Mexico's Government Seeks End of 'Brain Drain' The News
go to original August 15, 2013

MEXICO CITY – The federal government’s efforts to stop Mexico’s brain drain have received guarded praise from the country’s most important workers’ organizations, who added that the private sector and social organizations should also do their part.

According to a report issued by the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt), almost 130,000 Mexican scientists left the country last year to work overseas.

Isaías González Cuevas, leader of the Revolutionary Federation of Workers and Campesinos (CROC), said the brain drain costs Mexico 900 million pesos each year as a result of the cost of training workers whose labor goes offshore.

As the demand for highly trained professionals increases around the world, González Cuevas said that many of Mexico’s specialized scientists leave the country to look for better-paid jobs abroad and never return.

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