AMLO urges to resolve plagiarism case

Alonso Urrutia, Arturo Sánchez and Rocío González

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday January 21, 2023, p. 3

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador asked the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to stop politicking and definitively resolve the controversy surrounding the thesis of the Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Yasmín Esquivel, through the competent authorities. She considered that if they confirm that there was plagiarism, she files a complaint with the Public Ministry and, if applicable, That degree should be canceled.

Hours before the rector Enrique Graue made an announcement of the institutional actions to follow, he considered that the Constitution establishes the university faculties to act in this case. Hopefully UNAM files a complaint, it has the power because it is autonomous. That they assert autonomy, that they are not doing politicking.

This procedure would open the possibility that, with this resource, now yes, the Ministry of Public Education receives from the Public Ministry the request to cancel the registration in Professions. That is the procedure. Why do they turn so much? He estimated that the performance that UNAM has had so far does more damage to the institution.

According to the third constitutional article, the President read, Universities and other higher education institutions to which the law grants autonomy will have the power and responsibility to govern themselves.

In parallel, when asked about recent resolutions of the SCJN, he said that his government respects the autonomy of the Judiciary, but has addressed new cases in which judges release detainees and accusations are dropped for minimal details, as recently occurred in a robbery process. made out of fuel.

Criticism of the Judiciary

He affirmed that in the Judiciary they act as a union, and considering that now that Mrs. (Norma) Piña (who took office as president of the Court on January 2) won and that we supposedly lostnew cases of questionable decisions by judges have been registered. Now we are noticing that there are more acts that we consider illegal and unfair against the public interest.

After noting that in view of the recurrence of these decisions by the judges they will file a complaint with the Attorney General of the Republic, the SCJN and the Council of the Judiciary, he considered that It is a Judicial Power of the old regime, with many vices and a lot of corruption.

The Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, explained the latest case that occurred in Tula, Hidalgo, where several clandestine taps for fuel theft were detected on a property. The owner of the land was identified and all judicial actions were carried out for his arrest and presentation before the judge. However, when the defense requested the extension of the term to present more evidence, the judge determined that there were no elements to prove that the owner of the property had knowledge of these intakes.

López Obrador considered the judge’s argument to drop the case and release the detainee to be unheard of, since it is not possible that the owner of the property was not aware that there were these clandestine intakes on his land.