DEDICATED TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE World Business Council for Sustainable Development Case Study 2007 Ledesma Local Supplier Development Program Ledesma’s Local Supplier Development Program aims to strengthen job-creation in and the economic development of the province of Jujuy‚ in Argentina‚ and particularly in the area where its employees live. In doing so‚ the company designed a program in which the growth of local suppliers could also provide benefits for the company. In this
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eliminated Salvador Allende who was a socialist president. Pinochet joined the Chilean army at the age of 20(1935). He was a military officer but rose through the ranks and was then appointed as Commander in Chief by President Salvador Allende in 1973. After a month of being appointed as Commander‚ Pinochet led the military coup overthrowing Allende and his government as well as the presidential palace‚ which was attacked by air assaults. Pinochet’s premeditated plan against Allende was supported
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September 11‚ 1973 as they communicated over the willingness of Allende to negotiate‚ but the general will hear nothing of it. That same morning a Chilean Air Force plane flew over the skies of La Moneda‚ presidential palace of Santiago‚ Chile and bombed it. Inside Salvador Allende‚ the first Marxist-Socialist chief of state ever elected in a democratic country via free vote three years earlier . Rather than surrender to a military coup‚ Allende commits suicide . Many reasons exist as to why the Chilean
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forced the hands of the workers to either live free‚ or die trying to gain that freedom. The necessity for the Chilean revolution was not only seen from the bottom up perspective of the workers‚ it also was recognized from the top down‚ by the Salvador Allende government‚ and the people of Chile who voted his Populist Party into power. Faced with the majority of its wealth in the hands of the elite class and foreign investors‚ the workers‚ peasants‚ urban lower class‚ and the indigenous population
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opposition groups during that time period and "sought to instigate a coup to prevent Allende from taking office. By 1973‚ Chilean society had grown highly polarized‚ between strong opponents and equally strong supporters of Salvador Allende and his government. Military actions and movements‚ separate from the civilian authority‚ began to manifest in the countryside. A failed military coup was attempted against Allende in June 1973. After the coup‚ Chileans witnessed a large-scale repression‚ which started
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As a result of this‚ Alessandri did not win the 1964 election. The U.S. once again campaigned against him‚ and supported Eduardo Frei Montalva. He was chosen because the U.S. feared that failures of Alessandri would push the people to support Allende. “He lost against the candidate of the Christian Democrat Frei‚ whose campaign was heavily backed by the CIA. But while the Johnson Administration was very afraid of the consequences if the Left won the election‚ the Christian Democrat Frei was no
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“The call to adventure” deals with the experience to follow the quest that presents itself and the hero/heroine must decide whether they will embark on the journey or refuse the call. In Nineteen Eighty Four Winston’s “call to adventure” acts as his first act of rebellion. He buys a diary at Mr. Charrington’s store where he writes in it hidden out of site of the telescreens. Oceania faces a totalitarian government‚ “ The comprehensive and detailed control of all ideas‚ beliefs and statements demonstrates
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Bureaucratic-Authoritarian (BA) coined by Guillermo O’Donnell‚ in the mid-1970s to explain the nature of the authoritarian regimes that ruled the region from the 1960s to the 1980s. BA is normally ruled by a military junta instead of a caudillo that is military juntas rather than individual dictators. It is characterised by having people from bureaucratic careers in higher governmental positions‚ political and economic exclusion of the popular sector‚ depoliticalization and the increasing capacity
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Cold War Influence in Latin America The United States and the Soviet Union competed against each other during the Cold War in the second half of the 20th Century like a chess game‚ with the world as their chessboard and countries as pawns in their game. For the Russians‚ a critical part of the chessboard was Cuba and Latin America. The Russians believed that if they could align themselves with countries in the western hemisphere‚ America’s “backyard”‚ it would help the Soviet Union counter the strong
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beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. The “Crystal Night” ignited international outrage. It also discredited pro-Nazi movements in parts of Europe and North America‚ leading to eventual decline of their support. After the Kristallnacht Salvador Allende‚ Gabriel González Videla among others from the “National congress of Chile” sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler denouncing the persecution of Jews. Can you believe that also in 1939‚ a composer named Michael Tippett created a musical play (oratorio
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