tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71973204480794742112024-03-13T03:04:10.830-07:00Official Blog of Daniel Chavez MoranThis is the official blog for news related to Mr. Daniel Chavez Moran and his legacy companies and orgainizations.Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-6378545625485620302014-03-06T10:00:00.000-08:002014-03-08T15:44:13.230-08:00Important Partners of Vidanta Foundation - Inter-American Dialogue<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For all the important work that the Vidanta Foundation does, a lot of it would not be possible if not for the input and cooperation of organizations that share our ideals and values.<br />
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One such example to point out here is the Inter-American Dialogue: http://www.thedialogue.org/<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">"The Inter-American Dialogue is the leading U.S.
center for policy analysis, exchange, and communication on issues in
Western Hemisphere affairs. The Dialogue brings together public and
private leaders from across the Americas to address hemispheric problems
and opportunities. Together they seek to build cooperation among
Western Hemisphere nations and advance a regional agenda of democratic
governance, social equity, and economic growth.</span><br />
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The Dialogue's select membership of 100 distinguished citizens from
throughout the Americas includes political, business, academic, media,
and other nongovernmental leaders. Sixteen Dialogue members served as
presidents of their countries and more than three dozen have served at
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Dialogue activities are directed to generating new policy ideas and
practical proposals for action, and getting these ideas and proposals to
government and private decision makers. The Dialogue also offers
diverse Latin American and Caribbean voices access to U.S. policy
debates and discussions. Based in Washington, the Dialogue conducts its
work throughout the hemisphere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A majority of our Board of Directors are
from Latin American and Caribbean nations, as are more than half of the
Dialogue's members and participants in our other leadership networks
and task forces.</span></div>
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Since 1982—through successive Republican and Democratic administrations
and many changes of leadership elsewhere in the hemisphere—the Dialogue
has helped shape the agenda of issues and choices in inter-American
relations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Inter-American Dialogue, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, is
funded by contributions from individuals, corporations, governments and
foundations that help support its programs and provide essential
operating revenue."</span></div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-41488221908181453622014-02-13T10:30:00.000-08:002014-02-25T19:51:35.536-08:00Mexico: Cirque du Soleil dinner theater to land at Riviera Maya<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Want a nice dinner and Champagne at your next Cirque du Soleil experience? That's not the norm in Las Vegas, but it will happen in Riviera Maya come November when a custom-made theater and year-round show debuts in Mexico's eastern Yucatan.</div>
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Canada-based <a href="http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/home/shows.aspx" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Cirque du Soleil</a> announced the dinner-and-show venue on Wednesday. The resident show joins others in Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla. Cirque says the venue will be a place where "performance and culinary creativity" meet.</div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-45089081524628733892014-01-17T09:00:00.000-08:002014-02-25T19:49:20.564-08:00Call for Entries Fundacion Vidanta Award<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The Call for Entries is Now Open for the Fundacion Vidanta Awards 2014: “Recognition of Lifetime Contributions” and “Contributions to the Reduction of Poverty and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean”.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Please visit </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.fundacionvidanta.org/2014-call">http://www.fundacionvidanta.org/2014-call</a> for more information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Daniel Chavez Moran Award launched
today with its latest category in the area of Literature. The award welcomes submissions
from youths who live in the United States aged twelve to eighteen to submit
their best ideas on how to combat the serious problem of poverty in Latin
America through the use of essays, short stories, testimonials and poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Full contest
details, terms and conditions as well as an application form can be found at </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://danielchavezmoranaward.com/award/literature/">http://danielchavezmoranaward.com/award/literature/</a></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A panel of
judges will select the winning applicants that demonstrate outstanding use of
literary devices and language to raise awareness for poverty in Latin America.
Prizes awarded are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Grand Prize -
$1,000, Certificate of Award<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Runner Up - $500,
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through Fifth Place - $100, Certificate of Participation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Besides the
monetary prizes, winners also will be featured in promotional and press
outreach. The Award is a great way to get today’s youths thinking outside the
box on how to bring attention to issues affecting Latin American communities. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Mr. Daniel
Chavez Moran is the founder of Grupo Vidanta, one of the largest developers of luxury
resorts, golf courses and real estate in Mexico and repeat winner of Best
Places to Work in Mexico. He also founded Vidanta Foundation, a prominent non-profit
institution whose primary aim is the reduction of poverty in Latin America
through the promotion of economic development, social sciences and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About the Daniel
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Daniel
Chávez Morán Award focuses on youths between the ages of twelve and eighteen. The
Award seeks to harness ideas from America's best and brightest youths. The
problems of poverty continue to plague many nations in Latin America. The Award
welcomes innovative ideas and forward thinking for new ways to tackle the
problem of poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Daniel Chávez
Morán, now retired from the development of hotels and resorts, founded Grupo
Vidanta in 1974 after graduating from The University of Guadalajara with a
degree in Civil Engineering. He retired in 2005 to found Fundación Vidanta
(originally named Fundación Grupo Mayan) and focus on philanthropy. Mr. Chávez Morán
is also the founder of Fundación Delia Morán A.C., which is focused on helping
children grow up in a healthy environment. While no longer active in Grupo
Vidanta itself, Mr. Chávez Morán's efforts in the non-profit sector help
promote the name of the companies he originally founded</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Learn more at
http://</span><a href="http://www.danielchavezmoranaward.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">www.danielchavezmoranaward.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-79891237212182286582013-09-24T19:42:00.000-07:002014-02-25T19:42:54.195-08:00The Grand Mayan at Riviera Maya Hosts the Third Meeting of the Advisory Board of United Nations Development Program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Grand Mayan at Riviera Maya Hosts the Third Meeting of the Advisory Board of United
Nations Development Program<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The debate on the Regional Human Development Report 2013, "
Public Safety: The Key to Human Development in Latin America," took place
on August 30-31 at the Grand Mayan Riviera Maya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Grupo Vidanta,
through the non-profit organization the Vidanta Foundation, co-organized and
co-sponsored the event in conjunction with the United Nations Development Program
