MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico will struggle to meet its deadline next year to have a new system of oral trials operating nationwide, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said on Thursday.
Mexico is working on implementing a constitutional reform, passed in 2008, that would replace its current system of closed trials based on written testimony, with more transparent oral trials similar to the United States.
“It is clear that a lot would have to get done very quickly to meet the deadline right on time and probably it will be staggered in different communities,” Power told reporters in a conference call from Monterrey.
Mexico committed to have oral trials up and running across the country by June 2016, but so far less than a third of the country’s 31 states have implemented the new system.
