Currently, institutions are co-opted by political interests that use power to pressure those who think differently. In this scenario, the Supreme Court puts an end to one of the most important lawsuits of recent years between the national state and a businessman. Salinas Pliego was an important figure for López Obrador at the beginning of his government, when then-president recognized that his media group was one of the few that gave him airtime when he was in the opposition. The new Supreme Court issued its first ruling of high political density this Thursday, by rejecting the amparos presented by businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego and confirming a sentence for him to pay more than 30 billion in taxes. Unanimously, the new, morena-majority composition of the highest court dismissed the amparos presented by businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego and thus ratified the sentence against the owner of the Elektra group, for a claim from the SAT for 35.873 billion pesos, which could increase due to new surcharges for payment delays. The Court thus aligned itself with the morena administration, which maintains a fierce conflict with one of the country's most important businessmen, who recently began to flirt with an opposition presidential candidacy and accused the government of orchestrating a persecution against him. Additionally, this Thursday the highest court imposed an extra fine on the businessman for having attempted to appeal the resolutions by Justices Yasmín Esquivel and Lenia Batres, two of the women in the Judicial Power most identified with the 4T and who in the past had significant run-ins with Salinas Pliego, who has already anticipated that he will continue his legal battle in international courts. The government closes two of Salinas Pliego's casinos for alleged money laundering, but Sheinbaum rules out political motives. This Thursday's ruling promises to be historic for several reasons. Furthermore, it is a ruling that forces one of the country's strongest businessmen, and of Latin America, to pay a multimillion-dollar sum to the tax authorities, which could set a precedent for future cases for both national and foreign individuals. In the different arguments provided by the judges orally, they dismissed the arguments of the Elektra group by stating that it does not correspond to the Supreme Court to handle them because they are not substantive constitutional issues. During Thursday's session, the Court presented its arguments orally, "due to the importance of the matters," according to the president of the tribunal, Hugo Aguilar, a long-time political official of López Obrador from Chiapas. In the different arguments provided by the judges orally, they dismissed the arguments of the Elektra group by stating that it does not correspond to the Supreme Court to handle them because they are not substantive constitutional issues. Salinas Pliego already knew that the highest court was going to rule against him, and this Wednesday he anticipated the decision with a harsh post on social networks in which he argued that "what we face are double, unconstitutional, and immoral charges. But then the differences over a supposedly owed tax claim presented by SAT ended derailing the entire relationship between the owner of the Azteca group and Morena. To all dear colleagues, Tomorrow the Supreme Court will discuss matters concerning us, and I expect nothing different from what we have already seen. Today the institutions are co-opted by political interests that use power to pressure those who think differently. With the intention of closing this chapter for good, we asked the SAT to specify the real amount to cover what is due in law, but they chose to remain silent." What we face are double, unconstitutional, and immoral charges. One of them is because it is the first important ruling of the brand-new Supreme Court, formed through the popular vote in the past month of June. And as expected...
