José Reyes Estrada Ferriz (born 23 July 1961 in

Chihuahua, Chihuahua The city of Chihuahua or Chihuahua City ( ; Lipan language, Lipan: ) is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua. , the city of Chihuahua had a population of 925,762 inhabitants. while the metropolitan area had a popu ...

) is a Mexican politician, affiliated with the

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(PRI). He served as the

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, Chihuahua, from 2007 to 2010. José Reyes Ferriz is the son of José Reyes Estrada Aguirre, who also served as Municipal President of Ciudad Juárez from 1980 to 1983. Reyes Ferriz is a law graduate from the

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and has a master's degree from the

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in the

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. He has been a member of the PRI since 1984. In 2001, following the cancellation of the local election in Ciudad Juárez, the Congress of Chihuahua appointed him to serve as the municipal president on an interim basis until a special election could be held. In 2004,

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José Reyes Baeza Terrazas José Reyes Baeza Terrazas (born 20 September 1961) is a Mexican politician and lawyer. In 2004, he was elected Governor of Chihuahua as a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party for the term ending in 2010. Prior to that, he was Chair ...

put him in charge of revenue collection in Ciudad Juárez, a position he left in 2007 to seek the PRI's candidacy for the 2007 municipal presidential election. On 22 April 2007, Reyes Ferriz was selected as the PRI's candidate for mayor of Juárez, and on 1 July 2007 he was elected to serve as Juárez's municipal president for the 2007–10 period. Reyes Ferriz has been brought into the national and international spotlight as drug-related violence on the Mexican–American border has escalated in 2008 and 2009. Ciudad Juárez is directly across the border from

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, and has been called "The Most Dangerous City in the Americas".
Time Magazine, 27 April 2009

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