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to helpless women who could not afford lawyers. Fellow workers offered to be advocates to help
and be the voice of the workers but the progress was not so significant both in the labor disputes
and other disputes that came up. The Mexican government had an obligation to provide these
layers to represent the labors but was not the case even after being given the funding by
international bodies like the IMF or the International Monetary Fund.
The women in the film claim that the factories preferred women working with them
because they are fast, docile and cheap. Their working conditions were so cruel that they could
not be allowed to take a break to go the bathroom or take drinking water. This contributed to
most of the women to develop kidney problems, anemia and some even nose bled while
working. The smell that is produced by the factory processors is so pungent that it caused nose
blockage and poisonous layers on them that the women could not be able to care of their own
children immediately after their daily shifts(Arvizo, García & Leiner 2020) Some women had
developed itchy and spotted skin from the lead poison that they are exposed to while working.
In 1960, multiple factories were started in in the US-Mexican borders that were allowed
to manufacture their goods duty free and tariffs free. The manufacturers are allowed to import
the raw materials and export the finished goods to and from US without any import or export
taxes from either of the countries (Dement 2018). The Mexican government developed
‘Programa de Industrializacion Fronteriza’ or BIP which were special laws that favored and
programs that fueled the growth of these factories. In 1994, the NAFTA which is the North
America Free Agreement which declared North America as a free trade area and this enabled
multinational companies to manufacture goods at a lower cost. These companies could import
quality raw materials from the United States and produce cheaply than in the US through paying
the Mexican workers lower wages while repaying fewer duties (Hernandez-Trillo 2018).

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