Border Needs

Problems and Solutions
Staff Report

  For years, Mexicans complained that their country’s border policy was determined in Mexico City by bureaucrats unfamiliar with the border’s special needs.

  In response, President Vicente Fox created the Presidential Commission for Northern Border Affairs, specifically to work with the governors and leaders of the border states to determine what the real problems are and possible solutions.

  Ernesto Ruffo Appel, a former governor of Baja California with a long career in government and business groups on the border, was appointed the first director of the commission.

  Ruffo joined the PAN party in 1983 and in 1986 was elected mayor of Ensenada, B.C. In 1989 he was elected governor of Baja California, the first governor elected from an ...

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