People walk past a newspaper stand the day after the election of judges in Mexico City on Tuesday, Manila time. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum hit back at criticism of her country’s unprecedented election of judges, after most voters skipped a ballot that her opponents called a farce. An Indigenous rights defender and former advisor to Mexico’s Zapatista guerrilla movement led the race to head Mexico’s Supreme Court, which has traditionally been filled by elite jurists.
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