maquiladora

• A "green card" holder who lives north of the border but works at a Mexican maquiladora, for example, will have to go through the process twice a day, even though he or she crosses daily and is well known to inspectors on the bridges. —  Clovis News Journal : News
• On Dec. 23, Zelaya announced an increase in the minimum monthly wage, from 157 to 289 dollars, as of Jan. 1, except in the 'maquiladora' plants that operate in duty-free zones for the assembly of exports, which he left free to negotiate with their workers. —  Global Issues News Headlines
• "We are currently negotiating a maquiladora-made prefabricated frame that can act as a hinge mechanism to coordinate the multiplicity of recycled materials and systems brought from San Diego and reassembled in Tijuana," Cruz writes. —  One-Way Street
• "With a body count now estimated at some 400, the killings have been called the maquiladora murders because some of the victims worked in the city's factories, which are also known as maquiladoras." —  GreenCine Daily
• The fabric art, photos, drawings and beautifully composed textual elements trace a strong sense of who Claudia was -- one of many vital young women disappeared from the maquiladora areas in this borderland region of Mexico -- as well as the world in which she lived. —  rabble.ca - News for the rest of us

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