Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • Unhealthy Healthcare

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    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 […]

  • Bird Flu crossing borders: Migratory birds' flyways. UN FAO/OIE. CC BY 2.0.

    At Risk of the Flu

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    “Only a crisis- actual or perceived- produces real change”- Milton Friedman In September 2011, Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre stood at a scientific conference in Malta and announced that he had created a mutated strain of Avian Influenza that could be the deadliest contagious disease in history. Concurrently, […]

  • Mexico and the 2008 Financial Crisis, from Flu to Pneumonia

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    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 […]

  • El lado oscuro del TLCAN: una historia sobre el campesinado en México

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    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 […]

  • Unemployment in Catalonia has increased 5% since October 2011 (Elmundo.es)

    Spanish Youth Look for Jobs in Mexico

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    The youth unemployment situation in Spain is disturbing: more than 50% of young people (between 18 and 30 years old) are unemployed. This has caused a strong immigration wave of Spanish youth to Latin American countries, especially Brazil and Mexico. During the first half of 2012, the number of Spanish who were […]