TEC Suggests measures to curb violence

Tecnológico de Monterrey gave today the statement and suggestion to improve safety in México.

The principal of Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy (EGAP), Bernardo Gonzalez Arechiga said:

"We want both citizens and members of the Army and Navy operate under a reliable legal framework for the good of all. We want the soldiers and sailors involved in security operations and combating organized crime. We want the soldiers and sailors training and working conditions and their families have a broader social protection"

With this we can know that they are wishing that the military works harder and to go back to their traditional functiones to get rid of the insecurity we are living. It is really important that the government focus on this making a state policy against crime explaining or defining how to confront the problems of insecurity, drugs trafficking, weapons, weapons, etc. Don't you think that this has been a problem since years ago? now that something happened and that some other people died, young people, people started to care more about this or to think of how to solve it. It seams that something bad needs to happen so people start thinking about it.... what a shame!! we should be caring always! even if insecurity or crime zone is not near us, we should!

Bernardo Gonzalez Arechiga also said:

"The state public safety systems must be better managed and therefore should be evaluated as well as efficiency transparency and accountability."

And i totally agree with this statement. We need safety systems and protocols to be managed in a better way. To be evaluated differently so every problem can be atacked in the right way so this problem is solved.

The suggestion of Tecnologico de Monterrey is to support judicial reform and police to command in the states and to create a national police force.

What is going on?

What is going on in the world? We turn on the television and we see all kinds of disasters through all the entire world. We see earthquakes here and there. Is there any possiblities that the world is coming to its end? As we all know there are many predictions that the world as we know it will end in the year 2012. Maybe this is quite impossible, but all the disasters we are facing point to a soon apocalipse. We have many kinds of problems going on right now; we have the great deal with pollution,scarcity, global warming,crisis, end of petroleum, earthquakes, tsunamis and floodings going on till I don't know when. I'm scared, I used to think "It not going to happen to me", or "It is not happening in my lifetime", but know I'm thinking it is most possible that I'm going to live to see it. Our time to do something passed a long time ago, maybe it is just too late, we should be mad, and worried about all this.

Violence in México: A problem for the US

As violence inscreased on Mexico, fear increased for the United States. A proof of this fear is that the Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, sent a letter to the White House asking for more federal resources at the border to stop human trafficking, drug trafficking and weapons. In this letter, Brewer pointed out the roads and uninhabited places in Arizona that have become the main steps or roads for illegal immigration, drug and arms trafficking.

When Barack Obama read the letter, 250 National Guard troops were sent to the task of Force Joint Counter Narco-Terrorism. But the force, actually only has 150 soldiers and military pilots of the National Guard, so they are still waiting for the troops to come so they can star working on it.

Pernsoally i think Mexico should be doing something about it too, because the violence is coming from our country i think our national forces are not strict enough or the thing is that they are very corrupt. Felipe Calderón must start working harder on this, but not only him but everyone to make this country less corrupt and more peaceful! .. I know Hillary Clinton came to Mexico to talk about it, and this things must not be forgoten, we should start working on it!.

EU and Russia sign agreement on nuclear disarmament

When i read this new, i found it really interesting because the fact that Barack Obama is fighting for peace, or to make the world more peaceful is something we should be thanking a lot.

Today, April 8, the president of the US, Barack Obama and the president of Russia, Dimitri Medvedev, signed a new agreement a "historical" agreement: treaty START. This treaty has as purpose to reduce or to eliminate the nuclear weapons, which, as we know, can cause great damage in societies.

President Barack Obama thanked Dimitri Medvedev for his grood cooperation on the new commitment to nuclear disarmament. This treaty kind of obligates both parties (Russia & US) to reduce the amount of each of nuclear weapons within the next seven years from 2200 weapons to 1550.

Im not sure if this treaty will work as Barack Obama hopes, but the fact that there is someone that already did something about all this violence in the world, and the fact that people will start to worry more about this is something to be happy about. I hope other countries join this treaty so the world can become peaceful.

http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Internacional/08042010/440077.aspx

Sonora: The Alcohol Oasis .. ?

