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Same-sex sexual acts are legal in Mexico, but LGBT people have been prosecuted through the use of legal codes that regulate obscene or lurid behavior (atentados a la moral y las buenas costumbres). Over the past twenty years, there have been reports of violence against gay men, including the murders of openly gay men in Mexico City and of ...
An evolution of the Oportunidades social welfare programme has, in its various forms, given conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to Mexico’s poorest since the 1990s. The scheme, originally called Pronasol in 1989, before being renamed Progresa in 1997 and Oportunidades in 2002, was the first major social programme of its kind in Latin America.
The 2024 Mexican judicial reform is a series of constitutional amendments that restructured the judiciary of Mexico. [1] The reform replaced Mexico's appointment-based system for selecting judges with one where judges, pre-selected by Congress, are elected by popular vote, with each judge serving a renewable nine-year term.
Clinics like Fundación ILE have been legal in Mexico City for 16 years, after a groundbreaking 2007 decision decriminalized abortion in the capital state. Other Mexican states have individually ...
Mexico’s leading presidential candidate repeatedly touted the social programs of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and walked a fine line between supporting the national oil ...
There is a 2009 book on the topic titled The War Against the Japanese in Mexico (La guerra contra los japoneses en México) by Galindo Sergio Hernández. Asians in Mexico regularly deal with petty stereotypes and mocking. During the COVID-19 pandemic an upswing in racial abuse has been documented against Chinese and all Asians in Mexico. [37] [38]
In October 2024, Mexico became the only legal system in the world where its judges would be elected by popular vote. [ 1 ] Its foundations can be found in Title III, Chapter IV (comprising fourteen articles) of the Constitution of Mexico and the Organic Law of the Judicial Power of the Federation .
Immigration advocates said Thursday that an online appointment system to seek asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico is out of reach for many migrants, in the latest legal challenge to the Biden ...