Mexico has become a solid World manufacturing powerhouse, reaching high quality levels and competiveness that have positioned the country at the top levels in a series of industries. Such is the case of automotive industry and Aeronautic, where it is easily possible to appreciate the extent of the installed industry in the country and its impressive exports volume.

But, it has not only been in manufactures that Mexico has reached a leadership place at world level. During the last years, it has reached an every day more important role in the growing world industry of information technology (IT). This complex industry encompasses a wide range of products from software programming and development, to computer equipment, becoming the relevant variable of the knowledge society and the main driver of our times’ technological and communications revolution.

In 2001, Mexico’s IT services exports reached only 50 million dollars. This year, the industry’s numbers will close at an unprecedented level of 4.2 billion dollars in service exports. Undoubtedly, Mexico is the fourth global exporter in software development, and top number on in Latin America, positioned only behind India, the Philippines and China.

In terms of competitiveness, ATKearney Consulting revealed in a recent study, that Mexico occupies the sixth best place in the world for offshore IT services operations. This study ponders different factors such as financial advantages, human factor’s availability and skills, as well as business environment. On the other hand, in terms of industry quality, it has been acknowledged internationally and 350 companies operate according to industry standards such as the CMMI, CMM, and/or the Mexican norm MOPROSOFT, among others with interesting increase within the industry.

Furthermore, according to available data from specialized firms such as Gartner and Forrester, Mexico is also within the five first world places as TI providers with annual exports with estimated increases of two digits for the next years. Within this, Mexico is considered by big industry investors as one of the main destinies for investment, out of a sample of 148 countries.

According to the UN’s report of creative economies, Mexico has also become a one. This study measures the creative industries’ contribution to GDP and includes sectors’ activities related to popular knowledge and cultural legacy, or handcrafts and cultural festivals, to technology, software and services sectors. In its 2010 study, Mexico appears as the first creative economy of Latin America and one of the 20 most important worldwide.

Advances reached in this Mexican industry are the result of an intentional collaboration between de Mexican government and the industry, mainly through the creation of a support program called PROSOFT and an initiative to promote the country as a world class alternative for nearshore in IT solutions (MexicoIT), that has certainly given as a result a Mexican service offer cost competitive and with the highest quality.

On the latest news there has been a lot of discussion about the data that shows a significant decrease in the number of migrants from Mexico towards the US. Mexican migration toward the US in 2000 was 500,000 on average annually. Last year it came down to 100,000.  And there are approximately only 9.5 million Mexican born citizens living in the USA.

There are many good explanations as to why we are experiencing this decrease. They go from pointing out the everyday lower salary differential between both countries, the surveillance increase at the frontier, the better opportunities and income levels in Mexico, the demographic changes in Mexico, to even the organized effect crime that makes migration less attractive, among many others.

But there is another relevant phenomenon that is not much talked about, and maybe it’s even more interesting. It is the American migration towards Mexico and everything points to show that it will considerably grow within the next years. And though it is a fact since the end of the XIX Century, it is a little studied phenomenon. In fact, according to Dr. Sheila L. Croucher it hasn’t even been properly named migration; American immigrants in Mexico are referred to with euphemisms like “expats” or “American community in Mexico” or “retired Americans”, names that avoid showing its real permanent immigrant condition in their new country. Perhaps, the idea behind this attitude might be that no one would want to migrate to Mexico in a definite way, but reality bluntly shows another thing.

According to available data from Department of State, Mexico is the main destiny for Americans that decide to live outside their country; more than a million Americans living throughout Mexican territory. And there are various reasons that motivate Americans to come to Mexico. Among them there are the lower cost of living, home proximity and the access to a great source of culture. Other factors are also relevant for any immigrant to take into account when choosing Mexico as a their home and within them are Mexico’s level of human development, economic progress, democratization environment, access to quality healthcare and the everyday improved access to technology that allows communication regardless of distances.

So according to the main forecasts, American migration heading Mexico will do no other thing but accelerate.

On the one hand, if considering the Mexican population aging process, technically by 2030 it will not be in conditions anymore to send Mexicans to the US. On the other hand, estimates of the 2008 US Population Census show there are today more than 40.2 millions baby boomers and in 2030, there will be more than 72 millions with 65 years or more that will be considering retirement. If only 5% of all of those baby boomers consider Mexico for their retirement, we will have an additional population of 3.6 millions of Americans living in Mexico. For every two Mexicans living in the US, there will be one American living in Mexico.

