Mexico’s ‘Silicon Valley’ offers different image for Americans

GUADALAJARA, Jalisco — Perhaps I shouldn’t have referred to Mexico’s second-largest city, Guadalajara, as a south-of-the-border version of Silicon Valley. J.P. Lopez, who heads business development for a nonprofit called Ijalti that promotes the state of Jalisco’s high-tech business “clusters,” was shaking his head when the words spilled out of my mouth. “We’re a unique hub” with its “own DNA,” he objected. The city’s techno