Posted by KRICO on October 21, 2000 at 01:16:19:
In Reply to: Re: Strangelove posted by Strangelove on October 21, 2000 at 00:18:14:
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Twenty women who once worked in the lower house of Congress in Mexico accuse the woman in charge of the pages of running a prostitution ring for lawmakers. Two former pages said Montes de Oca trained the women to "stick out their chests, hike up their skirts and smile at lawmakers." (Niko Price, Associated Press, 18 November 1997) Prostitution is legal in Mexico except in brothels, bars, nightclubs or cabarets, thus forcing it onto the street. Pimping is against the law. (Rene Villegas, "Mexico City prostitutes protest new rules," Reuter, 3 September 1997) Women in prostitution in Mexico City now must follow a dress code, and are limited to within two main districts. (Associated Press, 3 September 1997) [catwlog9709a] 300 participants of the National Meeting of Sex Workers in Mexico called for an end to police abuse and discrimination that has denied them everything from health care to basic dignity. One person said that they receive death threats from police. Prostitution is legal in Mexico, but brothels are not. (Dan Trotta, "Mexican prostitutes band together to demand rights", Reuters, 22 July 1998) In mid-1997 the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that violently forcing a spouse to engage in sexual relations was not rape but the "undue exercise of a right." (Eduardo Molinay Vedia, "Mexico: Supreme Court Legitimises Rape of Spouses, Critics Say," InterPress Third World News Agency, 16 June 1997)
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