Sharing citizens on both sides of the border becomes both a challenge and an opportunity for our countries. We have yet to build a community furthermore than what we have done and said we will do til today.

This definitely breaks our paradigms regarding Mexico-US relationship. The issues over which our relationship has been based, like organized crime, frontier security and the south-north migration tend to belong to a soon to be far away past. The real future of our relationship is inexorably related to our migrants and immingrants; Mexicans in the US and Americans in Mexico, and what is possible to create for both countries, with our people.

According to the Environmental Performace Index, issued by collaboration of the Yale University and Columbia University with collaboration of the World Economic Forum and the Joint Centre Research of the European Union, Mexico ranks 43 out of 163 countries.

The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) loosk at performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories, covering both environmental public health and ecosystem vitality. These indicators provide a gauge at anational government scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals.

Mexico ranks 43 and has a 67.3 score, which represents the average between its 76.5 score in Environmental Public Health and 58.1 in Ecosystem Vitality. This score is also the percentage as a proximity to the country’s target.

But what does this number mean? We will see how numbers are more than numbers if one takes the time to really look within them.

If one looks across the Americas, it locates Mexico right above Canada, the United States, Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, and many others. The median score for the region is 66.8.

Moreover, by looking at how other regions are doing, Europe has a median of 71, where its first quartile scores 65.7. Asia and Pacific has a median of 59.6. and the European Union countries have a median of 59.1.

So Mexico scores better than the median of the Americas, The European Union and the Asia and Pacific countries.

Also, if we look across countries according to its income, Mexico stands with its 67.3 score in the fourth decile group where the median is 65.4. Countries in the third decile have a 62.5 median.

As we said, the EPI Index is comprised by two indicators; Ecosystem Vitality and Environmental Public Health. If we analyse further we can see on the one hand, that within the issues that comprehend the Ecosystem Vitality, on Climate change, which comprises 25% of the score Mexico has 56.4 where its income group median is 51.4. The other 25% of the score is comprised by six indicators where Mexico scores above the median of its income group in five out of these six; agriculture, fisheries, forestry, water and air pollution. Being biodiversity and habitat a bigger challenge still.

On the other hand, within the indicators that comprise Environmental Health score, a quarter of the score is determined by Environmental Burden of Disease where Mexico scores 73.8 above the median of its income group with 62.1. On Water management Mexico scores below by 85.8 to 86.4; but its the average of the 91.4 it has on access to improved drinking water and the 78.2 that still scores in sanitation. On Air Pollution, Mexico scores 75.5, below the income group’s median of 77.5.

Ranking 43 out of 163 can be seen from different points of view. Does an economy and population like that of Mexico’s requires the same management as those of Iceland, Switzerland and Costa Rica whose ranks are 1st, 2nd and 3rd? Clearly not. Comparatively, it also scores better than more populated and richer countries like the U.S., or only richer ones like Canada.

Mexico is doing its job better than many countries like Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, the U.S., Brazil, Turkey. All of them OECD countries, and of course, better than many others. Apparently, the variable is not income, nor size, not population. Mexico stands in its own feet and merit.

This is the result of the leadership and focused work that Mexico has udertaken to protect the environment since few years ago. It is necessary to acknowledge what has worked and made a difference so that it can be a lesson to learn and achieve the next level.

During the last years there has been a great debate in Mexico about the rhythm of its economic growth. It has been slower than some emergent countries and definitely lower than what has been reached by countries in LatinAmerica. One particular concern has been about its income per capita, which has also grown at a much lower rhythm than expected. This has been a source of severe criticism about the path of the economic policy and the future towards which the country is going.

Nevertheless, according to the UN, economic growth and the growth of per capita income are just some of the factors that affect directly a country’s human development. The organisation states that the best measure to assess human development has to be done on a multidimensional basis, in a way that it allows to revise many other fundamental aspects of human development. Consequently, it publishes the Human Development Index (HDI) which considers among others, (1) each country’s per capita income –which obviously has a relevant impact in quality life, (2) its population access to a long and healthy life through its life expectancy at birth, and (3) its access to knowledge through its mean and expected years of schooling. In this way, the HDI takes into account a series of dimensions that are necessary to evaluate in order to clearly see the advances made in the subject.

