Presence of Illegal Activities · 7.5 Strategies to Combat Illegal Activities

Partially meets the criterion.

Mexico has a national legal framework requiring proportionality and individualized sentencing. The Constitution requires every penalty to be proportionate to the offense and the protected legal interest; the Federal Criminal Code requires consideration of culpability, harm, mode of participation, and personal circumstances; and drug-offense legislation differentiates conduct, purpose, quantity, aggravating factors, and vulnerability.

Binding precedent also establishes relevant safeguards, including the rule that an intent to produce or traffic drugs cannot be inferred automatically from quantity alone. However, no public dataset was identified that systematically links conduct, role, quantity, circumstances, imposed sentence, and appellate outcome. Normative proportionality is therefore established, but its uniform and effective application remains insufficiently demonstrated.