Mexico signs ACTA

Published time: July 12, 2012 15:12
Edited time: July 12, 2012 23:59
Protesters wearing masks take part in a demonstration against ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) in Vienna (Reuters/Lisi Niesner)

Mexico's ambassador in Japan has signed the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, despite the country's Senate having previously voted against participation in the treaty.

The agreement still has to be ratified by the country's Senate, which could be a problem, according to social network post by some of the Senators. One official, PRD Senator Carlos Sotelo, used his Twitter account to say "The Senate should reject [the] ratification in light of the resolution adopted unanimously in December 2011."

Last year, the Senate warned that it will not ratify the pact, saying ACTA violated the country's constitution.

The decision was also criticized on social networks like Twitter, with the subject trending internationally. 

Just recently, the EU parliament crushed the agreement, with the majority of MEPs voting against it.

ACTA critics say the controversial treaty would protect copyright at the expense of freedom of speech on the Internet, and global protests against its ratification have been going on for months.

Comments (18)

ARoman (unregistered) 17.07.2012 20:05

For the candidate from PRI that won the elections, Peña Nieto, this just suits perfect. With all the media here in Mexico allied with him, students mobilized against him and became pretty huge winning supporters by twitter, facebook, etc. He will be more than glad to regulate and control internet.  
The ambassador in Japan is from anothe party, PRD. Don't know why he did it.

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Javier Delgado (unregistered) 15.07.2012 03:41

Last year the mexican senate reject ACTA, almost unaimously. This was not only by the left, but by the three main political forces: PAN; PRI and PRD.

No only that, but they intructed President Calderon NOT to continue any negociation.

President Calderon acted on his own giving the order to the mexican ambasador in Japan  to Sign ACTA, but did is against the will of the congress, so this signing is an empty gesture, since it will not be ratify by the congress.

Not even presindent Calderon party, PAN support this.

After the elections there will be a new congress, so the current one can not act on the outgoing president, but there is hardly a chance the new congress will ratify it. Currently NO political force in Mexico is supporting the treaty.

This is just a publicity stunt in order to look as if mexican goverment had aprooves it since it will take a few months in order then new congress would reunite. But there is little chance it will be aprooved.


 

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gerd (unregistered) 13.07.2012 10:01

No wonder what Mexiko is doing -its just another colony of the US

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