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Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403431_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403424_text Communications and electronic information - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403424_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403315_text Narcotics and drug abuse - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC)... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403315_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403197_text Extradition - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403197_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403196_text Extradition - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403196_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403140_text Police - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403140_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403141_text Military - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403141_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403065_text Money laundering - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403065_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403015_text Trade and commerce - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403015_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403008_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205403008_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402963_text Trade and commerce - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402963_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402959_text Elections - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402959_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402949_text Courts - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402949_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402915_text Trade and commerce - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402915_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402918_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel,... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402918_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402914_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402914_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402891_text International cultural relations - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion,... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402891_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402892_text Trade and commerce - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402892_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402882_text Human rights - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402882_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402769_text Constitutional law - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402769_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402754_text Constitutional law - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402754_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402412_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402412_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402130_text Narcotics and drug abuse - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402130_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402131_text National security - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205402131_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401551_text Narcotics and drug abuse - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401551_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401530_text Police - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401530_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401529_text Police - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401529_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401509_text Police - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401509_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401493_text Police - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401493_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401494_text International law - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401494_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401492_text Firearms - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401492_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401491_text Police - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401491_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401421_text Banks and financial institutions - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401421_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401388_text Health - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401388_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401338_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401338_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401337_text Government organization - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401337_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401204_text Communications and electronic information - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401204_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401205_text Immigration - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401205_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401203_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401203_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401191_text Elected and appointed officials - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401191_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401098_text International law - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l205401098_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540918_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540918_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540763_text Energy - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540763_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540757_text Commerce and industry - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540757_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540700_text Constitutional law - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540700_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540698_text Commerce and industry - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540698_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540649_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540649_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540653_text International law - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540653_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540488_text Constitutional law - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540488_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540544_text Weapons - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540544_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540560_text Customs - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540560_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540592_text Transportation - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540592_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540415_text Courts - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay The Mexican Senate recently passed a bill authorizing several judicial reforms, including the use of recorded telephone conversations as evidence with consent; the guarantee of the presumption of innocence; and the provision of public and oral... