Como siempre, el ingenio del Mexicano.......
Si los mineros fueran mexicanos...
El operativo se llamaría “Rescate Bicentenario” y la cápsula, “Independencia”.
Vicente Fox ya habría expresado “toda mi solidaridad para los buzos en
desgracia”.
Al minero bígamo lo estaría esperando Laura Bozo al grito: ¡que
suuuban al desgraciado!
Los tendría arraigados la PGR por cavar narcotúneles.
La cápsula Fénix tendría decenas de logotipos de empresas privadas.
Estarían diciendo que todo fue un montaje de García Luna.
Podrías mandar un mensaje al 21111 para escoger cuál debe abandonar la
mina primero.
Querrían llevar la mina a Reforma para hacer el rescate desde ahí.
Hubieran hecho un pliego petitorio exigiendo la renuncia del director
de la mina, de lo contrario se negarían a salir.
Apenas se estaría tramitando el permiso de uso de suelo para excavar.
Tal vez preferirían quedarse abajo, a salvo de las balaceras.
"Mi Papa estuvo en la mina y solo me trajo esta pinche piedra
La cápsula seria una latota de tecate! Por que tecate va por ti!, va por todos!!
Al salir les soplaria el airesito de la Rosa de Guadalupe
Harian un juego lo que 33 mineros dijeron y sera de fotorama 100% mexicano
Simplemente no cabrían en la cápsula! Somos el Pais #1 en sobrepeso!
La gran mayoría creería que es un montaje para distraer la atención
Al gobernador de Jalisco, le daría "asquito" saludarlos despues de 69
dias sin bañarse.
Los sacaban el domingo para ligarlo a Decadas!!
Habría vendedores ambulantes gritando arriba… ” lleve la playera con
la foto de los mineros… llevela.. el casco, el casco conmemorativo, la
linterna oficial llevelaaa…”
Al final del rescate nadie sabría dónde quedó la cápsula… Y faltarían
dos mineros
Ya hubiera salido la edición especial de moneda conmemorativa al
evento, Mineros Bicentenarios, auspiciada por Banamex.
Se hubieran suspendido las clases para seguir el evento por TV
La capsula terminaría toda grafiteada… “el pelos was here…” , ” este
es el gallito inglés…”, etc.
Se hubieran repartido despensas entre los familiares de los mineros
damnificados y hubiera habido foto con el gobernador en turno, el
presidente de México, el secretario de Sedesol, los de protección
civil, las damas de la vela perpetua y la porra de las chivas, el cruz
azul, los pumas y hasta del SME.
A la voz de ” pu..o el ultimo” los mineros se amontonarían y e
agarrarían a madrazos para salir primero.
Los carros de los familiares dirían en los vidrios “YA MI HIJO VA A
SALIR DE LA MINA”… y los de algunos políticos dirían ” Esos mineros
saldrían más pronto y estarían mejor con López Obrador”.
Ya estarían vendiendo CD’s quemados en los semáforos con el video de
los primeros rescatados.
Se habría inventado el taco minero o la torta minera con carne
guardada por dos meses en el refri..
Los hermanos Almada ya estarían iniciando la película ” La banda de
los mineros I y II “, o ” Lola la trailera al rescate de los mineros”
TV AZTECA ya estaría haciendo LA ACADEMIA… EL RESCATE DE LOS MINEROS…
Tecate tendría un comercial de “por los que les gusta tomar hasta el
fondo” TECATE!
El Oxxo y las demás tiendas convenencieras te pedirían redondear 1
peso para apoyar a los mineros.
Marcelo Ebrard propondría un segundo piso a la mina…
Los recibirían como a los expulsados del Big Brother, con todo y Adela
Micha, el Vítor, Derbez, y 20 edecarnes bien buenas para animarles el
show.
Friday, October 15, 2010
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
NACIONALISMO CHUECO
Les comparto una nota de la columna de Sergio Sarmiento. Leo sus columnas con regularidad. Tiene razón el lector a quién se refiere Don Sergio.
