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Chapo's Ex-lawyer Among Mexico's 'High-risk' Aspiring Judges

Aspiring Mexican judge Silvia Delgado hands out campaign flyers in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez (Credit: AFP)

In a crime-plagued Mexican border city, lawyer Silvia Delgado urges passersby to vote for her as a judge, despite her past work for one of the world's most notorious drug lords.

Her candidacy is one of the most controversial in elections beginning on Sunday that will make Mexico the world's only country to choose all of its judges and magistrates by popular vote.

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