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Monday, 24 October 2011 16:24 |
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"Change is a gift from heaven and it involves great risk and responsibility", said the President of the former Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachov, during a speech last week in Juarez Competitiva, a forum highlighting our city's strengths.
"When change is necessary, we have to risk everything, we have to be brave enough for change", said the leader who steered Russia and the Soviet Union to a whole new order without a violent revolution and made possible a political turnaround in Europe and in East-West relations.
"I'm sure you will vanquish", he said, referring to the drug-related violence affecting Juarez and most of Mexico.
Gorbachov, recipient of the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, was eagerly listened by almost 2,000 Juarenses at Centro Cultural Paso del Norte.
He was one of several national and international guests during the two-week event.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani; first Mexican astronaut Rodolfo Neri Vela; and President of Corporate and Government Affairs of ManpowerGroup David Arkless were among the distinguished guests.
Rigoberta Menchú, also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was in Chihuahua last week, although for a different event.
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Get over stereotypes! There is a couple of things you'd want know about the largest state of Mexico
Chihuahua is developing an aerospace cluster. Our universities are training aerospace engineers and technicians right now.
We are developing micro-electromechanical systems at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez. Many national and international companies with operations in the State are potential beneficiaries of our projects. 
The most important archaeological site of Northern Mexico is located in the State of Chihuahua, at Paquimé
In Juarez, just across from El Paso, Texas, there is a museum with original parts of the great supersonic passenger jet