(UNDP) and the government of Spain. This momentous event throughout Latin
America and the Caribbean was attended by former ministers, former presidents
and the highest authorities on security.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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discussed measures to reduce the problem of violence and citizen insecurity,
ensuring the participation of the three levels of government in the Latin
American and Caribbean countries, in partnership with civil society, academia
and international cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Heraldo Muñoz,
UN Under-Secretary General and Regional Director for Latin America and the
Caribbean, UNDP, was responsible for introducing the discussion on the safety report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Luis Alberto
Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) addressed the
vulnerabilities of the region on the issue of security and violence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the challenge faced by countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, from the
academic point of view, will be addressed by Jorge Dominguez, President of the
Harvard Academy for International Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Regarding the
subjects of most interest to the region, Alicia Barcena, Executive Secretary of
ECLAC, detailed the impacts of uncertainty, an issue that is considered the primary
concern of the population of Mexico and the rest of Latin America and the
Caribbean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Oscar Naranjo,
former General of the National Police of Colombia and Robert Russell, Chairman
of the Vidanta Foundation, presented the report's recommendations on how to
address the problems of violence and crime in the short, medium and long term,
in favor of society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Third
Meeting of the Advisory Board was attended by personalities including: Former
President of the Republic of Guatemala, Jose Miguel Insulza, Secretary General
of the Organization of American States (OAS), Enrique Iglesias, Secretary
General (SEGIB), Juan Ramon de la Fuente, President of the International
Association of Universities and Daniel Chavez Moran, Founder of the Vidanta
Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A special
guest of the event was Roberto Borge, Governor of the State of Quintana Roo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Grupo
Vidanta was honored to be the venue in which to discuss issues of global concern,
as we believe that for entrepreneurs, it is a must to be key players in the
solution and discussion of current issues that concerns us all,” said Eric
DuBaele, Director of Hotel Operations for Grupo Vidanta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-40684404863740549972013-09-24T08:00:00.000-07:002014-02-25T19:46:14.526-08:00Grupo Vidanta Announces Winners for Philanthropic Initiatives to Combat Poverty and Inequality in Latin America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ceremony for the Vidanta Foundation Awards 2013 was held this past December 4th
at the Santiago National Museum of Fine Arts. On this occasion there were two
award categories: “Lifetime Achievement Award” and “Contributions to reduction
of poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean Award”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Award was created in 2009, following an initiative of cooperation between the Organization
of American States (OAS), the Iberoamerican Secretary General (SEGIB) and the
Vidanta Foundation, with an annual total contribution of USD $225,000, which is
donated by the Foundation in its entirety. The award has the ultimate goal of
recognizing and supporting outstanding work carried forward in Latin American
and The Caribbean to reduce poverty, inequality and fight discrimination. Furthermore,
it seeks to promote humanitarian and solidarity values amongst the general
population and to encourage philanthropy and corporate social responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rica), Nora Lustig (Mexico), Jose Luis Machinea (Argentina), Luis Maira (Chile),
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75 organizations competing for this award. This is a very relevant testimony to
the principles of social solidarity that inspire people in Latin American
societies, projected specifically in benefit of millions of people in need.
Within this group, several of those projects were able to show substantial and
comparable values for this award. After careful consideration, the Jury opted
to award the Charity Organization “Hogar de Cristo” from Chile. To achieve this
result, the Jury considered the long history of the organization, the
generalized support of the Chilean people, and their effective and proven
commitment to overcome poverty, from the front of direct solidary action and
also from the front of an universal definition of poverty, which has even been
worthy of recognition from the Chilean State”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Charity “Hogar de Cristo” was originated in Chile in 1944 as an initiative of
San Alberto Hurtado, a Jesuit priest whom had great influence in the social
thinking of the country. The Charity’s main purpose is to reduce exclusion of
the more vulnerable and poorer sectors and bring society together in the fight
for their social integration. It has had a great development and has
established itself as the leading Chilean institution working with poor people.
It has tended to the needs of the most excluded groups in their society, acting
quickly upon emergencies (Santiago’s flood in 1994 and the earthquake on Feb
27, 2010), adapting their methodologies and lines of action to the changes
produced in society, collaborating and affecting the different sectors. In
recent years, they have developed campaigns and proposed models of intervention
to influence public policy directed to eradicate poverty and inequality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">This
organization executes activities in the Colombian Caribbean region since 2005.
Through their program “Multicultural Space for Women” they support over 2,000
indigenous and African-Colombian displaced women to promote and encourage the
integral human development and sustainability in their communities, through
participation in different decision making spaces at local, provincial and
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A.C. works with and supports highly marginalized <i>tzeltales </i>communities in the municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas,
with the goal of transitioning them from merely receiving help to actually
increasing their sustainable production of food. The model “Camino IXIM”
combines impactful actions at different time terms: at the immediate term,
mitigating hunger in between harvests through the provision of corn, at the medium
term through sustainable maize fields, orchards, water tanks and poultry to
increase the production and food quality, and at the long term with
agro-ecological sowing, benefiting the recovery of the soil’s fertility. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Project was born in 2002 with the purpose to work with communities of
transgender sex workers, official institutions workers, national police and the
general transgender population in the city of Quito. The project created the
Legal Patrol- an innovative approach based on the “alternative use of the law”-
which consists in the intervention of different teams of “itinerant legal
counseling” roaming the streets offering legal counseling to the transgender
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-14798067096858964662013-07-17T19:40:00.000-07:002014-02-25T19:41:17.729-08:00Grupo Vidanta Ranks as Top Hotel and Resort Company in 2013 Best Companies to Work® in Latin America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grupo Vidanta, Mexico’s leading developer
of resorts, today announced that it is recognized as the top hotel and resort
company in the American award known as “2013 Best Companies to Work®” in Latin
America. Grupo Vidanta’s showing placed ahead of many other well-known resort brands
in Latin America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grupo Vidanta was awarded eleventh place overall for all companies
with over 500 employees in Latin America. With no other resort company winning
better rankings, the following Grupo Vidanta property locations were ranked
among the best companies to work for in the 500+ employee category: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Grupo Vidanta website sums up their philosophy
