High crime cities in US and Mexico

By Patrick Osio, Jr.

Patrick Osio, Jr

Mr. Osio was born in California. He lived and attended schools in Mexico City and Los Angeles, California. He has lived in San Diego, California since 1982 with his wife of 46 years.

Mr. Osio is an award-winning columnist with over forty-years experience in the U.S. Hispanic and Mexican communities. For over 15 years, he was a consultant to the private and public sector on trans-border business and economic affairs. He is a frequent lecturer on U.S.-Mexico issues, and is a frequent guest in radio talk shows.

He brought his business, political and cultural experience to bear in his writing.

His monthly column, The Connection, written for the San Diego Metropolitan Magazine since 1996, has won 5 awards for excellence from the San Diego Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Hispanic Media selected him as one of the 100 best Hispanic Journalists in the United States in 2002. In 2003, Hispanic Media selected Patrick as one of the 50 Most Influential Hispanic Journalists in the United States. Also in 2003, the CCNMA honored Mr. Osio with La Pluma Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, the South San Diego County Economic Development Council honored Patrick with the Binational Endeavor Award for his many years of promoting cross border economic development.

Mr. Osio has served on the Board of Directors of the SSDEDC, the Pacific Chapter of the U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce and Board of Advisors on The Chamber of the Americas (Denver, Colorado) and The Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory, BNSL, Santa Teresa, NM.

Mr. Osio is a cofounder (1997) and Editor of HispanicVista.com (www.hispanicvista.com), and Internet weekly publication and writes a regular column. His articles were distributed by Knight Ridder Tribune News Service to over 400 newspapers throughout the United States until it was sold in 2006.

His articles have appeared in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald, The Houston Chronicle, Detroit Free Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, El Paso Times, The New Mexican and numerous others as well as in leading newspapers in Mexico.