Proposed Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Prosecutor’s Office in the State of Mexico, Digi Mart USA News (State of Mexico, Mexico): In the plenary session of the Congress of the State of Mexico, Deputy Leticia Mejía García, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and chair of the Commission on Indigenous Affairs, proposed creating a Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Persons, Peoples and Communities.
The office would be integrated into the structure of the State of Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office and would investigate and prosecute common-law crimes in which Indigenous or Afro-Mexican people are victims, complainants or accused. The initiative guarantees legal assistance with an intercultural approach so that access to justice does not depend on the language spoken or on whether a person lives in a rural or urban area.
Mejía García stressed that the measure does not represent a privilege but an measure of equality. Its functions include considering normative systems and cultural specificities in investigations; ensuring interpreters, translators, defenders and experts specialized in Indigenous rights, legal pluralism and linguistic diversity; developing intercultural protocols; signing translation and interpretation agreements; and promoting dialogue, mediation and pacification.
The proposal responds to the multicultural makeup of the State of Mexico, which recognizes the Mazahua, Otomi, Nahua, Matlatzinca and Tlahuica peoples, as well as persons from other Indigenous peoples and Afro-Mexican communities. It contemplates administrative units, investigative police personnel and staff with suitable profiles for efficiency.
According to the report, since April 2026 the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic has operated a similar prosecutor’s office for federal crimes, which sets a national precedent.
A columnist in the same publication argues that the office should be approved in the State of Mexico, saying that language and cultural barriers continue to limit effective access to justice despite constitutional advances. The columnist also argues that similar specialized bodies should exist in other states with Indigenous populations, such as Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guerrero, Yucatán and Michoacán.
The publication’s column notes that the same weekend, Deputy Graciela Argueta presented her second legislative report in Tlalnepantla, and Deputy Daniela Ballesteros of Tultepec did the same on Saturday. President Claudia Sheinbaum also visited the municipality of Polotitlán over the weekend to supervise works on the Mexico-Querétaro train.
