, which the United States Treasury also described as a hub for criminal activity such as money laundering, narcotics and wildlife trafficking.
to protest the constitutional amendment. Some protesters evenstormed the Senate building
Critics accused the Morena party of seeking to strengthen its grip on power by electing sympathetic judges. Already, the party holds majorities in both chambers of Congress, as well as the presidency.Opponents also feared the elections would lead to unqualified candidates taking office.Under the new regulations, candidates must have a law degree, experience in legal affairs, no criminal record and letters of recommendation.
Candidates also had to pass evaluation committees, comprised of representatives from the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.And yet, some of the final candidates have nevertheless raised eyebrows. One was arrested for trafficking methamphetamine. Another is implicated in a murder investigation. Still more have been accused of sexual misconduct.
Arias suspects that some candidates slipped through the screening process due to the limited resources available to organise the election.
She noted that the National Election Institute had less than 10 months to arrange the elections, since the reforms were only passed in September.Perhaps the leading example of old-style eugenicist thinking in Trump’s orbit is Robert F Kennedy Jr, currently serving as US Secretary for Health and Human Services (HHS). There are two positions he publicly holds which truly show Kennedy to be a 20th-century eugenicist. One is his stance against vaccines over the years, especially the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella). In the 1990s,
a handful of scientists once claimed MMRwas responsible for an uptick in the frequency of doctors diagnosing children as autistic. Even though
numerous studies have refuted these claims, anti-vaccine advocates like Kennedy continue to undermine public confidence in vaccine programmes. “They get the shot, that night they have a fever of a hundred and three, they go to sleep, and three months later their brain is gone. This is a Holocaust, what this is doing to our country,”