Roberto Gonzalez

1 week ago | tecscience.tec.mx | Roberto Gonzalez |Roberto González

Emma Sánchez‘s children were two months, three, and four years old when she crossed the border from the United States to Mexico. She returned to her home country to complete the paperwork, allowing her to marry her children’s father, a U.S. citizen and war veteran. When she tried to return from Ciudad Juárez, she was warned that, for the next ten years, she would not be able to return to the US, where her children were born and living.

1 week ago | tecscience.tec.mx | Roberto Gonzalez |Roberto González

Los hijos de Emma Sánchez tenían dos meses, tres y cuatro años cuando ella cruzó la frontera desde Estados Unidos hacia México. Ella regresó a su país para hacer los trámites que le permitirían casarse con el padre de sus hijos, un ciudadano estadunidense y veterano de guerra. Cuando intentó regresar, desde Ciudad Juárez, le advirtieron que, durante los próximos diez años, no podría volver al país donde nacieron y viven sus hijos.

2 weeks ago | tecscience.tec.mx | Roberto Gonzalez |Roberto González

In 2017, the United States deported 396,118 migrants, 42% of whom were Mexican, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security and Mexico’s Secretariat of the Interior. Early in that same year, Robert Irwin, Deputy Director of the Global Migration Center at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), launched the project Humanizing Deportation: a community archive that hosts over 600 digital narratives where migrants tell their stories and share their knowledge.

2 months ago | cen.acs.org | Roberto Gonzalez |Roberto González

In 2021, chemist Itzel Rubí Yeverino hiked up to the El Caracol waterfall deep in the Sierra Madre Oriental, the mountain system that runs through eastern Mexico. In a small pond near the waterfall, she found a fungus growing on a submerged piece of wood. New findings reveal that molecules produced by this fungus showed antimicrobial activity against Acinetobacter baumannii, an antibiotic-resistant pathogen responsible for some hospital-acquired infections.