Album: Piedras Negras
In 1994 I went to Piedras Negras, a small town on the Mexican border with Texas to start a project on the women working in the maquilladoras, the assembly line factories owned by foreign corporations. The ratification of NAFTA was one of the main controversial issues been debated in both countries. The wasteland that is the border area is astonishingly depressed, shanty towns, polluted rivers, and a total absence of any services. The only sign of modernity are the factories.
In spite of it I found a richness of spirit still alive in the women that I encountered. The hardship of factory life is the price to pay to keep the dream alive.
Changed: Jun 26, 2008.
Contains: 16 items.
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| Album: NI UNA MAS
Between January 1993 and January 2002 the murders of 268 young women have being officially recorded in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and more than 450 are missing. Most of them are kidnapped and murdered after being raped, tortured and brutally mutilated. An unusual percentage of them are maquilladora workers living in the outskirts of the city, in the ever-expanding shantytown. Often they go to work when is still dark and go back to their colonias in the middle of the night, constantly risking an encounter with a predator.
To this day poor, young women continue to "disappear" without any hope of bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Changed: Jan 17, 2007.
Contains: 10 items.
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| Album: Tijuana
Changed: Jan 17, 2007.
Contains: 11 items.
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