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:: Monday, December 29, 2003 ::
NAFTA - Free Trade Deal Dismal After a Decade by Emad Mekay
NAFTA was also promoted as a route to good jobs and improved living conditions, especially via maquiladoras, companies that are permitted to operate duty-free in nations that provide them with cheap labor -- in the NAFTA case, U.S. firms setting up in Mexico.
'Instead, we got low wages, sexual harassment, environmental destruction and birth defects,' said Marth Ojeda, director of the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, herself a maquiladora worker.------------------------------------------- posted 7:24 AM :: reference link ::
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