Overview

• Crowds gathered outside the Court’s main entrance throughout the first week, with police estimating about 1,000 people including indigenous groups, union members and a contingent from Atenco carrying machetes.
• Minister president Hugo Aguilar Ortiz stepped outside the building to address attendees separated by metal barriers as the “puertas abiertas” policy drew constant petitions.
• Notable actions included the Mexican Electricians Union requesting an audience, a Resistencia Civil MX sit-in on Pino Suárez, and protests by IMSS workers and an ex–Court employee critical of the reform.
• Individual appeals ranged from Silvia Castillo’s semi-nude demonstration for justice in her son’s killing to complaints over alleged medical negligence and demands from Ecatepec residents to attract amparos for water and drainage.
• The reconstituted nine-justice tribunal is moving to itinerant sessions, priority handling of fiscal and criminal matters, automated case tracing and tighter debate times, as critics cite roughly 13% turnout and opposition parties protested during the Senate oath.