Mexico is a country with many serious UDHR ( Universal Declaration of Human Rights) law violations. UDHR laws are a set of guidelines that the United Nations (U.N) made that all countries should follow by, but these guidelines aren't enforced. Article 5- Freedom from torture and degrading treatment as well as innocent until proven guilty are guidelines broken often. As humans, we should have the right to personal security without having to worry about enforced disappearance. Another really big issue is discrimination against journalists, many journalists who write or try to write about Mexico are being threatened or their families are. The Mexican government has made little progress in fixing these issues. This is because no one is trying to stop the people committing these crimes and the government is helping to cause these problems with enforced disappearances and torture.
Mexico is a large country with a population of 122 million people. The capital of Mexico is Mexico City which has the largest population out of the any other state in Mexico. Mexico City has a population of 15 million people. Three of the most known old Mexican civilizations were the Mayas, the Olmecs,
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An enforced disappearance is when someone gets abducted or imprisoned by the government secretly. This is a problem that many journalist have to be cautious with. Many get threatened or killed if they write something about the government that makes Mexico look bad or exposes government secrets. In over 60 cases, Human Rights Watch found that government agents talked to crime groups about making people “disappear” and after they would have money transported to them for them and their families. In 2007 it was reported that more than 25,000 people “disappeared” with little to no evidence why. In recent years the Mexican government has not owned up to these “disappearances” so the U.N. is obligated to become
Mexicans have faced problems ever since 1492, when the expansion of the Spanish took on full force. Ever since, they have continued to encounter many more, which involve discrimination and oppression. Their history concerning Spanish conquest and colonization, and their migration into the United States was very troublesome, and it has not improved that much either.
There are about 200,000 illegal immigrants in Mexico. Before May 2011, illegal immigration is considered a felony under the Mexican law and is punishable by up to two years in prison. However, on May 2011, President Felipe Calderón signed a new Migration Law which guarantees that foreigners and Mexican citizens will be treated equally under the law. Moreover, it decriminalizes undocumented immigration, reducing it to an administrative infraction.
Mexico is a country rich in tradition, history and culture. Unfortunately, Mexico has not been talked about for any of those descriptions I mentioned above lately. Mexico has become a country full of death and violence. The Mexican government has been fighting a war with drug traffickers since December 2006. At the same time, drug cartels have fought each other for control of territory. More than 60,000 people have been killed (CNN). Despite the “war” launched at these multi-billion dollar organized crime groups, Mexico has not been able to stop its slide as a failed state. Almost every day there seems to be either dead bodies lying on the ground, a school closed due to vandalism, disappeared people, or bullet-riddled houses and cars. Sadly, there is not much the citizens of Mexico can do to ask for justice and change to the mess they are living in right now. So who is to blame for all of this? The Mexican drug cartels have completely taken over Mexico. They have become powerful through corruption and violence. The cartels use their power to intimidate and even murder anyone who tries to get in their way. They do not have a problem with decapitating heads in order to make a statement. The drug cartels also use their money to gain power. Given the amount of money they have, the cartels have millions of dollars invested in keeping authorities off their business. They can be very effective in bribing government officials at all levels, from border patrol just patrolling the border to state and high ranking federal officials. Given the resources they have, they can reach out and kill government officials at all levels. Since government officials are faced with bribes and or certain death, even the most unbreakable are caut...
On August 16, 1984 an international conference regarding population was held in Mexico City. It was at this conference that the Reagan Administration implemented the “Mexico City Policy”, also known and the Global Gag Rule. This policy stated that Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) would be prohibited from receiving United States funds if they performed, promoted, referred or counseled patients on abortion. The funds would be withheld from the NGOs even if the money used for abortion services were non-U.S. funds. This policy was in effect from 1984-1993 when president Bill Clinton came into office. On January 22, 2001 president George Bush reinstated the Mexico City Policy. There has been much debate over whether the policy is helping or hurting those abroad. Many people in the United States are not aware that the Mexico City Policy is in effect, or even what it is. It is very important that people here are aware of how the government is controlling health care and women’s rights in other countries.
In today’s world, the Aztec’s subside in the vicinity of Mexico City. There are over 1 million people. This is considered the biggest aboriginal group in Mexico. Aztec-Nahuatl is the language that is still used today. The main religion is a mix of Aztec and Roman Catholicism.
