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Legal Battles Deepen as Argentina and Mexico Test Judicial and Security Measures

Recent rulings test court responses to harassment probes, political dissent cases, organized crime arrests

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Overview

  • Buenos Aires’ highest court approved Judge García Maañón’s administrative leave to start August 4 as internal and gender-violence investigations into alleged sexual and labor harassment continue
  • A 23-year-old suspect is in custody for the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old during a neighborhood dispute in the western Buenos Aires suburbs, bringing the number of arrests to two
  • Mexico City influencer Marianne Gonzaga was freed after five months of preventive detention, though her legal process for qualified injuries charges against Valentina Gilabert remains pending
  • Chamber of Deputies President Sergio Gutiérrez Luna forwarded a constitutional reform to make extortion a grave crime and accused Claudio X. González’s litigation network of staging a media campaign against his wife
  • Ulises Pinto Madera, second-in-command of La Barredora, secured a federal amparo against mistreatment in custody as the TEPJF reinstated Enrique Ochoa Reza to the PRI