...El Salvador is a very colorful and unique country. What makes El Salvador different is the way that it is able to still function with high crime rates and an economy struggling with poverty. The government of El Salvador wants to make improvements in order to evolve but there are a lot of problems holding it back. Salvadoran politicians are exploring many ways to save the country but some could cause even more harm. Principle among these is gold mining. El Salvador has vast deposits of gold in their soil. However, in March of 2017 “Lawmakers in El Salvador voted overwhelmingly ...to prohibit all mining for gold and other metals, making the country the first in the world to impose a nationwide ban on metal mining” (NYT Anti Gold). So the question is, should El Salvador consider gold mining as an improvement that could help the country or would it just create more problems. El Salvador's land is very rich with minerals that may be harder to find in other places. A big part of the economy for decades had been mining of those minerals, mainly tin. This process had worked for a long time until tons of the miners got laid off. These miners were laid off because all the metals were disappearing, so they had nothing left to mine. Since a huge part of the population was in the mining industry now they are all unemployed and are searching...
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...Hochschule für Wirtschafts-, Rechtsund Sozialwissenschaften sowie Internationale Beziehungen Monetary Economics Outsourcing Monetary Policy An essay by the example of El Salvador and Montenegro Marisa Wenk (11-608-387) Charlene (Yi Hsuan) Jung (13-602-693) Vincenz Jahn (09-610-734) Prof. Dr. Carlo Strub 19. Dezember 2013 Table of Content 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 1 2.1 Background..................................................................................................................................... 2 2.2 Benefits ........................................................................................................................................... 2 2.2.1 Stability.................................................................................................................................... 2 2.2.2 Lower risk premia.................................................................................................................... 3 2.2.3 Eliminating the transactional costs .......................................................................................... 3 2.2.4 Domestic financial development ............................................................................................. 3 2.2.5 Better economic compatibility ...................................................................................................
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...paper on time. With these goals I hope to get a better grade. I have many challenges when I write. My biggest challenges when writing for others is trying not to have many grammars and spelling errors, but I always do. Another challenge I have is that I don’t know if I’m getting through to my audience or not. I’m also always concerned if I’m giving enough information to the person I’m writing to, in other words being informative. And my biggest challenge might be that the audience can’t hear my voice. I hope that someday I can overcome these challenges. I plan to use my writing in all the aspects of my life, like for my university career, in my professional and personal life. For my university career I plan to use it to write better essays and get better grades, I also plan to use it to write e-mails to my teachers. Professionally I don’t think I’m going to use...
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...Kentucky Fried Chicken Strategic Plan-Part One Jeanette Cortez, Autumn Crowther, James Hopper Fernando Manaloto, Joe Newkirk, and Rita Salem International Strategic Planning and Implementation STR/GM 581 March 31, 2011 Dr. Tim Becker, MBA Introduction Kentucky Fried Chicken has been established as a franchise in Latin America and the focus of this plan will be the El Salvador franchise. The strategic management process is vital and a well laid out plan is necessary. Consequently, by evaluating the background of KFC, the outcome should lead to a clear mission and vision statement outlining the purpose and goals of the company. Also, the mission and vision will keep all shareholders informed of the objectives that should be met by KFC. “Defining the company mission is one of the most often slighted tasks in strategic management” (Pearce II & Robinson Jr., 2009, p. 42). A mission lays out the organization’s goals and basically specifies the purpose of the organization. Decisions and strategies can be established after environmental scanning is done along with a Situational Analysis (SWOT). The strategic process also involves frequently assessing the industry structure and choosing strategic plan options that help expand global operations. The two chosen strategic options that will be discussed will be product differentiation and cost leadership. This plan should give clarity on how the options and recommendations fit with both the competitive situation...
