MEXICO: Protesters – made up of court workers, students and the public – blocked entrances to Congress in Mexico City on Tuesday in anger at a reform that would make judges stand for election, rather than qualify for their positions.

Many employees, including those at the Supreme Court, have gone on strike in protest at the proposal by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Morena party that they say would politicise and de-professionalise the court system.