Nayra Rivera / Reform Agency
Saturday, December 24, 2022 | 08:00
Mexico City.– The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) confirmed that there is a high level of coincidences between the thesis with which the now minister Yasmín Esquivel Mossa obtained her law degree in 1987 and the one that another student, Edgar Ulises, registered a year earlier. Baez Gutierrez.
Through a statement, the highest house of studies explained, without mentioning the name of Yasmín Esquivel, that a detailed comparison was carried out in which they found similarities between the original text and the one registered in 1987 by the minister, who aspires to preside over the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) in the renewal process that will begin in the first week of January.
Esquivel is the wife of José María Rioboó, a favorite builder and main adviser on infrastructure issues to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and who proposed her as a minister of the Court.
“When carrying out a detailed comparison of the professional theses of a student from the Faculty of Higher Studies (FES) Aragón, presented in 1987 with that of a student from the Faculty of Law, supported in 1986, the General Directorate of Libraries and Digital Information Services of this University found that there is a high level of coincidence between both texts,” UNAM reported in its statement.
For this reason, the Academic and Scientific Integrity Committee of the FES Aragón, where Esquivel Mossa studied, will review the case and undertake due legal process in accordance with the procedures, the university detailed.
After the UNAM report was released, the members of the Plural Group in the Senate of the Republic demanded the resignation of the minister.
“His presence in the Court is untenable,” they stated in a communication via Twitter.
“The honor and honesty of members of the Supreme Court are vital to guarantee their high function of State,” they added.
Still on Thursday of last week, Yasmín Esquivel Mossa defended her thesis and assured that it was not plagiarized.
Article 95, paragraph 3, of the Constitution establishes that to be a minister of the Court one must “possess, on the day of the appointment, with a minimum seniority of 10 years, a professional title of Bachelor of Laws, issued by an authority or institution legally empowered to do so.”
