By Adina Moloman Source: New York Times The latest statistics are showing a significant drop in the number of migrants illegally crossing the border with Mexico. The decrease in illegal crossers —down to about 340,000 migrants apprehended in 2011 from a peak of 1.1 million in 2005 registered across all Border States with Mexico. At [...]
2012 The Charles Nathanson Memorial Award for Cross-Border Region Building
By Adina Moloman Sources: www.examiner.com, www.leadsandiego.org The Charles Nathanson Memorial Award for Cross-Border Region Building (San Diego – Baja California) is a special award to recognize binational visionary leaders, which are dedicating their work in finding joint solutions to cross-border issues. Last year winners of The Charles Nathanson Memorial Award for Cross-Border Region Building were [...]
Personalities of the Second Encounter Tijuana Innovadora 2012
By Adina Moloman Source: www.tijuanainnovadora.com The Second edition Tijuana Innovadora 2012 is schedule from October 11 to 21 at the Tijuana Cultural Center (CECUT). Like the previous edition many interesting topics will be presented such as: Green Tijuana, Cinematography, Tijuana Youth, Media, Citizen Participation, Strategic Design, Culinary Arts, Electronics, Automotive, Business Excellence, Aerospace, Science and [...]
European and Japan delegations visits Tijuana
By Adina Moloman Sources: Europa.eu, Tijuana EDC This week, Delegation of commercial representatives from the Embassies of European Union visited Tijuana. The members of the European delegation were representatives of the European Union and 16 ministers of European countries such as Austria, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Poland, Spain, Sweden, UK, France and Denmark. A second Asian [...]
Tijuana- San Diego binational recycling programs
By Adina Moloman Sourcing: Economic Development, San Diego Union tribune, Cal Recycling As I mention in an article before, the cities of San Diego and Tijuana share many common economic, cultural, environmental, social and security projects. There are different commissions that are attending and promote joint projects, such as Binational Planning and Cooperation Committee, a [...]
Innovative water technologies in Baja California
By Adina Moloman Sources: SEDECO, Renewable Energies Baja California Governor, Osuna Millan, concluded a tour in Israel, to see the latest innovative irrigation systems and other innovative water technologies. Israel is well known as a global leader in innovative water technology, especially for agricultural use. This innovative water technologies consists is drip irrigation, water recycling, [...]
Tijuana Reborn, reality or fiction
By Adina Moloman For those who lives or visits this border town city it is absolutely amazing noticing a change in the atmosphere. Not that long time ago, Tijuana Border town known for its violence caused by drug trafficking gangs or for its gambling and prostitution reputation starting in the 1920’s, is experiencing right now [...]
Mexicans living abroad and the Federal Electoral Process in 2012
By Adina Moloman Sources: The Economist This year will take place the Mexican presidential election on July 1, but there is one aspect that continues to be a work in progress and that is the vote of the Mexicans living abroad. A voter registration card is required to vote in Mexico. The law mentions that [...]
Violence volatility across Mexico
By Adina Moloman Source: The Economist, CASESDE, Open Democracy The fight against organized crime has been the priority of Felipe Calderón’s government since it started in 2006 and it was registered in the past five years a large number of murders related to organized crime (between 40,000-50,000 ). Surprisingly statistics shows that after high rates of [...]
Baja California, new State legislature on human trafficking
By Adina Moloman Sources: www.frontera.info, www.unescap.org, El Mexicano, El Universal Until 2011 the federal anti trafficking law, known as the General Law to Prevent, Combat and Punish Trafficking in Persons dated since 2007. Because of lack of understanding of the legal concept of human trafficking crimes, who were mostly confused with crimes against pimping and [...]
