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Mexico's Supreme Court Upholds 2020 Trust Fund Elimination and Partially Validates Zacatecas Pension Law

A newly configured bench moved long‑stalled cases to closure.

Overview

  • By unanimous vote, the Court upheld the 2020 decree that dissolved 109 federal funds and fideicomisos, finding they are auxiliary tools of the Executive and that their elimination did not breach federalism or separation of powers.
  • The justices dismissed as unfounded eight constitutional challenges filed by Jalisco, Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Guanajuato, Tamaulipas, Aguascalientes, Coahuila and Michoacán.
  • In a separate ruling, the Court sustained Zacatecas’s Article 74 reducing the year‑end bonus for pensioners from 60 to 30 days, but limited it to those who retire after the reform took effect on August 11, 2024.
  • The plenary struck down Articles 128 and 128 Bis of the ISSSTEZAC law, ruling it unconstitutional to condition social‑security obligations on the institute’s financial capacity or austerity criteria.
  • Minister Arístides Guerrero presented the trust‑fund cases and rebuked prior delays, while ministers issued reservations on victims’ protections and worker rights; separately, three ministers are set to propose confirming suspensions that shield Acapulco’s mayor in pending disputes, according to court listings.