According to Human Development Report of 2010, Mexico has had great advances from 1990 to 2008. In fact, it is considered within the Group of High Human Development countries. Mexico ranks 56 of 194 countries, and it is has the fourth place within the ranking of LatinAmerican countries. Surprisingly, given that it is one of the biggest economies in the region, it is also the best positioned. On the other hand, compared with the BRIC group, Mexico has a HDI significantly higher than any of them.

These results are the accomplishment of a road taken. Back in 1980 Mexico was at half ranking within LatinAmerica and since that date it has taken off to fight the first place with Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. These last countries where in that time in a much better situation than Mexico. And when reviewing the HDI change in time, it appears that Mexico’s has had a growth of 30% those 30 years. A rate that is much superior to those of the region, including that of Uruguay with 14% and Argentina’s with 18%.

Mexico’s progress has been importantly fostered by commitments made to its health and social policies. So, even though other countries have experienced a growth in their income, Mexico has found its way to come forward in other dimensions. There are still important pending issues in terms of achieving higher levels of per capita income and education, but the steps forward are undeniable. This brings the need to acknowledge the commitment that Mexico has had with the health conditions of its people, as well as the need to acknowledge that progress is visible. What is needed is velocity in other aspects. Lets acknowledge the accomplished results and ask ourselves what has worked and what is missing- not as something wrong- but to provide it in order to achieve the next level. Anything that is missing is an opportunity for your leadership to put in.

It is always more challenging to understand oneself that engange in analysing others. It is also more productive. So, how would an X-Ray picture of Mexico come out? According to Cárdenas, Kharas and Henao from Brookings Institution, Mexico is and will be even more, a middle class country.

Latin America is not currently a middle class place; the average size of the middle class for the region is 36.%, with data for 2005. But Mexico, along with only three other Latin American economies has a large middle class. In fact, more than half the population in 2005: Argentina 52.9%, Costa Rica 51.8%, Uruguay 55.8 %. In that same year, Mexico had already 60.1% of its population defined as middle class.

But, what is middle class and why is it so relevant besides justice or equality considerations? The authors define global middle class as those households with daily income/expenditures between $10 and $100 per person in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms. To understand more clearly the concept of global middle class; the lower bound is chosen with reference to the average poverty line in Portugal and Italy, the two advanced European countries with the lowest poverty line. The upper bound is chosen as twice the median income of Luxemburg, the richest advanced country. Defined in this way, the global middle class excludes those who are considered poor in the poorest advanced countries and those who are considered rich in the richest advanced country.

Comparisons are interesting in this case and even furthermore when reviewing the forecasts. Compared to Latin America, the Asian countries will underperform in terms of the relative size of the middle class in 2030. “ India will have the smallest share of the global middle class by 2030 with 15.8 % of its population, followed by China with 28.1%. While estimates calculate that the largest middle class will belong to Mexico with 79.9% to 86.5% of its population living with global middle class standards”.

This is the result of hard work. Chile and Mexico – are the two countries that have had the fastest reductions in inequality in the region– during the last two decades.

The implications of this description for investment and policy decisions are important. A buoyant middle class represents not only a link between it and the economic effects of consumption and growth. Middle class also focus its importance on values typically associated with this socioeconomic group, such as democratic attitudes, entrepreneurship, hard work and the importance of education. According to the Brookings study, these values, it is often argued, are crucial for the development process.

Additionally, the consumption boom that will be likely observed bring questions about whether goods will be imported or domestically produced, so industrial policy and structural change acquire a more relevant role today. As individuals, the most obvious trend is that higher a person’s income, the less a proportion of their wealth is tied up into their homes. Therefore, available for new businesses and investments, opening new opportunities.

This is the real Mexico, one of hard work that is paying off, and one of opportunities for its people. No wonder why it is chosen by more foreigners everyday as the ideal place to settle or visit. Mexico is not only a place of extreme beauty, but also of development and avant garde alongside its traditional way of living in community and highly regarded culture.

Are you really ready for this forecast? If not, start envisioning your investments in order to take advantage of a development that is already here, and for the one to come.

J.R.R. Tolkien once said, “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world”. 
Maybe Mexico’s high regard for food explains it merry character and its unique UNESCO’S recognition as Intangible Cutural Heritage for humanity should also be seen as a lesson to follow. In any case, Mexico is definitely more than “what meets the eye” and therefore the America’s Champion for Cultural Heritage.

