Talk:Maquiladora

HI, are sure of the spelling? Is it one L or 2 L's: I have mainly see this word as: maquilladoras

thanks

Hello! To get an estimate for which spelling is used more frequently I typed both into Google.com. "Maquiladora" got 243,000 hits, and "Maquilladora" got 14,500. So I think one l is correct, but I will create another article with Wikipedia for "Maquilladora" that will redirect to "Maquiladora" so that people will arrive here for sure. Thanks! Kurieeto 21:58, Jan 26, 2005 (UTC)

This article about maquiladoras is misleading, particularly about the relationship between maquiladoras and NAFTA. As a result of NAFTA, the benefits which the maquiladoras enjoyed prior to 1994 were extended to all Mexican industry, and the maquiladoras' restrictions on export-majority production were made obsolete. Maquiladoras have been phased out as separate category in Mexican industry, although the term still applies to factories that use maquiladora-like production.

In addition, this article blames NAFTA for a number of Mexican ills, including labor union and agricultural decline, immigration, and the Zapatista rebellion. In reality, PRI-controlled labor unions were already a source of frustration, and prior agricultural changes in 1992 are a better place to look for agricultural decline and subsequent migration to Mexican cities and the US border. The Zapatista rebellion was unrelated to NAFTA, which had not had time to make any lasting impact when the rebellion began.

For a good history of maquiladoras prior to 1994, see J. A. Cohen's Jan/Feb 1994 article in Business Mexico, titled "A Case Study of Internalization: The Rise of the Maquiladoras." markclayton4 April 23, 2005.

Unrelated information

The information about the Ciudad Juarez's crime is unrelated to an article on maquiladoras and should be moved. Maybe to a main article on Ciudad Juarez or creat a new article on the crime of the Ciudad Juarez crime.