The myth of America

International Real savings “you should be made": director of TWP The myth of America By: Carlos Damian December 7, 2012 The American dream was canceled by neoliberal politicians México. - The American newspaper The Washington Post (TWP) it announced that opened convocation so that some of their journalists renounce voluntarily in exchange for compensation, due to the difficult crisis that crosses the press. "Our objective is a limited reduction of positions that won't affect the quality, the ambition neither the influence of our journalism", the director of the newspaper, Marcos Brauchli informed. As other newspapers that it suffers a strong fall in their revenues for publicity in their printed version and the migration of their readers to gratuitous on-line means. The convocation doesn't concern to all the sections “to moderate the impact in the activities, and on the other hand we could not accept the exit of certain volunteers if we believe that this would affect sample covering." It is the fifth time in almost ten years that TWP opens convocation. The legal Mediator of the newspaper, Patrick Pexton, indicated in his e-mail of Twitter that a maximum of 48 people, that is to say, near 8 percent of the troops of the writing, they could benefit of the plan. The group TWP carries out a part of its volume of business with the educational group Kaplan, it announced in November that their revenues for publicity collapsed 29 percent in the third trimester of 2011, to 57.6 million dollars. In turn, the revenues of the places Washingtonpost.com and State.com fell 14 percent, to 23.3 million dollars. The edition average for day of the newspaper was of 218 thousand 700 copies in the first nine months of the passed years and on Sundays of 736 thousand 800. The crisis that affects to the newspapers of The States began more than five years ago, with the decrease of sales of printed copies, the reduction of the advertising rents and readers. The president of TWP, Donald Graham says “the economic pattern of the press written no longer works". The journalist of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Erica Smith estimated that the press of The States has said goodbye to some 15 thousand 400 people, and this newspaper counts the losses of employments in the indexed sector. One day has not passed three years ago without bad news, the economy has become slow and the reduction of the advertising rents that motivates the advertiser hurry to be overturned toward the places of gratuitous Internet. American pensioners in Mexico The American pensioners that reside in Mexico leave one it spills economic in annual of up to 18 thousand million dollars, it calculates near to the remittances of Mexican migrants that work in the country of the bars and the stars, but due to the increment of the "drug dealers-violence" 60 percent it doesn't discard to abandon the country, Richard Kiy, president of the International Community Foundation noticed (ICF), in front of the Secretary of Tourism, Gloria Guevara. "Our estimate is that there are 1.5 million American living in Mexico, and our study indicated that the average of expense of the retired ones is of a thousand dollars monthly. They can live with that although they have monthly revenues for 2 thousand and the entrance that they receive from the Social Insurance of Retired in The States it is on the average of a thousand 250 dollars monthly. “Our estimate of the added value of this is that it enters 15 thousand and 18 thousand million dollars enter Mexico for this community and if it is compared with the remittances that ascend like to 20 thousand million dollars, it is an important entrance", Kiy explained. These figures were given by the president of the ICF, when Gloria Guevara assured to the press that “is difficult to quantify the economic contribution of the American pensioners because many are not registered", so “it is considered", she said that here they live, 2.5 millions of American, of which a million has permits to work and million and half is retired. Main sources of foreign currencies in Mexico The two main sources of foreign currencies for Mexico are the oil exports and the remittances of migrants that in 2010 they ascended to 35 thousand 919 million dollars and 21 thousand 271 million dollars, respectively, in accordance with PEMEX and the Bank of Mexico. If they are compared with it spills it economic of 18 thousand million dollars that the American pensioners leave it is that this is equal halfway the oil foreign currencies and it represents 84.6 percent of the money sent by the migrants. It said otherwise, for each dollar that Mexico obtains for the exports of petroleum’s raw, the American pensioners spend half dollar here or 84 cents for each dollar that the Mexican migrants send. The American pensioners prefer Mexico with regard to other countries, not only for the proximity with their origin country, but for diverse advantages that find them, from the climate, the natural and characteristic landscape of the diverse half-atmospheres that they look for to the south of their country, the cordiality of the Mexicans, the foods that find in the neighboring country, the medical services of same or better quality that in their origin country and the one that their money acquires more value, as the purchase of a cheaper housing, and the domestic apparatuses that they find of same quality and to smaller or same price. However among the factors that impact the decisions to decide to remain or to move, the document indicates that the violence has bigger weight that the economic recession. In the study of the ICF it is also detailed that 53 percent of the pensioners is smaller than 65 years and they choose to Mexico like favorite destination for the favorable conditions and its stable economy. Two of each three have a professional career, 47 percent assured that it resides by this country of complete time, and 52 percent they have lived here for more than five years. (La Jornada, mundo, p. p. 28 - 29, February 13, 2011).