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...The Fall of the Mayan Empire Naomi M. Cranfield Prof. Hunsucker Hum 111 February 2, 2013 The Maya civilization was several independent city states which shared a cultural heritage of language, customs, dress, artistic style and material culture. They were located in the Central American continent, to include parts of Belize, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It was an area of approximately 150,000 square miles. Some of the better known city states were Tikal, Calakmul, Caracol and Dos Pilas. There were several strong kings at those locations, but none of them ever truly conquered the others. The city states traded with one another, and they also warred with one another from time to time. The population has been estimated to have been millions. In the 1600s, the Spanish reported that there were approximately 600,000 people living in the Yucatan peninsula alone. Each of the larger cities probably had populations in excess of 100,000. That doesn't count the rural sectors that supported the larger cities. But what happened to such a large culture that they seemed to have disappeared in such a short span of time? There have been so many concepts as to why the Maya civilization fell, but one of the more interesting and in my opinion more plausible beliefs has to do with a severe change in climate. ("The rise and," 2004) “Tom Sever, NASA's only archeologist, has been using satellites to examine the Mayan ruins. Combining those data with conventional down-in-the-dirt...
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...8 años en el mercado desde hace 8 años 1998 via trading CEMEX started operations 12 years ago in El Salvador market via trading (importing cement from Mexico) from its plant in Merida, Yucatan. The El Salvador market was a potential market with only one competitor, Cementos del Salvador, which eventually was acquired by Holcim ( Second world largest cement producer). This market was worth annually 100 million dollars and only one company was supplying cement in this country. During these first years, CEMEX provided cement from Mexico by sea and train maintaining its presence in the market which represented about 6% of market. Holcim keeps the leadership with 90% of the market. In the beginning CEMEX started operations building 3 warehouses and administrative offices managed by Mexican employees having the additional responsibility of implementing the CEMEX Way. In this time CEMEX sold directly to the end customers without using dealers. This business structure made company costs higher than its competitor. By the year 2000 it analyzed the option to find dealers responsible of distributing its cement using their warehouses. CEMEX infrastructure was sold to a selected dealer (CME). At the same time given some imposed taxes to cement imports, CEMEX changed it shipment from Mexico to Nicaragua.CME started selling cement under this model unsuccessfully for the 3 following years. This was caused mainly the quality of cement produced in Nicaragua which did not fill...
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...Disadvantages of International Trade : The Global market has made it easy to buy and sell international goods. While this has benefits, it also presents a problem. Such trade can cause countries to be prosperous for a short time, but leads to economic exploitation, loss of cultural identity, and even physical harm. Support of Non-Democratic Systems Great hardship can be caused when people make poor decisions about land use or surplus production for export and do not take the general population’s welfare into consideration. For example: Landowners in Nicaragua and El Salvador want farmers to grow coffee beans because it is a very profitable cash crop, however, the farmers would like to use the land to grow more food for their families. The farmer’s wishes are ignored because they do not actually own the land. Cultural Identity Issues Culture is a major export in the world. It displays and promotes values and lifestyles worldwide. The "culture consumer" in other countries is sometimes overwhelmed by American ideas. Products also carry cultural ideas and messages. There are values of the culture the make the product. For example: Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Nike, and Microsoft all sell products that symbolize American values and symbolize and reflect American corporate culture. Social Welfare Issues: Maintaining safety standards, minimum wages, worker’s compensation and Health benefits are all social welfare issues that cost business money. If a running...
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...immigrants from El Salvador that were deported from the United States. [1] To be clear, the program isn’t incidentally helping deportees—it is directly intended to assist them. The program, which is administered by the non-profit Instituto Salvadorno Del Migrante (INSMI – translated to Institute of Salvadorian Migrants) and funded through a $50,000 grant from the taxpayer-backed Inter-American Foundation, “will further develop a network of returned migrants, including deportees, facilitate reintegration into their communities and support their enterprises by offering financial education, technical advice and assistance with business plans.” [2] So, if you break the rules and get deported, we’ll help you start a business back in your home country. How absurd. It seems that the justification for this program is that returning deportees often have trouble getting business loans. INSAMI director Cesar Rios was quoted saying, “[t]he mistaken reasoning of bankers is that if they lend a deportee [$]10,000, tomorrow morning he’ll be in New York because he’ll use the money to pay for a new trip.” [3] Mistaken reasoning? With a cost of $4,000 to $10,000 per person to hire a smuggler to get someone into the U.S. illegally (as part of a $6.6 billion industry) Salvadorian banks may have a reasonable fear that their money will not actually go into a business. [4] This fear is particularly valid considering the individuals in question have already demonstrably left El Salvador seeking...
