“Treasure your life, love your family”, was the chant heard from 20,000 Foxconn employees in Mammoth Industrial Park, Shenzhen, China on August 18, 2010. The anti-suicide rally was held to boost morale for employees and improve the company’s image after burgeoning suicide rates raised questions about the manufacturer’s working conditions. As the single largest private [...]
In a previous article, I linked to a federal report showing that the majority of guns used by Mexican drug cartels south of the border are sourced not in Mexico but in our very own United States. According to the report and an [...]
An interesting development in Mexican Politics, as Mexico’s main opposition party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as PRI, has won a critical statewide election by an insurmountable margin. The PRI is building political power to hopefully challenge the existing conservatives and win the presidential seat in the upcoming 2012 Mexican Presidential elections. PRI has been [...]
A report released today by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) concludes American firearms are arming Mexico’s brutal drug trafficking organizations at an alarming rate.According to the report, issued with data sourced by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives (ATF), the vast majority of weapons traced by [...]