Mexican Congress allows foreign investment in oil giant PEMEX

Oct 282008
 
 28/10/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:53 on 28/10/2008 1 Response »
Mexican Congress allows foreign investment in oil giant PEMEX

<h4>Lawmakers defy AMLO leftists protesting measures supporters say will overhaul industry as production declines</h4>  Ignoring thousands of left-wing demonstrators. lawmakers Tuesday and passed constitutional reforms aimed at allowing foreigners limited investment in Mexico’s vulnerable petroleum industry. After debating over the protests of leftist legislators who had taken over the podium in the Chamber of Deputies, the lawmakers passed the measures 395-82. “With this reform the national economy wins; all Mexicans win,” President Felipe Calderon said in a nationally televised message several hours after the vote. “And it’s particularly important that Mexicans have reached agreement at a time when the world ….Read More

Mexican drug initiative – Rehab for users, harsher penalties for dealers

Oct 042008
 
 04/10/2008  Posted by PMC at 08:34 on 04/10/2008 Comments Off
Mexican drug initiative - Rehab for users, harsher penalties for dealers

Turning to Mexico’s increasing narcotics consumption, President Felipe Calderon has proposed stiffer penalties for small-time drug dealers while suspending punishment for addicts who agree to enter rehabilitation. “Drugs are the slavery of this century,” Calderon said in a speech Friday. “Criminals seek to make slaves of children and youths. They seek to place drugs, sometimes free of charge, in schools, in neighborhoods, to create addictions, to generate dependency.” Calderon’s initiative, part of a package of proposals aimed at bolstering his offensive against the country’s powerful drug traffickers, also includes procedures for cleaning up Mexico’s police forces and getting them to ….Read More

Mexican Congress approves end to criminal penalties for undocumented migrants

Apr 302008
 
 30/04/2008  Posted by PMC at 12:02 on 30/04/2008 Comments Off

Migrant rights activists applauded a vote by Mexico’s Congress to remove long-standing criminal penalties for undocumented migrants found in the country.The measure passed unanimously in the lower house on Tuesday, a day after Senate approval. President Felipe Calderon’s office declined to say whether he would sign the popular measure into law. Mexican lawmakers saw the harsh penalties as an anachronism, and some noted Mexico also owes migrants better treatment. Immigrants here, mostly Central Americans trying to reach the U.S., are often robbed, mistreated and subject to extortion by bandits and even police. “It is very positive that they have removed ….Read More

Mexican Congress approves judicial reforms but refuses to allow warrantless searches

Feb 272008
 
 27/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 11:27 on 27/02/2008 Comments Off
Mexican Congress approves judicial reforms but refuses to allow warrantless searches

Mexico’s lower house of Congress on Tuesday approved a sweeping judicial reform that would introduce public, oral trials and guarantee the presumption of innocence, but lawmakers deleted a proposal to allow police to search homes without a warrant.In the 462-6 vote with two abstentions, legislators approved the reform bill, which would also allow information from recorded phone calls to be used as evidence in criminal cases if at least one of the conversation’s participants agrees. The reform must still be approved by the Senate and then by at least 17 of Mexico’s 31 states. The original proposal, submitted last year, ….Read More

Bill to reform Mexican justice system up for vote today

Feb 262008
 
 26/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:25 on 26/02/2008 Comments Off

MEXICO CITY — Mexican legislators are expected today to overhaul the country’s famously ineffective justice system, implementing public trials nationwide while turning up the heat on organized crime. The long-awaited “justice reform” bill — the result of several years of fierce debate among security experts, academics and human rights activists — would amend the constitution to include the presumption of innocence and other guarantees. It would also provide alternatives to jail for minor crimes, in an attempt to reduce overcrowding in Mexican prisons. Many of the new rights, however, would not apply to suspected members of the criminal mafias, who ….Read More

Mexico following US elections closely

Jan 202008
 
 20/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:44 on 20/01/2008 Comments Off

MONTERREY, Mexico — Cecilia Reyes can’t say where the first Democratic caucus was held but knows Hillary Clinton took New Hampshire by three points over her main opponent — whose name she can’t remember but she knows has Kenyan roots. Reyes, a Mexican citizen, can’t vote in November’s U.S. presidential election. But she’s pulling for the former first lady. “She has a solid social and human background,” said the civil servant, 40. “And she knows about politics.” Mexico knows politics, too. Due to the impasse on U.S. immigration reform, recent free trade controversies over beans and corn, and unprecedented Mexican ….Read More

Mexico Transparency reports 115 million bribes per year paid.

Jan 152008
 
 15/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 23:56 on 15/01/2008 Comments Off

I ran across an interesting blog posting by our friend Sean Mattson, the San Antonio Express-News correspondent in Monterrey. For those who may not remember, Sean was a big help in providing information and follow up on the truck explosion in Monclova last year. The article concerns a recent report issued by Transparency Mexico, dedicated to opening the shadows of government to the population. The article concerns a report compiled by the agency about Bribery or the “merdida” in Mexico and what it costs families each year.

Mexico City Cathedral closed after leftist invasion

Nov 202007
 
 20/11/2007  Posted by PMC at 23:16 on 20/11/2007 Comments Off
Mexico City Cathedral closed after leftist invasion

“The cathedral is state property, but as a religious association we have the right to determine what religious rites are held there,” he said. “And because the site was profaned, we can declare the suspension of the rites.”

In Retrospect, Cutting Mexico’s intel agency may not have been such a wise move

Sep 252007
 
 25/09/2007  Posted by PMC at 08:07 on 25/09/2007 Comments Off

MEXICO CITY — With the government finding it difficult to guard much of the country’s petroleum pipeline network, preventing further attacks on it depends upon a national security apparatus that analysts warn may not be up to the task. Once a brutally efficient weapon of the one-party regime that ruled for most of the 20th century, Mexico’s domestic intelligence service has been weakened over the past decade by budget cuts, personnel purges and the shifting priorities of a more democratic society, the analysts say. Some of the more experienced spymasters have been cashiered or farmed out to state and federal ….Read More

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