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...Abby Salinas Professor Ruiz LAST 1020 18 February 2016 Fools Without Borders: A Conversation in Transnational Identity Politics Sin Nombre confronts its viewers with more than the harsh realities of crime and violence in Latin America. Cary Fukunaga intertwines the lives of Sayra – a young Honduran immigrant looking to reach the United States – and Willy – a Mexican gangster whose cognitive understanding of community has shattered and turned into his worst nightmare. The result is a potent exposition of the effects of globalization on transnational interactions, community identity, and urban space. Paired with Zilberg’s ethnographic study of Maras and Marreros across borders, Sin Nombre suggests that forced trans-nationality and the associated evolution of multifaceted identity politics are propelling modern society away from an identification of individuals based on nationality (where they live) and instead by Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities (who and what they live with). The characters presented in both the movie and Zilberg’s study represent threats to their respective social orders and are therefore confronted with a forced separation from their communities and homes. Willy (the gangster in Sin Nombre) threatened the hierarchical structure of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) by killing his superior. His options were to attempt exile or to accept death. Weasel (a subject in Zilberg’s study), proved to hold a disregard for American laws by ending up in...
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...* Summary SWOT table and Analysis * Given these market and industry forces, how would you evaluate or re-evaluate your business model and value propositions? http://web.b.ebscohost.com.mutex.gmu.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=b4bf4397-4147-42d5-b90d-6f4ce0278599%40sessionmgr110&vid=1&hid=115 SWOT table and Analysis Strengths * Strong reputation and perceived value among customers * Innovative culture * Convenient products * Different variations in product | Weaknesses * Product recall instances * Rise in input costs * Tough competition | Opportunities * Innovation * Growing demand for health and wellness products * Changing lifestyles * Global expansion | Threats * Competitors * Possible high costs of market entry * Growth of private label products * Increased trend in dining out * Consumer’s health concerns | Kraft Foods has strong reputation and delivers value added experiences and products to consumers. Customer loyalty is especially important to Kraft. When given a choice, Kraft makes sure consumers are using their products. With a variety of choices for the product, consumers become loyal customers and therefore, build strong relationships with Kraft. Resources and value-adding activities need to continuously be improved and updated to further maintain market share. The growing demand for health and wellness products is a threat, but also an opportunity to launch new products. Kraft will need to adapt to the...
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...King was a Baptist- Christian How they used Religion to make change? King was a deeply spiritual man. Much, if not most, of the theory behind his activism emanated from his religious beliefs. Christianity, to King, is “a spirit of brotherhood made manifest in social ethics.”2 In essence, we are all equal and we all deserve equally. He worked towards equality and Organising non-violent protests and marches. He believed that it's never correct to use violence because it is not God's will and only expresses anger and hatred. Oscar Romero What was there religious belief? Spanish Catholic Archbishop How they used Religion to make change? During civil unrest in El Salvador in the late 1970's Oscar Romero used his voice of power in the Church and in the country to speak up for the peasants of El Salvador who were being oppressed. When prominent political figures in the country told him to be quiet and to stop speaking out against these injustices, he refused, often putting his own body in between his people and their perpetrators. His defence of the Salvadoran people was very effective in protecting them from the senseless violence and oppression by the Salvadoran government. Oscar Romero was a down to earth person who had a deep compassion and love for his people. This love for them led him to continually put his life and job on the line for those who did not have a...
