Fair Trade

Santiago Ornelas
Matias Fritch
Eduardo Ragasol



Lindsey and Grace we shared the document with the purpose of checking the
new content in Costa Rica.
Thanks,
Step 1:

1)
Country & population:
-Costa Rica
-4,586,353

Type of government & definition:
Costa Rica is a democratic republic. Responsibilities are owned by a president, who is
the country's center of power. There also are two vice presidents and a 20 member
cabinet. Theres a new president every four years.

Education:
Costa Rica made education both free and obligatory for all its population. This has
made the education in Costa Rica improve. The country has invested 30% of its
national budget in education.

Healthcare:
Costa Rica provides universal health care to its population. Costa Rica offers one of the
of the best healthcare in Latin America. They are constantly improving their facilities, for
example, new hospitals, new clinics, new machines, etc. "The United Nations has
ranked Costa Ricas health care system, the top 20 worldwide and the number 1 in
Latin America.

Distribution of wealth:
Costa Rica has a large, middle class, and a equal distribution of wealth. The poorest 20
percent of the population have 4 percent of total income and the richest 20 percent
have 52 percent of total income. 9.6 percent of the population is extremely poor. The
country had a per capita income of $7.

Crime and Incarceration Rates:
The criminal threat for San Jose is provoke by the U.S. Department of State. Violent
crime is of significant concern to the local security services. However, in 2013, there
was a marked decrease in the number of homicides committed. In 2013, there were 394
murders committed, down from the 2012 total of 459.



Human Rights:
Costa Ricas human rights are very well created, with almost all the things needed to
raise a country's human rights. And also their constitution has a big part of it dedicated
to human rights.
Environmental awareness:
Current issues: Deforestation and land use change, largely a result of the clearing of
land for agriculture; soil erosion.

Global Peace Index:
June 12, 2013 Internal security and tensions with its northern neighbor, Nicaragua, are
some of the reasons cited for Costa Rica falling four spots on the Global Peace Index to
take the 40 position this year.

2)
Country and Population:
Portugal, 10,562,178 total Population
Type of Government:
Parliamentary Democracy, is in who state has the executive branch derives its
democratic legitimicy and is held to the parliament.
Distribution of Wealth:
Has an un balanced Wealth distribution.
Healthcare:
Portugal Government counts has a health system to support the population of Portugal
giving them free care clinics and hospitals. Acording to there Health Report in 2013,
people have a life expectancy of 77.9 years.
Education:
Is free and compulsory until the age of 18 years. The education is regulated by the
Ministry of Education. According to the Portugese Factbook, 3.7 million of the actual
workers completed the basic education. The other percentage of the workers had a low
basic education and work in different kind of jobs.
Crime and Incarceration Rate:
Voilent Crime has increased in Portugal since 2009. Is one of the largest country
counsumer of Heroine and produce Opium. But to look in the good side, they are the
16th peacful country in the world. Theres more than 4 gang mafias in the country but
there drug trafficking in the city is very moderated and controlled.
Human Rights:
Portugal has a Treat Equal book that writes the human rights for each human being in
this country. Still though, women rights are completely done as they are written.
Violence against women is increasing but the governement is trying to control this
problem with the block lf trafficking of products of the guilty gangs.

The Portuguese penal system was under the control of the minister of justice. Portugal
had thirty-nine prisons and three military prisons as of 1988. The civilian prisons
included twelve central prisons, twenty-four regional prisons, and three special
institutions. Their total capacity was 7,633, and the actual population as of December
31, 1987, was 8,361. Of this total, 6,964 were adult males, 475 were adult females, and
922 were youths under the age of twenty-one. There were 186 military prisoners. The
prison population had remained fairly stable between 1984 and 1988. By far the largest
institutions were the central prisons, which had a total capacity of 4,870. The regional
prison capacity was 1,758; the special prison, 706; and the military prisons, 299.


