Mexico’s Supreme Court has struck down local government ordinances in several Jalisco municipalities that restrict children from partaking in soccer and other street games in their neighborhoods—traditions as old as the invention of urban life in Mexico.
Last summer, Zapopan city council approved amendments to its Reglamento de Policía y Buen Gobierno ordinance, which on the surface appeared to prohibit all types of street games, levying fines up to 2,000 pesos. The regulation became known as the “ley anti-cascaritas” (cascaritas is a colloquial Spanish term for street soccer). }
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