When it comes to choices, enjoying and learning might transform into a solo word that would describe the touristic experience in Mexico, maybe a joy-learning thing. Where else could you experience long beautiful beaches by the mountain, by the desert, by the jungle, by archaeological ruins, or by medieval fortresses? All reachable by first class touristic infrastructure, while enjoying a first-world envy type of service and the joy of the Mexican food and its wine.

On November of 2010, UNESCO granted both the Mexican and the French cuisine, its recognition as Intangible Cultural Heritage for Humanity. About the Mexican cuisine, UNESCO asserts that it is a comprehensive cultural model comprising farming, ritual practices, age-old skills, culinary techniques and ancestral community customs and manners. It is made possible by collective participation in the entire traditional food chain: from planting and harvesting to cooking and eating. It involves, unique farming methods such as milpas (rotating swidden fields of corn and other crops) and chinampas (man-made farming islets in lake areas); cooking processes such as nixtamalization (lime-hulling maize, which increases its nutritional value); and singular utensils including grinding stones and stone mortars. Of course, it considers the role of native ingredients such as varieties of tomatoes, squashes, avocados, cocoa and vanilla, which augment the basic staples. Mexican cuisine is elaborate and symbol-laden, and its knowledge and techniques express community identity, reinforce social bonds, and build stronger local, regional and national identities.

The culture of appreciating food and making it a whole nourishment experience goes from street food to famous restaurant filled streets and beyond Mexico’s own cuisine. So, not only you can find places like President Masaryk’s famous Mexico City street where you can choose Mexican food from its various regions, but also see how this country’s love for food has enriched its relationship with other cuisines and has made it possible to find in a single street, a first world class experience of almost all cuisines in the world.

But its street food is world famous. From North to South, all through its 1,969 miles long, you can eat like a god regardless of your budget. You could find yourself at the middle of the CNN Travel recommended Baja’s Ensenada market and you join the masses at the city’s fish market for fish tacos; corn tortillas piled high with battered fried halibut, shredded cabbage, pickled onions, avocado, jalapeños, and sweet-tangy crema-mayonnaise sauce. A trip stop at Guadalajara could give you the opportunity of having a shot of tequila and trying the local fast food; tortas ahogadas, with its homemade salsas and freshly prepared corn tortillas will make you forget the idea you previously had about the fast food concept. Or choose between the world of options that Mexico City offers;  from tubes of fried dough powdered with cinnamon called churros to roasted corn to carnitas and freshly squeezed fruit juices. Maybe making your mind and having some of its ubiquituous tacos al pastor, made of hunks of marinated pork topped with pineapple that are cooked gyro-style on a spit until tender, sliced off and served atop two-bite corn tortillas. Cilantro, chopped onion and a squeeze of lime make a perfect garnish.  Or find yourself at the heart of Cancun, in its fantastic food market, enjoying shrimp, marlin or huachinango’s tostadas with a Mexican beer.

So truth be told, after having a taste of a tostada with guacamole, a “dry noodle with three chilis”, a “fillet au huitlacoche”, and the original, exquisitely organic vanilla icecream, wouldn’t you be merrier?

In recent years, Mexico has taken the lead in sustainable and environmental friendly initiatives. Derived from these initiatives, Mexico has achieved outstanding results such as Mexico’s city air quality improvement, outstanding green house emissions reductions, as well as indisputable leadership in COP16.

Now, Mexico has its eyes set on becoming a major World player in the production and consumption of bio jet fuels and it is taking all the necessary steps to become a World class leader in the sector. Oil prices have increased fivefold in just a few years raising concerns in the industry about long term oil availability as well as putting tremendous financial pressure on jet fuel costs and financial viability of Airlines. Since 2008 more than 30 airlines have gone bankrupt or stopped operations around the globe mainly because of higher fuel costs which account as much as 40% of an airline total costs.

Moreover, the air transportation industry is considered to be responsible for 2 percent of man-made carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere. Some estimates indicate that by using bio jet fuels flight-related greenhouse gas emissions could reduce by 60 to 80 percent.

Bio jet fuels production is derived from algae, camelina and jatropha plants that are not used as food for human or animal consumption and thus do not compete directly with traditional crops putting pressure on commodity prices as it has been the case with other first generation bio fuels derived from edible crops. Actually, the Jathropa is a well-known crop for the Seri -an indigenous group of the Mexican state of Sonora- and has been used for basket making from its roasted stems.

