Frontera

A while back, two colleagues and myself traveled to Ciudad Juarez on the Mexican border with El Paso, TX. We went down to immerse ourselves in studying the city for an international border crossing, contemplating politics, economics and social structures of the maquiladora assembly faciltities. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is immensely helpful to American companies who can manufacture parts here and have them assembled down in Mexico for bottom-feeder prices. They then ship the product back up to border areas and store them until they're shipped to American consumers at marked-up prices. Who wins? American Corporations. Who loses? Mexicans working for nothing, made to believe their lives have been eradicated of any potential poverty.

But, though all this exists as the "normal" workings of capitalism, G.W. still insists on his own way.

See some interesting pictorial observations here. And if you want even more stories, drop me a line.