The economy of Mexico is vastly diverse, much like that of the United States. Mexico has many different sources of economic revenue including tourism, oil, agriculture, and the automobile industry. The USDS website reports the percentage breakdown of Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP), with the largest portion (61%) coming from the service sector. The site defines the service sector as commerce and tourism, financial services, transportation and communications. In 2010, Mexico attracted 21.3 million tourists, making it the 10th most visited destination in the world. The remaining portion of GDP is broken down between industry and agriculture. Industry accounts for (31%) of GDP and is defined as a combination of food and beverage, tobacco, chemicals, iron and steel, and others. The remaining 5% of GDP comes from agriculture, with the top three crops being corn, wheat, and soybeans. Mexico also has a variety of natural resources including petroleum, silver, copper, and gold, which is included under...
Mexico is boarded by the United States of America, Belize and Guatemala. Mexico has a very diverse landscape of mountains, plateaus, deserts, tropical jungles, and even beautiful Palm beaches. With its diverse climate, Mexico also has a diverse population of plants. In desert areas, the most common plants that are found include cac...
Honduras is a country in Central America suffering from various human rights violations. People living in Honduras are being killed by military and police forces, they are not given a proper justice system, and their president does nothing about these problems. Honduras has close to no government. The people living in Honduras are allowed to do anything they want and get away with it, while nothing seems to be getting done to stop this problem. This creates very dangerous living conditions for every person living in Honduras. You cannot have a society without any rules and expect anything to go smoothly. We should care about the issues that are going on in Honduras because it currently is a society that is unable to develop or make the most of any advantages which could be offered to them without a president caring or a government helping. People of Honduras are not protected from the violence and danger that happens, while the police and military are the ones killing instead of protecting Honduras’s citizens, like they should be doing. Hondurans are not given the right to be legally protected which is the lack of Honduras’s justice system. Honduras is in trouble.
A revolution occurs when a need for drastic change is necessary to alter ones way of living. The change they are fighting for would end up to be a positive impact once victory prevails, but of course with every battle there are disagreements and violent quarrels. Revolution may seem to be a negative connotation, but there are always two sides to every story. Just like many other countries around the world a Latin American country called Mexico went through a revolution of their own. Although the Mexican Revolution was mainly fought for the distribution of land, it opened a gateway for the women. One of their main issues during the Mexican revolution dealt with women and their struggled determination for equality. Having many roles in society with restrictions placed upon them, an urge for mobilization, and a wonderfully strong woman role model named Hermila Galindo, it gave them all a reason for the extra push they needed for the change they wanted for the future. Being able to finally put their voice in action the women of Mexico fought proudly for what they believed was right.
Haiti was once an economic power when France held claim to the Eastern Part of Hispaniola, then named St. Domingue. It was a French colony flourishing with coffee and sugar. Eventually the ideals of the French Revolution - Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity - made its way to the colonies resulting in a revolution. Haiti was the first slave-led revolution and declared its independence as a republic on January 1, 1804. After their declaration of independence, things started to make a turn for the worst. In 1934 the U.S. forces occupied Haiti to establish stability. The U.S. appointed heads of state but the real power was present in the U.S. occupiers, whereas the heads of state are just figureheads. Haiti’s economy dwindled further down when France demanded reparations of 150 million francs, which wasn’t paid off until 1947. In 65 years, Haiti had 22 heads of state.” In 1957 Francois Duvalier is elected president. He later “creates a totalitarian dictatorship and in 1964 declares himself president-for-life.” This is where Haiti’s political instability really begins.
Human Trafficking in Mexico Slavery has occurred for the past hundreds of years, it’s still occurring in the 21st century. The name that people have for slavery in modern day is human trafficking; it is one of the top crimes in Mexico. Not only are the people that are being trafficked victims, the families of these people will never see each other again. Trafficking in Mexico has become popular with the drug cartels and they are starting to rely on trafficking as their main source of income, such as the Zetas. These problems have caused pain for many in Mexico and even in the U.S. because of the shared border and some U.S. citizens have lost some of their loved ones because of the trafficking, this is the reason that the U.S. should get involved and help Mexico.
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be given an opportunity to do business in Mexico, one must understand where to start and how to deal with a totally different social and cultural environment from what one is accustomed to. To succeed in making a good first impression and to carry out any type of business transaction, it is important to understand what these differences are.
The Mexican Drug war has been going on since 2001 and has changed peoples views on Mexico as a country. It has been defined by Wikipedia as “an ongoing armed conflict between rival drug cartels fighting each other for regional control and against the Mexican government forces and civilian vigilante groups”. There are different cartels all fighting for businesses smuggling drugs into the USA. This is a major problem for Mexico and the US and if they don’t do something to prevent it continuing the lives of innocent civilians and tourists will be put in jeopardy.
The capital city of New Mexico is Santa Fe. New Mexico has a nickname called “Land of Enchantment” that adorns license plates to promote New Mexico. New Mexico is the southeast corner of the four corners and it has a population of 2,000,000 and