According with Mexican authorities and industry experts the country has a highly competitive and privileged position for becoming the biggest supplier of jet bio fuel to the United States by 2015 given the climate conditions, the suitability of the non edible crops to arid and eroded soils, as well as the proximity to United States jet fuel market. Mexican government has put in place an ambitious and pioneer “flight plan” initiative to reach its goals in 2015. As a result of this initiative just a few weeks ago Interjet a Mexican low cost airline completed its first bio jet fuel test flight in an Airbus A320 from Mexico City to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas.

Currently, in states such as Baja California, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Sinaloa, Chiapas and Yucatan non-edible plants for bio jet fuels are being grown through contract farming schemes to foster regional development and increased biomass yields for refining. There are several projects, joint ventures and pilot test running in topics such as algae extraction process, contract farming, as well as integrated value chain development.

This is an extraordinary opportunity that Mexico is seizing to both keep on contributing to the environment while making a difference for small farmers and also keeping a stronghold in the aeronautical industry. What would be possible if we keep working closely in North America in many other areas? Progress.

According to KPMG, Mexico is the best site for business locations, among 10 countries and 112 cities studied in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The firm, in its 2010 study, “Competitive Alternatives: Guide to International Business Location”, conducts an analysis measuring the combined impact of 26 significant cost components that are most likely to vary by location, as applied to specific industries and business operations.

“Selecting the best site for a business operation requires consideration of both cost and other factors, that significantly influence the competitiveness of locations for different types of businesses”. In this thorough analysis, KPMG works through both (1) business cost, and (2) costs of living. And considering all through the different industries, Mexico comes through having the highest competitive ranking in front of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Total business costs in each country are expressed as an index, with the baseline index of 100.0 being assigned to the United States. Countries with business costs lower than the US baseline have a cost index less than 100, while countries with business costs higher than the US baseline have a cost index greater than 100. Rankings are based on ascending business costs, with the lowest cost country ranking first. Mexico is ranked first among the 10 countries. With a cost index of 81.8, this represents an 18.2 percent cost advantage over the United States benchmark. Following it, are Canada and the Netherlands as the cost leaders among the other nine established industrialized countries examined with business costs 5.0 and 3.5 percent below the US, respectively. Australia, the United Kingdom and France rank fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively.

For calculating this business costs ranking, the firm presents an analysis of all its components, done under more than 1,900 individual Business scenarios.  It considers (a) business environment, (b) labour availability and skills, (c) land/building/office, (d) access to markets, customers, and suppliers, (e) labour wage/salary/benefits, (f) road, rail, port, airport infrastructure, (g) transportation and distribution, (h) utility and telecom/internet service reliability, (i) utilities, (j) suitable land sites, (k) financing, (l) federal/regional/local taxes, and (m) regulatory environment.

On the other side of the spectrum, Germany and Japan have the highest cost structures among the 10 countries examined, with costs 2.5 and 7.4 percent (respectively) higher than the United States.

International comparisons are always subject to exchange rates scenarios, and though historically in Mexico’s case, this has always make room for investment considerations, KPMG states that “Mexico’s cost competitiveness holds across a wide range of future exchange rates. Even if Mexico’s currency was to appreciate by 20 percent against the US dollar, the resulting cost index of 85.3 would still be more than 14 percent lower than the US benchmark”.

Mexico ranks first across all 17 industries studied from three sectors: (1) manufacturing, (2) corporate and IT services and (3) research and development. But surprisingly, though known by its manufacturing advantages, its competitiveness is even greater in the corporate and IT services, and R&D operations.

Mexico offers a high quality business environment while offering important cost advantages that have boosted foreign direct investment last year and is expected to reach 21 billion USD in 2011. What would be possible if we relate powerfully with Mexico and stop enrolling ourselves and others that there is something wrong here? Expansion and growth. It all starts individually with each and everyone of us.

Andrea Cruz. Mexican Air Force Pilot. Courtesy: J. Lira Otero/Notimex

The Gender Inequality Index (GII) is introduced this year in the 2010 edition of the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). It measures the inequality between men and women and is designed to reveal the extent to which national human development achievements are eroded by gender inequality, and to provide empirical foundations for policy analysis and advocacy efforts. It varies between zero (when women and men fare equally) and one (when men or women fare poorly compared to the other in all dimensions).

