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    Drug Law Reform in Latin America
    Drugs and Democracy

    An interactive guide on the status of drug law reform throughout Latin America.

    The struggle of electricians in Mexico goes on (Part 2, final)
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Behind the shutdown of the Mexico's Central Power and Lighting Company is Calderón's obligation to fulfill his commitments with foreign corporations.

    The struggle of electrical workers in Mexico goes on (Part I)
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Despite the growing poverty and unemployment in Mexico, the current government insists on continuing the failed process of “structural reforms” by dismantling the nation's energy industry.

    Mexico: The Law Against Small-Scale Drug Dealing
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    Jorge Hernández Tinajero y Carlos Zamudio Angles

    In August 2009, Mexico adopted a new law against small-scale drug dealing, which introduces some significant advances in key subjects, such as the recognising of and distinguishing between user, drug addict and dealer. However it still has significant flaws in continuing to treat demand and...

    More Than Backpedaling on NAFTA
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Obama has not just backpedaled from his campaign commitments to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He has ended up expanding the accord which will remove even more checks and balances on the exchange of capital, services, and goods.

    The Failed War on Drugs in Mexico
    TNI
     Manuel Pérez Rocha

    Introduction

    The United States has released the first $296 million dollars of a $400 million counter-drug assistance package approved in June 2008 by the US Congress for Mexico. This aid package, termed the Merida Initiative and also referred to by many civil society...

    Mexico: neither a failed state nor a model
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    Mexico faces two serious challenges: the deepest economic slowdown in Latin America and an explosion of drug-related violence. To the extent that these crises are getting any attention at all in the United States, the views are widely divergent.

    On the one hand are those, including the U....

    Mexico's Oil Referendum
    TNI
     Manuel Perez-Rocha
    When Mexico's ruling National Action Party (PAN) sought to privatise the country's oil industry, they presented this as the only way forward. But a referendum and a huge public outcry have shown a popular mood to defend the country's resources from the energy grab of transnational corporations...
    10 years
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    Drugs and Democracy

    This report summarises the lessons of TNI's 10 years of work in the field of international drug policy, emphasising drug controls that respect human rights: the rights of farmers caught in the illicit economy to a life in dignity; decriminalisation of drug use; and the promotion of harm...

    The Future of Mexico's Oil: Social action to stop the energy grab!
    TNI
     Manuel Perez-Rocha
    Despite the efforts of a national oligarchy intent on handing the remains of Mexico´s riches over to transnational capital, Mexico is experiencing a lively debate on the future of the country’s oil.

    "In Mexico, as in the U.S.

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