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Mexico Strengthens Punishments for Explosives, ‘Narco-Banners’
 Adriana Lopez Caraveo - Bloomberg
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December 17, 2010
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.
Grenade attacks in Mexico have increased in recent years. An attack Oct. 3 in a suburb of Monterrey injured 12 people.
In addition to using explosives, the bill also makes it a crime to hang threatening banners with drug cartel messages in public spaces. Drug cartels often hang banners in towns and cities to threaten other traffickers or the population.
To contact the reporter on this story: Adriana Lopez Caraveo in Mexico City at adrianalopez(at)bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Joshua Goodman at jgoodman19(at)bloomberg.net
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