The Supreme Court of Justice suspended this Friday the distribution in a northern Mexican state of free school books prepared by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which have unleashed an intense controversy amid the polarization that affects the country.
Minister Luis María Aguilar Morales ordered the distribution of the texts to be stopped in the state of Chihuahua, by admitting for processing the constitutional controversy presented by the opposition government of that entity against the Ministry of Public Education for possible violations of the procedures for the approval of the content.
In the coming months, it is expected that the minister will receive the reports from the Ministry of Public Education on the redesign of school textbooks, in order to prepare a draft sentence that will be taken to the plenary session of the Supreme Court, which will take a decision. final decision on the case.
For several months López Obrador has maintained strained relations with the highest court, after it invalidated some electoral and military reforms that the president had promoted.
A decision for amparo filed in May by the National Union of Parents against the new school textbooks is also pending.
The measure of the highest court is given after several days of intense controversy between those who defend the new texts, which will be compulsory reading for the first nine grades as of August 28, and the opposition sectors, who maintain that the government tries to use books to inject “the virus of communism” into children.
The Secretary of Public Education, Leticia Ramírez, said on Friday that judicial processes will be respected, and insisted that it is “a constitutional right of children and adolescents to have access to free textbooks.”
A few weeks before the start of the new school year in Mexico, the opposition governors of the states of Nuevo León, Jalisco, Coahuila, Yucatán and Chihuahua announced that they will not distribute the controversial school textbooks in their schools, while the pro-government governors of 21 States ratified their full support for the new books.
