By Eliza Barclay
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican Supreme Court handed down a ruling last weekthat could herald dramatic changes for this nation's viewers.The nation's highest court ruled against the nation's two bigtelevision companies Televisa and TV Azteca, striking down key portionsof a law that critics said would allow them to continue to dominatethis business.
In the past, licenses have rarely been available to companies otherthan Azteca or Televisa, according to Gabriel Sosa, a professor and expert in media and telecommunications at the Metropolitan Autonomous University.
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Saludos todos.....
(i) Comentarios de Cablevision..
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Broc, whose company holds a fixed-line license and has requested interconnection with several phone companies including Telmex, said regulators need to do more to enforce existing interconnection rules.
"Cablevision doesn't have to be forced into the triple-play agreement to be given interconnection," he said. "In theory, Telmex has to give us interconnection. In practice, we are going to see if it can be done."
Mexico's fragmented cable TV industry, which is comprised of more than 200 companies, will have to consolidate into two or three large companies if it expects to capture an important share of the phone and Internet market, Broc said.
Cablevision already ranks as one of the country's top three cable companies with net sales of 1.98 billion pesos ($183.3 million) last year, and 504,345 pay-TV and 107,534 Internet clients in Mexico City and Mexico State at the end of March.
Televisa has taken steps to acquire other cable operators, buying half of Monterrey-based TVI and convertible bonds for 49% of Cablemas.
"I think what Televisa is trying to do is help strengthen the (cable) industry," Broc said.
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(ii) Comentarios de la CFC
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http://mx.invertia.com/noticias/noticia.aspx?idNoticia=200706291201_INF_499143&idtel=
EN JULIO, FALLO DE CFC POR CABLEMÁS
CIUDAD DE MEXICO.- En la tercera semana de julio la Comisión Federal de Competencia (CFC) emitirá su fallo sobre la compra que Televisa quiere hacer del 49 por ciento de Cablemás. Eduardo Pérez Motta, presidente de la CFC, dijo en entrevista lo anterior y explicó que el organismo antimonopolios ha observado que las empresas de televisión por cable deben contar con jugadores de mayor tamaño para que puedan competir en mejores condiciones contra Teléfonos de México.
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(iii) Comentario de moi
Lo que me sorpende es que muchos de ustedes todavia piensan que al UltraDerechista FC le interese la democracia. Realmente, no pueden imaginar la desilusion mia, al saber que tantos Mexicanos se dejen manipular por la Derecha, por Televisa y por Azteca.
Que lastima que el sistema educativo de Mexico sea tan deficiente, que facilite la manipulacion.
En torno a los citaciones de arriba, es mas que obvio que TV y la CFC y la UltraDerecha ya estan de acuerdo, Televisa tiene que seguir de compras, a pesar de lo nocivo para la democracia.
(iv) Finalmente, no puede irme sin informarlos de una reciente entrevista a Vargo Llosa por parte del consejo editorial del Wall Street Journal. Me imagino que Vargas Llosa ni se ha percatado que el se ha convertido en un "idiota util" de la Derecha, en la misma manera que muchos "izquierdistas" de Mexico no se han dado cuenta que son los "idiotas utiles" del PAN/PRI.
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COMMENTARY: THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW
Mario Vargas Llosa
Storyteller
By EMILY PARKER
June 23, 2007; Page A11
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Mr. Vargas Llosa discovered that this phenomenon was hardly limited to Latin America. "I went to Iraq after the invasion," he tells me. "When I heard stories about the sons of Saddam Hussein, it seemed like I was in the Dominican Republic, hearing stories about the sons of Trujillo! That women would be taken from the street, put in automobiles and simply presented like objects . . . The phenomenon was very similar, even with such different cultures and religions." He concludes: "Brutality takes the same form in dictatorial regimes."
