Mexico

Mexico
Capital city	"[[Has headquarters" contains the "[" character as part of a property label and has been classified as invalid. Mexico City|“Mexico City”]]
Location	North America
Type	nation state
Member of	OECD
Subpage	•Mexico/Ambassador to The USSR
Former Spanish colony

Cannabis as a 'Human Right'

In November 2015 Mexico's supreme court ruled 4-1 that smoking cannabis was a basic human right. This ruling concerned a nonprofit marijuana club — the Mexican Society for Responsible and Tolerant Autoconsumption, (SMART) and so did not immediately affect marijuana prohibition laws.

Illegal Drug Trade

Mexico's position makes it an import nation as far as the importation of illegal drugs into the USA - especially cocaine from South America. Joël van der Reijden writes that "Information that came out in the wake of the Kiki Camarena death clearly demonstrates that the CIA and Mexican government have been working hand in hand with the drug cartels, with the CIA apparently controlling and employing them as right wing death squads", also noting that "hundreds of journalists have been murdered or disappeared in Mexico in the past decades."

 

Events

Event	Date
2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack	10 October 2001 17:00:00 - 10 October 2001 17:30:00
2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust	10 April 2006
2007 Yucatan Gulfstream drug crash	24 September 2007

 

Groups Headquartered Here

A Group Headquartered Here
Bank of Mexico
Juarez cartel

 

Citizens of Mexico on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died
Agustín Carstens	9 June 1958
Francisco Ortiz Franco	1954	22 June 2004
Jorge Díaz Serrano	6 February 1921	25 April 2011
Sayak Valencia	1980