Abstract

CARPIZO, Jorge. Mexico: Executive Power and Human Rights: 1975-2005. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2009, vol.42, n.126, pp.1237-1279. ISSN 2448-4873.

The author recalls the eleven causes he set forth in 1978, which constituted the Mexican presidential system. This essay examines the manner in which each one of these causes evolved through out three decades, and it is concluded that only one has been kept in tact, four have substantial modifications and the rest have disappeared entirely. Consequently, now a days, Mexico has a presidential system that approaches the constitutional mandates; never the less, the power pendulum is heading to the opposite end: toward the primacy of Congress, particularly toward a significant political force composed by the leaders of the three most important political parties in this legislative organ.

Keywords : presidential system; disappearance of the mexican presidential system; Congress; human rights; international treaties regarding human rights.