By Adina Moloman Sources: www.thewindpower.net, www.wilsoncenter.org There is a huge potential in renewable energy projects in the U.S.-Mexico border region. In the last 5 years an important growth is evident in the wind sector in Baja California attributed to various reasons: the high quality of the resource in the region, the interest of the private sector [...]
Binational Seawater Desalination project
By Adina Moloman Sources: www.sdcwa.org, SANDAG A Binational Seawater Desalination plant between Mexico-USA as a public-private partnership is the first attempt of its kind worldwide, in which both countries would be advantaged. Everything started in 2005, when the San Diego County Water Authority evaluated the feasibility of a binational seawater desalination facility. There are different [...]
America Movil-business diversification in Latin America
By Adina Moloman Sources: Finanz Nachrichten, Reuters América Móvil—Latin America’s leading mobile phones company has announced a new acquisition. This Mexico Corporationthat belong to Grupo Carso, SA de CV, owned by the Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, with a vast interest in the fields of communications, retailing, and finance is ready to takeover the media-and-advertising unit [...]
The first Recycling Compost center in Tijuana
By Adina Moloman Source: Waste& Recycling News, EPA TIJUANA CALIDAD DE VIDA is a Mexican non-profit group that is leading a small pilot project of organic waste recycling in Tijuana. This project consists in creating landscape-grade compost from organic waste: discarded fruits, vegetables and yard waste supplied by the city. There are other non-profit agencies [...]
2013 Mexican Federal Revenue Law
By Adina Moloman Source: PWC The 2013 Mexican Federal Revenue Law was published in December 2012 and entered into force on January 1, 2013. This is the first Federal Revenue Decree issued by President Enrique Peña Nieto’s new Mexican government, it will maintain the current tax structure and implemented a delay to the proposed cut [...]
A new joint venture in Mexico: Lafarge and Elementia
By Adina Moloman Sources: Reuters, The Wall Street Journal Mexico Corporation Elementia is a building materials conglomerate that just a few months ago entered into the cement making business with its cement division known as Cementos Fortaleza. A newly cement Mexican company in a market well dominated by the giant Cemex, followed by the Holcim [...]
The San Diego –Tijuana Airport Cross-Border Facility
By Adina Moloman Source: Otay Mesa Chamber of Commerce, UT San Diego Residents from California and the Baja California region move back and forth across the border to work, live, shop and recreate. The San Diego –Tijuana Airport Cross-Border Facility is a pedestrian bridge project, 525-foot long, which is planning to link the Tijuana airport [...]
The Internet exchange point (IXP) in Mexico
By Adina Moloman Sources: Global Internet Policy Initiative , Maquila Portal, www.gigaom.com This month the Mexican Federal Government, through the Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT), spread the news over the first IXP (Internet Exchange Point) in Mexico. The Internet exchange point (IXP) is a physical infrastructure that allows different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to [...]
The binational character of the Baja International Film Festival
By Adina Moloman Source: Baja International Film Festival Baja International Film Festival will be held November 14-17 in Los Cabos, Baja California, Mexico. This is a first edition of an annual event, which has the goal of becoming one of the major international film festivals in Latin America. This first event is adopting the term [...]
Mayors’ reunion
By Adina Moloman Source: San Diego Red During an event last week organized by the Institute of the Americas of the UCSD, Tijuana Mayor, Carlos Bustamante has met Jerry Sanders, Mayor of San Diego, for a bi-national conversation. This is the second round of conversations; the first one took place in May in San Diego. [...]
