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Mexico has never formally adopted a set of laws and procedures to implement the Hague Convention in its own domestic legal codes. Under the Mexican Constitution international treaties, like federal laws, are hierarchically above all State laws but beneath the constitution. There is some debate as to the correct legal precedence to be applied when federal laws and international treaties are in conflict. In theory this gives the treaty sufficient legal clout to be effective but, in practice, the lack of implementing legislation leads to many divergent and contradictory interpretations of the Convention which is intentionally vague in certain areas to allow for it to apply to a broad range of cases. This lack of detail has prompted some to refer to the treaty as the "Vague Convention."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/the-snatchback/7704/3/? |title=The Snatchback |publisher=Atlantic Magazine |date=2009-12-01 |author=Nadya Labi |accessdate=2010-04-21}}</ref>
Mexico, like the United States, is composed of individual states with great latitude to make their own laws so long as those laws don't conflict with federal laws and, in particular, the countries, [[
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