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Fri, 02 May 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540415_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540381_text International law - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay The Mexican Senate recently passed a bill authorizing several judicial reforms, including the use of recorded telephone conversations as evidence with consent; the guarantee of the presumption of innocence; and the provision of public and oral On March 12, 2008, State Attorneys General from the United States and Mexico announced a series of agreements aimed at eliminating the U.S.-Mexican border as a refuge for criminals on either side. The agreements were reached... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540381_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540362_text Energy - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay The Mexican Senate recently passed a bill authorizing several judicial reforms, including the use of recorded telephone conversations as evidence with consent; the guarantee of the presumption of innocence; and the provision of public and oral On March 12, 2008, State Attorneys General from the United States and Mexico announced a series of agreements aimed at eliminating the U.S.-Mexican border as a refuge for criminals on either side. The agreements were reached President Felipe Calderon submitted an energy reform bill to the Mexican Congress on April 9, 2008. In a broadcast address to the nation, he pointed out that the object of the reform is to make the... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540362_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540285_text Elections - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay The Mexican Senate recently passed a bill authorizing several judicial reforms, including the use of recorded telephone conversations as evidence with consent; the guarantee of the presumption of innocence; and the provision of public and oral On March 12, 2008, State Attorneys General from the United States and Mexico announced a series of agreements aimed at eliminating the U.S.-Mexican border as a refuge for criminals on either side. The agreements were reached President Felipe Calderon submitted an energy reform bill to the Mexican Congress on April 9, 2008. In a broadcast address to the nation, he pointed out that the object of the reform is to make the The Mexican Government officially published a new federal electoral law on January 14, 2008. The Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (COFIPE) supersedes the Code that had been in force since August 1990. Among the... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540285_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540313_text National symbols - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay The Mexican Senate recently passed a bill authorizing several judicial reforms, including the use of recorded telephone conversations as evidence with consent; the guarantee of the presumption of innocence; and the provision of public and oral On March 12, 2008, State Attorneys General from the United States and Mexico announced a series of agreements aimed at eliminating the U.S.-Mexican border as a refuge for criminals on either side. The agreements were reached President Felipe Calderon submitted an energy reform bill to the Mexican Congress on April 9, 2008. In a broadcast address to the nation, he pointed out that the object of the reform is to make the The Mexican Government officially published a new federal electoral law on January 14, 2008. The Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (COFIPE) supersedes the Code that had been in force since August 1990. Among the An amendment to Mexico's Law on the Coat of Arms, the Flag, and the National Anthem that was passed in January of 2008 mandates that under no circumstances may a reproduction of the coat of arms... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540313_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540114_text Trafficking in persons - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay The Mexican Senate recently passed a bill authorizing several judicial reforms, including the use of recorded telephone conversations as evidence with consent; the guarantee of the presumption of innocence; and the provision of public and oral On March 12, 2008, State Attorneys General from the United States and Mexico announced a series of agreements aimed at eliminating the U.S.-Mexican border as a refuge for criminals on either side. The agreements were reached President Felipe Calderon submitted an energy reform bill to the Mexican Congress on April 9, 2008. In a broadcast address to the nation, he pointed out that the object of the reform is to make the The Mexican Government officially published a new federal electoral law on January 14, 2008. The Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (COFIPE) supersedes the Code that had been in force since August 1990. Among the An amendment to Mexico's Law on the Coat of Arms, the Flag, and the National Anthem that was passed in January of 2008 mandates that under no circumstances may a reproduction of the coat of arms The Mexican Federal Government promulgated the Law to Prevent and Punish Trade in People on November 27, 2007, effective the same day, its official date of publication, President Felipe Calderon announced the Law's publication the day... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540114_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540161_text Government finance - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay The Mexican Senate recently passed a bill authorizing several judicial reforms, including the use of recorded telephone conversations as evidence with consent; the guarantee of the presumption of innocence; and the provision of public and oral On March 12, 2008, State Attorneys General from the United States and Mexico announced a series of agreements aimed at eliminating the U.S.