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April 29, 2017
San Bartolo, Yucatan holds cruelty-free festival
For the second consecutive year, cruelty-free festival is taking the place of the Kots Kaal Pato - an annual Yucatan ritual of stringing up small animals like piñatas and beating them to death or cutting off their heads.
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April 25, 2017
Mexican Senate approves federal dogfighting penalties
HSI applauded Mexican lawmakers for approving tougher penalties for dogfighting and the activities surrounding it, including organizing fights, owning or trading a fighting dog, possessing property used to hold fights or attending a fight as a spectator.
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April 7, 2017
HSI to meat producers: Companies are responding to consumer demand and adopting animal welfare policies
Speaking about the future of animal agriculture at the International Meat Congress in Mexico City, Humane Society International stressed that farm animal welfare has become an important issue for food companies, consumer groups and governments across the world, including in Mexico.
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April 6, 2017
Animal advocates urge Mexican Senators to pass strong penalties for dogfighters
Animal advocates called on the Justice Committee of the Senate to urgently pass a bill to penalize dogfighting. The bill would reform the Federal Criminal Code to penalize individuals for organizing fights, owning or trading a fighting dog, possessing a property used to hold fights, or attending a fight as a spectator.
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April 6, 2017
Mexico’s Senate Justice Committee approves dogfighting penalties, moves bill to full Senate
HSI applauded the Mexican Senate Justice Committee for approving penalties against dogfighting, moving the bill to a vote in the full Senate.
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March 24, 2017
Nearly 74,000 signatures in favor of making cruelty-free fiesta in Yucatan permanent
Close to 74,000 people signed an online petition by HSI/Mexico to support Izamal Mayor Warnel May Escobar in transforming the cruel Yucatan Kots Kaal Pato fiesta into a humane celebration.
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March 3, 2017
More than 400 cats spayed in Mexico City on World Spay Day
To mark World Spay Day, teams of volunteer veterinarians spayed and neutered 426 cats throughout Mexico City in a campaign supported by Humane Society International Mexico and executed by local organizations Cemegatos and Koncientizando.
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February 6, 2017
Mexico City enacts one of the most animal-friendly constitutions in the Americas
HSI is celebrating the far reaching animal protection language found in Mexico City’s formally enacted new constitution, noting that it is one of the most animal-friendly constitutional texts in the Americas.
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January 25, 2017
Mexico bans dogfighting nationwide
A reform of the Ecological Equilibrium and Environment Protection General Law, approved by both the Mexican Senate and House of Representatives, mandates that the Federation, the Federal States and Mexico City penalize dog fights within a year.
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January 3, 2017
Farm animals in Mexico benefited from major gains in 2016
2016 saw major gains for farm animals in Mexico, especially for egg-laying hens, according to Humane Society International.
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