{"id":10191,"date":"2011-02-21T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mexico-state-congress-seeks-ban-on-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10191-mexico-state-congress-seeks-ban-on-video-game","title":{"rendered":"Mexico state congress seeks ban on video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua have asked federal authorities to ban a violent video game based on the drug cartel shootouts in Ciudad Juarez.<\/p>\n<p>About 6,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Ciudad Juarez in 2009 and 2010, making the city one of the deadliest in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft Corp. says it will soon release &#8220;Call of Juarez: The Cartel.&#8221; Promotions show armed characters ready to open fire on a city street.<\/p>\n<p>The slogan on a website for the game reads: &#8220;Take justice into your own hands and experience the lawlessness of the modern Wild West.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chihuahua state legislator Ricardo Boone Salmon said Sunday the game teaches children the wrong values.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11161-Mexico-s-Chihuahua-wants-to-ban-Call-of-Juarez-The-Cartel\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Should Call of Juarez: The Cartel be banned in Chihuahua?\"><strong>Should Call of Juarez: The Cartel be banned in Chihuahua?<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Share your thoughts on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A particular game has ruffled the feathers of legislators in the Mexican state of Chihuahua <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}