DOS EQUIS MEXICANA
Recibo un correo: "Es un error decir que marcas como XX o Tecate serán holandesas por el cambio de manos de la tenencia accionaria [de FEMSA]... Las marcas nacieron en México y se fabrican en México por manos mexicanas. Sus empleados y directivos seguirán siendo mayoritariamente mexicanos... Es un absurdo que sigamos promoviendo la idea de que si el capital no es 100 por ciento mexicano el producto tampoco lo es. Este tipo de pensamiento nos tiene sumidos en un nacionalismo estéril que muy poco nos ha ayudado". La verdad es que el correo tiene razón.
http://www.sergiosarmiento.com/
'ora voy yo:
Hace pocos años tuve una experiencia con algunas similitudes. Me habló una persona conocida de la oficina comercial de los Estados Unidos localizada en la misma embajada en la cd. de Mexico. La idea de ellos era organizar una misión comercial de empresarios mexicanos a San Antonio para que conocieran los beneficios de hacer negocios en esta y otra ciudades texanas. La razón de su llamada era para coordinar con nosotros un tour de Port San Antonio, así como organizar visitas a otras industrias. "Por supuesto!" fué mi entusiasmada respuesta. "Podemos hace un a visita a la planta de Toyota entre otras." Como nota: aquí se ensambla la pick-up Toyota Tundra, y por cierto pronto la Tacoma. Pues, no les pareció mi idea! Erróneamente pensaban que la visita a Toyota era mala idea ya que, según ellos, no era empresa estadounidense. "Oh my god," pensé yo.
Es obvio que la marca no es estadounidense, pero la fábrica sí lo es, un buen porcentaje de los componentes sí lo son, y la mano de obra definitivamente lo es (más de 2,000 empleos en la planta). Y ni siquiera estoy mencionando todos los proveedores de autopartes que rodean la planta en el mismo plantel Toyota. El derrame económico para San Antonio es de 1.7 mil millones de dólares por año. En pocas palabras, las pick-ups se fabrican en Estados Unidos. Un producto 100% estadounidense. Es exactamente el mismo concepto que leemos en el correo del lector a Sergio Sarmiento. Les deseo un buen fín de semana JC
DOS EQUIS MEXICANA
Recibo un correo: "Es un error decir que marcas como XX o Tecate serán holandesas por el cambio de manos de la tenencia accionaria [de FEMSA]... Las marcas nacieron en México y se fabrican en México por manos mexicanas. Sus empleados y directivos seguirán siendo mayoritariamente mexicanos... Es un absurdo que sigamos promoviendo la idea de que si el capital no es 100 por ciento mexicano el producto tampoco lo es. Este tipo de pensamiento nos tiene sumidos en un nacionalismo estéril que muy poco nos ha ayudado". La verdad es que el correo tiene razón.
http://www.sergiosarmiento.com/
'ora voy yo:
Hace pocos años tuve una experiencia con algunas similitudes. Me habló una persona conocida de la oficina comercial de los Estados Unidos localizada en la misma embajada en la cd. de Mexico. La idea de ellos era organizar una misión comercial de empresarios mexicanos a San Antonio para que conocieran los beneficios de hacer negocios en esta y otra ciudades texanas. La razón de su llamada era para coordinar con nosotros un tour de Port San Antonio, así como organizar visitas a otras industrias. "Por supuesto!" fué mi entusiasmada respuesta. "Podemos hace un a visita a la planta de Toyota entre otras." Como nota: aquí se ensambla la pick-up Toyota Tundra, y por cierto pronto la Tacoma. Pues, no les pareció mi idea! Erróneamente pensaban que la visita a Toyota era mala idea ya que, según ellos, no era empresa estadounidense. "Oh my god," pensé yo.
Es obvio que la marca no es estadounidense, pero la fábrica sí lo es, un buen porcentaje de los componentes sí lo son, y la mano de obra definitivamente lo es (más de 2,000 empleos en la planta). Y ni siquiera estoy mencionando todos los proveedores de autopartes que rodean la planta en el mismo plantel Toyota. El derrame económico para San Antonio es de 1.7 mil millones de dólares por año. En pocas palabras, las pick-ups se fabrican en Estados Unidos. Un producto 100% estadounidense. Es exactamente el mismo concepto que leemos en el correo del lector a Sergio Sarmiento. Les deseo un buen fín de semana JC
Saturday, January 9, 2010
PORT OF CORPUS CHRISTI,TEXAS
I supped with dear friends from the Port of Corpus Christi, Tom Moore and Rubén Medina on the infamous night of the Texas-Alabama game, January 7th.
We hadn't seen each other for awhile so we had much to discuss. We discussed past projects and some potential future business. It is very enlightening to see that the port is developing niche markets for itself, one of which are the energy windmill turbine shipments. It seems that volumes are steady. Throughout recent years the port developed a strong business relationship with Alimport the official commodity purchasing arm of Cuba. U.S. grain flowed thru the port on to Havana due to this relationship. The port is also a key petrochemical center and one of the largest active Foreign Trade zones in the United States, mostly for the oil industry. China is investing 1billion USD in a pipe manufacturing facility. All these are extraordinary feats.
