Mexico judicial elections: Government calls it essential reform. ... as Mexicans go to the polls Sunday to elect the country’s judges in a radical reshaping of the nation’s power structure.

A Mexican state government building and at least a dozen cars were set afire by protesters in the city of Chilpancingo on Monday; they demand answers in the case of 43 students who disappeared.

Mexico passed into law on Sunday a constitutional amendment remaking its entire judiciary, marking the most far-reaching overhaul of a country’s court system ever carried out by a major democracy.