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Ed Suspicious

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Tue Nov 24, 2015, 03:31 AM Nov 2015

I'm writing a paper for my Latin American Geography class. It is on maquiladoras. I just

ran across this article that I had read once before, but it is still as gripping as it was the first time. I just thought people might be interested in taking a look.

From: ‘We Are Disposable’
Twenty years after NAFTA, the plight of Mexican maquiladora workers like Rosa Moreno has worsened.

“I wasn’t bleeding very much because the press had actually forged the ends of my arms to the metal sheet,” Rosa said. “The piece was attached to my hands. I remember saying, ‘Take the piece off. Take it off.’ But they didn’t want to.”




http://www.texasobserver.org/disposable/
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