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Weekly Report - 15 June 2004
MEXICO: Kidnapping becomes political football
Major crime, and particularly kidnapping, has become a political football in Mexico. Attention was recently focused on the subject by a study portraying Mexico as the country with the second-worst kidnapping problem in the world (after Colombia). President Vicente Fox took advantage of the occasion to publicise his bill introducing reforms to penal legislation, now portrayed publicly as an `antikidnap ´ bill. Business and civic organisations, emulating their peers in South America, plan to take to the streets on 27 June and stage a mass protest against the ´rise ´ in violent crime.
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