\nAfter months of negotiations, Mexico’s National Action Party (Partido Acci\u00f3n Nacional, PAN) the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revoluci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica, PRD) reportedly found an agreement on the last details of the country’s upcoming new gambling legislation.<\/p>\n
\tInitially expected to be sent to the parliament by Sept. 20, the new law on gambling is set to create a brand new legal framework both for online and live gambling with the introduction of new measures against money laundering.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to Mexico’s local media, the new gambling law will bring the minimum age for gambling to 21 and will fight against money laundering by imposing some limitations to the so-called "mini casinos" \u2014 the unauthorized small gambling rooms that have flourished throughout the country during recent years.<\/p>\n
\tThe progress towards the introduction of the text to the country\u2019s parliament was revealed by Deputy and former chairman of Mexico\u2019s special commission on casinos Ricardo Mejia Berdeja, who said in an interview that legislators and representatives of the Federal Government have hammered out any remaining differences in a meeting held on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
\tTogether with the two measures mentioned before, the new law is also supposed to offer operators a system of 10-year-long licenses, regulate online gambling, and establish a new Advisory Council composed of the secretaries of health, tourism, economics and government, as well as non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n
\tTalking about the text that should finally be sent to the parliament for approval before the end of Nov., the President of the Commission of Gaming in the Chamber of Deputies Fernando Zarate Salgado stated, "The new law is going to put some order in the gambling world by regulating it and by fixing some issues we have now."<\/p>\n
\tEarlier this year, two prominent Mexican poker pros Angel Guillen and Christian "Grillo" de Le\u00f3n discussed the opportunities that a regulated online gambling market would offer to the country and to all poker players in Mexico.<\/p>\n
\t"[Poker] has grown a lot in Brazil since they have started to organize tournaments all over the country," Guillen said in an interview with PokerNews. "Now, I am expecting something similar in Mexico as well."<\/p>\n
\t"The law is kind of tricky at the moment," Guillen added. "But they are working on it, and hopefully we will have a big tournament in Mexico very soon."<\/p>\n
\t"The new reform could soon introduce some important changes in the country," de Le\u00f3n echoed in another interview, originally published on PokerNews Latin America. According to de Le\u00f3n, all Mexican players can do right now is to wait. "We have to wait for the new bills to be adopted, so that we will be able to see how things will go from there."<\/p>\n
Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on November 5, 2014, 5:17 pm<\/p>\n After months of negotiations, Mexico’s National Action Party (Partido Acci\u00f3n Nacional, PAN) the Party of the Democratic Revolution (Partido de la Revoluci\u00f3n Democr\u00e1tica, PRD) reportedly found an agreement on the last details of the country’s upcoming new gambling legislation. Initially…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}