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Things are even worse to the west in Ciudad Juarez, a border city with thousands of assembly plants - known as maquilas - in which multinational corporations churn out duty-free goods for American shops.
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Things are even worse to the west in Ciudad Juarez, a border city with thousands of assembly plants - known as maquilas - in which multinational corporations churn out duty-free goods for American shops.
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Mr. ALBERTO ISLAS Industrial Security Consultant: The threat of organized crime going into maquilas, it's a constant threat.
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The maquilas are even more susceptible to infiltration by criminals posing as employees than to a direct attack from organized crime, say Alberto Islas,
Juárez Violence Puts Factories on Defensive Nicholas Casey 2010
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It was easier, more fun and better money than toiling in one of the city's myriad maquilas? sweatshop factories? which paid £25 a week.
Mexico's drug war: 'I shot him in the back and he fell ? in that moment I felt the best' Rory Carroll in Ciudad Juárez 2010
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Alberto Islas, a Mexican industrial security consultant, advises maquilas, the export-oriented Mexican assembly plants along the border that make everything from auto parts to laptops.
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After being displaced from their agricultural lands, many people have traveled north to work in the maquilas of the border towns.
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The maquilas are even more susceptible to infiltration by criminals posing as employees than to a direct attack from organized crime, say Alberto Islas,
Juárez Violence Puts Factories on Defensive Nicholas Casey 2010
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The maquilas are even more susceptible to infiltration by criminals posing as employees than to a direct attack from organized crime, say Alberto Islas,
Juárez Violence Puts Factories on Defensive Nicholas Casey 2010
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BURNETT: A case in point: Eduardo owns a private security company in a Mexican border city, where he is hired by maquilas to make sure their U. S.-bound loads are clean.
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