Did this mean that Mr. Vargas Llosa supported the invasion of Iraq? "I was against it at the beginning," he says. But then he went to Iraq and heard accounts of life under Saddam Hussein. "Because there has been so much opposition to the war, already one forgets that this was one of the most monstrous dictatorships that humanity has ever seen, comparable to that of Hitler, or Stalin." He changed his mind about the invasion: "Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt."
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Patricia
Saludos todos.
Otro comentario, para demostrarles que tan equiovocado esta la Derecha en torno a los cambios fiscales propuestos por estos Extremistas.
Cuando alguien me pregunta sobre Mexcio, siempre digo lo mismo. Mexico es lo que EEUU seria, si no fuera por el Partido Democrata.
Osea, los Republicanos, como el PAN, no permiten a las mujeres tener el derecho a decidir sobre su cuerpo. El PAN, como el GOP, aboga por una Tasa Unica. El PAN, como el GOP, cree que el individuo debe ayudarse a si mismi, sin la ayuda del gobierno.
Gracias a Dios, en EEUU, los medios le prestan una plataforma a los Democratas, para, por ejemplo, frustrar el plan de Bush de cuentas individuales para el seguro social. En Mexico Mediocre, desgraciadamente, por culpa de la UltraDerecha, y Conformismo, Televisa y Azeca le niegan al partido hermana de los Democratas, el PRD, la plataforma para educar la gente.
La nota tambien muestra la diferencia entre el elite de EEUU y Mexico. En EEUU, como he dicho muchas veces, los elites, en particular los egresados de Stanford y Harvard, pertenecen a la CentroIzqueirda, y reconocen que el gobierno debe jugar un papel primordial en la economia. En Mexico, son unos egoistas que lo unico que desean es pagar menos impuestos, y seguir viviendo en un Mexico Mediocre en el cual ellos son "lideres".
Patricia
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Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary
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Tom Bawden in New York
Warren Buffett, the third-richest man in the world, has criticised the US tax system for allowing him to pay a lower rate than his secretary and his cleaner.
Speaking at a $4,600-a-seat fundraiser in New York for Senator Hillary Clinton, Mr Buffett, who is worth an estimated $52 billion (£26 billion), said: “The 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of our income in taxes than our receptionists do, or our cleaning ladies, for that matter. If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”
Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Mr Buffett told his audience, which included John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley, and Alan Patricof, the founder of the US branch of Apax Partners, that US government policy had accentuated a disparity of wealth that hurt the economy by stifling opportunity and motivation.
The comments are among the most signficant yet in a debate raging on both sides of the Atlantic about growing income inequality and how the super-wealthy are taxed.
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They echo those made this month by Nicholas Ferguson, one of the leading figures in Britain’s private equity industry, when he criticised tax rates that left its multimillionaire venture capitalists “paying less tax than a cleaning lady”.
Last week senior members of the US Senate proposed to increase the rate of tax that private equity and hedge fund staff pay on their share of the profits, known as carried interest, from the 15 per cent capital gains rate to about 35 per cent.
Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, acknowledged in an interview yesterday that there were justified concerns about the huge profits generated by private equity firms and that he worried that income inequality was “poisoning democracy”. He also said that he would be voting for the Democrat candidate at the next election. Mr Blankfein is the highest-paid executive on Wall Street, earning $54 million last year.
Mr Buffett, who runs the investment group Berkshire Hathaway and is widely regarded as the world’s most successful investor, said that he was a Democrat because Republicans are more likely to think: “I’m making $80 million a year – God must have intended me to have a lower tax rate.”
Mr Buffett said that a Republican proposal to eliminate elements of inheritance tax, which raises about $30 billion a year from the assets of about 12,000 rich families, would broaden the disparity between rich and poor. He added that the Republicans would seek to recover lost revenue by increasing taxes for the less prosperous.
He said: “You could take that $30 billion and give $1,000 to 30 million poor families. Or should you favour the 12,000 estates and make 30 million families pay an extra $1,000?”
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