perfectly: “Our people are happy and that is our greatest asset. The passion
they display every day to deliver the essence of happiness to every guest is an
amazing thing for a guest to experience and a hallmark of a Vidanta vacation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grupo Vidanta operates full-service luxury beach resorts in
Mexico's finest beaches, under Grand Luxxe, The Grand Bliss, The Bliss, The
Grand Mayan, Mayan Palace, Ocean Breeze and Sea Garden brands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Being named for this award year after year is such a great
honor,” says Eric DuBaele, Director of Hotel Operations for Grupo Vidanta. “It
just confirms that our company philosophy in regards to our employees is
something special. First it was Mexico,
now Latin America. Who knows what we can
accomplish next?”<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Great Place to Work®” had roots beginning in 1981. Over 25
years of research culminated in the world’s first 100 Best Companies to Work
For workplace ranking in 1997. Great Place to Work gradually opened doors in 45
countries with more to come, with the first rankings for Mexican companies
listed in 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Educational Programs: These programs are designed to promote
a safer work environment. Each year the company sponsors a health week, a
safe-workplace week, and a week where health professionals conduct free
physicals for staff members. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mayan With You: This program allows Grupo Vidanta workers to
help their families by giving them access to scholarships for their
children beginning in middle school all the way up to university
studies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well Done!: This program encourages excellent performance by
employees in the workplace, and it also encourages individual effort. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elite Club: This is a program created for workers who exhibit
excellent work ethics over a one-year period. These employees have
priority in the “Mayan With You” scholarships, different product sales
available to workers, access to the sports facility at the Delia Moran
Foundation and job security during low seasons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Innovating Together: This is an open forum where workers can
express their ideas and submit suggestions for improvement in any
department. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cafeteria services, free bus routes to and from the hotel, and one week to
vacation at a Grupo Vidanta brand resort depending on their level of employment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The ranking for Best Companies to Work® is the result of a
rigorous process of analysis and assessment of the views of employees and the
corporate culture. The main objectives of the rankings from the Great Place to
Work® Institute Latin America are to facilitate knowledge management and
share experiences among organizations that know how to get the best results
from business by improving the quality of their workplaces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rankings for Latin American companies with more than 500
employees can be found here: </span><a href="http://www.greatplacetowork.net/best-companies/best-workplaces-in-latin-america/best-companies-in-latin-america-more-than-500-employees"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.greatplacetowork.net/best-companies/best-workplaces-in-latin-america/best-companies-in-latin-america-more-than-500-employees</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-48778465255868260892013-04-19T16:34:00.001-07:002013-04-19T16:34:17.053-07:00TIME Magazine's latest 2013 Top 100 Most Influential People edition features Grupo Vidanta and its founder Mr. Daniel Chavez Moran<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Mexican resort specialist Grupo Vidanta is gearing up to
launch six new luxury brands throughout Latin America. A visionary group that has contributed to the
socioeconomic development of Mexico for more than 35 years, Vidanta invests in
some of the region’s most spectacular vacation destinations, responding to
market demands with stunning, state-of-the-art establishments.<br />
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Two of its brands, the Grand Mayan, which is present in
Nuevo Vallarta, Acapulco, Riviera Maya and Los Cabos, the Grand Bliss, in Nuevo
Vallarta, have earned the AAA Four Diamond Award for delivering a luxurious
experience with top-notch services and amenities. “Mexico is the land of opportunity”, says
Vidanta founder Daniel Chavez Moran.
“Even if we were not Mexican, we would invest in Mexico, because it is
about to take off in a big way. The
workforce here is second to none. We
employ around 14,000 workers, and this year were voted eighth-best company to
work for. Our employees are more than
happy with us, and this filters down to the service provision.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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With its aim of keeping its sites exclusive, Vidanta veers
away from the all-inclusive concept, believing that a quality service offering
best value will be most beneficial for its guests. “We are often full or at least at 80%
occupancy throughout the year, so it’s a good strategy and ultimately the most
profitable,” Chavez Moran says. “We are
currently building more than 120,000 square meters a year, which works out at
between 500 and 600 rooms of 200 meters a year.
Our prices are not the lowest in the industry, but we’re sure they offer
the best value for the money.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“As a businessman, I would say to investors: ‘Stay where you
are, I don’t want any more competitors’’.
But as a Mexican, I would tell them to come,” Chavez Moran says. Mexico is the best place in the world and now
offers the opportunity of a lifetime.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Founder of Grupo
Vidanta to join new Council created by United Nations Development Program
(UNDP) with dignitaries in policy, academia, business, media and civil society<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Regional
Directorate for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development
Program (UNDP) has created a new Advisory Council of Citizen Safety Project.
Its goal is to produce a comprehensive Report on Citizen Safety and Development
as part of its Citizen Security and Governance area. Mr. Daniel Chavez Moran,
founder of Grupo Vidanta and Vidanta Foundation, has been chosen as one of a
select group of distinguished individuals to join the Council. Mr. Moran is the
first and only businessman from all of Mexico handpicked to join the Council,
receiving this distinguished honor based on his breadth of knowledge ranging
from the private sector to public policy. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The process
started in September 2011 and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2013, and
will include a final diagnosis of the Latin America insecurity situation, data
collection, case analysis and policy recommendations. Rafael Fernandez de
Castro, former Presidential Advisor to President Felipe Calderon of Mexico and
Head of the Academic Department of International Studies at ITAM, Mexico will lead
coordination efforts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Council
includes several high profile individuals:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Daniel
Chavez Moran, founder of Grupo Vidanta and Vidanta Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Ernesto
Zedillo, former President of Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Michelle
Bachelet, former President of Chile<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">- Beatriz
Paredes, former Senator of Mexico<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">- Adriana
Cisneros, Vice Chairman of the Board and Director of Strategy, Cisneros Group<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Bill
Bratton, former Commissioner for the New York Police Department and the Los
Angeles Police Department<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Heraldo Muñoz,
UN Secretary General Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of
the United Nations Program for Development<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Alvaro
Saieh, President of Corp Group Interhold S.A.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Tabaré
Vazquez, former President of Uraguay<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Gregory F.
