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Mexico's new left-wing President AMLO proposed a law to grant amnesty to people serving jail time for lesser offenses, including abortion and possession of small amounts of drugs.
The bill aims to help the poor, indigenous, women, and abortion doctors
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The bill aims to help the poor, indigenous, women, and abortion doctors
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Left-wing Mexican president López Obrador's new amnesty bill will free:
-indigenous people who couldn't defend themselves
-women and doctors imprisoned for abortions
-people imprisoned for nonviolent robberies
-minor drug users/sellers
-political prisoners
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-indigenous people who couldn't defend themselves
-women and doctors imprisoned for abortions
-people imprisoned for nonviolent robberies
-minor drug users/sellers
-political prisoners
spanish.xinhuanet.com/2019-09/16/c_1…
Even more impressively, the amnesty bill proposed by Mexico's leftist president rethinks crime as a social problem
His party Morena stressed people imprisoned for minor crimes often come from disadvantaged backgrounds and suffer from poverty and a lack of education & opportunity
His party Morena stressed people imprisoned for minor crimes often come from disadvantaged backgrounds and suffer from poverty and a lack of education & opportunity
Allies from AMLO's left-wing party Morena stressed, "There are people who don't have resources to pay for a legal process," and that this has led to unjust incarceration of poor people, especially indigenous Mexicans
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