JUAREZ CARTELS AND FRIEDMAN

There was an article on Sunday February 28 on cnn saying that they captured the third member of the cartel Juarez involved in the shooting of 15 kids in Juarez earlier last month. The state of Juarez has always had problems with killings especially of young women but in The beginning of the year when president Calderon thought things were going to get better actually got worse. In a brutal massacre about 15 men came into a birthday and just started shooting everybody there was at least fifteen dead kids. People want to know why the police didn’t come to the rescue quicker and the answer there is because either there aren’t enough police to cover the shooting or they were too scared. The real reason is because the police were actually in on the shooting they got paid to kill but not the bad but the innocent. The media ask president Calderon about the assassination and he just answers saying that these kids were not just any kids that they were gangbangers or a term that he said “pandilleros”.
The ethical thing to do was to capture the criminals which is capture the policemen that were in on it and capture the government. But you need to start with the head of the organization which is the president. He covers up for the wrong doings of the cartels because he funds them. Friedman believes that the government should not play a role in what the people do. They should play a small role but hardly any. He believes in free market economy system. The cartels that is how they work they do their things legally or illegally. The majority of the stuff they do is illegal but the government has no say in what they do. The government has no say because they are in on it.
The problem here is with corruption how are they going to find a president who is not corrupt and is willing to run for office without getting death threats from the cartels. The answer is that there is no on because they all like to get paid their huge sums of money to keep their mouth shuts. So until there is someone who is man enough to stop the cartels and stop their free market economy then there will always be cartels.
Their free market economy starts off with their soaring sales in cocaine marihuana and other chemical drugs that they distribute to the U.S. they do not get charged taxes because they do not get caught. They also have businesses were they do not get taxed as long as the money they are making goes to the well being of the cartels then no one gets involved and no one gets mad. They use the money for legit businesses in any field the majority is in the automotive field like and also truckers.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/28/mexico.juarez.arrest/index.html

migrant workers and Marx

On Friday there was an article in the New York Times about a tree planting company who was not paying workers their correct wages. They were cheating their workers in wages and they were cheating them in their hours. A tree planting in Arkansas went to Mexico and Central America to hire workers on the worker visa program. These workers would come to the United States and they would work and make the minimum wage. They would use to send it back to their loved ones so that they could buy food and the other necessities for life. The companies would not pay these workers their correct wages so the workers started to complaint and then lawyers got involved and they took the case to court. Before court the company was trying to get in contact with some of the workers so that they could pay the worker off and he would testify against the other workers. But this was not able to be done so the company lost and they awarded the workers 2.75 Million Dollars.

When I read this article it made me remember the Harlan County film. The only difference is that in the Harlan county film they wanted better wages and a union so that they could have benefits and healthcare because the majority of the people were dying due to the harmful pollution. The workers in Arkansas were fighting because they wanted justice they wanted their money because it is the only way they could survive. The majority of these laborers come from very low income families or sometime no income families were the only thing there is to do is go hunt for their food or even steal so that they could provide foods for their family so that they will not watch them die. Marx says that when a person works he gets away from his family he gets to involved in his work that he forgets to eat and dies from starvation. Marx also that a person looses himself in his job that he doesn’t not even know who he is this Marx calls alienation. These workers leave their families in order to find a better life.

The majority of the workers in Mexico do not make the sufficient amount of money to support their families and buy their necessities. That is why they look for other resources they rather cross the border illegally in order to come to the Unites states and work as a laborer under false social security and name or they smuggle drugs or sell drug or even smuggle people. They do this to survive to help their families and to provide food for their families. The United States is filled with workers who are working illegally but if the immigrations laws would change then the migrant worker could work here legally. That will not happen because everyone is scared that the migrant workers will come in and take their jobs that is why the borders have not opened their doors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/13brfs-MIGRANTSWIN2_BRF.html

JOHN LOCKE AND DRUG CARTELS

In The April 15th issue of Stratfor global intelligence there was a report on Drug cartels and their affect on territories and lucrative drug trading routes. It tells accounts on how they get the drugs across the border what routes they use and what are their territories. They have various ways of how to move their products and make them reach their destination which is to the consumer. The cartels send things to different states in the U.S. were they have the people who sell it. Usually local street gangs are the distributors in every city. They distribute the drugs to the “tecato” which are known drug abusers. The tecato’s are the ones that make the cartels money. The cartels do not only make their money by selling drugs but they also are extortionist and kidnappers. They do kidnapping and make the families pay a high ransom to get their loved ones back. They also do a type of kidnapping that is called express kidnapping which they kidnap someone for about 2 days and they drain them for every penny that they have in the bank. Drug cartels have many ways of how to make money on poor individuals. The cartels smuggle all their drugs through different trading routes which one would be in Laredo. Laredo is the biggest port that houses millions of commerce a year. They have a good way of bringing their drugs in they send a cargo with three cars of about 60 kilos of drugs and they send a trailer filled with forty tons of drugs. This way the officers are checking out the cars that have all the drugs and there is only one officer looking at the trailers and he mostly lets all of them pass. Another way that they transport drugs is by bribing the officers. They use a method called Plata o plomo which would be you either take my money or take my bullets. Many of the police officers and border patrol agents are being paid off and that why 98 percent of the shipments are getting passed through the border and there is about two percent that get stopped.

