Mexico Strengthens Punishments for Explosives, ‘Narco-Banners’
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Mexico’s lower house of Congress approved a bill allowing judges to impose prison terms of as much as 50 years for the use of grenades and car bombs in attacks against people or property.
The legislation aims to cover a loophole in Mexican law that fails to penalize the use of explosives, which drug-trafficking gangs have increasingly employed in recent years, said Arturo Zamora, a lawmaker from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which sponsored the bill.