Article 203 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE EIGHT. CRIMES AGAINST THE FREE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY. · CHAPTER III. Sexual Tourism against Persons Under Eighteen Years of Age or against Persons who do not have the Capacity to understand the Meaning of the Act or against Persons who do not have the Capacity to Resist it.
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Commits the crime of sexual tourism whoever promotes, advertises, invites, facilitates or manages by any means that one or more persons travel within or outside the national territory with the purpose that they carry out any type of real or simulated sexual acts with one or several persons under eighteen years of age, or with one or several persons who do not have the capacity to understand the meaning of the act or with one or several persons who do not have the capacity to resist it.
The author of this crime shall be imposed a penalty of seven to twelve years of imprisonment and of eight hundred to two thousand days fine.