The Rio Grande Valley Business Journal is a digital-first newsroom covering the economic forces shaping one of the most dynamic regions on the U.S.–Mexico border. Our coverage spans South Texas’s Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy counties and the industrial cities of Reynosa and Matamoros, a binational corridor home to nearly three million people and billions of dollars in annual trade.
Founder, CEO and Publisher
Ramiro Garza Jr. is the founder, CEO and publisher of the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. A Port Isabel native, he served as mayor of Edinburg from 2021 to 2025, a period in which the city was named an All-America City. Before that, he was Edinburg’s city manager for six years and led the Edinburg Economic Development Corporation for nearly a decade. He is also president of RG Economic Advisors. He holds a BBA in finance and an MBA from the University of Texas at Brownsville and is a graduate of the Economic Development Institute at the University of Oklahoma.
Co-Founder and COO
James Moore is co-founder and chief operating officer of the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. He began his broadcast journalism career in the mid-1970s at an AM radio station in McAllen before moving into television news in Laredo, and went on to work as a TV news correspondent and on-air political analyst for MSNBC. A New York Times bestselling author of nine books, he has also been a startup consultant in Austin’s tech economy and an executive at a global public relations firm. His honors include an Emmy, the Edward R. Murrow Award and the National Media Award for Economic Understanding from Dartmouth’s Tuck School.
Editor
Naxi Lopez-Puente, managing editor of the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal, is a veteran Valley journalist who reported and served as metro editor at The Monitor. She later led programs and partnerships at Mission EDC, giving her on-the-ground insight into regional growth. A Valley native raised in South Texas, she brings a deep working knowledge of how the RGV does business.
Reporter
Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza is a versatile multimedia news reporter who lives and works along the Texas-Mexico border in Hidalgo County. Mosbrucker-Garza is a news reporter for the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. During her career she’s worked for the McAllen Monitor, San Antonio Business Journal, The Advocate Newspaper in Louisiana, Phoenix New Times, and public media outlets in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Reporter
Anayancy Ulloa Luna is a contributor to the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal who hails from Reynosa in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Ulloa has a long history as a U.S.-Mexico region business expert in marketing, formerly the editorial director of Mexico Industry.
Reporter
José Luis Martínez is a Houston-based journalist and contributor to the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. He has previously worked for Law360, the Houston Landing and the Connecticut Mirror, and his work has also appeared in the Texas Observer.
Reporter
Matt Wilson is a Hidalgo County–based freelance reporter and contributor to the Rio Grande Valley Business Journal. He previously covered education and general assignment for The Monitor, frequently writing about the dramatic ways business changed during the coronavirus pandemic. Before that he worked as a reporter in rural Central Texas where he covered everything from house fires to school board meetings.
