The factories on the Mexican border with the USA have lots of illegal centralamerican immigrants working at them. When detected they have one year to produce a passport from any centralamerican country, with which they can start the process of becoming legal Mexican residents, all that without having to leave their jobs.

It will also make outsourcing your department much easier now that they can compare numbers.

I think what happens is that in an office environment you are needed for your capability of interacting with an increasingly educated population. And everybody wants those nice and confortable office jobs. Blue collar is becoming the province of the non-anglosaxon and the non-educated, and who wants to be there?

http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/the-chernobyl-death-toll-1000000-not-4000/

They used to say the same in Acapulco. Now just ask the hotel managers about ocupancy rates, ask discos personnel about heads being hurled into the dancing floor, ask the teachers about being asked for a 50% of their payroll (they know how much each of them makes) on threat of children being killed, ask...ok, you get the idea. Don't feel so confident about the relative safety of 2 of the 3 big Mexican cities, Mexico City and Guadalajara. Oh, by the way, the 3rd big city is Monterrey, home of the proudest industrial elite, now being overrunned by the organized crime. They used to proudly and despectively boast the same.

Exactly, in their controlled areas they have lots of forced look-outs "halcones" or "hawks", same within the companies. In the state of Tamaulipas for example, any independent contractor doing business with Pemex, the national oil company is threatened for a percentage of their contracts. And they always know exactly how much was the contract for. In the state of Michoacan they know who the avocado producers over a certain limit are, and they're all shaken down. In Acapulco, they threatened all the teachers making over a certain amount for the 50 % of their income, on threat of killing school children. You may be thinking, "where the fuck is your government?" They're an elitist-conservative party, backed up by the USA against popular and leftist candidate Lopez Obrador, and as international investigator Eduardo Buscaglia says, comparing Mexico's mafia against Russian,l Chinese, Colombian, Italia's , etc. they're not likely to take any meaningful action until the organized crime hits politicians or their families at the right level.

Very insightful. In fact, when they send a hitman and he misses his target, he has to kill a few bystanders in order to be forgiven.

They threatened to kill 10 innocent persons for every outed Zeta. After the massacre of San Fernando everybody knows they can carry out their threat.

http://www.excelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=780202 here's another one by a reputed Mexican newspaper. In several others it was also revealed that the released activist carried a message from the Zetas stating that if Anonymous outed any members, they would kill the activist's family plus 10 inocent persons for each Zeta outed to the media.

Very insightful. In fact, in the state of Michoacan they've already taken over the production of Avocado.

Legalizing drugs wouldn't fix the problem which has become now a social and economic one. As the video from international investigator Eduardo Buscaglia mentions, the drug cartels have expanded into 18-19 criminal activities as a source of income, one of which is the drug traffic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg20OkOA8Nc If you go to one of the states controlled by the organized crime (as in every business has to pay protection to the OC) you'll see how pervasive they are, thousands of young people are lining up to join them. It's has become a way to escape ever increasing poverty, inequality and marginalization caused by neoliberal economic policies that have made Mexican society implode during current president's Calderon government. Psychological studies of sicarios (hitmen) for the OC show they are relatively normal people reacting to a new economic environment. The new motto for those young people has become: better to live 5 years as a king than 50 as an ox, which rymes in Spanish. Actually, they're more likely to live one or two years. Still, many young people accept this certainty.

It would be interesting to compare high level managerÂs speech patterns against the results of this study...

In the future there will be docking stations everywhere, and you'll be able to plug your smartphone with all your work/entertainment/educative environment into any one of them.

This is not only about drug traffic anymore. These cartels are expanding into 23 different delictive activities (search for Eduardo Buscaglia's conferences and interviews in Youtube), and are now trying to control and enslave the whole population. At the Mexican/American border on the affected areas. city authorities live and work on the American side. In the big cities of the Northeast there is a stampede of rich people moving to the USA in what is called the "golden migration". This is the class of northern entrepreneurs that helped defeat the leftist candidate in 2006 presidential elections claiming his "little strange ideas were a danger to Mexico" with help from Spanish and American PR advisors. Under the new conservative government the economy imploded, hordes of young people have become part of organized crime, and the people that started the problem are running away from it leaving the underclasses to deal with it any way they can, as long as it doesn't mean electing a leftist government.

It's all a trap! What Nokia really wants is Open Source developers develop the new Nokia platform for free! Then they will come and pick the best. Now, how do you get developers in? Easy, taunt them with throwing Nokia in Microsoft's arms. Clever clever...