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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Biotechnology industry is growing fast in Mexico

By Adina Moloman Source: San Diego Dialogue publication “Borderless Innovation”, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) portal www.fda.gov There are four strategic life science regions identified in Mexico:  Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos and Nuevo Leon with strong clinical research clusters and other clusters related to FDI more specifically oriented to pharmaceutical manufacturing.  In the past years [...]

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BajaMak (at the technological frontier) 2011

By Adina Moloman Source: http://www.bajamak.com/ October 13, 2011 will take place the sixth edition of BajaMak Industrial Expo, at Valle Bonito Industrial Park, Tijuana. This expo has become an important space for the Maquiladora Industry in Northwest Mexico, first because is a space where potential suppliers are identified and second these suppliers can showcase their [...]

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The new wave of renewable energy projects investments in Baja California

By Adina Moloman Sources: ProMexico, Renewable Energy World Magazine Since the late 1990s a new wave of power plant projects began all around the world, where wind and solar installations have gain popularity between all power technologies across the world. Significant technical potential for renewable energy exists in Baja California, where particularly wind energy at [...]

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Second edition: Tijuana Innovadora

By Adina Moloman Source:  www.tijuanainnovadora.com Tijuana Innovadora Second Editions runs from October 12 to 21, 2012. This was announced by the Executive Coordinator, Alejandro Bustamante, where the preliminary program for the next year should be over by the October 2011. It is expected to be a huge event, with the participations of global technology leaders, [...]

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