http://usmex.ucsd.edu USMEX Events http://usmex5.ucsd.edu/assets/001/503198.jpg http://usmex.ucsd.edu Scholars from Tijuana and San Diego launched the "Mexico and the United States: The Politics of Partnership", a new book that examines the shifting U.S.-Mexico bilateral relationship, tackling issues such as immigration, trade, drug trafficking and water resources.Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, director of the Center for U.S. Mexican Studies at the University of San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, co-authored of one of the chapters in the book, The Dynamics of US-Mexican Relations, which discusses the increasing trade, labor and migration interdependence between the neighboring countries.The contributors to this book analyze and deftly trace the trajectory of the U.S.-Mexico relations and provide recommendations that will mutually benefit both countries, such as increasing investment in infrastructure and more coherent campaign to fight drug trafficking.Watch COLEF interview of Alberto Diaz-Cayeros hereRead UT San Diego book launch article here /news-events/news/news_20130409.php /news-events/news/news_20130409.php USMEX Founder Wayne Cornelius was honored with Mexico’s highest award for foreigners — the Order of the Aztec Eagle — on Monday Sept. 17. Cornelius was selected for “his work of more than five decades to achieve greater and better understanding of Mexico in the United States,” according to a statement by President Felipe Calderón. Click here to read his presentation remarks. Wayne Cornelius will also be honored at UC San Diego on Wednesday, October 17. Click here for more details. /news-events/news/news_20121002.php /news-events/news/news_20121002.php Former USMEX Fellow Viridiana Rios' argument against drug legalization was selected by The Huffington Post as one of the top-15 expert opinions on the drug war. Her argument is featured as the 8th out of 15 other arguments and proposals on the drug legalization debate (on the slideshow), specifically entitled, "The 'Legalization Will Not Reduce Crime' Counter Argument":"What the legalization debate has missed is that it won't be easy for ex-criminals to find a legal job, and that this may increase other criminal activities that hurt Latin American citizens more directly. In places where law enforcement is weak, diversifying a criminal portfolio is an easier way to profit than trying to break into tight legal job markets. Indeed, it is quite plausible that legalization would cause newly unemployed criminals to engage in kidnapping, extortion, robbery and other forms of local crime. A criminal outburst may be the unintended consequence of legalization."Click here to read the full Huffington Post article and slideshow.Please click here to also read her full original, academic paper on crime diversification and drug policy. /news-events/news/news_20120919.php /news-events/news/news_20120919.php Recent decades have witnessed extraordinary transformation in Central America and Mexico — ushering in economic, political, societal, and even demographic change that holds key implications for the countries themselves, the region, and in some cases the United States. These sweeping changes are the focus of a pair of new reports prepared for the Regional Migration Study Group, a partnership between MPI and the Latin American Program/Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Study Group is a high-level initiative that in 2013 will propose new regional and collaborative approaches to migration, competitiveness, and human-capital development for the United States, Central America, and Mexico. Click here to read the full article.  /news-events/news/news_20120803.php /news-events/news/news_20120803.php Two San Diegans — a scholar who found fulfillment studying Mexican migrants and a refugee who built a successful spa in Baja California — are receiving Mexico’s highest honor for foreigners, it was announced Wednesday. Wayne Cornelius, 66, a longtime professor at the University of California San Diego, was selected “for his work of more than five decades to achieve greater and better understanding of Mexico in the United States,” according to a statement by President Felipe Calderón. Deborah Szekely, the 90-year-old founder of the internationally known Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, was praised for contributions “oriented to preserving the environmental, social and cultural heritage over the past seven decades.” A third American recognized with the distinction — called the Order of the Aztec Eagle — is Rick Bayless, a chef who specializes in Mexican cuisine. He hosts the PBS television series "Mexico: One Plate at a Time," which recently aired a segment on Baja California cuisine. “Mexico has always been my focus, my passion,” Cornelius said. “I have unlimited respect and admiration for all those generations of migrants who have had the courage to leave their homes and try to make a life for themselves and their children in the United States — for all the obstacles they have faced in doing so.” Cornelius and Szekely learned of their selection from U-T San Diego on Wednesday. The announcements were made in Diario Oficial de la Federación, the Mexican government’s official registry.Click here to read the full article. /news-events/news/news_20120622.php /news-events/news/news_20120622.php The panel opened with an introduction by Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He provided a brief overview of the current situation in Mexico in regard to the drug war and drug-related violence. Based on recent survey data that he has collected, Díaz-Cayeros emphasized the human face of the violence, especially the finding in his surveys that 80% of respondents considered themselves to be “very fearful” of possible occurrences such as being kidnapped or caught in the crossfire of violence between drug traffickers. He discussed how this fear has begun to lead to a change in daily habits of Mexico’s people, and changing views about how to respond. For example, 70% of the respondents considered that drug traffickers and kidnappers should be subject to the death penalty. Díaz-Cayeros also found a lack of trust in the public policing and security institutions, but a greater trust in the military. David Shirk, Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, followed with a presentation on “The War on Drugs in Mexico: Drug Violence and Government Perspectives.” Noting that there have been 15,273 drug-related homicides in Mexico since 2000, he demonstrated that the greatest increase began in 2007 and 2008. Shirk explained that the violence in Mexico is highly concentrated, for example, that 32% of drug-related killings happen in only 5 cities, while 70% of the violence is concentrated in just 80 municipalities. One city, Ciudad Juárez, accounts for the largest concentration of violence, with 2,738 drug-related homicides in 2010. Shirk noted that 2011 is set to be the worst year yet on record for drug-related violence in Mexico, but he also noted that the rate of increase is lower than in previous years, suggesting a leveling-off of the violence. Shirk also highlighted some lesser-known problems related to the drug war such as the 230,000 internally-displaced Mexicans who have had to move because of the violence. Other problems Shirk considered relevant to the Mexican case is the danger to local politicians, for example that in 2010, 15 Mexican mayors were killed in relation to drug violence, and the threat to Mexican journalists, who have also been inordinately subject to violence. In a series of suggestions on US policy, Shirk reminded the audience that the US is the largest market for drugs passing through Mexico, but that there has not been a decrease in the supply, demand, or price of illegal drugs for US consumers. Viridiana Ríos, current doctoral fellow at USMEX and doctoral candidate in Government at Harvard University, continued the discussion with a presentation that sought to answer the question, “Why Did Mexico Become Violent?” Ríos noted that while Mexico had been the main passageway for illegal drugs like cocaine to the US since the mid-1990s, it was only in the mid-2000s that a major increase in drug violence occurred in Mexico. Ríos demonstrated that violence in Mexico has been in the form of targeted executions by drug traffickers rather than violence between traffickers and government forces. Using data she has collected and analyzed for a wider project on drug violence in Mexico, Ríos argued that the increase in drug violence has been due mostly to an increase in conflicts between drug traffickers. Ríos considered that the Mexican government’s war with the drug traffickers has fragmented the cartels and thus indirectly increased the violence by creating a more complex series of wars between a higher quantity of rival cartels. She then disproved a series of myths: that the violence is all a result of enforcement operations, that all of Mexico is violent, and that the rate of homicides is increasing constantly. On the contrary, Ríos reiterated, the violence is highly concentrated, with 41% of homicides occurring in only 10 cities, and only two cartels are responsible for nearly half of drug-related homicides. Ríos closed with an international perspective: despite Mexico’s problem with drug-related violence, it is still far less violent than many other Latin American and Caribbean countries, the 25th most violent place in terms of homicides." /news-events/news/news_20120204.php /news-events/news/news_20120204.php President Obama and his Secretary of State had their first public disagreement last year – not over Iraq or Afghanistan, but Mexico. Hillary Clinton argued that Mexico was increasingly in the midst of an "insurgency." President Obama argued that the drug killings in Mexico, whose numbers far exceed U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, is not. That's because the drug trade organizations (DTO's) have only financial goals, not political ones. The Mexican government has consistently agreed with President Obama, repeatedly rejecting any suggestion that an insurgency is taking place. The violence in Mexico may not be a classic insurgency , but it is certainly being fought like one. Like other insurgencies, the violence in Mexico – especially the brutal killings of government officials and civilians – is being used to intimidate local populations and control territory. The Mexican government provides health, education and other public services to most citizens and provides order and security in the vast majority of towns and cities, including Mexico City. But the insurgents control about 7 percent of the country, including important drug distribution routes, and they have used violence to do so. Click here to read the full article. /news-events/news/news_2012020472225.