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Items tagged with mexico

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Deficiencies in financial oversight enable money laundering [15-05-13] In July 1989, the leaders of the economic powers assembled at the G7 Paris summit decided to establish a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to counter...
In Latin America, U.S. focus shifts from drug war to economy [04-05-13] Relationships with countries racked by drug violence and organized crime should focus more on economic development and less on the endless battles aga...
Legalize marijuana and other ways U.S.-Mexico can win drug war [03-05-13] There was a lot of drug-war hand-wringing in the U.S. leading up to President Obama’s visit to Mexico. That’s because Mexican President Peña Nieto is ...
'They stole our dreams': blogger reveals cost of reporting Mexico's drug wars [03-04-13] For three years it has chronicled Mexico's drug war with graphic images and shocking stories that few others dare show, drawing millions of reade...
Mexico goes after the narcos [25-02-13] Gang-outreach schemes, community centers, employment projects and construction programs aimed at transforming chaotic urban jungles. “There is a compl...
Mexico's disappeared [20-02-13] This 176-page report documents nearly 250 “disappearances” during the administration of former President Felipe Calderón, from December 2006 to Dece...
Report: Mexico disappearances constitute 'crisis' [20-02-13] Human Rights Watch called Mexico's anti-drug offensive "disastrous" in the report Mexico's Disappeared: The Enduring Cost of a Cri...
Mexico unveils new strategy in war on drugs and for preventing crime [13-02-13] Mexico's new administration has offered the first details of its new strategy in the country's war on drugs, saying the government will spen...
Major victory for President Morales: UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia [14-01-13] Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the treat...
Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf [11-01-13] Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Convent...
Mexico considers marijuana legalization after ballot wins in U.S. [04-01-13] The success of legalization initiatives in Colorado and Washington has sparked a new conversation in a nation that is one of the world's top mari...
Mexico changes stance in drug war – but little difference seen from Calderón [18-12-12] Mexico's new president has outlined a security strategy aimed at reducing drug war-related violence that, rhetorically at least, contrasts starkl...
Turning over a new leaf [30-11-12] Faced with this soiled wedge between state legislation and federal law within the United States, Mexico's President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto an...
Mexico's drug war bright spot hides dark underbelly [28-11-12] For four years, Ciudad Juárez on the border with Texas was convulsed by daily slaughter, becoming the murder capital of the world and a shocking illus...
Can Obama and Peña Nieto Clear the Marijuana Smoke? [27-11-12] Like a growing number of Latin American leaders, Peña, who takes office Dec. 1, says it may be time to reassess the drug war. In an interview with TIM...
"Impossible" to end drug trade, says Calderón [23-11-12] Ending the consumption and the trafficking of illegal drugs is “impossible”, according to Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s outgoing president. In an intervie...
Mexico lawmaker introduces bill to legalize marijuana [15-11-12] A leftist Mexican lawmaker on Thursday presented a bill to legalize the production, sale and use of marijuana, adding to a growing chorus of Latin Ame...
Mexican president says marijuana legalization votes leave U.S. with no 'moral authority' for drug war [13-11-12] Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in two U.S. states limits that country's "moral au...
The will of the voters [13-11-12] Now that the voters in Colorado and Washington have approved marijuana legalization initiatives, attention has turned quickly to questions surroundin...
Leaders in Latin America call for review of drug policy after 2 U.S. states vote to legalize marijuana [12-11-12] A group of Latin American leaders declared that votes by two U.S. states to legalize marijuana have important implications for efforts to quash drug s...
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Since its beginnings in 1989, the international anti-money laundering regime has not worked as well as intended. After two decades of failed efforts, experts still ponder how to implement one that does work.

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