Traverton, Director, RAND Center for Global Risk and Security<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Norman
Quijano, Mayor of San Salvador, El Salvador<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Carlos
Romero, Interior Minister of Bolivia<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-Ana
Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Spain, Member of the State
Council of Spain<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the
UNDP’s priorities is to create processes for analysis, consultation, consensus-building,
strategizing and citizen involvement to contribute towards a better
understanding and treatment of the major public policy challenge of citizen
security. It was decided to create an Advisory Council of Citizen Safety
Project composed of various present and former Latin American presidents,
distinguished representatives of academic, politics, the mass media, civil
society and the private sector. The Council will be the main advisory body towards
the proposed stated objectives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Daniel
Chavez Moran founded </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Vidanta" title="Grupo Vidanta"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Grupo Vidanta</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> in 1974, a business dedicated to the development of
luxury hotels and resorts in Mexico. In 2010, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN" title="CNN"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">CNN</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> named him one of the top 100
most important businessmen in </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mexico</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. In
2005, he retired from his executive positions to focus on philanthropic
endeavors. In 2005, he founded the non-profit organization </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Vidanta_Foundation" title="Grupo Vidanta Foundation"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Vidanta
Foundation</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> whose
primary aim is the reduction of poverty in Latin America through the promotion
of economic development, social sciences and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Learn more
about the Regional Directorate for Latin America and the Caribbean of the UNDP
at </span></span><a href="http://www.undp.org/rblac"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.undp.org/rblac</span></span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></span></div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-342786093088107042013-04-16T22:37:00.002-07:002013-04-16T22:56:04.071-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran's Legacy Lives On<u>Vidanta Foundation's "Lifetime Achievement" Award, 2013</u><br />
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This is an open call for all applicants to submit for consideration for the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award.<br />
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Total prize monies of $100,000 USD will be granted to an individual or
non-profit organization which most convincingly shows achievements in
fighting the problem of poverty, inequality and discrimination in the
Americas and the Caribbean.<br />
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This award will be funded generously by the Vidanta Foundation, in
cooperation with the <a href="http://www.oas.org/">OAS (Organization of American States)</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Ibero-American_States#General_Secretariat">IASG (Ibero-American Secretary General).</a><br />
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Mr. Daniel Chavez Moran's legacy lives on in the continuing efforts of others. Best wishes to all applicants.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr. Daniel Chavez Moran, circa 1978. Real estate developer and philanthropist.</td></tr>
</tbody>Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-8695679436151784142011-10-28T09:31:00.000-07:002011-10-28T09:31:00.675-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran: Latin American Decade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Founded by Mexican philanthropist <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/">Daniel Chavez Moran</a>, the nonprofit <a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/">Vidanta Foundation</a> and its affiliated institutions of higher learning focus on the promotion of Latin American studies, and the analysis of Latin American international relations and strategies for a positive integration of the region in the global economy. Daniel Chavez Moran came across these insights on the <a href="http://www2.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/global-economic-outlook/a-view-from-latin-america/index.html">Latin American decade ahead</a> from Alberto Ramos of Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm: <br />
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<li>This definitely could be the Latin American decade—if policy-makers seize the opportunity to adopt longstanding structural reforms geared to increase productivity, diversify the economic base, and boost real GDP growth. </li>
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<li>Second-generation reforms that could help unlock the growth potential in Latin American economies include reforms in education, labor markets, and trade, but also institutional reforms aimed at increasing the efficiency of the public sector and at attracting domestic and foreign investment. </li>
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<li>Brazil has emerged as an important power in the region and has in recent years attracted significant portfolio and direct investment flows. But the large capital inflows added pressure on the exchange rate, which has reduced the overall competitiveness of Brazil's non-commodity exporters. </li>
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<li>China's emergence as a global economic and financial powerhouse and major consumer of commodities has admittedly levered the economic performance of Latin America. At the same time, China is now a formidable competitor in the export of manufacturing goods, particularly for Mexico. </li>
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<li>Since Latin America is commodity rich (given its large endowment of natural resources), it experiences a significant positive "wealth shock" when commodity prices rise. The macro resilience accumulated in recent years has better prepared the region to withstand negative price shocks, and so a downward correction of commodity prices should not in itself trigger disruptive macroeconomic dynamics. </li>
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Related posts: <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/chavez-moran-partnering-for-progress.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on partnering for progress</a> and <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/09/daniel-chavez-moran-on-mexicos-global.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on Mexico’s global economy</a>. </div>Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-18092476991834960772011-10-26T09:29:00.000-07:002011-10-26T09:29:00.078-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran on Uniting for Education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mexican philanthropist <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/">Daniel Chavez Moran</a> understands education is one of the keys to freeing people from the bondage of poverty throughout the Americas. His founding of the nonprofit <a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/">Vidanta Foundation</a>, and his founding of the Fundación Delia Moran A.C., in honor of his mother, a gifted school teacher, are testaments to that belief. Chavez Moran applauds efforts in the United States to improve education for the more than 11 million Hispanic students in America’s public elementary and secondary schools as noted in this <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/obama-appoints-shakira-to-education-commission/2011/10/05/gIQANHOeOL_blog.html">Washington Post</a> article:<br />
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“President Obama has appointed Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll — the Colombian singer better known around the world as Shakira — to a presidential commission on education for Hispanics... </blockquote>
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“Shakira was recently named the 2011 Latin Recording Academy person of the year. Here’s the biography of her on the White House release: </blockquote>
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She founded the Barefoot Foundation in 1995, which operates schools and educational projects in Colombia, South Africa, and Haiti, feeding and educating approximately 6,000 children. In 2010, she collaborated with the World Bank and the Barefoot Foundation to establish an initiative that distributes educational and developmental programs for children across Latin America. In 2008, Ms. Mebarak Ripoll served as the Honorary Chair of the Global Campaign for Education’s Global Action Week. In 2005, she became a founding member of Latin America in Solidarity Action, a coalition of artists and business leaders seeking to promote integrated early childhood public policies. Ms. Mebarak Ripoll became a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund in 2003, where she promotes the expansion and improvement of comprehensive early childhood care and education across the world.</blockquote>
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“...The other two members to be appointed to the advisory team are Adrian Pendoza, who leads a grass-roots immigration and education reform organization, and Kent Scribner, who serves as a school superintendent in Phoenix.”</blockquote>
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Related posts: <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/08/daniel-chavez-moran-opening-doors-to.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on opening doors to the future</a> and <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/daniel-chavez-moran-for-children.html">Daniel Chavez Moran: For the children</a>.</div>Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-26991905050735087632011-10-24T09:23:00.000-07:002011-10-24T09:23:00.332-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran: Welcomes Pan-American Games<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Vidanta Foundation, welcomes the thousands of international competitors and visitors to the Pan-American games, hosted Oct. 14-30, 2011, in Jalisco, Mexico.</div>
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About some of the venue cities from the <a href="http://www.visitmexico.com/editorial-pan-american-games-jalisco">Mexican Tourism Board</a>: <br />
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<li><b>Guadalajara:</b> Renowned as a state-of-the-art city and a business center, will be the main venue of the encounter which will gather 42 countries and over 5 thousand athletes. The second most populated city of the country also provides the visitors the typical mariachi, tequila and charrería (Mexican rodeo style), symbols which are representative of the city and the state in general. </li>
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<li><b>Tapalpa:</b> Named as a Magic Town and located at 118 kilometers from Guadalajara, this town offers ideal natural landscapes for extreme sports. Besides, its gastronomy includes delights as the sheep “al pastor,” rompope (kind of eggnog), fruits punch and pulque. </li>
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<li><b>Ciudad Guzmán: </b>Favorite place for the practice of ecotourism, will also be present in the sportive competition which will start on October 14th. The Volcano Nevado 'El Colima', which summit covers in white from December to February, as well as the Ecological Park Las Peñas and the Lagoon of Zapotlán are some of the places which allow the visitor to practice activities to the open sky. </li>
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<li><b>Puerto Vallarta:</b> Forms part of the beautiful Bahía de Banderas, and is one of the beach destinations more frequently visited in Mexico thanks to its tradition, beauty and hospitality. This site will be another sub-venue of the international games.</li>
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<li><b>Lagos de Moreno:</b> Another municipality which will form part of the Games is Lagos de Moreno, that was honored by UNESCO in 2010 thanks to its Historical Downtown, acknowledged as a Cultural Heritage of Mankind. This municipality provides a direct encounter to the roots of the Mexican identity. </li>
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Related posts: <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/06/chavez-moran-travel-news-of-note.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on travel news</a> and <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/04/daniel-chavez-moran-on-environmental.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on environmental stewardship</a>.
