Iván Evair Saldaña
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, November 24, 2025, p. 8
Minister President Hugo Aguilar Ortiz put an end to more than fifty personal assignments and “orders” in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which had historically carried out the area known as “minister service unit.”
According to an internal Court document obtained by The Daythe officer ordered the Directorate of Logistics and Protocol to stop providing ministers in office, retirees, retirees and widows with at least 59 services unrelated to the jurisdictional function, which included everything from payments and procedures, to the purchase of tickets for games and shows, obtaining autographs and cleaning, maintenance and repair of household appliances.
The transfer of friends of ministers in official vehicles, the transportation of documentation and personal belongings of their work team, as well as waiter services, were also suspended. valet parking, purchasing gifts for private events and acquiring out-of-stock controlled medications, among others.
Currently, there are 37 retired ministers and widows of former ministers who receive gross pensions of between 72,661 and 297,403 pesos per month, in addition to benefits such as vehicles for private use, support staff and insurance for major medical expenses.
In addition to this, they received the unregulated services provided by the Directorate of Logistics and Protocol, but these were stopped by decision of the new Plenary Session of the Court, which began operations on September 1.
Among the retired ministers who benefited are Guillermo Ortiz Mayagoitia, Eduardo Medina Mora, Luis María Aguilar Morales, Margarita Luna Ramos, Arturo Zaldívar, José Ramón Cossío and Olga Sánchez Cordero, as well as those who left the Court on August 31: Norma Piña Hernández, Jorge Mario Pardo Rebolledo and Alberto Pérez Dayán.
The Logistics and Protocol Directorate, which today has 95 employees, was created in 1999 as a Ministerial Service Unit, but over time it incorporated tasks outside its nature and now outside its Specific Organization Manual.
Said manual, updated as of April 2023, establishes that this directorate manages institutional support, provides ground transportation, coordinates the logistics and protocols of official events, carries out administrative procedures, handles correspondence, organizes activities inside and outside the country and processes passports and visas, among other activities.
Its mission is “to provide the ministers of the SCJN with the necessary logistical and operational support so that they can meet their commitments in a timely manner, as well as assist them in all types of procedures before public, social or private sector organizations,” he points out.
