Yasmín Esquivel Mossa, minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) accused of allegedly plagiarizing her bachelor’s thesis, obtained this Thursday a provisional suspension against the guidelines for the integration of the Ethics Committee of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) that analyzes their situation.
The precautionary measure that for the moment benefits the togada was issued by the Fifth District Court in Administrative Matters of Mexico City, in charge of Judge Sandra de Jesús Zúñiga, who admitted the amparo claim and granted the provisional suspension against the origin of the university Ethics Committee, in charge of reviewing the possible sanctions that would derive from plagiarism of the essay with which Esquivel Mossa was titled.
The suspension was only granted against the guidelines that allowed the formation of the UNAM Ethics Committee, and “does not suspend any other diverse act that is not the subject of the amparo claim”, the judge clarified in her ruling.
However, when challenging the very origin of the Ethics Committee, in the end, if the protection is granted to the minister, any action by that collegiate group would be invalidated.
As it will be remembered, in December 2022, the writer Guillermo Sheridan announced that Yasmín Esquivel would have plagiarized -in 1987- her bachelor’s thesis to today’s lawyer Edgar Ulises Baez Gutierrez, author of a text practically the same as Esquivel’s but recorded a year earlier, in 1986.
After making the case known, the Academic and Scientific Integrity Committee of the current Faculty of Higher Studies Aragón of the UNAM, where the minister is a graduate, confirmed that indeed her essay presented more than 90% similarities with that of Báez Gutiérrez .
Subsequently, the UNAM considered that it could not sanction the minister by arguing that she did not have the power to cancel her law degree, so it referred the case to the General Directorate of Professions of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), instance that, likewise, he replied that he lacked the powers to revoke the title.
It was then that the highest house of studies in the country determined that it would analyze the case again, this time within its Ethics Committee, whose formation and integration is now being questioned by Yasmín Esquivel Mossa in the Fifth District Court for Administrative Matters in the capital. from the country.
The minister of the SCJN maintains that she is the kidnapper, since she began her thesis project in 1985, two years before completing her degree, so from that date the document would have been in the possession of her adviser, the teacher Martha Rodríguez Ortiz , who would have provided a copy to Édgar Ulises Báez.
This version is not only denied by the author of the first thesis, but also contradicts what was stated by the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Enrique Graue Wiechers, who argued last January that in this controversy “The existence of plagiarism is evident.”
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