</div>Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-40860220621474687372011-10-21T13:27:00.000-07:002011-10-21T13:27:00.943-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran: Bridge to a New Energy Future<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/">Daniel Chavez Moran</a>, following a successful career as developer of five-star hotels and resorts, golf courses, vacation ownership resorts and tourism infrastructure throughout Latin America, founded the non-profit <a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/">Vidanta Foundation</a> to support public policies that strengthen democracy and promote economic and social development in Latin America. <br />
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<img src="file://localhost/Users/bjones/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_image002.gif" />Integration of the region in the global economy being key to that vision, Chavez Moran notes this <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110921-714678.html">Wall Street Journal</a> article about a new energy future for Latin America: <br />
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)--Brazil's emergence as a hot frontier for oil and natural gas was boosted Wednesday by two fresh discoveries, with exploration and development of the country's newfound oil wealth likely to attract billions in investments over the next decade.<br />
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Latin America's largest country is squarely in the cross hairs of the global oil industry, with Brazil's stable democracy and robust economic growth making it especially attractive...<br />
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Brazil is betting heavily on development of its offshore fields, with former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva--the predecessor and mentor to current head of state Dilma Rousseff--saying oil could transform the country by easing the crushing poverty afflicting many of its citizens. The area known as the pre-salt, where oil was found more than 4 miles below the ocean surface, could hold between 50 billion and 100 billion barrels of oil and make Brazil the world's fourth-largest crude producer and a top-10 exporter...<br />
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The latest discovery builds on a string of high-profile finds that started in 2007, when Brazil announced the first pre-salt oil field. The Tupi field, now in pilot production after being renamed Lula, was the largest discovery in the Western Hemisphere since Mexico's Cantarell in 1976. Lula alone is estimated to hold 6.5 billion barrels of recoverable oil...<br />
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Despite the technical challenges that make pumping oil from the ocean depths expensive and complicated, the Ernst & Young Terco-Getulio Vargas study said that oil exports could reach 600,000 barrels a day by 2020 and generate $27.9 billion in revenue. That's nearly double the $16.1 billion in oil-export revenue Brazil earned in 2010. </blockquote>
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Related posts: <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/chavez-moran-notes-economic-news.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on economic news</a> and <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/05/daniel-chavez-moran-globalization-and.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on globalization and Latin America</a>. </div>
Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-85879037517909113792011-10-19T13:21:00.000-07:002011-10-19T13:21:00.283-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran: Equality in Education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/">Daniel Chavez Moran</a> is the son of a gifted and caring school teacher. He is also the founder of Fundación Delia Moran A.C., which seeks to improve the lives of those less fortunate by providing support for poverty-stricken children ages 6 to 12 who struggle to survive each day.<br />
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<img src="file://localhost/Users/bjones/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip/0/clip_image002.gif" />Chavez Moran understands the vital role education plays in lifting people from poverty. That is why he read with interest this recent news from the <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39909&Cr=education&Cr1=">United Nations</a> on tackling the disparities in education faced by girls around the world:</div>
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3 October 2011 – With evidence showing that disparities in education widen as girls grow, the United Nations today kicked off a two-day meeting in Paris devoted to gender inequality in classroom achievement and on women’s leadership role in education. </blockquote>
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The forum on gender equality in education brings together experts, government officials and representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to examine the root causes of inequality between girls’ and boys’ school performances. </blockquote>
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While gender equality in education remains a crucial issue for many countries, women still account for two thirds of the world’s illiterate population and the majority of out-of-school children are girls, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which organized the forum. </blockquote>
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“Equality is not a numbers game,” UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said in her address to the meeting. </blockquote>
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“Equality implies the same chances of learning, of benefiting from equitable treatment within the school, and the same opportunities in terms of employment, wages and civic participation,” she added. </blockquote>
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...Participants at the forum will also consider the progress achieved in reducing the gender gap, and the obstacles that stand in the way of women’s ability to achieve senior leadership positions in the public sector and more specifically in education.</blockquote>
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Related posts: <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/daniel-chavez-moran-for-children.html">Daniel Chavez Moran: For the Children</a> and <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/02/honoring-his-mothers-work.html">Daniel Chavez Moran Honors his Mother’s Work</a>.</div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-713849074067593292011-10-17T13:17:00.000-07:002011-10-17T13:17:00.257-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran on Brighter Trade Horizons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/">Daniel Chavez Moran</a>, now retired from the development of hotels and resorts, founded Grupo Vidanta in 1974 after graduating from The University of Guadalajara with a degree in Civil Engineering. He retired in 2005 to found the <a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/">Vidanta Foundation</a>, which actively promotes public policies that support economic growth, strengthening democracy, and the reduction of poverty, inequality and discrimination in Latin America.<br />
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Chavez Moran follows news of global economic development with special interest, including this recent article, “Latin America Buffered Against Global Shock, World Bank Says,” from <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-20/latin-american-buffered-against-global-shock-world-bank-says.html">Bloomberg news</a>: </div>
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“Latin American countries such as Brazil, Colombia and Chile have created a buffer against a global recession after raising interest rates in the past 15 months, the World Bank said in a report today...Latin America and the Caribbean is forecast to grow between 3.5 percent and 4.5 percent this year, thanks to capital inflows and high commodity prices...the World Bank foresees emerging markets, including China, continuing to outgrow the developed world, with commodity prices remaining high...the emergence of China as a major trading partner for Latin America has been a driver of the region’s robust growth in the past decade, contrary to initial concerns that China ‘would outcompete and displace’ Latin America and the Caribbean... “</div>
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Related posts: <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/09/daniel-chavez-moran-latin-american_27.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on Latin American currencies gain</a> and <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/08/daniel-chavez-moran-economic-outlook.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on the economic outlook</a> for 2011. </div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-73620247163222603922011-10-14T13:11:00.000-07:002011-10-14T13:11:00.200-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran on Economic Growth in Brazil<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Retired resort developer and philanthropist <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/">Daniel Chavez Moran</a> encourages scholarly and civic projects supporting economic development and the growth of democracy throughout Latin America through the <a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/">Vidanta Foundation</a>, a nonprofit organization he founded in 2005.<br />
