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Article

11 Jan 2011

Author:
Eliza Barclay, Atlantic [USA]

Can Local Business Leaders Save Juárez? [Mexico]

Jorge Contreras...leads and belongs to a number of groups: Juárenses for Peace, Security Roundtable, Economic Development for Juárez, among others. They are part of a hodgepodge force of civic groups old and new founded by angry businessmen, doctors, and other professionals [to address violence in Ciudad Juárez]...they believe it could work in part because the city's economic backbone is still intact...Miguel Fernández, a Coca-Cola bottling magnate...heads a group called the Juárez Strategic Plan...