-Mexican border as a refuge for criminals on either side. The agreements were reached President Felipe Calderon submitted an energy reform bill to the Mexican Congress on April 9, 2008. In a broadcast address to the nation, he pointed out that the object of the reform is to make the The Mexican Government officially published a new federal electoral law on January 14, 2008. The Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (COFIPE) supersedes the Code that had been in force since August 1990. Among the An amendment to Mexico's Law on the Coat of Arms, the Flag, and the National Anthem that was passed in January of 2008 mandates that under no circumstances may a reproduction of the coat of arms The Mexican Federal Government promulgated the Law to Prevent and Punish Trade in People on November 27, 2007, effective the same day, its official date of publication, President Felipe Calderon announced the Law's publication the day On October 1, 2007, the Mexican government officially published a fiscal reform package to increase the government's revenue. The fiscal laws amended are: the Income Tax Law, the Federal Fiscal Code, the Special Tax Law on... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:00:00 EDT http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540161_text http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?disp3_l20540141_text Criminal law and procedure - Mexico's Department of Health recently issued a Directive that allows the approval for sale of certain pharmaceuticals in Mexico, provided that they have previously been approved On November 13, 2012, telecommunications authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a bilateral agreement to combat the theft and cross-border trafficking On August 23, 2012, drug enforcement authorities from the United States and Mexico announced the signature of a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) Marisella Morales, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic, and China#ctor Vargas, M;xico y China Ratifican On June 7, 2012, a Mexican federal tribunal authorized the extradition to the United States of Sandra andAacute;vila Beltrandaacute;n, known as the "Queen of the Pacific," to be tried for the delivery of 100 kilograms of The Federal Government of Mexico announced on April 23, 2012, the entry into force of rules for the use of public force in operations against criminal groups. The Protocols for the Use of Force, the Preservation It was reported on April 20, 2012, that the key Senate committees of Mexico's national legislature, the Congress of the Union, have approved amendments to the law on military trial jurisdiction. Members of the Committees of On March 26, 2012, it was announced that the United States and Mexican Attorneys General had signed a letter of intent whereby the United States will share about $6 million in forfeited money resulting from an During a recent visit to Japan, Mexico's Secretary of Economy, Bruno Ferrari, and his Japanese counterpart signed an amendment to the Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries. The amendment changes certain rules of origin for On February 7, 2012, Mexico's Attorney General started a program designed by the justice departments of Mexico and the United States aimed at providing training on criminal oral trials to Mexican federal prosecutors. The Mexican Attorney st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } China is seeking a free trade agreement with Mexico in order to strengthen relations between the two nations. Chen Yuming, the economic On January 9, 2012, Mexico's House of Representatives announced that it is considering a legislative proposal that would punish citizens for not voting in federal elections. If approved, the proposal would add a provision to Mexico's On December 14, 2011, the Mexican Senate approved and submitted for Presidential signature the Ibero-American Convention on the Use of Videoconferencing in International Cooperation Between Justice Systems, which is designed to foster the use of videoconferences On December 5, 2011, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras and the Secretaries of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Costa Rica signed a Free Trade Agreement among all of these countries. The Mexican With 81 votes in favor, zero against, and no abstentions, the Mexican Senate in plenary session approved the repeal of articles 1 and 31 of the Law of Crimes of the Press, thereby decriminalizing defamation, libel, On December 7, 2011, the Mexican federal government announced that it thwarted an operation whereby Saadi Gaddafi, a son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, would have fled to Mexico with his family, posing as Mexican The Mexican Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara Manzano, and the Ambassador of Israel to Mexico, Rodica Radian Gordon, signed a Tourism Cooperation Agreement on November 3, 2011. The Agreement will establish permanent cooperation in research, promotion, The Secretariat of Economy of Mexico has continued to criticize before the World Trade Organization (WTO) China's trade practices deemed detrimental to fair and equitable competition. Highlighted among these practices are undervaluation, trade diversion, incorrect tariff On October 14, 2011, Mexico's Supreme Court and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (a part of the Organization of American States) signed an agreement whereby the Commission will collaborate with the Court in order to On June 10, 2011, Mexico issued a decree amending article 33 of the country's Constitution, an old provision from 1917 that granted the President "the exclusive power to expel any foreigner whose presence is judged undesirable On July 14, 2011, Mexican President Felipe de Jesanduacute;s Calderon Hinojosa issued a decree to amend articles 19, 20, and 73 of the Federal Constitution. Under the amended second paragraph of article 19, the crime of The General Law to Prevent and Punish Crimes of Kidnapping was officially published in Mexico's federal gazette on November 30, 2010, and it will come into force 90 days after that date. The Law stipulates severe Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press On August 20, 2009, the Mexican government officially published a new decree amending the General Law on Health and the Federal Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. It entered in force on the following On August 13, 2009, high-ranking government officials from the United States and Mexico signed a Letter of Intent "to develop a coordinated and intelligence-driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons On August 20, 2009, the United States Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the indictment of 43 individuals who allegedly are "andhellip; high-ranking members of several of Mexico's most On August 11, 2009, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that $2.4 million will be repatriated to Mexico as a result of a joint U.S.