of an illicit from the beginning and the entry suspension is denied.
In this regard, Inzunza said that this is inaccurate, because the suspension of the claimed act is maintained and will proceed with limits in sensitive cases, such as money laundering, terrorist financing, activities in which the concession and public debt was removed.
In that sense, he explained, the reform eliminated the provisional suspension that now operates in the case of accounts frozen by the FIU, which has allowed that resources bleached by organized crime be returned automatically.
He explained that the amparo is maintained, but the definitive suspension of the claimed act will operate and the accounts will be defrosted whenever the complainants prove that it is not about illegal resources and this will not take more than three days.
The money deposit product of drug trafficking or other activities of organized crime in the financial system “is a real problem” and that is why a judge will no longer give an immediate suspension; Before there will be an audience and both the complainant and the authority must present their evidence.
There will not be either, he stressed, automatic suspension to delay and postpone taxes. People are protected without jeopardizing financial stability or general interest. The freezing of accounts “is, above all, for the great taxpayers, but the opposition repeats a speech that the most unprotected will be affected, which is false.”
The law guarantees that food debts, payments to wages and pensions are covered.
Another of the arguments of the opponents against the reform is that it grants, as expressed by the PAN Raymundo Bolaños, “a disproportionate power” to the authority to revoke and immediately execute the cancellation of permits, concessions and authorizations.
Senator Inzunza said that the provisional suspension will not apply in financial, telecommunications, national waters, railway, roads, provided that the revocation is made by a competent federal authority. In the event that the license is removed from a commercial establishment, it does operate that the precautionary measure is granted to continue operating, while the judge resolves the trial in the background.
Social interest prevails
The Senator of Morena Ana Lilia Rivera commented that the opposition is very disturbed that the law excludes specific assumptions in which the social interest and public order must prevail and it is avoided that through the protection public policies will be hindered or even armored economic interests of a few.
The legislator of the PT Geovanna Bañuelos exposed, on the other hand, that it is false that collective amparos will no longer operate, because this possibility was left in the fifth article of the law, which allows to go to the trial of guarantees to indigenous communities, to neighboring groups, in defense of the environment, health and labor justice.
