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Jewel of our readers: The VW Numa Quevedo
Volkswagen, in German, means “people’s car” and that was Adolf Hitler’s motivation when, in 1933, called on the best automotive engineers in Germany a strong car, low cost, durable and easy to repair that could travel more than 100kmh by fast motorways (autobahns) in Germany. Hitler wanted the car was a symbol of Nazism, but he wanted the story when put on the market became a symbol of democracy and plurality par excellence. Since then the beetle has moved both men and women, whites and blacks (and other colors), large or small, rich and poor, old and young, families or individuals for all the world’s roads. Its production started in 1993 in craft and began to spread in spectacular fashion after WWII. In 1972 the Beetle surpassed
15000000′s record of tax units produced in 1927 by the Ford Model T and continued to make a hysterical pace to industrial end his life in Mexico in 2003, having produced nearly 25 million units. The Beetle is still popular car par excellence is still the main tool of Mexican taxi drivers, who call him “Vocho.” In Venezuela, VW began to assemble in Venezuela from 1957 through the initiative of Guido Steinvorth associated with Corporacion Venezolana del Motor. Your local assembly was suspended in 1981 for reasons that had nothing to do with the product and although the plant in Palma Sola, Portuguesa, was dismantled, the auto opening a decade later allowed the beetle back to the local market as imported model, remaining until the beginning of this century.
The unity of this gallery is a 1971 VW Beetle Sedan, owned by a passionate young Venezuelan brand, Numa Ricardo Quevedo, whose enthusiasm and love that has been placed on this unit have become extremely popular in the various meetings of classic cars either through AVAAC or within several clubs dedicated to Volkswagen operating in the country. Their presence is held and has been affectionately dubbed VW “chicken.”
Numa bought the car to its first owner, a lady in 2008 and despite the time (and the quality of the car) was in very original condition. “I paid sixteen thousand bolivar” he says before adding, “We had to make the floors and fix many small details, as well as make the painting” All these works spread over 2008 and 2009, when he made the upholstery Autotapicería Europe, The Chaguaramos where reconstructions are true specialists in classic cars and recreational opportunities for tuning.
That The Transition Does not Affect Your Business
The lack of willingness to reach agreements, the blundering management of a business and fighting for more power can make family businesses falter. Such problems are faced Cáceres Geny Fernandez and his five brothers, owners of the building Cáceres Developers.
In Mexico, 90% of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are familiar and often have trouble not clear what business objectives and what the family, leading to it that companies lose customers and the worst cases leaving the market, said Ignacio Moreno Delgado, coordinator of Inter-American Development Bank Linkage Area La Salle University.
“We lost a lot of time by not agreeing on what should and should not do in the company and delayed decision making. In addition, there were different views between us and that generated more internal conflict, because the employees were confused about who to pay attention. We also lost customers and suppliers, “Fernandez recalled Geny Cáceres.
General problem
Family problems cause between 60% and 70% disappearance of SMEs in the country. It is a very high rate. In fact, 80% of companies in Mexico, when attempting to pass from one generation to another, do not. And the 20% that does, only 3% may pass the business to a new generation, “stressed Ignacio Moreno Delgado.
To avoid such conflicts, Universidad La Salle in Mexico, with support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), created the Small Business Family Protocol, which supports employers to establish a corporate governance standards in line with the interests of family members and fosters the competitiveness and security to the company.
Middle Class Economic
In defining the group led Ernesto Cervera, the middle class income requires more than five minimum wages and other conditions: non-payment of rent (if the income is five wages), access to credit and some mechanism of social protection as social security or private insurance. Have a burgeoning middle class is essential for the development of the domestic market. There are products and services required for the middle-class sustainable growth: cars, fashion, entertainment, tourism, among others. Beyond the economic sphere, a rising middle class is a factor of political stability and can be a trigger for changes in securities, investment in education, for example.
Mexico does not have a consistent policy for the middle class. To some it seems frivolous to this approach in a country that has more than 40 million poor. It is not. Gain between 5.000 and 20.000 pesos may mean that you are in one of the first three deciles cheap in Mexico, but that means almost nothing beyond statistics. A family in that income range is middle class, but the new one, before it was synonymous with stability. Now one of the weakest links in the chain, the embodiment of vulnerability. An illness, a divorce or a layoff can instruct the fund.