3)
Type of government and definition:
Federal Republic: a state in which the powers of the central government are restricted
and in which the component parts, state, colonies, or provinces, ultimate sovereign
power rests with the voters who choose their governmental representatives.
Human rights: indigenous rights, treatment of immigrants, child abuse.
Indigenous autonomy is understood as respect for the internal practice and decision
making of indigenous the national level and to have it built into the towns. The right of
Mexican peoples to organize local, regional, and national levels is respected. Almost
two million undocumented immigrants have been deported from the U.S. Officially they
are being sent home, but often deportation means that they need to be separated from
their families; still in the U.S. they are starting a new life from cero.
Healthcare
In general healthcare in Mexico is very good. Most doctors and dentists in Mexico
received at least part of their training in the U.S. Every medium to large city in Mexico ,
on average about 50% less than the same drugs in the U.S. are cheaper or are included
in health insurance. In Mexico costs much less than it does in the U.S.
Environmental Awareness and Progress:
Mexican families and communities demonstrate environmental awareness and begin to
make behavioral choices. Mexico has multiple opportunities to learn and develop.
Mexico is the fourth must active country in the clean development, although it is
overpopulated and that causes contamination.



Distribution of Wealth

Taking the country as a whole, Mexico has a very unequal distribution of wealth.
Members of the upper class were those who owned the land that the lower class
cultivated.
Mexican government redistributed 50 % of the land held by the landed gentry.
Unfortunately 10% of Mexicans are wealthy, another 30% are middle class, fully 60% of
the Mexicans are poor. The countries income is very unevenly distributed.

Education

Mexico is closed to the average of 6.3% of the nerly 30 countries in the organization for
economic cooperation and development. Yet Mexico falls to last place in the last report
of education.93%of the money destined to public education cover salaries, and the
county does not know exactly how many teacher it has.
Only half of the students who begin primary education finish and 7 out of 10 teens do
not undestand what they read. The public education sysytem remains one of the most
important challenges in Mexico.

Crime and Incarceration Rates

There are a number of factors contribuiting of crime of the mexican population . Among
the contributing factors of employment and small wages thar cause to commit theft and
robbery for the purpose of obtaining what they need to survive.
Mexicans as a whole ,are restricted in certain kinds of labor and they are so badly paid
that they need to find many works or they start to do illegally activities in order to have
enough money to survive.









Step 2:

1) Of the three countries we choose we think that Portugal is the most effectively
organized because of:

- The Portuguese penal system was under the control of the minister of justice. Portugal
had thirty-nine prisons and three military prisons as of 1988. The civilian people
included twelve central prisons, twenty-four regional prisons, and three special
institutions.

-Portugal government has the best rehabilitation penal system because it provides the
most advanced technology for this.

-Portugal is the 16th safest country in the world.

-Portugal includes a fair trade reform that makes a fair square trade.

-Portugal has a free education system until the age of 18, most country has studied all
the basic education.


2) Of the three countries we choose we think that Costa Rica is the worst effectively
organized because of:
Costa Ricas security; in Costa Rica the security isnt very good, in 2013 394 murders
were committed. You might think this isn't as much as in Mexico, but it is a lot
considering its population. This numbers are decreasing but it isn't enough. Another
thing we think that Costa Rica has to improve is the Environmental issues, like
deforestation, soil erosion, sea pollution, etc. Also Costa Rica has a lot of poor people.
For example, 9.6 percent of the population was reported poor in 1998, compared to an
average of 15.6 percent for Latin America and the Caribbean. For these reasons we
think that Costa Rica has to improve in the way they build their society.

3)
-A good economy.
-Healthcare
-Social Benefit
-Cultural and technological support
-Good laws
-Security
-Education
We think that these are some of the most important factors to determine if a society is a
good one or not, because of its weight in all the world.


4 )Government:
a state in which ultimate sovereign power rests with the voters who choose their
governmental representatives with a very strong system of constitutional checks and
balances, which is monarchy ceased to be absolute.