mexico – Impact Lab

Crime Prevention, drones, Law Enforcement

A single police drone has seriously impacted crime in a Mexican city

June 15, 2018

Drones are finding a place in so many industries lately that it’s not much of a surprise that police departments have also been testing the technology for crime-fighting operations.

The city of Ensenada in Mexico, for example, has recently achieved positive results using just a single quadcopter, Wired reported this week. The flying machine has helped to cut overall crime in the city by as much as 10 percent, including a 30-percent drop in burglaries.

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

More Mexicans are leaving the U.S. than coming in: Study

November 23, 2015

In a reversal of one of the most significant immigration trends in U.S. history, more Mexicans are leaving the United States than migrating into the country, according to a study published Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

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Big Problems, government, Historical Perspectives, Latest Trend

26,121 people missing during Mexico’s Calderon era

February 28, 2013

People in Mexico City show pictures of missing women.

During the six years of Mexico’s former President Felipe Calderon’s administration the number of people who went missing stands at 26,121 according to government officials. That figure ranks as among the worst episodes of “disappearances” in Latin American history.

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Analysis, Robots, Science & Technology News

Researchers use a robot to uncover hidden signals of trust

January 9, 2013

Nexi the Robot

“In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word, ” Neville Chamberlain. His first impression of Adolf Hitler can be described as an error in judgment.

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Science & Technology News

How Giant Gypsum Crystals form

April 7, 2012

Giant gypsum crystals up to 11 meters long in the Cave of Crystals, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico.

Gypsum is a naturally occurring mineral which is often used in industrial processes and which in nature, if left alone for thousands of years, can grow into huge translucent, towering and eerie, crystals more than 10 metres tall. These are famed for their beauty in places such as the Cave of Crystals in Mexico. Nevertheless, the formation of gypsum has until now been largely unexplored…

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Analysis, Economy, Latest Trend

Middle class in Mexico becoming its majority

March 18, 2012

Customers look at laptops at a Wal-Mart store in Mexico City.

The middle class is fast becoming the majority in Mexico, breaking down the rich-poor divide in a profound demographic transformation that has far-reaching implications here and in the United States.

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Big Problems, Latest Trend

12,000 killed in drug violence in Mexico in 2011

January 3, 2012

Around 12,000 people died in Mexico’s spiraling drug violence in 2011.

Some 12,000 people were killed last year in Mexico’s surging drug violence, according to grim tallies reported Monday by the country’s leading media outlets. Annual indexes of torture, beheadings and the killing of women all showed increases.

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