The candidate who defended El Chapo runs for the position

While drivers sit near the American Bridge that connects Mexico to the United States of America, Silvia Deljado weaves cars that distribute the leaflets.

“I stand before the penal judge,” she says brilliantly. “Voting for the number 12 on the ballot papers!”

Fortunately, their windows descend and accept a bulletin for them. But in the unique elections on Sunday – the first two votes through which the Mexicans will do Choose the entire judiciary in the country by direct voting Silvia Deljado is not an ordinary candidate.

She is clearly absent from the short CV on her publications is the name of her most famous agent: Defense lawyer Lundor is notorious, Joaquin “El Chapo” guzmán.

Her critics say that her past defends the leader of Sinalo Cartel, who should exclude her from standing as a judge. It gives this idea short.

“Why should you do my job?” It has responded, immediately raised in any proposal of conflicting interests.

“To defend the individual guarantees of people? To install adequate technical defense of a person? Why should I make me illegal?” You ask.

Sylvia Delgado has not been convicted of committing any crime, and she does not face any charges and is not subject to investigation – whether it is on its links with El Chapo or anything else.

But a leader in the field of human rights and transparency in Mexico called Defensorxs has included it in a list of 19 “high risk candidates” in the elections. In addition to Mrs. Deljado, the list includes a candidate for the condemnation of drug smuggling and others who face charges of coordinating violence against journalists.

Defensorxs manager, Miguel Alfonso Miza, believes that the so -called “high risk candidates” poses a threat to the legitimacy of the justice system in Mexico:

“A person has already worked with a cardman, it’s extremely difficult to go out, even if he is just a lawyer. It is not about whether it is a good person or a bad person,” says Mr. meza, referring to Silvia Delgado.

“Cartel Sinalua is not only “El Chapo” Joseman. It is a company that has criminal and economic interests that are resolved in the judicial system. Cartel can press her to show loyalty because she was already an employee. “

Silvia Delagado clearly when mentioning Defensorxs and Miguel alfonso meza.

“It is completely stupid,” she is digging, claiming that she challenged her from “potholes in her past as much as they like.” She also refuses to accuse her of being salaries of drug money and can be at risk if it is elected to a judge.

“How can you prove this?

MS Delgado is competing for one of more than 7,500 judicial positions to seize – from local judges to all nine Supreme Court judges.

While the matter was under discussion, the judicial reform prompted widespread protests by law students and a strike by workers in the legal system. Its critics confirm that the election of every judge in Mexico amounts to the politicization of the country’s justice system.

“Of course, it is a political attack (on the judiciary),” says Miguel Alfonso Miza.

“Former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador did not want to obtain restrictions from the judiciary. When the pressure became very large and the restrictions are very narrow, the only solution that his grandparent was to remove all judges in the country.”

This repair was passed before President Claudia Shinbom It was the constitutional oath, but it was firmly established, and opinion polls suggest that it has wide approval among the voters as well.

Supporters note that the United States, Switzerland and Bolivia are electing many of its judges. But Mexico will become the first country in the world to elect each of them. The markets are still not convinced of investors who are afraid of the possibility of controlling the ruling party, the presidency, the legislative branch and the judiciary.

Miguel Alfonso Miza believes that problems will arise from “agreements and negotiations that judges must carry out with political actors … in order to obtain the support they need to win the elections.”

One of the 64 candidates seeking a seat in the Supreme Court is Olivia Airi Bonella. Also from Siodad Khwariz, its legal background is in the Human Rights Law and is active against gender -based violence in the dangerous border city.

Like all candidates, Mrs. Aguirre Bonilla was forced to pay the price of her campaign from her pocket – the candidates are prevented from accepting public or private financing and prohibited from buying advertising sites. As such, social media was primarily used to put off its 6 -point plan of installation on exorbitant salaries to open the audience’s Supreme Court sessions.

While admitting criticism about the potential politicization of the justice system in Mexico, Ajwri Bonella believes that voting is an opportunity for a fee change in collapsed elimination, corruption and preserved.

“I think that all citizens in Mexico are politicized, and we are all part of public life,” she says.

“The difference here is that our legal system” that cannot be prejudiced ” – and it could not be prejudiced because it was controlled by the elites, with distinction – for the first time in history, it will be voted on. It will be voted through the popular vote.”

Airi Bonella argues that many are in the judiciary through influence and family relationships, and lacks the legitimacy of the executive and legislative branches.

“This vote will give the judicial system the real independence because it was not chosen by the President of the Republic, but it is elected by the people of Mexico to represent them.”

So far, the arguments related to constitutionality and legitimacy, and on this process and the candidates are bitter and fierce.

Now all eyes turn into polling stations, especially in the rates of turnout and refrain from Mexican support rates for reform.

As for Silvia Deljado, the woman who defended the master of the most required drugs in Mexico, she only hopes that the people of Siodad Khwariz will respect her work enough to allow her to sit in the rule of other criminals who are brought before her.