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Chavez Moran notes this recent positive economic news published by <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/22/uk-lufthansa-idUSLNE78L02Y20110922">Reuters news service</a> about growing economic opportunities in Brazil that will help increase tourism. An excerpt from that story: <br />
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(Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) will take advantage of strong economic performance in Latin America at a time when its businesses elsewhere are under pressure, a senior executive said on Wednesday...the carrier is expanding in Latin America, opening what it sees as key routes in recent months, including to Bogota and Rio de Janeiro. It has also launched an alliance with Colombian and Salvadoran tie-up AviancaTaca AVTp.CN for other routes.</blockquote>
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"We want to develop our business in Latin America because we see that the area has been quite stable during the crisis," Lufthansa's vice president for the Americas, Jurgen Siebenrock, told Reuters during a visit to Venezuela. </blockquote>
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"There's a lot of growth, especially in Brazil ... we want to be part of that," he said, citing the potential offered by Brazil hosting the 2014 soccer World Cup and 2016 Olympics.</blockquote>
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posts: </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/09/daniel-chavez-moran-on-revitalized.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on revitalized trade
relations</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/08/daniel-chavez-moran-rising-retail-sales.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on rising retail sales</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-26863552734429524472011-10-12T13:18:00.000-07:002011-10-12T13:18:00.208-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran Announces 2011 Prize Winners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">proudly announces the winners of the 2011
Vidanta Foundation Prize for "Contributions to the Reduction of Poverty
and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean."</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">First place and $100,000 is awarded to
Desarrollo Autogestionario, A. C. (AUGE), Mexico.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Second place and $75,000 is awarded to
CE-Mujer, Dominican Republic.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Third place and $50,000 is awarded to
Associação Para Valorização de Pessoas com Deficiência, (AVAPE), Brazil. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">The annual </span><a href="http://www.fundacionvidanta.org/en/index.php?secc=prize"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Vidanta Foundation Prize</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> is a joint initiative by the Organization of
American States (OAS), the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB) and the nonprofit
</span><a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Vidanta
Foundation</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">, founded by
Daniel Chavez Moran.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">More than
200 civic organizations throughout the Americas applied for the Vidanta
Foundation Prize this year. The winning submissions were selected on August 26,
2011, at Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, by an esteemed international
jury including Mrs. Billie Miller (Barbados), Mr. Carmelo Angulo (Spain), Luis
Maira (Chile), Esteban Moctezuma (Mexico) and Julio María Sanguinetti (Uruguay).
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"> Fundación
Allegro, Argentina.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Fundación
Instituto de la Mujer, Chile.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">Sin
Fronteras, I. A. P., Mexico.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Related
posts: </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/08/daniel-chavez-moran-opening-doors-to.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on opening doors</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> to the future and </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/04/2010-grupo-vidanta-foundation-first.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on creating opportunities</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">. </span></div>
Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-82962361245636493962011-10-03T09:53:00.000-07:002011-10-11T12:29:04.935-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran: Education in the Battle Against Poverty<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">As the son
of a school teacher in Mexico, </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel
Chavez Moran</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> remembers
the lessons taught to him by his mother who dedicated her life to helping
children combat the destructive combination of ignorance and poverty. That is
why Chavez Moran created Fundación Delia Moran A.C. in 2002 in his mother’s
honor to provide assistance to children ages 6 to 12 whose day-to-day life is a
constant struggle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">But more
needs to be done to battle poverty through education according to </span><a href="http://www.worldfund.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">WorldFund.org</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> , founded by Luanne Zurlo after a nine-year
career as a securities analyst on Wall Street: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Without
a high-level education, Latin American children will continue to lack the
skills necessary for entering the workforce and participating in the
increasingly competitive global economy.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span><br />
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<li>50 million people in Latin America cannot
read or write.</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Latin Americans receive an average of six
years of schooling, compared to nine-and-a-half years in the OECD (Organization
of Economic Cooperation and Development) countries.</span></span></li>
<li>Nearly one-third of children in primary
school in Latin America repeat a grade. The additional cost to the region's
education systems has been estimated at $4 billion per year.</li>
<li>Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru rank behind
Uganda, Zambia, Botswana and Burundi in the quality of their math and science
education.</li>
<li>In Mexico, only 13 percent of adults receive
a high school diploma versus 87 percent of American adults.</li>
<li>Over 50 percent of Mexican and Brazilian
15-year old youth are functionally illiterate and thus unable to compete in
today's economy.</li>
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Chavez Moran salutes the work of WorldFund.org and the dedication of all of those
involved in this important effort “to minimize the education gap in Latin
America by investing in high-quality and outcome-driven schools and education
programs that serve impoverished children.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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posts: </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/daniel-chavez-moran-for-children.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on youth and social
inclusion</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/02/honoring-his-mothers-work.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran honors his mother’s work</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-34409031552900422922011-09-29T09:36:00.000-07:002011-09-29T09:36:00.408-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran on Mexico’s Global Economy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel
Chavez Moran</span></b></a>, <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">a retired
developer now focused on philanthropy through the non-profit </span><a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Vidanta
Foundation</span></a>, r<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">ecognizes
that today’s global economy directly connects life in Mexico with decisions
made far away in Manhattan in the United States. He read with interest this
recent article on the subject in the </span><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21526899"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Economist
magazine</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">, excerpted
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<b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Making the desert bloom</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">...The
financial crisis of 2008 began on the trading floors of Manhattan, but the
biggest tremors were felt in the desert south of the Rio Grande. Mexico
suffered the steepest recession of any country in the Americas... Its economy
shrank by 6.1 percent in 2009... Between the third quarter of 2008 and the
second quarter of 2009, 700,000 jobs were lost, 260,000 of them in
