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Security & Strategic Review - May 2013 (ISSN 1741-4202)
URUGUAY: Cannabis regulation bill goes back to congress
President José Mujica’s bill to legalise and regulate the production and sale of cannabis, shelved last December, is being pushed again through congress in a bid to get it approved before the launch of next year’s presidential campaigns. The bill has been modified to accommodate some of the criticism it had attracted, but its passage remains a sensitive political issue.
- Government and Farc agree on ‘integral’ land reform
- REGION: OAS produces its diagnosis & scenarios
- VENEZUELA: Putting workers in uniform, troops as police
- ECUADOR: Correa still after 2010 ‘coup plotters’
- POINTERS
- BRAZIL: Combined border operations to become constant
- PARAGUAY: EPP’s election day raid was more than a pinprick
- URUGUAY: Cannabis regulation bill goes back to congress
- POINTERS
- HONDURAS: Street gangs announce a truce of sorts
- EL SALVADOR: Court forces dismissal of top security officials
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- MEXICO: Federal contingent deployed in Michoacán
- MEXICO: Legal vacuums hold up security strategy
- MEXICO-US: Nowadays most ‘Mexican’ Hispanics are US-born