Alonso Urrutia
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La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, February 6, 2026, p. 4
Querétaro, Qro., The Constitution “is our sword and our guide, to that we are committed to face internal challenges and external threats,” said the minister president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, when participating in the ceremony for the 109th anniversary of the Magna Carta.
Three years after the breakup of his predecessor, Norma Piña, with the then president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and, therefore, of the absence of a head of the Judiciary in the constitutional ceremony, Aguilar Ortiz highlighted that this new stage is one of reconciliation and hope.
The judicial reform, he said, “granted social legitimacy to the members” of this power, which “no longer implies uncertainties or setbacks, but rather greater legitimacy that guarantees close and open justice, based on dialogue, honesty, transparency, independence and judicial autonomy.”
He began his intervention at the Teatro de la República: “with respect and emotion,” in his native language ñuu savi (Mixtec). “This single fact marks a new stage in the history of the country, where the Constitution is truly alive, because we can all recognize ourselves in it,” he said.
Before President Claudia Sheinbuam Pardo – who did not invite Piña to the ceremony last year – the minister highlighted that the Magna Carta “embraces indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples.”
The Constitution, he stated, “recovers the democratic vocation, its social meaning and the recognition of the multicultural composition of our country. The latest constitutional reforms confirm this.”
Likewise, the reform on substantive equality and praised that the judicial reform “put an end to the era in which justice was for a few and now gave way to a stage in which we are building justice with the people that gives legal certainty to all.”
