In a large grey building that was once a supermarket, just south of Tijuana’s downtown, a group of some 50 of the city’s young aspiring entrepreneurs wait their turn to explain a business idea whose time, each feels, has surely come. It’s Friday night. Many of the participants are business managers or professionals. They represent … Continue reading “Emerging Startup Scene Sparks Hope for Tech Renaissance in Tijuana”
Author: Sam Quinones
Sam Quinones is a former reporter for The Los Angeles Times. He received a Maria Moors Cabot prize in 2008 for his reporting on Mexico and Latin America, and an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in 1998.
Innovation in Tijuana: Eager for the Future, Hampered by the Past
[Corrected 6/3/14, 10:05 am. See below.] One day last year, Oscar Franco, a Tijuana tech engineer, was taking a break from work and noticed an upcoming soccer match between Los Xolos, Tijuana’s team, and Monarcas, the team from the city of Morelia, Michoacan. With many friends in Morelia, Franco wondered how he might use an … Continue reading “Innovation in Tijuana: Eager for the Future, Hampered by the Past”
An Opera Festival Holds the Seeds for a Tech Revolution in Tijuana
On the first weekend in July, Tijuana holds its annual Opera Street Festival in the Colonia Libertad neighborhood just east of the San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego. Seven thousand people converge on the rough-hewn Mexican neighborhood, founded by migrants, smugglers, and plaster statue makers. A hundred yards from the wall that separates the … Continue reading “An Opera Festival Holds the Seeds for a Tech Revolution in Tijuana”