LATINO AMERICA Diez años de México
Llevo visitando México desde el 2001, cuando fui invitado a abrir salas de juego en el país. Con una inversión multimillonaria nuestro grupo con sede en Las Vegas era el único de amplia trayectoria en la industria con profesionales de varias décadas de trabajo en casinos de categoría de varios continentes.
Entonces, la única forma de operar salas de juego, como lo hacían en Monterrey, era con el uso de recursos legales dentro de un marco judicial un poco tirado de los pelos. Como la financiación que traíamos tenia condiciones de reporte a un ente supervisor de valores en bolsa, decidimos retirarnos para ver cómo se movía el panorama del juego en México, a futuro.
No es secreto lo que ha pasa en la industria de juegos de azar
en México a la fecha, o como se llama formalmente, juegos de apuestas y sorteos, aunque existan casinos, como lo reportamos en la nota de abajo. Basta decir, que en las oportunidades donde me contrataron como consultor para estudios de factibilidad de operaciones de juegos en México, los inversionistas decidieron no lanzarse a la piscina por las razones expuestas en el párrafo anterior. Es decir, la situación legal de los permisos no era clara.
Ha tocado una tragedia de gran magnitud para que las
autoridades se preocupen del estado de legalidad en los casinos mexicanos. Lo peor del caso es que al margen de todo, se ha desatado un incesante ataque contra el sector de juegos, donde a todos los empresarios del juego los miden con la misma vara con actos irresponsables como el editorial que criticamos con vehemencia en nuestro editorial del medio electrónico Casino Compendium. Nos toca a todos levantar la voz para hacer de conocimiento universal que en México todo el mundo existimos quienes practicamos el juego responsable, por los cuatro costados.
Siete años de desorden en los casinos mexicanos
En su editorial del 08 de septiembre, El Universal, distinguido diario de México, titulado “Corrupción en casino”, empieza mal desde el título. Con subtitulo luchador en la página de: “Inspiración en el interés público, responsabilidad, búsqueda de la verdad, de permanente justicia y del cumplimiento de los de…”, este Editorial sufre de miopía.
laugh once more in an ingenious game, in his centenary year, on their stand at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas. See you there!
Cheers, Ricki.
Mexico 10 years since I have been visiting Mexico to check out gaming operations
developments since 2001, when as part of an investment group we were invited to open slots operations in the country. As gaming professionals with several decades in the industry, our Las Vegas-based group obtained an insider’s view of operations in Mexico, then. In those years, the only way to operate gaming properties, like they did in Monterrey, was through the use of legal recourse to Mexican habeas corpus judicial processes, which we considered a bit too risky to engage in, and as our funding has SE controls we just took a rain check to see how gaming developed in this great nation.
We have been in an out of Mexico since then and, as
everyone knows, there are no secrets to uncover to see how gaming operations have progressed in Mexico. To date, casinos use the betting and lotteries regulations tag to comply with current legislation under the accommodating gaming regulators or permit issuers. Suffice to say that whenever a group has asked me to consult for ventures in Mexico, a no go report has been the result as the legal situation of gaming permits is not clear.
It has befallen on a 52 death tragedy at the Casino Royale in Monterrey for the Mexican government to raise the voice of alarm on the legal situation of many local casinos. However, this has given a free rein to a an incessant attack on all gaming operations in Mexico by the usual detractors and some new ones thrown in, as election fever raises the temperature of politicians who seek media prominence. Our editorial in the link is critical of media irresponsibility and here at CasinoCompendium we offer our support to all regulated businesses that engage in responsible gaming through and through.
Seven years of disorder in Mexican casinos
In its September 08 editorial the distinguished Mexican
newspaper, El Universal, published a piece entitled ‘Corruption in Casinos’. Without doubt a selling title, but much mistaken in our opinion. This aside, the Editorial crusader subtitle reads that it is an “Inspiration in the public interest, responsibility, and search for the truth, for permanent justice and for the fulfillment of these...” Furthermore, we insist that this Editorial piece suffers from myopia.
Below we copy the link to the Editorial ( In Spanish language only) but basically the commentary has as its base the criminal attack on Monterrey’s Casino Royale that “serves to remind us of the disorder that exists in gaming and betting establishments.” In this they are right, writing disorder in bold print, purportedly for betting shops or salons but which are full casinos in everything but name.
16 OCTOBER 2011
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