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By reading the statistics report of Mexico, it might be the last country you will want to visit during the Covid times. By its record of 3rd highest death rate for Covid in the World... But is it really that scary to visit Mexico right now? Let me tell you the truth from my experience, how you can measure every Mexican state's covid situation and what precautions against Covid-19 Mexico is taking....
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🖐🏽 五分鐘來關心國際時事 — 墨西哥治安 🇲🇽
📰 Mexico Reports Slight Decline in 2019 Homicides
Nation’s murder rate remained at highest level in decades despite fall in number of killings
MEXICO CITY—Mexico registered 209 fewer homicides in 2019 than a year earlier, the first decline in five years, though the murder rate remained at its highest level in decades, the National Statistics Institute said Wednesday.
📌 這篇文章討論墨西哥 (Mexico) 的殺人罪 (homicide) 數字的微小下降(slight decline)。nation是國家的意思，在這裡是指墨西哥，這是常用修辭方法之一。作者也用同義詞提高文章的可讀性： homicide vs murder vs killing。
The country registered 36,476 homicides last year, down from 36,685 in 2018, according to preliminary data based on death certificates. The homicide rate was unchanged from 2018 at 29 per 100,000 inhabitants, the highest level on records stretching back 30 years.
📌 這段交代有關數據，register (登記)、down from (從...下降)、according to preliminary data (根據初步資料) 和 unchanged (不變的)是常見用語。
“The important thing is that the government doesn’t rest on its laurels by saying we’ve slowed the rise in homicides,” said Cassius Wilkinson, a security analyst at political-risk consultancy Empra. “A plateau at historic highs still isn’t good for Mexico’s public security.”
📌 這段引述一位保安分析員 (security analyst) 的意見。rest on one’s laurels (不求進步) 是道地用語。plateau的原意是高原，在這裡引申指有關數字維持於高位不降。
Monthly police reports for 2020 show that homicides were up 1.5% in the first eight months of this year from a year earlier, although the numbers have been overshadowed by more than 74,000 deaths of people infected with the coronavirus.
The drop in the preliminary number of homicides for 2019 will likely become a small increase when final data are released at the end of October, said security analyst Alejandro Hope. “The good news is that it’s not growing, the bad news is that it’s not falling,” he added.
📌 這兩段繼續分析有關數字的走勢。overshadowed by (因為...失色的) 是生動的用語。preliminary 跟 final 是異義詞，the good news is that…the bad news is that… 是平行結構，也是很好的修辭方式。
Lowering the level of violence, much of it by organized-crime groups, is among the main concerns of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador whose strategy has been to reduce direct confrontation between security forces and heavily armed criminal gangs.
Since taking office at the end of 2018, Mr. López Obrador has disbanded the Federal Police and replaced it with a National Guard drawn mostly from the ranks of army and naval police. The National Guard has close to 100,000 members, and is expected to increase to 140,000.
📌 這兩段介紹墨西哥總統其中一項主要關注 (main concern) 就是降低暴力的水平 (lower the level of violence)。他的策略 (strategy) 是減少保安部隊 (security forces) 和犯罪集團 (criminal gang) 之間的直接對抗 (direct confrontation)。
Homicide rates last year fell in 15 of the country’s 32 states, including Baja California Sur and Quintana Roo—home to tourism hubs Los Cabos and Cancún—and Mexico City.
Among the most violent states was Guanajuato in central Mexico, which has been the site of fighting between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and a gang of fuel thieves called the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel. Authorities arrested José Antonio Yépez, the alleged head of the fuel theft gang, in early August.
While violence increased in Guanajuato, the homicide rate fell last year in neighboring Jalisco state. The number of murders could be masked by an increase in forced disappearances in the state as the Jalisco cartel consolidates its control of the area, said Mr. Wilkinson.
“A lot of the states that lead the rankings are leading for different reasons,” he added, noting increased killings in northern states such as Sonora and Chihuahua. “I wouldn’t be surprised if the 2020 numbers are much higher.”
