The Justice in Mexico Project of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego has released the monthly news monitor for November 2012. Thanks to the generous support of …
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11/26/12- Outgoing President Felipe Calderón urged federal legislators to approve reforms to prisons, sentencing, and the Federal Code of Criminal Procedure (Código Federal de Procedimientos Penales, CFPP). Mexico’s Chamber of …
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(by cmolzahn) 11/28/12 – Édgar Valdez Villarreal, commonly known as “La Barbie,” has accused Mexican Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna of accepting bribes from criminal groups, and President Felipe …
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11/27/12 – Ricardo Mejía Berdeja, representative of Citizen’s Movement party (Movimiento Ciudadano, MC) recently presented a bill before the Chamber of Deputies (Cámara de Diputados) to eradicate a form of preventative …
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11/27/12 – On Saturday, November 24, a violent confrontation between Mexican armed forces and armed gunmen took the lives of five individuals, including María Susana Flores Gámez, winner of the …
11/27/12 – The corpse of Maria Santos Gorrostieta, former mayor of Tiquicheo, Michoacán, was recently found in a ditch near Morelia. Her family had reported her missing just three days …
11/26/12 – In the 4,800 person town of Indé, Durango, armed men attacked Mayor Ernesto Núñez Rodríguez’ ranch on November 18th. They attempted to kidnap multiple friends, relatives, and employees …
11/21/2012—Earlier this month President-Elect Enrique Peña Nieto unveiled plans to restructure government agencies during his upcoming presidential term. He intends to reassign various security-related functions to Ministry of the Interior …
11/20/2012—Public financial disclosure law reform has advanced in Mexico this month. It promises to expand the Mexican people’s enjoyment of their right of access to public information, which the Organization …
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11/19/2012—Outgoing Mexican president Felipe Calderón recently expressed his distress over the new marijuana legalization laws passed in Colorado and Washington. Rather than taking a stance on the “adequacy” of the …
