Maquiladoras Analysis

What is really happening in the maquiladoras in Mexico? We all hear about how dirty and dangerous factories in America are but not maquiladoras. What are maquiladoras? they are Factories built by US companies in Mexico near the US border to take advantage of much lower labor costs in Mexico. In the painting “Self Portrait Along the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States” by Frida Kahlo, one of Mexico's most famous artist, She shows how America is affecting her country, Mexico. She painted something to show her culture and how it is being ruined. The factories, Maquiladoras, are effectuating the air in Mexico with all its pollution and it slowly affects the culture and causes chaos because the new American culture is ruining the Mexican culture. They are ruining the overall landscape when they build more and more factories. She uses Ford, a big car manufacturer, to show how its pollution is coming into Mexico. It could also mean how it is taking over Mexico by how it is a maquiladora. She basically is showing how much maquiladoras are killing people. Maquiladoras affect people, specifically women because they are the majority that works there, by how horrible of conditions it has.
government in 1964. The “Bracero Program” allowed Mexican agricultural workers who were migrating to the outer borders of Mexico to work in the U.S legally. After the “Bracero Program” ended, the Mexican government had to start the Maquiladora Program to help with the rising unemployment rates along the border. This is a concept where the Mexican government allows the importation of raw materials, supplies, machinery, and equipment, etc. as long as the product is exported after being made. Only a few companies moved to Mexico over the first years of the