I was reading the news paper the other day, and I found this article called " Sonora el "oasis" del alcohol". I thougt this was a catchy title and decided to read all the article. It started saying that for every liter of milk that is consumed two of beer are too. This happens even with the theory that only people over 18 years can consume the alcoholic beverages.

In Sonora, alcohol is basicaly everywhere : in the little stores in every corner, in the supermarket, in the higways, near the offices, on our way to school, even in clandestine places!

In our state there are 2 394 861 persons, and the Secretaria de Hacienda del Estado has 6 639 valid permissions to sell alcohol in it. In any of the 72 municipalities of the state they could tell you they can not prepare you a plate because they do not have all of the ingredients, but never will they tell you that they have no beer.

For each 361 persons there is a business where you can buy any kind of alcoholic beverage that you like, go ahead and do the math ;) . Yes, our state is one of the principal alcohol consumers of the country , especially in beer.

Beer is so available ANYWHERE! Specially in rural zones, like the little towns all around our city, you might not find a school, a hospital, but oh wait! there are like three expendios!!

The Encuesta Nacional de Adicciones 2002 informed the state that 87% of the people of Sonora consumes alcohol in a variable frequency, when 32% does it in excess.

The consequences of living in this "oasis" of alcohol, does not limit on damaging the health of the people but also affect the public security, the peace in the homes and the person´s jobs. It is a factor that generates poverty since the Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso y Gasto en Hogares from INEGI revealed that 2.8% the family budget is used to buy alcohol.

I think that the people who drink are not only harming themselves but all the people around them, specially their families. Some people say that that is not true but it is! They harm the family in a direct or indirect way, being that the drunk person gets home so drunk that s/he could hurt one of the members of his/her family in many fatal ways; if s/he loses his/her job because of the alcohol, their family will be affected because they will have no money, there are A LOT of examples like this.

Going back to the milk example, did you know that 220 000 liters of milk are consumed, while 452 055 liters of beer are consumed daily? Or that 2 090 000 pesos are consumed on milk, while 7 232 880 pesos are spent on beer daily? Or that 762 850 000 pesos are spent on milk, while 2 640 001 200 on bear every year? Yep : I was surprised too ..

SPAIN

My partial project talks about Spain. The complete country name is "Kingdom of Spain" which capital is Madrid and as government they have something really different to what we have; they have a parlamentary monarchy. They have as king Juan Carlos I since November 22nd of 1975 and they have important ministers and people in the government that are part of the parlament and help to manage and monitoriate the way government is governed. Their law system is from December 29 of 1978.

It is really interesting their type of government because even when is really different to ours, it somehow works out, even when they have problems as every country they do have their good things. Even when they have their bad times, they have good ones and some of them made by the same people. Primer ministro, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has become an important man for Spain because he ordered to withdraw spanish troops from Iraq besides doing other good things.

Internet addiction killed a baby girl

Yesterday an interesting new was published. This sad new was about a corean baby girl that died of innutrition because her parents were internet addicts. Her parents were desemployed adults of 41 and 25 years old who played a virtual game named “Prius Online” for about 6 to 8 hours a day and didn’t give the enough attention and food to their daughter. This internet addiction took them to have a dead daughter and took them directly to jail.

With this article we can see what an addiction can do, the consequences of addictions, why should we avoid them and in the case of having an addiction the answer to “what should I do?” is: ASK FOR HELP!... to get attention and be able to get out of this addiction you have to first accept you have a problem and then ask for help so you can get through it without hurting so much yourself or other people.

We must be carful with the people you hang around because they may be bad people and it’s not good for you to hang around with people that can take you to an addiction or to do bad things.

Here is the link of the new

http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Internacional/06032010/433973.aspx

Economy "Growing"?