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472225.php Marco Fernández, PhD candidate in political science at Duke University and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies fellow in 2010-2011, presented on research related to his dissertation on teachers, the main teachers’ union, and the political economy of educational transfers in Mexico. Marco opened his presentation with a series of research questions on the ways in which federal government education grants have been allocated to state governments, and hypothesized on the role of teachers and their unions in this process. Marco’s main conclusions were based on the use of a fixed-effects error correction model for the statistical analysis of a rich dataset detailing over 9,000 teacher strikes and mobilizations throughout Mexico for the years 1992-2008. Tracing the use of disruptive power by teachers in the education sector, Marco demonstrated that the main areas of education affected were basic education and teachers’ training colleges and tertiary education while upper secondary education was barely affected. Among all major actors in education, Marco argued that nearly half of all disruptive acts were carried out by teachers and that these acts followed a political logic, with greater mobilizations and acts correlating to the presidential electoral succession periods. Marco’s main conclusion was that the distribution of federal educational grants has followed a political rationale in which politicians have served the voices of organized groups in the education sector, especially the teachers’ union. Marco considered that paradoxically, while the teachers’ union was the main opponent of the decentralization of education, its disruptive actions allowed the union to become the main beneficiary of education’s decentralization, an important implication for the study of fiscal federalism. /news-events/news/news_2012020472228.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472228.php El presidente Calderón aprovechó la 66 Sesión de la Asamblea General de la ONU para presentar una visión más optimista de México, que contrasta con el tono de los reportes en la prensa internacional en los que la violencia asociada al narcotráfico ha sido una constante. El mandatario retrató a México como un destino atractivo para el turismo e inversión. En su visión el país está mejor educado, con más salud, tiene bellos destinos turísticos y no es la tierra de la violencia que se reporta en la prensa internacional. En sus discursos no hubo espacio para la autocrítica ni para la reflexión de posibles cambios. Luego, el Presidente se sinceró y compartió su frustración por los esfuerzos insuficientes de los países consumidores que brindan ganancias cuantiosas y armas poderosas al narcotráfico. Habría que preguntarse si los estudiantes mexicanos hoy aprenden más y mejor, y si los médicos y hospitales curan efectivamente a sus pacientes. En materia de seguridad y turismo, México no sólo es balas, decapitados y cuerpos en las calles. Los turistas pueden visitar Chichén Itzá o disfrutar las playas en Cabo San Lucas. Sin embargo, no es una casualidad que el mismo día en que el Presidente anunciaba sus recorridos turísticos se hallaron 35 cuerpos en Boca del Río. Más de 40 mil muertos asociados al combate contra el narcotráfico no son una percepción ni pueden transformarse con spots publicitarios. El crimen organizado ya no se circunscribe sólo a Michoacán, Chihuahua, Morelos y Tamaulipas. Observamos problemas en Coahuila, Durango, Guerrero, Nuevo León y Veracruz, así como asesinatos cada vez más visibles en el Estado de México. Los springbreakers no han dejado de ir a Acapulco por una distorsión mediática. Hoy hay maestros en Guerrero que están siendo extorsionados. El Presidente quiere ver el vaso medio lleno; en contraste, la percepción ciudadana es que se está vaciando preocupantemente. To read the complete article, please click here. /news-events/news/news_2012020472231.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472231.php René Zenteno, Mexico’s Undersecretary for Population, Migration, and Religious Affairs in the Secretary of the Interior (Secretaría de Gobernación) spoke on Mexico’s new immigration law, in effect since May 2011. According to Zenteno’s presentation, the immigration law (“Ley de Migración”) seeks to respond to the new dynamics of international migratory movements for the protection of the human rights of migrants in Mexico. The law addresses the needs of the 11.7 million Mexicans living abroad, half a million of which are repatriated or deported each year, and the nearly 1 million non-Mexicans living in Mexico, many from Central American countries. Zenteno considered one of the major achievements of the new law its guarantee of the effective and humanitarian protection of the rights of all migrants, regardless of legal status. For Zenteno, other achievements of law include the decriminalization of irregular immigration and the adoption of mechanisms to discourage abuses committed by authorities against migrants. Since the law was adopted with the participation and support of all major Mexican political parties, Zenteno considered the next major step its effective implementation, especially in Mexico’s northern and southern border regions and in the localities. /news-events/news/news_2012020472234.