The IGI measures inequality in achievements between women and men in three dimensions. The first one is related to reproductive health, and it is measured with maternal mortality ratio and the adolescent fertility rate. The second dimension has to do with empowerment and is measured by the share of parliamentary seats held by each sex and by secondary and higher education attainment levels. And lastly, the third dimension is related to the labour market and is measured by women’s participation in the work force.

Mexico has an overall GII of 0.576 and is placed in 68th position among 169 countries in the report and is the best positioned among the two biggest Latin American economies. The countries in Latin American countries with highest scores are Costa Rica and Chile, occupying the 51st and 53rd place, respectively. In particular, and as surprisingly as it may seem, Mexico outstands in women’s participation in politics, with 22.1% share of Congress seats occupied by women. This number stands out if compared with the 17% in the U.S., 19.6% in the United Kingdom, 19.6% in France, 20.2% in Italy, and within Latin America 12.7% in Chile and 9.4% in Brazil.

On another matter, comparatively there is an outstanding 57.7% share of women with ages 25 and older in the overall population with at least secondary education. In this category, Costa Rica itself has 54.4%, Argentina 57% and Brazil 48.8%. Still, looking a little into the numbers, it is possible to see a small difference between women’s education level and that of men in Mexico, with only five points of difference. Whereas in countries with a higher generalized level of education, there is an important different between genres. Men in Austria are in percentage 18 points more educated than women, in Switzerland 15, Italy 8 and Denmark 6 points.

Another aspect in which comparatively Mexico outstands has to do with contraceptive prevalence rate (any method) among married women ages aged 15–49. Mexico has the third highest rate with 70.9% share among the group of countries with high human development. On the same issues, there are still important opportunity areas in terms of teen pregnancy rates, even though there has been a great effort done in the last years. In the same case is still women participation within the labour force, which is 46.3%.

All the later refers to important achievements and breakthroughs in gender equality in Mexico, though there are still important challenges that need to be addressed to guarantee equality conditions between men and women that would allow the country achieve its whole development potential. To acknowledge what has been achieved and what is still Messing is the first step towards taking effective action and making a difference. Congratulations to all Mexican Women in their day and for the extraordinary difference they make for Mexico and the World.

Even though we think of Mexico as a country with no talent in engineering and innovation, data and facts from different international organizations prove us wrong. One of the main reasons there is a lot of talent in Mexico and great accomplishments have been achieved is the fact that 451.000 students are currently enrolled in technical and engineering careers. This result is surprising, considering that in the United States there are only 370.000 students enrolled in these careers. Mexico is focusing on the future with these engineers, taking into account that it is a country that stands for innovation and offering talented and specialized workforce as one of its main attractions for foreign investment.

If we take into account other technological careers other than engineering, this number takes a mucho more important stand, due to the fact that there are currently 745,377 students enrolled in careers that have to do with these areas, according to the National Association of Universities and Superior Education (ANUIES). This makes Mexico one of the most important countries on technology and engineer career graduates worldwide.

There are many cases that can help us prove this. The doctor and academic at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ), Ivan Moreno Hernandez was chosen by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics Abdus Salam (ICTP) to be the winner of the ICO / ICTP 2011 award. Moreno Hernandez was honored for his studies and research in the light emitting diodes lamps (LEDs), more efficient and easier to use light sources, that allow more applications. In addition, Moreno said all his studies were developed at the Autonomous UAZ, putting the University on the spotlight. To carry out his investigations, Ivan Moreno has received support from other Mexican institutions such as PROMEP and CONACYT, demonstrating their commitment to research and development of innovative products in Mexico.

As well as Ivan Moreno, other Mexican scientists have been recognized internationally. Dr Blanca Jimenez Cisneros, for example, was recognized last October by the International Water Association with the Global Water Award 2010 for her research on the recovery of nutrients from the sewage. Dr. White was the first person from a developing country in history to get this award. In another case, Silvia Torres-Peimbert won the L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her work on the chemical composition of nebulae, which is fundamental to understanding the origin of the universe. Dr. Torres Peimbert is a graduate from the Natinal Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Mexico is creating more and more talent as time goes by, and these talented engineers are being awarded by prestigious international institutions. In Mexico there is enough talent to export, and at the same time continue contributing important research and discoveries to the scientific world.