Activists struggle to loosen
gun laws in Mexico
Some people argue that loosening
the gun laws in Mexico is needed to secure own safety regarding Mexico's
unsecure situation, but government denied the argument about regulation in gun
laws. Unlike the US, where serious crime from gun is not really frequent, Mexican
think gun law should allow the access of common people, because Mexico is
plagued by mafia and normal citizens always have to worry about sudden threatening
with guns. Considering Mexico's reality that criminals are well-armed and
law-abiding citizen has limitation for arming self-defense weapons, lots of
people in Mexico insist that regulation of gun laws is absurd. Furthermore, because
model of the guns which can be purchased legally is limited in Mexico, it
caused that illegal weapon traffickers have flourished between US and Mexico
after the explosion of drug cartel violence. Therefore, government should
consider weakening of gun laws and give proper opportunity to citizens of
Mexico to defense themselves.
After I read only the title of
this article, I thought it was absurd argument. However, after I read whole
article, it seems comprehensible that why some activists claim that gun laws
should be loosened. In my opinion, gun possession for normal citizens who are
not policeman or soldier should be banned, but Mexico has except situation
plagued with armed mafia. It is absurd that government regulates citizens’ self-defense
guns that all the criminal or cartels already have by smuggling. I think Mexico
government should make new laws to loosen the stifling bureaucracy for normal
people who want to get armed only for self-defense.
Miroff, Nick. "Activists struggle to loosen gun laws in Mexico".
The Washington Post. 04 July 2014.
Web. 06 July 2014
For more information, http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/activists-struggle-to-loosen-gun-laws-in-mexico/2014/07/03/d9e03b2c-fb9e-48a4-b752-5d3287dba0fd_story.html
BMW's $1 billion plant surfs
Mexican investment wave
The famous auto company, BMW,
will invest $1 billion in the Mexico for new plant, because of Mexico's
industrial base, tariff-free access to US market and low cost of labor. Mexico's
automobile industry is gaining potential growth from auto boom by competition
from other global car brands which opened production lines in Mexico and
boosted the supplier network. That competition of global company was caused by
Mexico's ideal location which is really close to US market. Furthermore, Mexico
has advantage for trading US, because tariff is free with trade in US and
Mexico. As Mexico has much lower labor cost than Germany which has BMW's major
plants, it can reduce the company's dependence on higher cost plants. For those
reasons, BMW choose Mexico for investment in new plants, and this investment
will be also beneficial to Mexico's level of production for global vehicles.
After I read this article, I think BMW’s new plants not only good choice
for BMW, but also affect Mexico in positive way, because it is also beneficial
to Mexico’s industry. US market is one of the biggest luxury car markets with
strong demands, and Mexico has geological benefits and tax advantage related to
US market. Because of this reason, Mexico car industry has become active by
other foreign car companies entering the Mexico and this trend helped to make
fundamental infrastructure for car industry. It will increase the job
opportunities in car plants and productivity of whole country. Luxury car
brands’ huge investment also gives positive image to Mexico, because increase
of premium manufacturers relate to positive signature of economy of Mexico. For
those reasons, I think Mexico will be given great benefits from BMW’s investment
for car plants.
Alper, Alexandra. "BMW's $1 billion plant surfs Mexican investment
wave". Reuters. 03 July 2014. Web. 04 July 2014
For more information, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/03/us-bmw-mexico-plant-idUSKBN0F82B220140703
The worst massacres and mass graves in Mexico’s drug war
Because of drug wars in Mexico, many people, usually over the 50 peoples,
were killed and buried without any signs of identification in several rural areas.
Since 2010, series of consecutive massacres have occurred in Mexico because of drug
wars of the cartel. Commonly, that kind of tragedy should be a big issue and
dominate the country's national news, but the latest tragedy gained only
limited attention. Since massacres related to drug wars have occurred frequently,
it did not become severe issue anymore in Mexico. Only the families of victims
try to search for disappeared body of their loved ones in mass grave, which consists
of victims from drug wars. Even drug wars in Mexico are getting severe and mass
graves are increasing, only people who really suffered from those tragedies are
common citizen of Mexico and they cannot get enough attention and resolutions
to solve those tragedies.
I heard that drug wars in Mexico are really severe, but I didn't know such
serious massacres occurred consecutively. I cannot believe those mass graves
are not rare in Mexico, and even it cannot become national issues. This fact
shows that a lot of people are in the dangerous situation in Mexico because of
drug wars and cartels. It was very sad that finding the body of victims is
hard, because there are too many graves to find dead body and even if they can
assume the place, victims’ corpses might already become hard to identify. It seems
that the most tragedy persons are common citizens who didn't engaged in the
drug war.
Grillo, Ioan. "The worst massacres and mass graves in Mexico’s drug
war". TucsonSentinel. 02 July 2014. Web. 06 July 2014
For more information, http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/070214_mx_mass_graves/the-worst-massacres-and-mass-graves-mexicos-drug-war/
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