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DECEMLAND MEXICO Country Profile

MEXICO GLOBAL SUMMARY TABLE IN FINAL PAGES Decemland World is a global initiative. Our goal is to dream of, imagine, design and communicate a beautiful long-term future for every country and territory and for the World. We think it’s possible to reach a World without extreme poverty before 2050, a World of Eutopia and Cornucopia. We have launched a worldwide recruitment process identifying and subsequently contacting millions of experts in every corner of the globe. Decemland Mexico encourages individual Experts to join the best team ever design to serve the longterm public interest of society. We are contacting thousands of Experts in every country and territory. Our goal is to put together a dream team in Mexico able to identify the great challenges of the twenty-first century. Figures updated as of 26-May-2014

MEXICO POPULATION (2014) 120.286.655 MEXICO EXPERTS CONTACTED 65.916 EXPERTS PER 100,000 PEOPLE CONTACTED 55 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED 60 RESPONSE RATE 0,09% EXPERTS CONTACTED IN THE AMERICAS 998.312 AVERAGE TEAM SIZE IN THE AMERICAS 16,46 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED IN THE AMERICAS 576 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED WORLDWIDE 2.739 Mexico Country Coordinator/s

JAIME LAGUNEZ

Jaime Lagunez is a scientist and activist. He proposed therapies for cancer and AIDS maintaining investigations in bioinformatics. He has directed the creation of computer programs for modeling intramolecular communication and microarray analysis. His PhD thesis with Edward Trifonov of the Weizmann Institute, presented a universal triplet periodicity of coding sequences pointing to extremely conserved ribosomal RNA sites. Jaime has spoken in favor of protecting archeological, historical and environmental heritage in Mexico, especially in Cuernavaca and Teotihuacan. Since 2002, along with professors Neil Wollman and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus, he has contributed to the international coalition Make TIAA-CREF Ethical dedicated to lobbying shareholders of 400 billion dollar fund into divesting from corporations shown to have damaged society, among them Costco, Walmart, Altria and Coca-Cola. In 2004 the organization Frente Civico, with which he collaborates received the National Mendez Arceo Human Rights Award for having protected civil liberties and the environment against repressive governments. The organization has made constant declarations against privatizations in Mexico such as that of the telephone company, PEMEX, and the National University. He also recommended to declare the Valley of Cuauhnahuac (Cuernavaca) as a UNESCO world heritage area. He has since received support of the Senate with a Punto de Acuerdo in favor of the same area approved in August 2008. During the promotion of the research of the field of Complex Systems, he became scientific advisor and director of Instituto de Criónica, an organization dedicated to cryopreservation, indeed he has a campaign in favor of having governments invest heavily in research and cryonic facilities that would guarantee a successful suspension of that part of society interested in in not taking up space and an important part of the world's resources. Currently a visiting scientist at the Centro Internacional de Ciencias, A.C. in

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