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Mutual Benefits: The Path to Sustainable Governance
Written by Kapell
“There are men who fight one day and they are good, men who fight one year and they are better, men who fight many years and they are really great, but there are men that fight their entire lives, those are the essentials.” – Bertolt Brecht, German Poet The days […]
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Kapell
Mexican internationalist from ITAM and current Information Management graduate student at the University of Washington (Fulbright and Conacyt scholarships). Half time consultant for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Competitive Intelligence Unit (CIU) as well as blogger for the Future Challenges international network. @Kapellmann
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Unhealthy Healthcare
Written by Kapell
The Mexican healthcare system suffers from a peculiar disease best known as financial dysfunction. Its main symptoms consist of a constantly growing number of users contrasted with revenue insufficient to cover all of the growing needs. It thus disables the effectiveness of existing institutions and risks metastasis to the most […]
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Mexico and the 2008 Financial Crisis, from Flu to Pneumonia
Written by Kapell
In early 2008 preceding the American economic crisis, former Mexican Treasury Secretary Agustín Carstens stated that the effects of such a recession on the Mexican economy would be “a simple flu rather than a pneumonia.” It only took a few months to prove how wrong he was. The deep interconnection […]
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El lado oscuro del TLCAN: una historia sobre el campesinado en México
Written by Kapell
Abstract: In spite of the enormous commercial benefits brought by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), millions of Mexican farmers have been forced to withdraw from the market as an effect of poorly regulated liberalization and national agricultural policies. Small Mexican producers lack the necessary resources to compete against […]
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Cultural Aggressiveness and Mexico´s War on Drugs
Written by Kapell
In October 2012, the Canadian journal La Presse published “Sans son arme, un Américain se croit en danger au Canada”, a peculiar story about an American policeman and his wife who vacationed in Canada but complained about the strong Canadian restrictions on carrying weapons. The sarcastically written article told the […]