manufacturing. The slump was deepest in the prosperous north: worst hit was the
border state of Coahuila. Saltillo, its capital, had grown rich exporting to
America. The state’s output fell by 12.3 percent in 2009 as orders dried up.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">The
recession turned a reasonable decade for Mexico’s economy into a dreary one. In
the ten years to 2010, income per person grew by 0.6 percent a year, one of the
lowest rates in the world. In the early 2000s Mexico boasted Latin America’s
biggest economy, measured at market exchange rates, but it was soon overtaken
by Brazil, whose GDP is now twice as big and still pulling away, boosted by the
soaring real...<br /> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Yet
Mexico’s economy is packed with potential. Thanks to the North American
Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and a string of bilateral deals, it trades more
than Argentina and Brazil combined, and more per person than China. Last year
it did $400 billion of business with the United States, more than any country
bar Canada and China...</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Though
expatriates whinge about bureaucracy, the World Bank ranks Mexico the easiest
place in Latin America to do business and the 35th-easiest in the world, ahead
of Italy and Spain...<br /> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">These
strengths have helped Mexico to rebound smartly from its calamitous slump... </span></blockquote>
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posts: </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/08/daniel-chavez-moran-on-latin-americas.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on Latin America’s decade
of growth</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/daniel-chavez-moran-path-to-mexicos.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on the path to Mexico's
future</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-24021265984914120162011-09-27T09:35:00.000-07:002011-09-27T09:35:00.915-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran: Latin American Currencies Gain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Though now retired,
Mexican entrepreneur </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> remains dedicated to advancing democracy and
economic opportunity for all of Latin America through his philanthropic work
with the non-profit </span><a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Vidanta Foundation</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">. Chavez Moran also follows economic news and
notes this </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/markets-latam-forex-idUSN1E77S0WJ20110829"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">recent report from Reuters</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> news service regarding gains for Latin
American currencies and the inter-relation of the economies of Mexico and the
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DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Latin American currencies gained
against the U.S. dollar on Monday, led by Mexico's peso, after better-than-expected
U.S. economic activity reduced concern that the world's largest economy is entering
another recession. U.S. consumer spending rose 0.8 percent in July, its fastest
pace in five months, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday. The result
beat the 0.5 percent expected by 59 economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters ECONALLUS.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">The
United States is responsible for about 80 percent of Mexico's export earnings
and is the largest or second-largest trading partner of most Latin American
countries. "When you get news of growth in the U.S., that's better for the
peso," said Marcelo Salomon, chief economist for Brazil and Mexico at
Barclay's Capital in New York. "Concern about the United States going into
recession would have been bad news not just for Mexico but for the rest of
Latin America as well."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Related posts: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/08/daniel-chavez-moran-economic-outlook.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on economic outlook</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> for 2011 and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/chavez-moran-public-forum-with-mexican.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Chavez Moran: A Public Forum with Mexican
President Calderón</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">.</span>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-76540798387488020842011-09-25T09:26:00.000-07:002011-09-25T09:26:00.506-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran: Latin American-European Relations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Retired businessman </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel
Chavez Moran</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> announces the
international seminar, "Latin America and Europe and its Global Relationships,"
sponsored by the non-profit </span><a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Vidanta Foundation</span></a>, <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">will take place on Sep. 13, 2011, in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. The meeting will be held at the Torcuato Di Tella University,
an associated institution of the Vidanta Foundation. The seminar is cosponsored by the magazine
Nueva Sociedad, and its participants will be prominent figures from Europe and
Latin America.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">About </span><a href="http://www.utdt.edu/ver_contenido.php?id_contenido=1346&id_item_menu=2876"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Torcuato Di Tella University</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">“A
non-profit private university...Located in the Belgrano neighbourhood of Buenos
Aires, Argentina, it has an undergraduate enrollment of 1,200 students and a
graduate enrollment of 1,300. The university is focused primarily on social
sciences. The undergraduates majors available are economics, business
administration, law, political science, international relations, history and
more recently, architecture. The university also offers 28 graduate programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">“Universidad
Torcuato Di Tella was founded in 1991, with the mission of educating new
generations of academics, and business, social and political leaders. It was
founded by the Torcuato di Tella Foundation, making use of the experience and
resources of the Torcuato di Tella Institute. The latter, a non-profit
institute founded in 1958 to promote research in the interest of scientific,
cultural and artistic development in Argentina, became a leading local center
for avant-garde art during the 1960s. The establishments' namesake, Torcuato di
Tella, had been a leading Argentine industrialist through his Siam di Tella
conglomerate (founded in 1911).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Related posts: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/chavez-moran-notes-economic-news.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran notes economic news</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/daniel-chavez-moran-us-latin-american.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on U.S.-Latin American
relations</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">. </span>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-72978123387649295402011-09-22T09:16:00.000-07:002011-09-22T09:16:00.509-07:00Chavez Moran Announces Gov. Richardson as Speaker, Constructing Democratic Governance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Philanthropist </span><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran</span></b></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> is pleased to announce Bill Richardson,
former two-term governor of New Mexico, U.S., will be the keynote speaker of
the seminar titled "La Construcción de la Gobernabilidad Democrática,"
sponsored by the non-profit </span><a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Vidanta Foundation</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">. The seminar will take place on Oct. 6-7,
2011, in Washington, D.C. Its primary
objective will be to present and discuss the main findings of the Vidanta
Foundation’s Constructing Democratic Governance series, coordinated by </span><a href="http://www.thedialogue.org/staff#Michael_Shifter"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Michael Shifter at the Inter-American Dialogue</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> and </span><a href="http://www.gov.harvard.edu/people/faculty/jorge-dominguez"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Jorge Dominguez at Harvard University</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.billrichardson.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Gov. Richardson</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> served as the 30th governor of New Mexico
from 2003 to 2011. Before being elected governor, Richardson served in the
administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to the United
Nations, and as Energy Secretary. Richardson has also served as a U.S.
