Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Drug-related Violence in Mexico

picture credits: Google

Mexico used to be the pioneer among Latin America’s countries in human and natural resources years ago. That condition has started to change when Vicente Fox took his duty as a president of Mexico and Felipe Calderon’s government who could not do any changing condition came afterward. There was load of social problems approaching Mexico, such as: poverty, unemployment, violence, and the world-famous-one drug trafficking. Some researches said that there were more than 40% of poor Mexicans.

Felipe Calderon was making a policy which stated that he would abolish all drugs-related cases in Mexico. He then asked the army to kill all the drug cartels and its company. That was what caused such as drug-related murders. On 12 January 2011, the Mexican government unveiled a new database giving a total of 34,612 people killed over the past four years. This total included suspected drug gang members, members of the security forces as those considered innocent bystanders. The total was a jump of some 4,000 on the previous total.

This research will tell more about drug-related violence since we all know that drug-related violence is the main cause of death in Mexico in these past few years. This was like a vicious circle while unemployment caused poverty, poverty caused stressful, and stressful caused crimes (drugs, homicides, robberies, etc).

Relation between Mexico and the United States of America could be another reason why this drug-related violence happened. Even if the world knows that America and Mexico are close enough in such fields, but some said that Mexicans were forbidden to immigrate to any state of the US. This caused stressing conditions among Mexicans who could not bear to stay in their unsafe country anymore. The youth in Mexico started to use drugs as a way to escape from their problems. This became more like serious condition because some of them were addicted to drugs.

Resty Armenia
research abstraction of Seminar of Latin America

Zoo de Surabaya

El zoo más grande en el Sudeste Asiatico


Suro y Boyo

     El zoo de Surabaya está situado al sur de Surabaya, en la calle Setail numero 1 Surabaya, a 5 km de centro de ciudad.

     Esta un 85.000 m2 parque de animales. En el zoo de Surabaya hay unos tipos de animales tropicales. Tiene más completa colecció de los tipos de animales. Abre todos los dias en 07.00 a 17.00. Sólo tiene que pagar 10,000 rupias por un boleto de adulto.
     Lugares de interes: los maravillosos acuarios, cuarentena, y sala de Nocturama (animales de noche)

     En el zoo de Surabaya hay 300 diferentes especies de animales, unos 4300 animales, incluyendo animales raros del mundo. Mamalia, aves, reptil, y Piscis.
Frente al zoo de Surabaya hay un monumento de Surabaya que describe la lucha de tiburon y el crocodilo, este es el simbolo de la ciudad.

Alojamento:
  • Hotel Shangri–La 
  • Hotel Majapahit 
  • Hotel Hyatt 
  • Hotel Sheraton 
  • Hotel Inna–Simpang 
  • Hostal Olympic 

Cómo llegar:
  • Transporte publico de Surabaya W, Y, D, V. 
  • Autobus de Wonokromo. 
  • Estacion de Wonokromo. 
  • Aeropuerto de Juanda (Waru, Sidoarjo). A 10 km. 

Alrededores y excurciones:
  • (A 10 km) El monumento de Tugu Pahlawan. El monumneto que describe la lucha de Arek – arek Suroboyo (Los jovenes de Surabaya) con colonialismo. 
  • (A 15 km) Casa de Sampoerna. El edificio historico de la pais – famosa fábrica de cigarro en Surabaya. 
  • (A 8 km) El edificio historico de Balai Pemuda. El centro de los jovenes de Surabaya y centro de información de tourismo en Surabaya. 
  • (A 18 km) El monumento de Jalesveva Jayamahe. El monumento de los marineros en Surabaya.