Much of the ports success in recent years is owed to the current chairperson Rubén Bonilla, a giant in the Corpus Christi community, a respected attorney in Texas and a champion of free trade. Rubén's tenure as chair of the port commission ends Tuesday January 12. He has been on the board for 10 years. He will be sorely missed. I had the honor of working with him for 7 years as I was a senior consultant to the port for a long period of time. One can only hope that the port will continue on the path Rubén has forged for its future in the world marketplace.
The relationship between San Antonio and the port of Corpus Christi has been of, well....Kumbaya I guess.
Very close ties, cooperation and deep friendship, but the meat of the business hasn't really been up to par, to be honest. No ones fault, mind you. I know of certain bulk and break bulk shipments for San Antonio industries that have been shipped or received over Corpus's docks and San Antonio helped develop some cotton pilot shipments from Corpus into the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, México then onto China. This was about two years ago. San Antonio's container business is mostly through California ports and the Port of Houston. We will continue support the development of the La Quinta terminal and we will take it from there. I am a firm believer in niche markets and it would behoove both communites to continue brainstorming and dicussing what other business we can attract together.
We hadn't seen each other for awhile so we had much to discuss. We discussed past projects and some potential future business. It is very enlightening to see that the port is developing niche markets for itself, one of which are the energy windmill turbine shipments. It seems that volumes are steady. Throughout recent years the port developed a strong business relationship with Alimport the official commodity purchasing arm of Cuba. U.S. grain flowed thru the port on to Havana due to this relationship. The port is also a key petrochemical center and one of the largest active Foreign Trade zones in the United States, mostly for the oil industry. China is investing 1billion USD in a pipe manufacturing facility. All these are extraordinary feats.
Much of the ports success in recent years is owed to the current chairperson Rubén Bonilla, a giant in the Corpus Christi community, a respected attorney in Texas and a champion of free trade. Rubén's tenure as chair of the port commission ends Tuesday January 12. He has been on the board for 10 years. He will be sorely missed. I had the honor of working with him for 7 years as I was a senior consultant to the port for a long period of time. One can only hope that the port will continue on the path Rubén has forged for its future in the world marketplace.
The relationship between San Antonio and the port of Corpus Christi has been of, well....Kumbaya I guess.
Very close ties, cooperation and deep friendship, but the meat of the business hasn't really been up to par, to be honest. No ones fault, mind you. I know of certain bulk and break bulk shipments for San Antonio industries that have been shipped or received over Corpus's docks and San Antonio helped develop some cotton pilot shipments from Corpus into the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, México then onto China. This was about two years ago. San Antonio's container business is mostly through California ports and the Port of Houston. We will continue support the development of the La Quinta terminal and we will take it from there. I am a firm believer in niche markets and it would behoove both communites to continue brainstorming and dicussing what other business we can attract together.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
HASTA LUEGO NUEVE CONSEJERIAS COMERCIALES DE MEXICO
Realmente es de preocuparse que México decidió cerrar nueve consejerías comerciales en el mundo, tengo entendido que la gran mayoría en China. Se quedará una persona de medio tiempo coordinando los detalles para la feria mundial que se celebra a mediados de este año en Shanghai, China (a buena hora vinieron a cerrar las consejerías).
Seguramente esta decisión fué con el pretexto de acortar gastos en el sector público. Esta época de incertidumbe económica es el momento mas importante de promoción a nivel internacional del comercio exerior mexicano. Aqui, en vez de frenar, es cuando se debe de acelerar el proceso de promoción de los productos mexicanos en los mercados internacionales.
En principio, vemos que los indicativos para el 2010 en materia de comercio mundial son positivos con un grado de aceleramiento que aparenta ser agresivo, en especial con el comercio entre Norteamérica y China. En los últimos días hemos visto un aceleramiento en materia de carga aérea entre estas dos regiones. Durante una de mis visitas a China en el 2008, una línea de carga aérea importante china predijo con mucha seguridad que para finales del 2009 se contemplaba un resurgiemineto importante en el comercio entre Norteamerica y China. Dicho y hecho. Mencionamos carga aérea porque es el barómetro mas sensible en materia de comercio exterior. Usamos este barómetro con frecuencia para medir el comportamiento futuro del comercio internacional.
