Hallazgos 2022: Follow-up and evaluation of criminal justice in Mexico

From whatever vantage point one observes the 10 years of the Hallazgos series and, indeed, the evolution of the most ambitious reform of the justice system in recent decades, it is hard not to feel deeply discouraged. When all is said and done, the movement toward a justice that is more just, more effective, more capable of curbing unfettered impunity –more disposed, in short, to respond to citizens’ expectations– has been, to say the least, arduous, obstacle-ridden, improvised, a project marked by enormous gaps among the states and a lack of the required leadership on the part of the Federation (and, lately, with severe reversals that accentuate its punitive nature and militarization in a context of attacks on judicial independence).