The ethical issue here is a fight for territory. This fight for territory is between three cartels the Familia Michocana the gulf cartel that includes the Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel. The cartel of Baja California is also among one of the cartels that joins this fight but is slowly dismantling with the killings of several of its leaders this cartel is falling day by day. John Locke says that land is common because nature is the owner of land. When a person joins forces with the common then the land is theirs. These cartels are putting forth their energy and growing their crops. Does this make them theirs? In Locke’s theory yes it does. Is it ethical no it is not because in turn they are destroying the lives of thousands of people they are destroying families and killing others? They do not care the major thing for them is to hoard away their money and make their lucrative empire bigger then what it already is. These drug smugglers make 109 million dollars on a daily basis. This money goes to their empires and about 50 percent of it goes to paying off their hitmen cops and government officials.

Another ethical issue here pertains to their trading routes among the borders. They enter through either El Paso Laredo Nogales or Mexicali. The Laredo entry port is the biggest port because it is home to much commerce that enters the U.S. The drug cartels fight for these routes because they need these routes to send their drugs through to make money. If one cartel gets a hold of the border patrol agents of one of these entry ports then that agent may or may not let that cartel in or nay other one. But one that is crooked may let only one cartel pass and may catch the rest. The ways in which they know it’s their cartel is because they give these men passwords and these men let them go by their password. Are these routes theirs? John Locke would say yes because they are making the labor to get the trucks their and to pay off the border patrol agents. Is it ethical no because these cartels are making money by killing off innocent people with their drugs.

These cartels are dangerous and will do anything to get their drugs across the border. Mainly they will do anything to get their money and be powerful.


http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090415_when_mexican_drug_trade_hits_border
Movie-Documentray Drug Wars:Silver or Lead

Lehman Brothers

I recently attended a special speech given by the former vice president of the Joint equity and income division of the Lehman Brothers. The discussion was very interesting and educational. We learned about his life and about the collapse of the Lehman Brothers. He was born in Massachusetts in a poor part of the city. His parents divorced at a young age and he was on his own ever since. Since he grew up on his own and went to the poorest schools he decided he needed something better for himself. He went to school and graduated he did mediocre in his classes and was not at the top. He graduated from college and quickly started looking for a job on Wall Street. He did anything to get a job he applied many places and he even did the unthinkable and dresses up as a pizza delivery boy just to get through the door and get an interview. He tried at many places until he got his job with the Lehman brothers. He said one of the collapses with the Lehman brothers was the managing of the firm. The managing was one of where the CEO Mr. Fold had no communication with none of the worker he had about 17 seconds to talk to his workers and that’s it. He had his own elevator so that he would not bump into one of the workers and they would give him ideas while they were in the elevator. He was a man that kept much to himself. He had a style that was from the old ages he clearly did not know anything about 21st century management procedures.

ARISTOTLE

On December of 2009 in the international rights forum there was an article on how men have been hit hard by the economic crisis in Hong Kong. This means that their wives or the women of Hong Kong have to go out and look for jobs. Women are treated worse than men and they work harder and they get paid less. There is about twice as many women than men in Hong Kong and they work under the harshest conditions they get paid way less than the men. They also get discriminated against in various ways. They get fired if they become pregnant and if they try to file a complaint against being fired the company usually beat their case because the women can’t provide proof of being mistreated. When a women becomes pregnant and is working in a factory and she does not want to quit they usually push her to quit by giving her more hours and making her work in an unsafe environment were its too hot or the achiness that person is using are old and are about to break down somewhere she is more likely to become injured that way she could see that she has to quit or endanger her Childs live.

The ethical issue is the following are these conditions that the women are in considered to being in slavery conditions? Are they just normal work conditions that are approved by their country or by The United States? The problem that the U.S. has no say on what goes on in Hong Kong they work on their own problems with their own government. The Hong Kong government does not see anything wrong with this picture the women are there and their working and they are making them money that’s all they see. When the truth is that they are working like slaves they work extended hours at a pay that is less then minimum wage. They work in unsafe enviorments and they could be killed with the fumes that the factories let out. So is this slave work yes it is. Aristotle says that a person” is naturally a slave and a master is naturally a master.” He also says that it is only right to have slaves under certain conditions. He regards slaves as “living tools that produce something for their masters”. These women who are working in Hong Kong are what Aristotle calls “living tools”. There are living slaves.

This problem is not just found in Hong Kong its found all over In China in Mexico there is women who also work in harsh conditions and do not get paid well . The women in Mexico have to go to Juarez and work in horrible conditions and get paid not as much as the men for doing twice the labor. They also have to worry about being killed or abused or even kidnapped on the way home from work. These aren’t good working or living conditions. This happens in all industries in corporations as well. Take a company like Wal-Mart for example they employ hundreds of thousands of workers. These workers are not working under the best conditions either. Their vendors have to meet the requirements for Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart puts their own prices on the things they buy if the vendor cannot meet with the Wal-Mart requirement they lose that business and millions of dollars. Wal-Mart is not the only company that does this. Every company that have globalized has done or are doing this. Would you say these people are slaves off course they are.

Refernces-http://www.laborrights.org/rights-for-working-women/news/12231-For Article

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