Medina Mora's Nomination to Mexican Supreme Court Proves to Be Controversial Pick Tracy Wilkinson - The Los Angeles Times | |
go to original March 10, 2015 |
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's nomination of former Federal Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora to the country's Supreme Court has sparked a storm of criticism. Opposition politicians say the move is rushed and antidemocratic. Social organizations charge Medina with human rights violations and have turned in a petition with 20,000 signatures against his nomination. Clayton Conn reports from Mexico City (teleSUR English)
Possibly not since Clarence Thomas was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991 has a high court candidate been so controversial.
In this case, we are talking about Mexico. And the nominee to the Mexican Supreme Court is the ambassador to the United States, Eduardo Medina Mora.
The joke in Mexico is that Medina Mora “fails upward.” He has been associated with a string of disasters, yet his career advances.
Medina Mora, who has close professional and personal ties to President Enrique Peña Nieto, served as head of the domestic intelligence agency - roughly equivalent to the United States’ National Security Agency - under the lackluster government of President Vicente Fox.
Then he was attorney general, the top legal official at a time when Mexico was plunging into a war on drug cartels that has cost tens of thousands of lives.
From there, he became ambassador to London, followed by his current seat in Washington, the two considered to be the plums of Mexican diplomatic posts.
“I have a very broad experience,” he said this week in congressional hearings to defend his nomination.
Medina Mora has survived governments of different political stripes. And his enemies are many, as witnessed by a slew of commentaries, articles and tough congressional questionings tilted against his nomination.
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