maquiladoras

March 1, 2019
Daniel Blue Tyx

In Matamoros, wildcat strikes propelled by AMLO’s election and social media were victorious in improving conditions for 30,000 maquiladora workers. Will it mark a new era for union organizing in Mexico?

April 6, 2016
David Bacon

Juárez maquiladora workers fight for their rights. 

July 19, 2011
Mexico’s Secretary of the Treasury, Ernesto Cordero, recently provoked some outrage when he announced that Mexico “was no longer a poor country.” Mexico, he tweeted to the press, echoing the line of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), “is now a middle income country.”
September 25, 2007
Miriam Davidson
September 25, 2007
Pedro Vuskovic
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