A scavenger of garbage has increased revenue by an attorney or an architect misplaced in the labor market. Who’s more middle class? Perhaps none. We are a changing society. We are learning about the new middle class. We can not alone and need a public policy. Eye: nobody said state paternalism.
That the transition does not affect your business
The lack of willingness to reach agreements, the blundering management of a business and fighting for more power can make family businesses falter. Such problems are faced Cáceres Geny Fernandez and his five brothers, owners of the building Cáceres Developers. In Mexico, 90% of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are familiar and often have trouble not clear what business objectives and what the family, leading to it that companies lose customers and the worst cases leaving the market, said Ignacio Moreno Delgado, coordinator of Inter-American Development Bank Linkage Area La Salle University.
“We lost a lot of time by not agreeing on what should and should not do in the company and delayed decision making. In addition, there were different views between us and that generated more internal conflict, because the employees were confused about who to pay attention. We also lost customers and suppliers, “Fernandez recalled Geny Cáceres.
General problem
Family problems cause between 60% and 70% disappearance of SMEs in the country. It is a very high rate. In fact, 80% of companies in Mexico, when attempting to pass from one generation to another, do not. And the 20% that does, only 3% may pass the business to a new generation, “stressed Ignacio Moreno Delgado.
To avoid such conflicts, Universidad La Salle in Mexico, with support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), created the Small Business Family Protocol, which supports employers to establish a corporate governance standards in line with the interests of family members and fosters the competitiveness and security to the company.
“What we look for the protocol is to give continuity to companies to make them more competitive and attractive to suppliers, other businesses and customers. We want to make them look like a serious company with a future secure,” said Eduardo Campos Cortes, senior consultant La Salle University.
Through the Family Protocol, the Salle University offers consulting objectively guiding family businesses, allow them to reach agreements, to know the times they should have and the general processes that help to lay the groundwork to make your business survive.
“Our family business needed to be more professional and that what we listen to the experts. We learned that everyone must take place for which is better trained and clarify the expectations of our company, “concluded the business Cáceres.
Business Opportunities for SMEs

This business segment can become a supplier to government agencies. Expo is expected that Government Purchases made between 140.000 to 150.000 business contacts.
For the third consecutive year, Government Procurement Expo will seek to be a space where small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can find business opportunities and become providers of any governmental agency.
This year, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the Ministry of National Defense (SEDENA), the Commission Federal de Electricidad (CFE), the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the Public Security Secretariat (SSP), among others , exhibited in this space needs for products and services for companies who want to be providers of these institutions.
You can give a series of conferences and workshops which will bring marketing strategies, leadership, standards, administration and finance.
Petrol, substances and pharmaceutical products, accessories and electrical equipment are the goods most in demand by the government. The Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT), CFE and Pemex are the agencies that have experienced major purchases since the project began, according to statistics from the Ministry of Economy (SE).
Currently, there are current bids for purchases of laboratory and surgical equipment, substances and pharmaceuticals, surgical equipment and medical equipment, foodstuffs, beverages and snuff, and scientific apparatus, according to the website www.comprasdegobierno.economia.gob.mx
Last year 47.000 benefited companies and is expected to take place this year between 140.000 to 150.000 business contacts.
The New Poor Middle Class

Bad years to come will make us blind, says an aphorism of Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio. Coming years will make us blind to bad ends the Spanish philosopher. The most difficult times bring out the best and worst of us. We attach the utmost clarity, but also lead us to pursue hallucinations.
These times are best to think and decide which country we want to be. They are also the worst. We are a country prone to bias and it shows these days. It occurs when the radar appears on the possibility of doing something important on a crucial issue: the fight against organized crime, the formalization of the economy groundwater and labor reform.
The polarization has to do with our political culture, but also with structural issues. Societies that have a greater concentration of wealth are also those where politics tends to polarize, concludes Dr. Keith Poole, a professor emeritus at the University of Georgia. Having a gap between rich and poor creates polarization and political tension. The growth of the Gini coefficient reduces the percentage of people who define themselves as moderate. c
Incendiary circunstances called the talented Indian writer Amitav Gosh the set of conditions that create dangerous instability in contemporary societies. The thinning of the middle class is one of them. In 2006 in Mexico had 13.1 million households that fit into the category of middle class, about half of the homes. For 2008 the total had fallen to 11.8 million, according to Associate Economists Group.