-Mexico investigation of the smuggling of Mexican petroleum products into On August 2, 2009, the Utah and Baja California attorneys general signed an "agreement of understanding" aimed at combating "human and weapons trafficking, money laundering and Internet crimes against children." Among the provisions is an agreement The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Mexico's Secretary of Finance and Public Credit signed a Letter of Intent on June 15, 2009, aimed at strengthening security and promoting trade. According to On July 13, 2009, the office of the Mexican Attorney General and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced they had established a collaboration protocol to punish weapons traffickers. The protocol is aimed at collecting information The Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) gathered in Idaho from August 2 though 5 for its 2009 summer meeting. CWAG members include the attorneys general of 15 western U.S. states. The first day of the On June 25, 2009, the Federal Government of Mexico promulgated a decree on a package of financial reforms prepared last December but deadlocked for the first four months of 2009. The amending decree affects the Law Mexico's National Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiologica, SINAVE, http://www.rhove.gob.mx/ (last visited June 19, 2009)) was designated on May 2, 2009, as the exclusive authority for tracking the evolution of the human influenza On May 29, 2009, the Federal Law on Confiscation of Assets was published in Mexico's official gazette. The statute regulates article 22 of the Mexican Constitution on the issue of confiscation of assets that have been On May 29, 2009, the Mexican government officially published the New Organic Law of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), which entered into force the following day. Among other features, the statute On April 10, 2009, an amendment to the Federal Act on Telecommunications that mandates telephone companies to create a National Registry of Mobile Phone Users, with the purpose of combating extortion, threats, kidnappings, or any grave It was reported on March 30, 2009, that Mexico City's Secretary of Rural Development and Equity for Communities, Rosa Mandaacute;rquez, has prepared a bill for passage of a Law on Hospitality and Attention to Migrants in On March 26. 2009, a Mexican federal court exonerated former President Luis Echeverria andAacute;lvarez of all criminal responsibility for a massacre of students that occurred in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, when Echeverria was serving It was reported on March 31, 2009, that Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill, entitled the Maximum Salaries Law, with 365 votes in favor, one opposed, and two abstentions. If enacted, the law will On February 6, 2009, the Mexican consuls in Little Rock, Dallas, and Kansas City and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency signed an Accord to Repatriate Mexican Nationals. (Firma de Arreglo Local de Repatriacion a On January 1, 2009, President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed into law the General Act on the National Public Security System. It came into force on January 3, the day after its official publication. The Act Three important bills on the reform of Reform of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), on renewable energy, and on sustainable energy were recently approved by the Mexican Congress. They will become law after their official publication October 14, 2008, was the last day for the application of compensatory quotas that protected the Mexican industry from Chinese competition for a number of years. Effective October 15, 2008, Mexico eliminated compensatory quotas on 749 It was reported on October 3, 2008, that the Supreme Court of Mexico (known as the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation) decided that it was not possible for a judicial challenge to be brought On September 15, 2008, the Mexican Government published extensive amendments to the rules of procedure that govern the process of review to be carried out by a bi-national panel under Representatives of the three branches of the Mexican government, the 31 state governors, the mayor of Mexico City, labor union representatives, church representatives, business representatives, and leaders of civil organizations and the media, signed the National The Border Governors Conference, an annual gathering of the governors of border states from the United States and Mexico, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) recently reached an agreement aimed at stopping President Felipe Calderon of Mexico signed a decree on June 17, 2008, enacting constitutional amendments reforming the criminal justice and public security systems; the decree was published in the federal official gazette (DIARIO OFICIAL DE LA On June 9, 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Mexico Customs announced Operation Armas Cruzadas, ";a major effort to identify and disrupt trans-border weapons smuggling networks between the two countries' borders through the According to the General Rules on Matters of Foreign Trade for 2008 that were published officially in the Mexican federal official gazette on April 30, 2008, passengers who come into the country by land, air, or Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice validated most of the fiscal reform package, known as the gasolinazo, ";gasoline boom,"; on May 12, 2008. The Court upheld the new federal tax that the public has had to pay The Mexican Senate recently passed a bill authorizing several judicial reforms, including the use of recorded telephone conversations as evidence with consent; the guarantee of the presumption of innocence; and the provision of public and oral On March 12, 2008, State Attorneys General from the United States and Mexico announced a series of agreements aimed at eliminating the U.S.-Mexican border as a refuge for criminals on either side. The agreements were reached President Felipe Calderon submitted an energy reform bill to the Mexican Congress on April 9, 2008. In a broadcast address to the nation, he pointed out that the object of the reform is to make the The Mexican Government officially published a new federal electoral law on January 14, 2008. The Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (COFIPE) supersedes the Code that had been in force since August 1990. Among the An amendment to Mexico's Law on the Coat of Arms, the Flag, and the National Anthem that was passed in January of 2008 mandates that under no circumstances may a reproduction of the coat of arms The Mexican Federal Government promulgated the Law to Prevent and Punish Trade in People on November 27, 2007, effective the same day, its official date of publication, President Felipe Calderon announced the Law's publication the day On October 1, 2007, the Mexican government officially published a fiscal reform package to increase the government's revenue. The fiscal laws amended are: the Income Tax Law, the Federal Fiscal Code, the Special Tax Law on On September 19, 2007, Mexico and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate in areas of training and exchange of information on criminal matters and experience in oral trials. The memorandum was signed... The Global Legal Monitor from the Law Library of Congress covers legal news and developments worldwide. 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