40 years boosting the future of Ciudad Juárez.

From the future to today, 40 years of innovation and progress.

40 years ago, a group of visionary and innovative leaders decided to found an organization that would help them face the city's challenges together. In 1984, Desarrollo Económico de Ciudad Juárez, A.C. was founded.

Since then, this leading organization has driven the growth, innovation, and progress of Ciudad Juárez, joining forces for the well-being of the Juárez community and the Paso del Norte region.

Today we celebrate four decades of extraordinary achievements and look forward to an even brighter future, where collaboration and commitment will continue being the key to success.

Render 3D del libro El Futuro Norte — 40 aniversario DECJ

The Future North.

This book, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Desarrollo Economico de Ciudad Juarez (DECJ), takes us on a journey through time, exploring how the business community of our beloved city has forged a destiny of progress and resilience.

This publication tells our city's rich history and honors the achievements of the people who have participated in the organization since its founding.

You can click on the book cover to read it or you can download it to your computer by clicking on the button below.

Download book “The Future North”.

Economic History Essay on the Paso del Norte Region.

In the heart of the vast Chihuahuan Desert, where the horizon meets hope and perseverance, beats a city with a vibrant history.

Photo: Cathryn A. Hoyt

The Paso del Norte Region.

The information is presented based on the recovery of the three traditional economic sectors (agriculture and livestock, commerce and services, and industry), using as examples some of the companies that have left their mark on the Paso del Norte Region.

We also propose geographic and political frameworks for analysis and recognize some historical junctures that set differentiated behaviors and stages in the local companies.

Industria manufacturera en Ciudad Juárez

1965: The turning point that transformed Ciudad Juárez.

In 1965, the Programa de Industrializacion Fronteriza (Border Industrialization Program) was created, which, we believe, marks a historic turning point in the economic activity of Ciudad Juárez, whose unprecedented manufacturing trajectory will have an impact on several Mexican regions during the following decades. From then on, Ciudad Juarez gradually ceased to be a periphery and became an economic center.

1984: Desarrollo Económico de Ciudad Juárez, A.C. is founded.

In the 1980s, the Juarense IMMEX model began to expand throughout the State of Chihuahua and spread to other regions of Mexico such as La Laguna and the State of Yucatan. Grupo Bermúdez was in charge of this development. Likewise, Lintel company deployed its technology and monetary investment in the States of Guanajuato, Queretaro, and San Luis Potosí

Just in that year of 1984, the foundation of Desarrollo Económico de Ciudad Juárez. (DECJ) was registered, which integrated the experience of twenty years Again Richard Bolin, from the Instituto Flagstaff, came with Jaime Bermudez to update the IMMEX model, just two decades after the American had delivered the first development project in 1964.

40 años de Desarrollo Económico de Ciudad Juárez

40 Years of Desarrollo Económico de Ciudad Juárez, A.C.

The 40-year history of the Desarrollo Económico de Ciudad Juárez organization reflects the vision and culture of previous leaderships. At the same time, we offer examples of how the current leaders strengthen and project that vision and culture with even broader and more challenging goals, derived from the complicated social situation that the PNR has experienced in the last quarter of a century.

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