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University of Texas at Brownsville; The University of Texas Pan American; Texas
Southmost College; and Wells Fargo Border Banks.
CBIRD-TRAC’s Sponsors that provided support for this research and report
writing including Japanese Esternal Trade Organization (JETRO), Houston;
Strategic Interfaces; Wells Fargo Banks; RGK Foundation, Austin, TX; and James
Wittliff, Business Entrepreneur and Consultant.
We appreciate the important information and data supplied by Dr. Antonio
Furino, Director, Center for Health Economics and Policy, UT Health Science
Center, San Antonio and Rob Harrison, Director, Center for Transportation
Research, The University of Texas at Austin.
We appreciate the contributions of the Border Development Alliance (BDA) and
The State of Texas funding for the binational survey, the results of which are
included in this report. In this regard, thanks to BDA representatives Mike
Acosta, The University of Texas at El Paso; Brett Mann, The University of Texas
Pan Am; Michael Patrick, TAMIU-Laredo; and Professor Pablo Rhi-Perez, The
University of Texas at Brownsville.
Special recognition is due to community leaders that were interviewed by
Professor Pablo Rhi-Perez, UTB/TSC; filmed and edited by Rene Rhi with the
assistance of Richard Camargo & John Aquilar of UTB/TSC Media Center
featuring Mike Allen, Dr. Tony Knopp, Colonel William H. Card, Andres Cuellar,
Tony Capella, Raul Besteiro, Sergio Arguelles, and Rolando Gonzalez-Barron.
For closely reading and commenting on this report we give special thanks to
Nanette Fitch, Director of Economic Development, Harlingen Area Chamber of
Commerce and Dr. Abderrahmane Megateli, Executive Director, CBIRD-TRAC and
CBIRD Coordinator and Dr. George Kozmetsky, Co-Chair, CBIRD Binational
Advisory Board and Chairman of the Board both from IC² Institute, The University
of Texas at Austin.
We thank Margaret Cotrofeld for her exceptional skill and time consuming effort
in editing and formatting this report so that the data and information presented
is accessible to the reader.
Finally we are especially grateful to Dr. Antonio N. Zavaleta, Vice President for
External Affairs, The University of Texas Brownsville/Southmost College
(UTB/TSC). His resilient and patient support of our data collection, analysis, and
report writing was most important to sustaining this project. His value-added
and useful advice and suggestions have been central to the successful
completion of this CBIRD-UTB/TSC report: Cameron County/Matamoros at the
Crossroads: Assets and Challenges for Accelerated Regional & Binational
Development.
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