Mexico's President, Judiciary in Standoff Over Pay

Mexico's new president said Monday that salaries for some in the country's judicial branch are "offensive" and that he will leave it to the Congress to implement his call for austerity.   President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador showed no sign of budging in his standoff with Mexico's judges, who have balked at his demand that no public salaries exceed his own.   Since Lopez Obrador has pledged to only take a salary of 108,000 pesos ($5,300) per month, many in...

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