Es importante que el gobierno de México piense bien sus estrategias en materia de comercio exterior. El comercio exterior, especialmente el de México es un importante salvaguarde económico en épocas tanto turbulentas como tranquilas. Les deseo éxito en este nuevo año y siempre. Saludos JC
Seguramente esta decisión fué con el pretexto de acortar gastos en el sector público. Esta época de incertidumbe económica es el momento mas importante de promoción a nivel internacional del comercio exerior mexicano. Aqui, en vez de frenar, es cuando se debe de acelerar el proceso de promoción de los productos mexicanos en los mercados internacionales.
En principio, vemos que los indicativos para el 2010 en materia de comercio mundial son positivos con un grado de aceleramiento que aparenta ser agresivo, en especial con el comercio entre Norteamérica y China. En los últimos días hemos visto un aceleramiento en materia de carga aérea entre estas dos regiones. Durante una de mis visitas a China en el 2008, una línea de carga aérea importante china predijo con mucha seguridad que para finales del 2009 se contemplaba un resurgiemineto importante en el comercio entre Norteamerica y China. Dicho y hecho. Mencionamos carga aérea porque es el barómetro mas sensible en materia de comercio exterior. Usamos este barómetro con frecuencia para medir el comportamiento futuro del comercio internacional.
Es importante que el gobierno de México piense bien sus estrategias en materia de comercio exterior. El comercio exterior, especialmente el de México es un importante salvaguarde económico en épocas tanto turbulentas como tranquilas. Les deseo éxito en este nuevo año y siempre. Saludos JC
Thursday, December 31, 2009
DIA DE LOS INOCENTES...28/12
Dia de los Inocentes in Mexico is December 28th, which is equivalent to April Fools Day here. Well, our friends at T21, a logistics periodical from Mexico City pulled one on us. On that day on their online e-news daily, they announced that cross border trucking would open up in January 2010, full force. The project was sanctioned by the Teamsters and Canacar (Mexico Trucking Association). The first reaction was "Holy Shi-take Mushroom!" Once you read further into the article you see the "SURPRISE!" and the disclaimer. Oh well. IF Osiel Cruz's (the editor) intent was to catch everybody's attention, he did a good job.
This however made me think a little on this topic, one that I have been involved in for many years. First, we need to slice the issue in to right down the middle. Slice one: The lack of NAFTA compliance by not opening the border to cross border trucking has caused a damaging retaliation by Mexico in the trade relationship. Mexico was in its absolute right to impose these sanctions and slap tariffs unto U.S. goods. Much damage has been caused to U.S. manufacturers and shippers that have Mexico as a major customer (Mexico is the third largest trading partner to the United States and largest Texas partner). This action also caused serious damage to Mexico consumers.
The uproar on this topic for the past 15 years fueled by gross mis-information and politics has been unbelievable causing unfounded fears. Perception is reality, I guess. Perception built on fear tactics and media hype.
You can find tomes and tomes and volumes and volumes of information on this topic all over the web so I won't go in details. In very simplistic terms, the U.S. should abide by the NAFTA agreement and resolve the issue by permitting Mexico trucks to cross under fair DOT regulations. Mexico would lift sanctions and all would be well. This concludes the first pie section.
We now go to the second pie section: You know what would happen if the border truly opens up to cross border trucking? Nothing, zip, zilch, zero. Carriers in both countries have minimal interest, if any, to support this program. Theoretically it sounds great, but the reality is that it is way too costly and cumbersome for the Mexico carriers have their equipment cross the border to travel days on end. The cost of equipment and the cost of operating a trucking company in Mexico is very high. Fuel, equipment, geographics, security, etc. etc. make for very expensive ingredients in the mexican trucking business. The carriers need to turn their equipment very quickly and efficiently to just TRY to a make a profit. Having equipment sit for hours on end (up to six or seven hours) at the border for DOT and everyone else and their mother in the U.S. government run the inspection machine makes things very, very inefficient, costly and SLOW. The inspections are worse than going to the proctologist.
I roll my eyes listening to every one's moans and groans about the transfer-trucks and inefficient and costly crossing methods and blah blah blah. Well, this is the most efficient system there is nowadays. Operationally, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to do the interchange and then then there needs to be some patience on crossing the bridges that include U.S. government inspections, etc. But it's no where near the amount of time to wait (six or seven hours) under the cross border scenario. The trick is to have the paperwork in order and the carrier's and/or customer's traffic crew need to be sharp and on the ball managing this process.
