Newsgroups: soc.culture.mexican,soc.culture.latin-america
Date: Mon,  6 Apr 1992 11:12:21 -0400 
From: Hector Salgado-Galicia <hs1c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Cuahutemoc's revenge?


>chiste de ultimo minuto: estaban dos persdonas platicando (a quienes
>nombraremos Johnes y Smith para que nadie sepa de que nacion se trata), y le
>pegunta Johnes a Smith "Oye Smith, tu que harias si el gobierno de los estados
>unidos abriera sus fronteras para que todos los que quicieran fueran a vivir
>alli'?" "Me subiria al arbol mas alto que encontrara" responde el tal Smith.
>"Por que" pregunta Johnes, intrigado. "mira" dice Smith "asi la multitud no me
>aplastaria cuando salieran corriendo hacia alla'".
> 
>:)
> 
>RAIDER OF THE LOST BBS

Pues resulta que el chiste enviado por Raul Beristain resulto algo
profetico. A continuacion trancribo el siguiente mensaje de
dow-jones.corp.latin-america que resulta interesante para dar una idea
de como cambian los tiempos. Despues de la caida del muro de Berlin, de
la unificacion Europea o del PRI perdiendo gubernaturas, de plano ya
nada me sorprende. Bueno, al parecer ahora a la "vengaza de Moctezuma"
se le tendra que an~adir la de Cuahutemoc (o la de C. Salinas)? 


>From: DowJones@andrew.cmu.edu
>To: bb+dow-jones@andrew.cmu.edu
>Subject: White-Collar Migrants Seek Jobs With Mexican Corporations
>Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1992 11:07:20 -0500 (EST)
> 
>  
> 
>  By Matt Moffett
>   
> 
>  MEXICO CITY -- Mention the job market in Mexico and an image comes
>readily to mind: unemployed Mexican laborers wading across the Rio Grande
>in search of menial jobs in the U.S.  
> 
>  But with Mexico's economy surging and the U.S. wallowing in a recession,
>an unlikely reversal of this migration pattern is occurring in the
white-colla-
>r job market. Frustrated by meager employment opportunities at home,
>a number of Americans are trying to land jobs with high-flying Mexican
>corporations, The Wall Street Journal reported.  
> 
>  Adolfo Medina, a consultant in the Mexico City office of Egon Zehnder
>International executive recruiters, says the number of queries he receives
>from American professionals has increased tenfold in the past year. Horacio
>McCoy, chief of the local executive-recruiting office for Korn/Ferry
>International, says he now gets 50 resumes a week from American executives,
>who rarely sought him out in the past.  
> 
>  Most of these would-be immigrants lack the specialized business and
>language skills needed to get hired in Mexico. But some are finding
opportunit-
>y south of the border.  
> 
>  For every American job-seeker who has succeeded in crossing the border,
>there are dozens trying.  
> 
>  Along with the U.S. recession, the influx of white-collar immigrants
>stems from a change of attitude within Mexican corporations. Now that
>Mexico is seeking a free-trade agreement with the U.S. and Canada, Mexican
>companies are looking for executives knowledgeable about international
>markets, says John Smith, who runs a Mexico City recruitment firm.  
> 
>  Through most of the 1980s, Mexico was the place to get out of for American
>executives. "This was a career dead end," says Korn/Ferry's McCoy. He
>says that during the 1980s, the number of Americans employed in Mexico
>by General Motors Corp. declined to about a dozen from 70.  
> 
>  Now there are more opportunities with multinational companies as well
>as Mexican companies. Last year, the number of companies registered in
>the American Chamber of Commerce grew by 100 to 2,900. Membership in
>the Newcomers Club, a group for English-speaking women, grew by 20%,
>to 500, last year.  
> 
>  A new wave of foreign companies is only now arriving. In the past three
>months, Shore, the consultant, has been contacted by about two dozen
>multinationals seeking executives to start operations in Mexico. Throughout
>the 1980s, she would usually do only a half-dozen such searches a year.
> 
> 
>  Most of the foreign companies are hiring Mexican executives, who have
>their pick of jobs these days. "There's getting to be so much competition
>for Mexican executives that we're telling some of our corporate clients
>to offer retention bonuses to their best people," says Dario Pastrana,
>office manager of Egon Zehnder.  
> 
>  The pool of qualified Mexican executives is so thin, and the demand
>so great, that competent Mexican managers often command greater salaries
>than their counterparts in the U.S. "A position that you could fill for
>an $80,000 salary in the U.S. might cost you $100,000 to fill in Mexico,"
>says Greg Birbil, president and director general of the Mexico City office
of McCann-Erickson, the ad agency.
 

Y bueno, esto de la "white collar depression" esta resultando ser
tambien un chiste de mal gusto para mucha gente. 

NAFTA la vista

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Mexico, creo en ti.....etc., etc."

"Ay reata, no te revientes que ahi va el ultimo jalon"

Hector Salgado
Carnegie Mellon