Ciudad Juárez

Traditional Unions and the Mexican Maquiladoras: Dispute and Fragmentation The first maquiladoras were established in the border cities of Nogales, Tijuana, Matamoros, and Ciudad Juarez in the 1960s and 1970s. There was a power struggle among the principal worker organizations (CTM, CROC, and COROM) to obtain the right to represent the workers during this period. This struggle provoked at least two types of labor actions. The first was focused on worker contracts and the right to control…

There is nothing more interesting than a Missionary. The Definition of a Missionary is a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. And no better way to find out about the life of a missionary is to find one and ask what is it like to be a missionary. When I asked if I could give him an interview of what his life and his in his life in ministry, and he said yes. As we started the interview we started off with simplest question ever,…

When it came time to choose the classes I was going to take my senior year, I decided to enroll in the dual enrollment English class offered at my school.I met all the necessary requirements, but I did not receive my student ID number from the community college that was needed to complete my application to schedule to take the placement exam. After two trips to the community college, I had my ID number and was eligible to take the exam, but there were no more spots for the test held at my school…

A drug is a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. A cartel is an association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition. A drug cartel is any criminal organization developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized…

One of the most significant events in Mexico’s history is the Mexican Revolution. The first revolts took place because of the people’s dissatisfaction with Porfirio Díaz. Diaz had policies which were entirely biased towards the upper class, such as wealthy landowners and business men. Diaz allowed for democratic elections, but the elections that took place were entirely rigged in his favor. During his seventh time running for reelection his opponent was Francisco Madero, the leader of the…

This community, with its intersection of cultures and countries, showed me how to think, developed my open mind, and shaped my compassion. El Paso del Norte is situated at the westernmost tip of Texas, bordered by New Mexico to the west and Ciudad Juarez to the south. This beautiful city is unlike any other. It has sky-high mountains, an international border, and the best Mexican food in the world. In El Paso, I can always see the Franklin Mountains and appreciate their grandeur. Long hikes…

Immigration for centuries has been a common theme in the United States. The US alone is a current melting pot and will continue to be so. Currently we are at an all-time high with immigration. “Immigrants in the US and their US born children now approximately 81 million people or 26 percent of the overall US population” (Zong and Batavola, 2016) with that being said, our current president of the United States wants to decrease the current immigration “problem” that is at hand. People tend to…

The narcocorridos music and narco telenovelas are celebrating and chronicles the drug trade and high lives of traffickers. “However, most workers in the drug trade are not the wealthy superheroes or villains portrayed in narcocorridos.” El Paso/Ciudad Juarez are the most affecting cities in both countries. The rich folklore about drug trafficking shows how drug dealers become as “normal”and part of the cultural and everyday…

separate the countries, the reality is that it is as much a zone of the US whether in a place like El Paso or Ciudad Juarez, and one major site of exploitation are the Maquiladoras. Factories on the Mexican side that mainly has women, has faced the environmental issues of industrialization. NAFTA allowed international companies exploits the labor of Maquiladoras, considering that Ciudad Juarez barely gets 1.5 million in taxes from the various Fortune 500 maquiladoras. The major environmental…

the Sinaloa Cartel (Culiacán, Sinaloa), the Gulf Cartel (Matamoros, Tamaulipa), La Familia Michoacana Cartel (Michoacán), the Tijuana Cartel (Tijuana), the Knights Templar Cartel (Michoacán), the Beltran-Leyva Cartel (Sinaloa), and the Juarez Cartel (Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua). These cartels, along with a number of smaller ones, now control the contraband drug markets that make between $13.6 to $49.4 billion a year. The Mexican government has made the diminishing of drug-related violence and the…