Towards A Furious Philosophy Of The Discrete
From Tijuana to Matamoros
Concerning Chiapas and NAFTA:
"The problem is not limited to a small fringe group in Chiapas...
In July issue of the New York Times it was stated that the trade
agreement was expected to destroy the corn economy that sustains
Mexico's indigenous peoples - some 29% of the population...Similar effects
can be expected in Canada, where efforts are being made to pass
the First Nations Chartered Lands Act, which will make it easier
for corporations to get at natural resources on Indian Lands..."
Jeffrey Wollock,New York, Jan. 6 1994. Research Director of the
Solidarity Foundation, the information and research service of the Native
American Council of New York.
In Mexico: The gap between poor and rich is wider today
than ever before and getting worse. A decade or so ago, the middle class
made up more than 30
percent of the Mexican Republic; today, because it is no more than
one-fifth.
From Tijuana to Matamoros, where more than 2,000 mostly
American-owned maquiladoras employ largely young women
14 to 24 years old, paying them 60 cents to a dollar 20 an hour,
more and more of them and their families live in cardboard and plywood
shacks lacking electricity, toilets, denied healthcare and schools for
their childerns...
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