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Weekly Report - 28 April 2016 (WR-16-16)

MEXICO: Marijuana move overshadowed by Iguala report

President Enrique Peña Nieto submitted two bills to the federal senate this week to legalise marijuana for medicinal use and to relax the laws relating to recreational use of the drug. Peña Nieto stressed that the overriding motivation for the reforms was “to define better solutions from a perspective of human rights, prevention and public health to put people’s welfare at the centre [of our agenda]”. His government’s purported commitment to human rights and people’s welfare again came into question days later, however, when the committee of forensic experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) released its final report into the abduction and presumed murder of 43 trainee teachers in Iguala, Guerrero, in September 2014, providing a withering assessment of the government’s handling of the case.

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