Court workers in Mexico go on indefinite strike
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Tens of thousands of court workers across Mexico are on an indefinite strike. It comes in response to a controversial judicial reform law that is advancing through Congress. Also, Cambodia has lost more than a third of its primary forests to private development in the last two decades, but a movement of young activists has challenged the government to improve its environmental record. And, the US has expanded its access to the CBP One app so asylum-seekers can book an appointment as soon as they reach Mexico. Plus, a Canadian TikTok influencer inspires people to try his cucumber recipes, causing a sudden spike in demand for fresh cucumbers in Iceland.
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| 0:00.0 | Anyone looking for a speedy trial in Mexico right now is out of luck, the entire |
| 0:09.9 | judiciary is out on strike. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Also today the app allowing |
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| 0:45.8 | over? |
| 0:46.8 | I definitely thought, oh, we won this time. |
| 0:49.2 | So I'm going to go home and it's going to be great. |
| 0:51.1 | And I got very rudely slapped at the face. |
| 0:54.0 | That's all ahead today on the world. |
| 0:58.0 | This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:00.0 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:01.0 | We start today south of the US border in Mexico where the |
| 1:05.2 | entire judiciary system is on strike. More than 50,000 judges and court workers |
| 1:10.9 | across the country walked off the job Monday and say they'll stay out indefinitely. They're protesting a |
| 1:16.8 | controversial judicial reform advancing through Congress. The World's |
| 1:21.3 | Tibis, Isaiah reports from Mexico City. |
| 1:24.0 | I'm in front of one of the biggest federal courthouses in Mexico City where thousands of court workers from all around |
| 1:36.0 | Mexico have been camping since Monday. We are the guarantors of the constitution, they chant. |
| 1:47.0 | The group is demanding legislators to stop a reform, they say, would destroy the independence of the judiciary in Mexico. |
| 1:55.6 | Under this proposal all judges local and federal would be elected by popular vote instead of being appointed and that would mean |
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