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PageSpeed score of Honduras Election Mess page Mobile score Load time: s Desktop score Load time: s Optimize now You can hide this element from the settings Search Encounters and Identities in Latin America First Year Seminar 2017 Menu Home About Contact Schedule Policies and Resources Assignments Reading and Writing Exercises Community Connections Wooster Encounters Cabeza de Vaca Essay Latin America in the Media: Noticias Annotated Bibliography Pecha Kucha Wikipedia Entry Readings Additional Readings Books Presentations Honduras Election Mess Leave a reply I am writing my article over the chaos that is happening in Honduras over the election that happened on Nov. 26 th . The article I read was over the riot police in Honduras, and how they have decided to strike, and not enforce the curfew because they believe that it makes them take sides in this heated political issue. On November 26 th candidate Salvador Nasralla and Juan Orlando Hernandez went head to head in the Honduras presidential election where the two candidates tied. The Honduras electoral commission has started a recount of ballets. But supporters of Nasralla believe that Hernandez is using his current power as president to sway the vote his way. The supporters of both candidates have started protesting, sometimes making the protests violent, which is why the curfew was put into place. During the recounting of the ballets the Electoral commission had to stop the recounts because they said they had a computer failure which resulted in lost ballets. The only people allowed to be out during the curfew is people on the campaign, police, emergency workers, and government employees. The reason that people are protesting is that there is to believed to be major voter fraud occurring. Valdes , Gustavo, Dakin Andone, and Marilia Brocchetto. Honduras Begins vote recount in unresovled election .” December 4, 2017. Accessed December 5, 2017. http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/02/americas/honduras-unrest-post-election/index.html . Honduras election: Army given more power to quash unrest.” December 2, 2017. Accessed December 5, 2017. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42205180 . Honduras police revolt amid tension over election .” December 5, 2017. Accessed December 5, 2017. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42236202. This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2017 by Tyler . Noticias Questions Leave a reply Kiera ‘s Article https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/11/28/how-latin-america-is-responding-to-venezuelan-refugees What is the definition of a refugee. How much help should a refugee expect when moving to a new country. When viewed from the governments perspective how much help should be given to refugees when economic factors and other things of the sort are concerned Instead of fleeing to another country why not try to reform Venezuela with the help of other Latin American countries such as Brazil. Brook’s Article https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/tijuana-turns-wastewater-wine-latin-america-dips-toe-reuse-n824176 What are the benefits of reusing unclean water in this way, can it benefit Latin American economically and how successfully would it be incorporated in these countries. Do you believe using waste water in products meant for consumption is ethical. Also what are some possible health side effects associated with this. What are some regulations that could be put in place to insure that waste products are not used in products meant for consumption or if they are that they are properly treated. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Noticias on November 30, 2017 by Fish . Malls- Their growth in Latin America, and Decline in the North Leave a reply This article in City Lab examines the explosion in the growth of Malls and their construction in the last decade. The writer begins by stating how 25 percent of the roughly 1,100 shopping malls still alive in the U.S. are projected to close by 2022. https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/11/the-triumph-of-the-latin-american-mall/546725/ Nolan writes, Developers haven’t built a new mall since 2006 (except for one in the bizarre land of Sarasota, Florida).Conversely, 100 new malls were built in Latin America in 2016 alone and, the largest mall in the western hemisphere is in Panama . Nolan describes this trend with an air of wistfulness for a time past. Multiple anchors. Many different stores that attract customers and allow the businesses to benefit from each other’s presence by agglomeration. Beyond retail, Latin American malls often house other major employers, including call centers, healthcare facilities, and office space. The writer describes how he thinks malls as they exist in Latin America today, embody their original designer’s vision of them: mixed-use hubs rather than gigantic shopping hubs. He describes how these malls in Latin America are increasingly incorporating residential homes as well in apartments and condos. The writer argues that is this diversity of use that will allow malls in Latin America to outlive and out-function their North American counterparts. While these malls in Latin America thrive on diversity and multipurpose usage, they also exist in much more specialized areas and for functions. Nolan describes how there are malls in some parts of Latin America such as Guatemala that exist specifically for dining and restaurants. He also explains how there are malls that exist specifically for interior design and how such malls, not meant for selling clothes, remain rare in the US, and Canada. American malls are anchored by big chain stores, like Macy’s and J C Penney, and as these companies have gone out of business in recent years, they have dragged the malls built around them down with them. Nolan describes the cultural and social effects malls have had in America especially in the 80s and 90s, at their peak, and in Latin America now. Nolan examines how young people mill around malls and don the fashionable clothing brands and labels as a product of these malls, and how in the wake of stagnating incomes, and a reduction in wage increases, people have less and less disposable income and therefore less and less money to spend in shopping malls. Nolan describes how the poor internet access and delivery services protect brick and mortar stores from the convenience and ubiquity of online shopping in Latin America. Whereas in North America, malls are doomed because of the ubiquity of the internet, in Latin America, malls remain thriving and abundant because internet access is much less ubiquitous there. It is interesting then that industrialists and capitalists identify this market opportunity and exploit the lack of internet rather than address it. Nolan also cites the security of malls as compared to isolated stores as a reason why people migrate and become concentrated around them. Shoppers also prefer to do their shopping in a safe area. This has led to the rise of the shopping mall in Latin America. Nolan describes how when we feel nostalgia for malls, maybe what we’re really feeling is nostalgia for a time when incomes were rising in North America, and the quality of life of average people was improving. Today, that’s what’s happening in much of Latin America. But as their mall era begins, and the American one fades, he encourages land developers and people in North America to find a more enduring model for the shopping mall. I find it interesting how Nolan correlates economic phenomena like the growing middle class in Latin...