Last tuesday our president, Felipe Calderon, was at the inauguration of a golf course at Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit; while giving his speech, he said that our economy will grow 4-5%. In 2009, our country´s economy decreased for 6% because of the world´s economic crisis. He stated that the country is increasing quickly with the international market. He said that a proof of this was that 100 000 new jobs were recovered according to IMSS. Another proof was that our country´s "grade" of risk, was near Chile´s, the least of Latin America, meaning that our economy is one of the bests of Latin America?

Now, I was wondering: is this true? I would not believe it 100%, how will our economy grow if he just approved another raise on the gasoline´s price? Sure, HIS economy will grow! But what about us? We will have to spend MORE money on gasoline. I really don´t know what to think about this, I just think it is somewhat unfair, yes, if the price rises it means there is more supply right? But he thinks everybody can afford gasoline like if it was I don´t know, water? Besides, international organisms said that Mexico´s economy will grow only 1% this year. Shocking isn´t it? When I read this article, I went on and read the comments, 1 out of every 15 comments approximately was "positive" all the other people commented saying that he should quit lying. I know most of us say that we don´t care about economy, but it affects us directly simply with the fact that our parents can´t give us money or we think it is very few compared to what they gave us some years ago. I think that we will not progress if prices keep rising at this rate.. we need to work something out because this crisis is affecting us severly :..

Alcohol: a problem in our society.

Last night I was driving home, a car, driven by a drunk guy did not stop and almost crash me. Luckily, I stopped and I was able to get out of the problem. But, Why am I talking about this?... I think alcohol nowadays is a big problem in our society. People start drinking when they are like 11 years old and young people fall easier to an addiction, so, when they grow up, they become alcoholics. Specially here in México and in the north part of the country is where alcohol is consumed more and this is because of the hot weather.

In about 3 to 4 weeks, it will start the “cuaresma” time, and at this time, people from about 14 to 22 go to Kino and have “fun” drinking, as they call it. Hopefully this year things will be less dangerous because yesterday a new was published and it was about police trying to be stricter on this, and there will be more protection.

Personally, I think drinking alcohol is not necessary to have fun or as some people say “It is not necessary to have fun but it helps you to have a better time”. I think teenagers must be responsible and accept that they are not allowed to drink and that it is better if they do it that way because doing that save a lot of people from death.

¡THINK BEFORE DRINKING!

A World With No Scarcity? ..

This question was brought up at class by our teacher. I think that in a world with no scarcity technology would be used in a more proper way, we would not have any limitations on wealth and we would not need money! Yes, it does sound pretty cool and fun right? SURE! Who would not enjoy having no limitations on the wealth that today is centered on few people? Or that we do not need money because we lack of nothing? But also, I think that we would take LESS care of our world than what we do now that we DO have scarcity!

Though, I think that it is completely possible to get to have this wonderful world having a resource-based economy as Mr. Jaques Fresco refers to it! I did a little research on this topic and I found out that there is a project called: The Venus Project. This project wants to fight all the modern problems of our society, being crime, replacement of humans by technology, violence, the decline of Earth´s ecosystems, over-population, etc, etc .. by doing an active reseach, developement and application of the workable solutions at their research center located at Venus, Florida. Through the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives and the consistend application of the best that science and technology can give and offer to the social system directly. Also, it offers a plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium. For this project they used the ceteris paribus, which we saw in class! Check it out: http://www.thevenusproject.com/. I found it very interesting and it has a really good ideal of the world :)!

Violent videogames produce violent behavior

Have you heard? Scientifics have made some Studies that analizes the behavior of people that play violent videogames. Why am i talking about this? As this scientifics say, violent videogames make people have a violent behavior what a lot of times, takes them to comite a crime. According to some people, events like the student that killed other students in a High School (US), or like the one in China, are effects of the violent videogames.

