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Crime and Violence

President Felipe Calderón proposes an Anti-kidnapping Law

President Felipe Calderón sent Senate his proposal for a new Anti-kidnapping Law (Ley Antisecuestro) that will be officially introduced in Thursday’s Senate meeting. The bill contemplates monitoring and placing electronic …

Transparency & accountability

President Calderón proposes new Public Security System for DF

President Felipe Calderón sent an initiative to the Chamber of Deputies to establish a new Public Security for the Federal District, consistent with the actions and guidelines to be established …

Justice in Mexico

Transition to oral trials leads to calls for more public notaries

The newly-elected president of the College of Public Notaries in Jalisco (Colegio de Notarios Públicos del Estado de Jalisco), Manuel Bailón Cabrera, has stated that more public notaries are necessary …

Crime and Violence

Congress pushes for stronger war on crime

Opposition Senators called for the Calderón Administration to do more in the fight aganist crime. They chastised the administration for being slow to implement certain measures like creating a national …

Transparency & accountability

Changes proposed to nation’s labor laws

Mexico’s Secretary of Labor has announced plans to change the country’s current labor laws in order to boost Mexico’s global competitiveness, which has been lagging for years. Currently, the country …

Transparency & accountability

PRI leaders step down to partake in elections for governor

Jesús Vizcarra Calderón, Culiacán’s mayor, requested permission to secede from his position in order to contest in the internal nominations of the Institutional Revolutionary party (PRI) to determine nominee for …

Justice in Mexico

Much happening in anticipation of Calderón’s visit

President Calderón decided on visiting Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua this week as a symbolic show of support show for the beleaguered city and to announce new measures against criminal organizations. He …

Human Rights and Civil Society

President Calderon visits Juarez after massacre

On Monday, in the aftermath of last week’s massacre, President Felipe Calderon offered his “sincere condolences” to the families of those teenagers who were killed on the 31st of January …

Crime and Violence

Anti-discrimination and human trafficking laws have limited effect

The Mexican government can take pride for having been a signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1979, passing the Law for …

Justice in Mexico

Transnational policing pays off

An important part of transnational policing is cooperation among police agencies in different countries. Agencies must face multiple impediments such as language barriers and legal jurisdiction issues. This has made …

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