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472234.php Colombia's image is still tainted by its long and violent drug war, but its second largest city is practicing one of the most innovative forms of city democracy anywhere. Medellin is one of few big cities in the world to have successfully implemented a participatory budgeting system: Citizens define priorities, and public money is allocated accordingly. Jhon Jaime Sanches, 26, grew up in the hills of Medellin, under the legacy of Pablo Escobar's violent drug cartel. "Militias would come to our school and tell us we had to take up arms to make revolution," Sanches says. "I liked the idea that we needed to find a solution to change things — but what I didn't believe is that we needed to do it with violence." So Sanches found another way: He started a band. But his hip-hop group Son Bata is more than that — over the years it has grown into a social service force against the crushing poverty of his neighborhood. To read the entire article, click here. /news-events/news/news_2012020472237.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472237.php On April 12, 2011, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies with UCSD ArtPower! hosted a screening of a documentary aimed to inspire and enlighten the campus and our community. A large crowd of undergrads, professors, and visiting scholars alike filled the dimmed space of the Loft to gain an insight into the Mexican justice system. Presunto Culpable, or Presumed Guilty, is an award-winning documentary that exposes the unsettling reality of a life behind bars in Mexico City and the inhumane process that leads to it, a dramatic telling of Antonio Zúñiga’s sentence behind bars for 20 years. Director Roberto Hernández has emerged onto the frontlines of the film’s controversy, increased only by his multiple angles into the Mexican prison system. As a UC Berkeley graduate student, a lawyer, and the vision behind the film, Hernández with his wife Layda Negrete dive into the justice system of a country with a conviction rate as high as 80%. Presunto Culpable provides unprecedented access to the inner workings of the Mexican court system and the individuals involved in the violation of the basic human right of due process. The filmmaker’s camera infiltrates this dysfunctional system from behind the bars to expose the flaws and a needed assessment of a national dilemma. The documentary follows story of Toño, one of 11,000 prisoners at the Reclusorio Oriente, who without any conclusive proof is sentenced to 20 years in prison. The battle to prove Toño’s innocence and free him from an unjust system unravels through the film’s account of Toño’s term spent in prison, capturing his remarkable interactions with his accuser, the judge, and his family. Following the screening of the film, guests were encouraged to ask Hernández, the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Director Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and filmmaker Isaac Artenstein any questions, from production to politics. The discussion revealed details of the process, the challenges faced, and what Mexico’s future holds. Hernández articulated that his work began initially out of an academic interest, from a social scientist perspective. While at Berkeley, he began to question what would happen to the judge and the entire judicial system when something as hidden as the Mexican courtroom is gets made public and widely seen. This forward-thinking investigation led Roberto to the groundwork of a film that did just that. “We broke the mold of how to distribute the film.  We started with 50 prints and that would not cover Mexico city, then we expanded it to 200 prints, and then a federal judge decided to pull the movie from theatres based on privacy complaints from one of the persons who appears in the film, “ said Hernández. “Of course, then everybody ran to the theatres, and we ended up having 300 prints of this film. It ended up being the most seen documentary in history in Mexico. We did not expect this, we were just trying to document what happens in a trial.” The starting point of the faults within the system is who actually gets imprisoned in Mexico, what statistics are showing is a completely unreliable process. 92% of criminal accusation has been based off of witness accounts, which although necessary to convict someone, cannot function as sufficient means to a life behind bars. “There is a lot to be gained in having a better structured police system, especially how they identify somebody because they have to be accountable,” said Hernández. The panel further discussed the Mexican misconceptions of their courtroom, and how the film effectively serves as a first-glance into the dire conditions and the strikingly opposite process from American courtrooms. “The film offers an unprecedented window, a look into the system,” said Artenstein. “It is masterfully captured. When you need a respite, Roberto and his editor know exactly where to give the audience that rest. It produces a powerful film, one that effects social