Thousands of demonstrators filled Mexico City's central square in February. They were there to protest a recently passed packet of laws that guts the agency that oversees Mexico's elections. The changes came at the behest of Mexico's populist president, Andres Manuel Lopez-Opredor. A former member of Mexico's Supreme Court called on the judiciary to find the laws unconstitutional.
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