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... 356-76 del 19 de Julio de 1976. Luego en 1981 se emite el Decreto No. 37 del 20 de Diciembre, estableciendo el “Régimen de Importación Temporal”. Pero es la emisión de los Decretos No. 37-87 del 7 de Abril de 1987 que constituye la ley de “Zonas Industriales de Procedimiento para la Exportación” y el No. 787 del 9 de Julio de 1979, que extiende los beneficios de la Ley Constitutiva de la Zona Libre de Puerto Cortés a los municipios de Amapala, Tela, Choloma, Omoa y La Ceiba, los que propician el punto de arranque y despegue de la industria maquiladora en Honduras. Asimismo el 20 de Mayo de 1998 se publica en el Diario Oficial “La Gaceta” el Decreto No. 131-98, que en sus artículos 17, 18 y 19, extiende los beneficios y las disposiciones de la “Ley Constitutiva de la Zona Libre de Puerto Cortés” a todo el territorio nacional, cambiando su denominación por “Ley de Zonas Libres”, cuyo reglamento se establece en el Acuerdo No. 81-1999, publicado en “La Gaceta” el 29 de Julio de 1999. Los resultados positivos obtenidos por los países del Medio Oriente (Corea, Taiwán, Hong Kong, etc) motivó a los países latinoamericanos a emitir leyes que promovieran las inversiones en la industria de la maquila, originándose una competencia internacional para atraer inversiones extranjeras, a base de otorgar las mejores facilidades y los mayores beneficios. La Asociación Hondureña de Maquiladores fue fundada el 29 de octubre de 1991, como institución privada, apolítica...
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...Mario E. Mosquera, 86, was called to be with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on December 22nd, 2017 peacefully at home. He was the loving husband of Ibraimma Mosquera and they would have celebrated their 25th Silver Anniversary in just a few months. Mario was born on July 20th, 1931 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was the youngest son of Jaime (father) and Juana (mother) Mosquera. While growing up, he endured many childhood illnesses however it was his incredibly strong will and everlasting faith in God that helped him during these feeble years. He attended school in Uruguay where he learned and perfected his trade of aircraft mechanics. This was not just a momentary hobby for young Mario but something he loved so much, he decided to pursue...
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...“ I beseech you, I beg of you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression”-Oscar Romero El Salvador is a country plagued with gangs and poverty due to overpopulation. This is a country that has been in a constant struggle to maintain a stable government ever since their civil war from 1980-1992. It has been a constant struggle for El salvador to deal with old issues from that dark time and new ones that are arising because of it.. Gangs have taken over the small country of El Salvador and poverty continues to be a problem for the civilians. Even after the Civil War, El Salvador is recovering slowly from the destruction left from the war.The inequality of social classes, poverty,and military rule led Salvadorans to revolt against their own government. El salvador’s downfall first began in 1932, when the Central American Socialist Party was created. The peasants replied with...
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...5. Unfortunately, as much as the united states enjoys displaying its imperialism at El Salvador, it does not treat those running away from issues plaguing their nation to have an asylum here. According to U.S Immigration and Naturalization Services, about 2.1% of Salvadorians were approved to stay in the United States as political asylums (Dassanowsky, 2000, p.1536). Even so, the current administration has decided to end the TPS which puts several Salvadorians at risk for deportation soon (“Mother, ‘I have,” 2018). Then, similarly to other Latinx communities all over the nation, Salvadorians also become mixed up with Mexicans leading to several stereotypes against Mexicans being projected onto them simply because they speak Spanish as well (Dassanowsky, 2000, p. 1538). 6. Sadly, the political factor really hinders the Salvadorian community into adaptation into the US. This is because several are here as Asylums or entered the nation illegally so if they were to return to El Salvador, then they would not be able to go back to the USA (Dassanowsky, 2000, p.1538). There are current family...
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