order.” On gaining extraordinary access into Toño’s case in the film, Hernández remarked that the process provided ample roadblocks, though it helped that he possesses a background as a lawyer to connect him with the right people. “The toughest part was getting the right case, and without Toño, there would be no film. It was very important that he had already been convicted and lost an appeal, and if he tried the same thing again he would lose. We had to gain his trust to try our stunt, and it was okay because he had nothing to lose,” he said. The film’s website, http://www.presuntoculpable.org/ allows visitors to investigate the cause and the case further, donate, as well as a place to provide their own stories. It’s all part of Hernández’s plan to continue to make the injustices within the courtrooms wildly public. “We’ve had 700 persons fill out that form and about 1500 contacting us by email telling us their story. The most urgent ones I do send to the media,” said Hernández. The filmmaking process, combined with the legal aspects of the procedures took over 350 hours of shooting to capture, not to mention the years spent editing to tell Toño’s story in just the right light. “The process was constantly trying to lift this thing from the mud. It’s horrible, it’s not uplifting spiritually,” said Hernández. “As we were filming, it was very painful to understand Toño’s case. I’m trying to give the audience something uplifting and show that in spite of it all, Toño is going to dance and jump and have hope.” The story of Toño, a young man essentially abducted off the streets of Mexico is not uncommon. As Hernández and Negrete revealed, the police, the prosecutor, the judge, and even the court-provided defense attorney have every motivation to keep the defendant in jail. Presunto Culpable exposes the one case to convey what it took to fix it and to defy a heartless system. The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies thanks the Loft, ArtPower! Film, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD (IR/PS), San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF), The California Innocence Project, ACLU for their support, and for Roberto Hernández’s enthusiastic belief in his work. /news-events/news/news_2012020472240.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472240.php IFE President Leonardo Valdés Zurita (left), in a speech at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD, said Mexicans living in the United States can go to two IFE offices in Tijuana to work out the details on their voter credentials. Only Mexicans with voter credentials will be allowed to register to cast absentee ballots in a process that begins Oct. 1 and ends Jan. 15. Mexican consulates and embassies also are to help Mexicans register. Although there were expectations that 4 million Mexicans living abroad might vote in the 2006 election, only 32,632 did so, at a government cost of $745 per vote (not including the costs incurred by the voters). Valdés Zurita said the low turnout came in part because Congress took so long to formulate a law allowing Mexicans living outside the country to vote for the first time. That gave the IFE relatively little time to organize the absentee balloting and voters yet less time to react. Read the full article at Mexico Perspective. /news-events/news/news_2012020472243.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472243.php IR/PS Dean Peter Cowhey was in Mexico City on February 22, 2011 to give a presentation at a session of the Republic of Mexico's Senate in the Commission on Science and Technology. Cowhey discussed the need for mechanisms to connect business with complementary services and technology, the growth of the Internet, and the conversion of paper advertising to the digital market of online services. Click here to download a video from the session. (Spanish) Click here to read a news article on the session. (Spanish) /news-events/news/news_2012020472246.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472246.php Mexicans with distinguished careers in science, the arts, business and government came together Thursday on the University of California San Diego campus to engage in an open dialogue about their country’s future. The daylong symposium, called Mexico Moving Forward, was organized by UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies as the university celebrates its 50th anniversary. Center Director Alberto Díaz-Cayeros said a major aim was to broaden discussion about Mexico at a time when much of the public discourse has focused on illegal immigration, violence and the battle against drug-trafficking groups. For Mexico to move forward, participants said, education must improve, victims must speak out, civic engagement must increase and the rule of law should be enforced. The 12 speakers also saw much that offers hope in their country: a wealth of natural resources, a rich history and a culture that is vibrant and resilient. Here are excerpts of four of their talks: Cristina Rivera Garza, a historian and novelist who teaches literature at UCSD. When we talk about violence, she asked, “is this just another way of disseminating despair and anxiety?” The writer gave her own answer by telling the story of Luz Maria Davila, a maquiladora worker in Ciudad Juarez whose only two sons were shot to death last year. Davila “said we need to talk about what is wrong, we need to describe what is happening if we ever hope to fix it.” To read the entire article, click here. /news-events/news/news_2012020472249.