The Mexican Pulse By Glenn Holland Mexico City– The magnitude of violence in Mexico as well as the increase of it throughout Central America has received a great deal of press. For decades policy decisions have originated in Washington, D.C. with policy makers often shaking their fingers at their Latin American counterparts. A noteworthy change [...]
The Mexican Pulse By Glenn Holland Mexican Violence (II) Mexico City– Chaos, mayhem, brutality, corruption, danger, violence, failed state, failed strategies, protests, complaints, condescension, accusations, misinterpretations, anger, clenched fists, innocent blood, growing fear and spreading violence. For years this has been the general description cast on Mexico, even by Mexicans themselves, in its war on [...]
The Mexican Pulse Por Glenn Holland Violencia Mexicana (II) Ciudad de México– Caos, relajo, brutalidad, corrupción, peligro, violencia, estado fallido, estrategia fallida, manifestaciones, quejas, condescendencia, acusaciones, malas interpretaciones, enojo, puños, sangre inocente, miedo creciente y violencia extendida. Durante años esto ha sido la caracterización generalizada arrojada a México, hasta por los mismos mexicanos, durante su [...]
The Mexican Pulse By: Glenn Holland Ciudad de México—Si hay una certeza en cuanto a la guerra contra el crimen organizado en México, es que hay una falta de perspicacia en los medios masivos acerca de lo que realmente está sucediendo y por qué. Si se decapita alguien en Ciudad Juárez, de repente es peligroso [...]
The Mexican Pulse By: Glenn Holland Mexico City — If there is one thing certain about the war on organized crime in Mexico, it is that there is a lack of insight into what is really happening and why from mass media outlets. If someone’s head is chopped off in Ciudad Juárez, it is suddenly [...]
By: Glenn Holland The Mexican Pulse Ciudad de México– Imagínate que tu empleo no te paga lo suficiente para pagar tus gastos y que en el futuro se van a incrementar exponencialmente. Tienes mucho dinero en una cuenta bancaria, pero hay serios problemas: cada mes se quita dinero para los caprichos de los administradores bancarios [...]
By: Glenn Holland The Mexican Pulse Pemex 2.0 Mexico City—Imagine that your job doesn´t pay you enough to cover your expenditures and that these will increase exponentially in the future. You have a lot of money in the bank, but there are serious problems: each month bank administrators pilfer some of your money to satisfy [...]
By: Glenn Holland Mexico City- To a great degree a country´s ability to strengthen its infrastructure resides in its ability to collect taxes. That´s what taxes are for, and no country understands that better today than Mexico, a country that has been afflicted by high levels of tax evasion for decades. The Mexican IRS (SAT) [...]
By: Glenn Holland, Mexico City Analyzing Rarámuri Kórimas and Tesgüinadas as we did last week brings to mind a few very important differences with western culture. Like many of us today, the Spanish didn´t comprehend the significance of these parties and thought that the Rarámuri were lazy drunks that wasted their lives away in the misery [...]
By: Glenn Holland Work or party? Working hard is generally respected and can lead to an accumulation of wealth, the goal of many in the West. Partying too much suggests laziness and perhaps alcohol abuse. But these cultural interpretations from the West are not universal, and the Rarámuri are a fitting example of how partying [...]
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