Specific changes the law makes include Union fees; the workers union is no longer obligated to deduct fees from their workers. If fees are to be collected, the workers must pay the fees voluntarily (Arosemana)
The driving force behind passing the law is President Ricardo Martinelli, who came into power in 2009 as a conservative candidate, full of ideas for change and betterment for his people by "cutting crime and corruption." (Brockwehl) Since that time it has become increasingly clear to Panama, the United States and the United Nations that President Martinelli had no such plans for change or betterment
The cause of these disturbances is the new law that the Panamanian Assembly approved, called Law 30, or more aptly nicknamed "The Chorizo (Sausage) Law." To pass this law without public scrutiny, the National Assembly held three days of extraordinary meetings -- behind closed doors -- with no public hearing and closely guarded by the National Police (Joubert-Ceci)
Hopefully, Panamanian workers can figure out a way to bring national attention to this issue, in a similar way that Honduran workers have done with their situation, which is a conflict between factory garment workers and the Nike Corporation. In January 2009 to large factories owned by Nike closed abruptly, essentially firing 1,800 workers and conveniently forgetting to pay them their legal severance pay, which amounts to about $1,300 per person (Singer)
In Mexico, the 1999 pirate music market was worth $70 million, or 40% of all music sold, the agency reported." (Buckley, 2000) "For the first time in the format's history, CD sales are dropping globally
"EMI is really excited that Microsoft has provided a tool that makes it easier for music fans to move their music around and enjoy it anywhere," while at the same time preventing the music to be copied wholesale, said Jay Samit, senior vice president of EMI Recorded Music. (Chmielewski, 2003) Unfortunatley, this aspect of piracy and copy control is out of the hand of the Latin American countries
If 50% of the market is in the hands of pirates, it means we have 50% of the market to recuperate." (Cobo, 2000) Piracy has soared inLatin American countries, costing record companies close to U
If 50% of the market is in the hands of pirates, it means we have 50% of the market to recuperate." (Cobo, 2000) Piracy has soared inLatin American countries, costing record companies close to U
Sales in industrial countries like Japan, Germany and Canada took an average 9% hit, while those in developing nations such as Brazil and Poland -- drained by an epidemic of professionally pirated CDs -- fell as much as 28%." (Taylor, 2002) These numbers are the proof of what an average consumer, and a few determined pirates can do with a minimal amount of technical knowledge
The Andean Region -- Most Difficult Region One of the regions of Latin America that is the most difficult for the United States government to deal with is that of the Andean region due to the experienced patterns of "short-term success and long-term failure in tackling the drug problem." (Gamarra, 2005) It is reported that while there are common elements that the various regions and their differences "mean that a one-size-fits-all counter-drug policy is not only likely to fail, but may even exacerbate the problems in each country
However, in the United States, many equate the coca leaf with cocaine addiction and dangerous narcotics and belief it must be eliminated as part of the war on drugs." (Koops, 2009) In contrast, Bolivians perceive the zero coca policy of the United States to be a form of imperialism and an effort to dominate the culture of Bolivia
policy in order to provide "multi-faced aid and deemphasize counternarcotics efforts; (2) Providing support to political institutions and human rights groups and activities; (3) Provide support for economic and alternative development in these countries; (4) Provide increased diplomatic efforts supporting the peace process; (5) Add to the military and police assistance given these countries; (6) Return counternarcotics revenue to the Colombian national police; (7) Suspend or terminate the military assistance to these countries; or (8) Continue with current levels of support and current policy. (Serafino, 2001, paraphrased) It is the opinion of this study that none of these will individually provide an effective answer to dealing with the drug cartels and associated drug trade of Latin American countries but instead it is the position of this work in writing that it will require an ongoing commitment in many areas to assist these countries in combating illegal drug trade in Latin America
They were armed and were supported by the terrorists from other country. The MRTA has drawn much of its revolutionary inspiration and political ideology from Cuba and its long-time leader, Fidel Castro (Kent, 2005)
According to O'Connor, "It's a region of militant and lunatic extremism, right-wing death squads, military juntas, Communist heroes, organized crime, left-wing Marxists and Maoists, religious fanatics, and peasant wars (2006)." The most-watched countries are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela (O'Connor, 2006)
It has highly encouraged foreign direct investment which saw Brazil take up a significant 23.5% of all the direct foreign investment flowing into the Latin America and Caribbean areas in 2005 (Celio Hiratuka, 2008)
The fishery sector is also one that stands out in the region and even the world over. The Latin American countries are known to be the major exporters of fish and fisheries products catering for up to 11% of the world exports, Chile being the main exporter (FAO, 2011)
These are the states that are dependent lesser on the core states than the peripheral states. Their economies are more diversified and are composed of stronger states than the peripheral states (Frank Lenchner, 2001)
In the period between 1995 and 2000 there was a rapid decrease of banks as a result of integration, foreign participation increase and decrease in the financial intermediation cost in the Latin American region. The integration in Latin America was however a bit different from the developed countries where integration is mainly motivated by acquisitions and mergers; in the Latin American region consolidation was motivated by the economic stabilization and the liberalization of the financial services (Jose Carlos Wong Davila, 2011)
This theory emphasizes on ensuring that the participants in the globalization process become aware of the idea of living in the world as a single unit or entity. Compression of the world and the conscious view of the world as a single entity is the main focus in this theory (Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt, 2003)
Economic Geographies of Contemporary Brazil Economic geographies of contemporary Latin America (Brazil), using globalization theories Economic geography is defined as the branch of Geography that is concerned with the interrelations between the economic and the physical conditions to the production and distribution of the available commodities or resources (Merrriam Webster Incorporated, 2011)