maquiladoras

For the past two decades, and especially since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect in 1994,

I. Industria Fronteriza Tijuana’s oldest maquiladora closed last year. It didn’t fall victim to the dreaded Chinese competition, confounding a

NEARLY HALF-A-MILLION MEXICANS ARE currently employed in maquiladoras-the 1,500 in- bond assembly plants clustered along Mexico's northern border. These overwhelmingly

Norberto Cordoba sacrificed his job, trying to end condi- tions in his factory so dan- gerous that he feared the

The terrain on which the indigenous struggle has been cultivated is nothing more complex than the extreme poverty which Salinas'