PROFEPA.

PROFEPA PROFEPA Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente (Spanish: Attorney General for Environmental Protection) , Mexico's environmental watchdog, lifted all sanctions Sanctions is the plural of sanction. Depending on context, a sanction can be either a punishment or a permission. The word is a contronym.

Sanctions involving countries:

on silver mining giant Ind[acute{u}]strias Pe[tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. {n}]oles.

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