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Weekly Report - 12 November 2015 (WR-15-45)
Mexico: marijuana, Castro and the US
It is not very long ago that the US federal administration would have expressed displeasure at two significant developments south of the Rio Grande this week. On 4 November Mexico’s supreme court of justice [SCJN] handed down a landmark ruling that paves the way for the legalisation of marijuana; the very next day Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto received his Cuban peer Raúl Castro for a three-day official visit, his first since taking over from his brother Fidel in 2006, and proceeded to heap praise on the Cuban government’s achievements while making no reference to anti-democratic and human rights concerns. It would be a mistake to view either development entirely through the prism of US-Mexico relations, but there is no doubt that the legalisation of marijuana in certain US states and the US rapprochement with Cuba played a part.
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