Mexico
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- federal republic
- CONSTITUTION
- February 5, 1917
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- there are elements of the American system and Western democracies
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, Senate and House of Deputies
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court of Justice, judges appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate
RELIGIONS
76.5% Catholics, 6.3% Protestants, other minorities
From the country
- JUNE 10, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Forty-four percent of all foreigners sentenced to death...
Forty-four percent of all foreigners sentenced to death in the United States are Mexican, officials said
- JUNE 7, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Survivors of a massacre perpetrated in 1998 in Mexico,...
Survivors of a massacre perpetrated in 1998 in Mexico, who also withstood prison time and torture, say they will not rest until the members of the military they accuse of the crimes are brought to justice
- MAY 15, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico, in an address...
President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico, in an address to the European Parliament welcomed the support from the EP in taking up the cases of citizens facing the death penalty and inparticular that of Gerardo Valdis whose life has now been saved
- APRIL 25, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexico was a cosponsor and voted for the resolution...
Mexico was a cosponsor and voted for the resolution 2002/77 on the death penalty at the 58th UN Commission on Human Rights
- FEBRUARY 4, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Mexican President Vicente Fox said he had pressed Cuban...
Mexican President Vicente Fox said he had pressed Cuban President Fidel Castro to abolish the death penalty in Cuba
- JANUARY 31, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin, the...
Lawyers for Mexico's most notorious drug kingpin, the fugitive Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, persuaded a judge to block his extradition to the United States, officials said
- JANUARY 18, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
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- JANUARY 17, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
A Mexican court blocked the extradition of a man wanted...
A Mexican court blocked the extradition of a man wanted in the 1994 murder of an American drug agent because the U
- JANUARY 1, 2002MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico at Art
The Constitution of the United States of Mexico at Art
- NOVEMBER 27, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
Ending decades of stonewalling, the Mexican government...
Ending decades of stonewalling, the Mexican government acknowledged that at least 74 officials from 37 government agencies were involved in a campaign of disappearances, torture and executions of leftists in the 1970s and 1980s
- OCTOBER 4, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
The Supreme Court ruled all extraditions of Mexican...
The Supreme Court ruled all extraditions of Mexican citizens will require a guarantee the prisoner will not be sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison
- JULY 21, 2001MexicoDEATH PENALTY
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