Estrategias de persecución penal contra la financiación del terrorismo

Abstract

The noticeable increment in the diversification as well as in the capacity of action and the destructive potential that the terrorist strategy has shown in the latest years, has put in evidence the importance of structuring a prevention and criminal prosecution schema that is of a multilateral character, that functions well dealing with the terrorist threat in different ways and in the different stages of the terrorist action. An example of this lies in the fact that the international community centers its efforts in mitigating and suppressing anything that supposes any contribution or fund raising to defray the criminal and terrorist operational framework. Overall after September the 11th, the need to criminally pursue the funding of terrorism has been emphasized, and to undertake actions destined towards its prevention as well of its location in the national environment, high priority interest, that as it has been developed in this paper, can be seen reflected in some instruments issued by important international organisms, to which Mexico has tried to adhere to, through a restructured legal-penal frame, and of a complementary legislation of preventive nature of very recent creation.