31 May 2006
Maquilapolis
I went to see a great documentary film last night at the Seattle International Film Festival called Maquilapolis. It was made in collaboration with a group of women who work in the factories (”maquiladoras” in Spanish) near the US-Mexican border in Tijuana. In it, they tell their story of environmental problems and exploitation, which are made worse by the Mexican government’s choice not to enforce their own laws in that region, due to NAFTA. See it!
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Another fantastic film I saw in Gainesville, Florida is Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary at
One thesis is that the war on drugs and undocumented workers has pushed the U.S. border all the way to that between Guatemala and Mexico. Central Americans call crossing the Mexican border the descent into hell. Quite chilling.