The government says the justice system is rotten and that elections beginning on Sunday allowing voters to choose all judges and magistrates will help to clean it up.
Here are four high-profile cases illustrating the flaws of a justice system in a country where criminal groups use threats, bribes and violence to wield influence.
“It’s been 10 years and nothing has changed,“ said Estanislao Mendoza, whose son Miguel Angel was one of 43 students from a teacher training college who disappeared in the southern state of Guerrero in 2014.
Investigators believe the students were abducted by a criminal group with the help of corrupt police, possibly because a bus they commandeered to travel to a demonstration had drugs hidden inside.
But despite dozens of arrests, there have been no convictions and the remains of only three victims have been identified.
Justice 'not being served'
The case was particularly shocking because the criminals filmed the young men being tortured and forced to attack each other.
Armando Olmeda, whose 22-year-old son Roberto Carlos is one of the victims, feels that justice “is not being served” for the people who need it.
'Worst enemy'
Her body was found in a motel water tank, triggering a public outcry over the nation's femicide crisis.
Hypotheses suggested by investigators ranged from an accidental blow to the head to suffocation.
“It passes very quickly without any justice for us.”
Israel Vallarta, accused of belonging to a kidnapping gang, has been in preventive detention awaiting trial since 2005 in a case that sparked a diplomatic rift between Mexico and France.
“In the case of my family, access to justice was denied,“ said Vallarta’s sister Guadalupe.
“I spent six years and nine months in prison because of my last name,“ said his nephew Alejandro Cortez Vallarta, who alleged authorities took him to a “torture chamber” to force a confession.
“There was a lot of corruption,“ he said. “I experienced it firsthand.”
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