You will hear staggering numbers in the theoretical savings shippers and receivers will have with cross border trucking. How true IS that? What is the real cost to the trucking company? It's obvious this cost will be past along to the customer. And Mexico trucks are not the chariots of Satan riding across te border to send every U.S. pedestrian crossing the streets to the bowels of hell and eternal damnation. There are many good quality carriers in Mexico, many even better than U.S. carriers. There is no doubt that cross border tucking is a good thing. But it will not be a cornucopia of savings nor is it the saviour of the NAFTA marketplace. It just makes good business sense for it to be in place. No more and no less. This stagnant situation which has been enveloped by cancerous politics has caused much damage. This only adds to the negative economic burden that many states carry already. I'm referring to those states that export their goods to Mexico, many of which now suffer from the sanctions imposed by Mexico.
I will close with a question: How many teamster driver livelihoods depend on the NAFTA movement of goods today?
See you in 2010 :)
JC
This however made me think a little on this topic, one that I have been involved in for many years. First, we need to slice the issue in to right down the middle. Slice one: The lack of NAFTA compliance by not opening the border to cross border trucking has caused a damaging retaliation by Mexico in the trade relationship. Mexico was in its absolute right to impose these sanctions and slap tariffs unto U.S. goods. Much damage has been caused to U.S. manufacturers and shippers that have Mexico as a major customer (Mexico is the third largest trading partner to the United States and largest Texas partner). This action also caused serious damage to Mexico consumers.
The uproar on this topic for the past 15 years fueled by gross mis-information and politics has been unbelievable causing unfounded fears. Perception is reality, I guess. Perception built on fear tactics and media hype.
You can find tomes and tomes and volumes and volumes of information on this topic all over the web so I won't go in details. In very simplistic terms, the U.S. should abide by the NAFTA agreement and resolve the issue by permitting Mexico trucks to cross under fair DOT regulations. Mexico would lift sanctions and all would be well. This concludes the first pie section.
We now go to the second pie section: You know what would happen if the border truly opens up to cross border trucking? Nothing, zip, zilch, zero. Carriers in both countries have minimal interest, if any, to support this program. Theoretically it sounds great, but the reality is that it is way too costly and cumbersome for the Mexico carriers have their equipment cross the border to travel days on end. The cost of equipment and the cost of operating a trucking company in Mexico is very high. Fuel, equipment, geographics, security, etc. etc. make for very expensive ingredients in the mexican trucking business. The carriers need to turn their equipment very quickly and efficiently to just TRY to a make a profit. Having equipment sit for hours on end (up to six or seven hours) at the border for DOT and everyone else and their mother in the U.S. government run the inspection machine makes things very, very inefficient, costly and SLOW. The inspections are worse than going to the proctologist.
I roll my eyes listening to every one's moans and groans about the transfer-trucks and inefficient and costly crossing methods and blah blah blah. Well, this is the most efficient system there is nowadays. Operationally, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to do the interchange and then then there needs to be some patience on crossing the bridges that include U.S. government inspections, etc. But it's no where near the amount of time to wait (six or seven hours) under the cross border scenario. The trick is to have the paperwork in order and the carrier's and/or customer's traffic crew need to be sharp and on the ball managing this process.
You will hear staggering numbers in the theoretical savings shippers and receivers will have with cross border trucking. How true IS that? What is the real cost to the trucking company? It's obvious this cost will be past along to the customer. And Mexico trucks are not the chariots of Satan riding across te border to send every U.S. pedestrian crossing the streets to the bowels of hell and eternal damnation. There are many good quality carriers in Mexico, many even better than U.S. carriers. There is no doubt that cross border tucking is a good thing. But it will not be a cornucopia of savings nor is it the saviour of the NAFTA marketplace. It just makes good business sense for it to be in place. No more and no less. This stagnant situation which has been enveloped by cancerous politics has caused much damage. This only adds to the negative economic burden that many states carry already. I'm referring to those states that export their goods to Mexico, many of which now suffer from the sanctions imposed by Mexico.
I will close with a question: How many teamster driver livelihoods depend on the NAFTA movement of goods today?
See you in 2010 :)
JC
THOUGHTS ON THE 2010 EVE..
Today is 2010 eve and one New Year resolution that I have is to begin writing about those topics I mentioned when I set up this blog. They are many topics, but I am involved in many things. This was a tough decade! I am happy it's almost over, 366 days to go. I am ready for the challenges of the new decade as of right now...
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