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472249.php La Universidad de California San Diego festejó 50 años con el Simposio “Mexico Moving Forward”, dedicado a promover el rostro positivo del país aztecaComo una manera de celebrar los 50 años de la Universidad de California San Diego, este jueves se llevó a cabo el simposio “Mexico Moving Forward” (México Hacia Adelante), con la intención de promover las bondades de dicha nación, en una época donde se le ha criticado por motivos de inseguridad. A través de un extenso programa de conferencistas, más de 500 personas pudieron admirar una visión positiva de México a través de distintos rubros como la cultura, gastronomía, filantropía, turismo y avances científicos. “La cultura es la mejor cara que tiene México”, mencionó la directora del Museo de Arte de San Diego, Roxana Velásquez, durante la conferencia “Museos y Artes Culinarias”. /news-events/news/news_2012020472252.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472252.php Grupos activistas presentan propuesta para remodelar el emblemático sitio con la esperanza de volver a unir dos países Durante años el Parque de la Amistad, ubicado en la zona limítrofe entre México y Estados Unidos, sirvió como punto de encuentro entre dos naciones, pero con la construcción de la barda fronteriza se ha venido abajo. Es por ello que desde hace dos años nació la Coalición de Amigos del Parque de la Amistad, formada por activistas y catedráticos con la única intención de proteger el emblemático sitio, sinónimo de unión entre fronteras. De acuerdo a Pedro Ríos, miembro de dicho grupo y presidente del Comité de Amigos Americanos, desde que la Patrulla Fronteriza implementó nuevas medidas que obstaculizan el paso libre por el área, la afluencia de visitantes ha disminuido en un 70%, debido en gran parte a que la mayoría del público tiene la percepción de que el lugar está cerrado. “Por lo general la comunidad piensa que el parque está cerrado cuando no es así”, enfatizó el activista local. /news-events/news/news_2012020472255.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472255.php The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California San Diego held a symposium on Thursday, Feb. 10, entitled "Mexico Moving Forward." It was designed to try to focus on Mexico's future and what is right with Mexico despite the country's current spasm of violence that has left many in fear of traveling to Ciudad Juarez and many other places. The symposium, which featured 12 main speakers and was moderated by Laura Castañeda, is to be shown on UCSD-TV beginning March 21. There were four sessions: Arts & Culture; Museums & Culinary Arts; Science & the Environment; and Philanthropy & the Corporate Community. To read the entire article, click here. /news-events/news/news_2012020472258.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472258.php SAN DIEGO — About a dozen Mexican scholars and artisans gathered at UC San Diego Thursday to talk about the country’s deep troubles and uncertain future. The theme of the one-day seminar, "Mexico Moving Forward", was based on the Spanish saying: "El que no mira hacia delante se queda atras." Translation: "He who doesn't look ahead, remains behind." The writers, artists, historians and even one chef, discussed the country’s evolving literature, modern cuisine and recent contributions to world cinema. The event was organized by UCSD's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. Director Alberto Dias-Cayeros readily acknowledged the violence and corruption that plague Mexico. But his goal was to remind the world, if even for a day, there is much more to the country than the drug war. UCSD Professor Cristina Rivera-Garza recently traveled to northern Mexico -- ground-zero for most of the recent violence.To read the entire article, click here. /news-events/news/news_2012020472261.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472261.php A pesar de que México es menos inseguro que varios países latinoamericanos, la percepción hace creer que se encuentra en una de las peores etapas en su historia reciente. El problema es que la violencia de México es mediáticamente atractivaIntroduzca “Mexico” en el buscador de The New York Times. Cinco de las 10 notas publicadas más recientes hablan de un país violento, de civiles asesinados, secuestros masivos y decapitaciones. Introduzca “El Salvador”. Una de las 10 notas habla de violencia. Lo increíble es que El Salvador es 3.5 veces más violento que México pero nadie se entera. Nuestra violencia hace ruido, la de El Salvador, y la del resto de Latinoamérica, es sigilosa.La frontera mexicana ha sido quizás la región más perjudicada por las altas percepciones de inseguridad. El turismo se ha desplomado. Ya en 2006, académicos (Garza, 2008) estimaban que al menos 700 negocios habían cerrado sus puertas en Nuevo Laredo, con una pérdida aproximada de tres mil empleos. En 2010 la inversión extranjera en dicha ciudad se redujo en un 25%.Read the full article at Nexos en Linea. /news-events/news/news_2012020472264.php /news-events/news/news_2012020472264.php