24-06-2025
Chief justice's rise from poverty to power reflects major overhaul of Mexico's judicial system
In the far-flung hamlet in southern Mexico where he grew up, Hugo Aguilar Ortiz's boyhood job was to herd goats.
Nearly everyone around him on the mist-shrouded slopes of Oaxaca persisted in speaking Tu'un Savi, known as the language of the rain, even centuries after the Spanish conquest.
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