Do violent videogames really change the way people act? I cant really tell...but what i can say is that i do believe that violent videogames change people somehow. I think people can become adicted to videogames and start to get away from society, what takes them to be more sensible to events around the. Maybe they can become more aggressive, as the scientists say. If they do, a lot of events can be explained by this, and if scientists start working more to discover this hypothesis, violent videogames can be prohibited and crime could dicrease.

http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyresources/a/vidgameviolence.htm

Drug dealing.

In the last year, drug dealing has increased a lot. The younge society is becoming more dependent and adicted to this substances, which is a social problem. In the past February 2nd , here in our city, hermosillo, a drug dealer who delivered drugs to homes, was arrested. He told the police in charged that every time he delivered a normal ration of drugs, he won 300 pesos. What does this means? That poor people, when they are desesperate to get some money, they resort to do this kind of things; it is easier to a poor man to became a drug dealer because important drug dealers look for people who really need to do it. How does it affect us? Of couse it affect us in a lot of ways. 60 % of the young people accept that they consumed drugs or try it even once. Drugs affects the way our body works, that is why consuming it can take you to comete another crime like killing. 80% of the car accidents are caused because of drunk people (alcohol is a drug).



We should becarful going out, because accidents can happen. Look around you and becarful with the people you are going out; if they are cosuming a drug, try to help in some way so people can stop cosuming this things.

World View of Global Warming

Nowadays, we are facing to a lot of climate changes. Natural desasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, melting of poles. Somepeople think that this is really normal or natural, but the truth is that we were the ones that make this events happen before. How? Well this is an easy question. All this problems comes from poplution, over population because if there is more people, there is the need for more jobs, and then more factories that produce CO2, besides that people buy cars that produce this kind of gasses that affects our ozone layer. That’s why we should help our world with three basic things:

Every citizen of the world needs to be aware of rapid climate change:
1. Understand the problem, its causes and threats.

2. Let your leaders know the facts and that you expect them to act.

3. Do something today to reduce greenhouse gas output -- please Take Action

So, what are you waiting for?...lets help our world.

We are running out of water

As we know, the scarcity of water in the world is a big problem, i’m going to focus on the one in Sonora. In the past years, this problem have become worst. More of 10 of the 72 municipalities of Sonora suffer of a extreme scarcity of water, what, in some way, changes the way people act. Since a long time ago, we’ve been digging wells to take out water from the subsoil, but we are running out of that water too.

As we are having problems with water, it is been control really well. That’s why “TANDEO” started. People is not conscious of the big problem we are having and they use it as if it is forever. That’s why I think that one of the solutiones and actions (the tandeos) it will have positive results because with this way of life, people it’s starting to realize that water is not forever and is taking care of it, trying to use less, to shower faster. What we need to save the planet is this kind of actions and actitud. We need this way of thinking, this way of living...looking foward to see a better world, to save the planet. What do we need? .. This way of life, of caring about our planet, should be taught to our generation and the ones coming.

Here is an interesting video about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvdvgpJKuM

Crime: A social problem

Nowadays, we are facing a lot of social problems here in México. All this problems are mostly an anwser to economic problems. The last years we’ve been living in a economic crisis, but, how does this takes us to have social problems?...This economic crisis changed the way people live. How?, a lot of people’s job were taken away, what made the family situation harder and crime, increased a lot.

I think that is normal that people who lost their jobs and are fighting to survive, attend to steal. I know, and I agree that nothing can excuse people to comete crimes, even when they are so desperate to get money somehow to buy food for his/her family. 95% of the crimes are reported, but the quantity is that big that the people in charge to take criminals off the society and put them in jail, can’t do all the job. This poverty takes society to another social problems like lack of education.

A guess we’ve all seen all the police cars going all around our city in high speed, searching for criminals and looking and fighting for a safe world. I actually can tell that my brother experienced something about this; he was walking back home from the supermarket , when a helicopter was flying above his head, he turned in a block, and the helicopter kept following him until he walked below a tree. This means that around us, we don’t know who but there are a lot of criminals, and police is searching for them in every corner of the city.

FIGHTING AGAINST CRIME.