Congressman, chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and chairman
of the Democratic Governors Association.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">The </span><a href="http://www.fundacionvidanta.org/en/index.php?secc=project05"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Constructing Democratic Governance</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> project sponsored by the Vidanta Foundation is
concerned with democratic institutions and practice in the Latin America. Scholarly
publications resulting from the project have been widely used in college and
university classes concerned with democracy in Latin America and have been
cited frequently by policy specialists grappling with the complicated issues
surrounding democratic progress in the region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Despite
progress in recent years, almost all Latin American countries continue to face
challenges, and possible setbacks, to democratic governance and the rule of
law. In light of these critical problems, it is productive to once again take
an in-depth, systematic look at regional trends in democratic governance. The
central purpose of such an assessment is to illuminate current trends and
challenges and to make practical lessons available to analysts and key decision
makers on Latin American issues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Related posts: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/08/daniel-chavez-moran-on-democratic.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on democratic progress</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;"> in Latin America and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/06/daniel-chavez-moran-constructing.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">Daniel Chavez Moran on constructing
democratic governance</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt;">.</span>
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Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-77794092807623261092011-09-12T11:12:00.000-07:002011-09-12T11:12:00.326-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran: Creating More Value<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmHKS8sxbd21QwWWOGOUPozTyFbWM7OQ1Y2w5YlIddFGQyrczPfFUfOaFkj4P7P4MG2y8lmnj4jofMGMEPkR383e0AvRLodFYy_DuQkgomILhKo8KWDST8ulEtMwi0MxdMWR5FBXf8cWf/s1600/Daniel-Chavez-Moran-Creating-More-Value.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Daniel Chavez Moran on value through CSR." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjmHKS8sxbd21QwWWOGOUPozTyFbWM7OQ1Y2w5YlIddFGQyrczPfFUfOaFkj4P7P4MG2y8lmnj4jofMGMEPkR383e0AvRLodFYy_DuQkgomILhKo8KWDST8ulEtMwi0MxdMWR5FBXf8cWf/s1600/Daniel-Chavez-Moran-Creating-More-Value.jpg" /></a></div>Retired Mexican entrepreneur <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/">Daniel Chavez Moran</a> learned from his mother, a great teacher who dedicated her life to helping children combat ignorance and poverty, that the true measure of a man’s success is not what he makes of himself but how he helps others. That is why Daniel Chavez Moran created Fundación Delia Moran A.C. in 2002 to help young children whose day-to-day life is a constant struggle to survive. That is also why he founded the non-profit <a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/">Vidanta Foundation</a>, with a primary goal of promoting the social sciences and culture of Latin America as well as promoting corporate social responsibility. A recent paper <a href="http://hbr.org/2011/01/the-big-idea-creating-shared-value/ar/1">published by the Harvard Business Review</a> explains the impact corporations can have in creating even more economic and social value for the communities they serve. Here are excerpts:<br />
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</div><blockquote>Companies must take the lead in bringing business and society back together. The recognition is there among sophisticated business and thought leaders, and promising elements of a new model are emerging... </blockquote><blockquote>The solution lies in the principle of shared value, which involves creating economic value in a way that also creates value for society by addressing its needs and challenges. </blockquote><blockquote>...Capitalism is an unparalleled vehicle for meeting human needs, improving efficiency, creating jobs, and building wealth. But a narrow conception of capitalism has prevented business from harnessing its full potential to meet society’s broader challenges. The opportunities have been there all along but have been overlooked. Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues we face. The moment for a new conception of capitalism is now; society’s needs are large and growing, while customers, employees, and a new generation of young people are asking business to step up. </blockquote><blockquote>...The concept of shared value, in contrast, recognizes that societal needs, not just conventional economic needs, define markets. It also recognizes that social harms or weaknesses frequently create internal costs for firms—such as wasted energy or raw materials, costly accidents, and the need for remedial training to compensate for inadequacies in education. And addressing societal harms and constraints does not necessarily raise costs for firms, because they can innovate through using new technologies, operating methods, and management approaches—and as a result, increase their productivity and expand their markets.</blockquote><div><br />
</div><div>Related posts: <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/08/daniel-chavez-moran-on-sustainable.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on sustainable development</a> and <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/chavez-moran-celebrates-growing-role-of.html">Daniel Chavez Moran celebrates the growing role of women</a>. </div></div>Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197320448079474211.post-74272702049523832122011-09-08T10:57:00.000-07:002011-09-08T10:57:00.178-07:00Daniel Chavez Moran On Revitalized Trade Relations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvy7EAk1DnU5E_mw2dzQMQ-2DRcIaBs4SWt7N3zAHTGG4atwgVKrr7VBUix1xQWKnUwTd97ExKM1_yGrzYRbPTPCFfEgw-5o5zVCYml_CotNsOKe2ZwLSHgiWVVhngRtuTBuF5VZJqx6TK/s1600/Daniel-Chavez-Moran-Revitalized-Trade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Daniel Chavez Moran on revitalized trade relations." border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvy7EAk1DnU5E_mw2dzQMQ-2DRcIaBs4SWt7N3zAHTGG4atwgVKrr7VBUix1xQWKnUwTd97ExKM1_yGrzYRbPTPCFfEgw-5o5zVCYml_CotNsOKe2ZwLSHgiWVVhngRtuTBuF5VZJqx6TK/s1600/Daniel-Chavez-Moran-Revitalized-Trade.jpg" /></a></div>Building on lessons learned from his career as developer of five-star hotels and resorts, golf courses, vacation ownership resorts and tourism infrastructure throughout Latin America, the now-retired Mexican philanthropist <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/">Daniel Chavez Moran</a> founded the non-profit <a href="http://www.vidantafoundation.org/">Vidanta Foundation</a> in 2005 to support public policies that strengthen democracy and promote economic and social development in Latin America.<br />
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</div><div>With positive international relations and integration of the region in the global economy being key to that vision, Chavez Moran notes this news of successful trade meetings between Canada and Brazil as published by <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/08/07/harper-brazil-visit.html">CBC News</a>:</div><div><br />
</div><blockquote>Canada signed a series of agreements with Brazil Monday that <a href="http://pm.gc.ca/eng/index.asp">Prime Minister Stephen Harper</a> says will boost business ties and increase the flow of goods and people between the two countries. </blockquote><blockquote>Harper and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/dilma_rousseff/index.html?scp=1&sq=Brazilian%20President%20Dilma%20Rousseff%20&st=cse">President Dilma Rousseff</a> signed the pacts on air travel, pension benefits, international aid and other areas at the presidential palace in Brasilia. </blockquote><blockquote>Brazil is the first stop on Harper's six-day tour of South and Central American countries that will see him try to improve trade relations in perilous economic times. </blockquote><blockquote>The agreements signed Monday will enhance Canada's competitiveness and translate into other benefits for Canadian businesses and consumers, Harper said in a release announcing the agreements. </blockquote><blockquote>“Brazil is a major global economic player and a key priority market for Canada,” said Harper. “These agreements will benefit both countries by promoting greater two-way flow of people, goods and services, enhancing our competitiveness and further strengthening our partnership in key areas of shared interest.”</blockquote><div><br />
</div><div>Related posts: <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/07/chavez-moran-notes-economic-news.html">Daniel Chavez Moran notes economic news</a> and <a href="http://daniel-chavez-moran.blogspot.com/2011/06/daniel-chavez-moran-contemporary-inter.html">Daniel Chavez Moran on contemporary inter-American relations</a>. </div></div>Daniel Chavez Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12904951173068199401noreply@blogger.com0