📌 這四段詳細分析墨西哥不同州的殺人罪率 (homicide rate)去年的情況。the rankings的意思就是排名。在旅游樞紐 (tourism hub)的州殺人罪率下降，個別州份因爲幫派的打鬥變得最暴力的。
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[Amazon (AMZN), PayPal(PYPL)]
實在很好奇這次疫情對Amazon還有PayPal造成了多大的影響, 所以順手做了些圖.
Amazon: 一個有著微笑曲線的季營收成長線圖......線上零售成長了40%. Oh my. 不過雲端AWS成長有稍微趨緩.
而Q1那時候, Amazon對Q2的財測是, "to grow between 18% and 28% compared with second quarter 2019." 結果成長了40%. 現在對Q3的財測是, to grow between 24% and 33% compared with third quarter 2019. 到時候會成長多少呢?
PayPal: 請直接看圖.
而從PayPal的資料中可看到, 跨境電商中, 成長最快速的幾個品項. 汽車零件(auto parts)竟然是其一. 挺有趣的. 不過很好奇原因. 是因為大家在家沒事做, 所以動手DIY來修車嗎?
Anyways. 很明顯可以看出來, 疫情讓他們都重啟了成長動能.
PayPal季報結果整理:
1. 這一季是PayPal五年前上市以來, 業績最好的一季.
2. 疫情加速了商家擁抱科技的進度, 也加速了數位支付的潮流. 這現象也因此加速了PayPal成為消費者日常生活不可缺的一項服務.
3. Travel and ticketing events down 60% or so-->這點跟Visa的季報結果有相呼應.
4. 將積極推廣QR碼的功能, 這也會加速Venmo的貨幣化(monetization)
5. 繼續有新使用者加入生態系統(特別是silver tech--銀髮族)
6. 高層看到各產業都有使用PayPal
7. 繼續擴大支付的範圍: 用PayPal的服務來付帳單, 付(串流影音)訂閱費用, 以及集點獎賞管理(rewards management). Our goal is to meaningfully expand the range of services provided inside our wallets.
8. Venmo業務: 本來著重在社交體驗的支付; 但使用率卻沒有因為疫情而減少—Venmo因為疫情而有了新的功能(如: 用Venmo來支付線上運動課程). 最近推出了business profiles, 從原本定位的P2P也可以有了PayPal的功能(消費者vs. 商家)
9. Honey業務: 在未來, Honey也可以幫助商家做促銷上的客製化. 在未來, Honey也會跟PayPal其他產品繼續做整合
10. 合作夥伴: 會繼續跟eBay合作; 這句話驗證了電商的發展: And if you look at the top 15 marketplaces that we serve today, Shopify being one of them; Etsy, for instance, being another, and you look at their growth rate, the growth rates of all 15 of those marketplaces we're quite close partners with approached 100% in Q2. 也將與電子賬單公司Paymentus完成介面上的整合(預計今年底.)
11. 拓展業務: 東南亞—跟Gojek合作(a leader in mobile commerce in Southeast Asia with 170 million users.) 巴西, 墨西哥—跟Mercado Pago, MercadoLibre合作. 中國—繼續跟UnionPay與其他公司合作. CEO: We're seeing explosive growth in Mexico, Japan, Brazil, really, frankly, across Western Europe, it's been amazing to see what's happened there. So we will invest continually in this business.
12. 目前的局勢對公司很有利, 所以會in-store(實體店面的交易上)繼續投資(…..”we're investing an incremental $300 million or so.) 也會在電子錢包的功能上做投資(We have an aspiration to be in every day use case and to be a central part of a customer's life in the digital economy.) 在接下來的幾季, 也會陸續推出好幾項功能與服務(in-store from QR, tap-to-pay cards, rewards capabilities.) By the way, rewards are being used much more because people aren't being able to use their rewards for travel. We're seeing an uptick in people using their rewards points to check out using PayPal. 總之, 就是會犧牲獲利來專注在公司長期的成長上(we're electing to invest much of our margin improvement to help ensure our long-term success.)
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