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Legislators favor gambling

Thursday, Dec. 5, 2002 | 11:19 a.m.

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's congress plans to legalize casino gambling, opening the way for poker, roulette and slot machines to appear in hotels at beach reports from Acapulco to Ixtapa, El Universal newspaper reported on its website.

The lower house's Interior Affairs Commission today plans to unanimously approve the text of the bill, the paper said. The bill then needs to be approved by majority vote in the 500-seat lower house and later ratified by the Senate to become law.

Mexico's five largest parties in congress have already agreed to approve the law before Dec. 15, the paper said. Most of the bills approved in commission are voted into law.

Casinos are expected to be a boost Mexico's tourism industry, which already brings in $8 billion a year from foreign visitors. Mexico's tourism chamber estimates that 40 casinos would generate at least $3 billion in sales and create 200,000 jobs.

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