- A
maquiladora (Spanish: [makilaˈðoɾa]), or
maquila (IPA: [maˈkila]), is a
factory that is
largely duty free and tariff-free.
These factories take raw...
- were
attributed to
organized crime and drug
trafficking activities.
Maquiladoras are
widely known for
their cheap labor and
their exploitative conditions...
-
expanded throughout the 20th century,
owing to the
proliferation of
maquiladoras in the city,
making the
Mexicali economy more
interconnected with businesses...
- Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
NAFTA has
encouraged the
formation of
maquiladoras on the Texas–Mexico border. The state's
large size and
rough terrain...
- from NAFTA, in that real
income in the
maquiladora sector has
increased 15.5%
since 1994,
though the non-
maquiladora industry has
grown much faster. Contrary...
- Free
Trade Agreement by
opening large maquiladoras right across the
United States–Mexico border. The
maquiladoras hire
mostly Mexican women to work long...
-
promising industrial sectors in Mexico,
mainly due to the
presence of
maquiladoras. In Matamoros, the
automotive industry hosts the ****embly and accessories...
- factories/
maquiladoras in
Juarez are U.S. owned.
NAFTA helped create 1.2
million jobs in Mexico, and over 25% of
those opportunities were in the
maquiladoras of...
-
growing industrial center,
which in
large part is made up by more than 300
maquiladoras (****embly plants)
located in and
around the city.
According to a 2007...
- Goldstein. The film
follows Ana, a fake
Mayan art smuggler, and Aurelia, a
maquiladora worker, flee from
Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua in
Northern Mexico and those...
