Mexico’s Killing Fields

Who’s smarter?

There’s a group of Mexican "peasants" called Zapatista’s who want to change Mexico and keep their people there and employed. One of the things they are against is NAFTA and the Maquiladora’s NAFTA has brought into their country.

NAFTA has also hurt the American middle class. Virtually wiping out many manufacturing jobs here.

If these "peasants" can see this with their "limited" intelligence as their government says they have, why can’t the big wigs in government? Or are they the ones with limited intelligence? Both there and here.
Amanda…I know what you’re talking about. This is mainly to make people aware of NAFTA and the damage it’s caused here and there. Some people are under the mistaken impression the Mexican People want NAFTA. No they don’t. It doesn’t benefit them as some assume. The Zapatista’s have often spoken out against NAFTA and disappeared or been imprisoned for doing so. This is more a financial aspect question than a humanitarian one.

sounds like mexico has a militia on their hands. i knew some of the citizens in mexico was against NAFTA. there are canadian citizens who are against NAFTA. it’s all about money, they , the leaders are only thinking of their pocket. NAFTA consist of the united states president, the mexican presidant and the canadian president. all 3 are jack azzes.

September 23rd, 2009

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AP Human Geography Exam help ?

The AP Human Geography Exam is Friday .. I’ve paid attention pretty much all year and average about 70/80 on my exams. Ace my vocab exams no problem - I know the terms pretty much forwards and backwards. I just need help with applying them. Also I have huge issues with 2nd guessing myself.
Scared soo bad for the FRQ, we’ve only practiced 2 in class and I’ve gotten like a 6/8 on them? But honestly I have no idea what material they’ll be on. The 2 we did in class included one about Maquiladoras and another about Businesses locating further south etc.

Any tips/advice especially from those in my situation or that have taken the exam before would be greatly appreciated :):)

Yeah, I have it Friday too…
Here’s a website that has old Ap exams and stuff you should know for the exam.
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/humangeo/samp.html?humangeo
Good luck!

September 21st, 2009

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Grab bag: How much is too much?

Beauty, so, I’ve got a bunch of questions that I would like answers to, and don’t feel like making a bunch of topics, so the first person to get all these for me with a paragraph OR LESS for each one gets BA. Sources people. Go!
1) How does a refrigerator work? (summarize)
2) Is it Paladin Aladdin or Paladin of Fal ad grin? Also:
2b) Who the heck was Charlemagne?
3) If Schrödinger’s cat got in a fight with Pavlov’s dog, who would win? And why?
4) List 4 dirty little secrets about Abraham Lincoln, because I know for a fact he was no saint.
5) Who was the original Devil’s Advocate?
6) What is Tang, anyway? (pick a Tang, any Tang)
7) What did you think of American Idol last night?
The pros and cons of Maquiladoras, discuss.
9) Why are the japanese so proud or their sword quality?
10) "To be or not to be" What is the context?
Lightning round!
11) Who made that one picture, y’know, with the birds morphing into fish?

Who will win the grand prize? Only time will tell…

2b Charlemagne Latin: Carolus Magnus, meaning Charles the Great; numbered Charles I of France and the Holy Roman Empire) (742/747 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe
6 Tang is a sugared, fruit-flavored, non-carbonated soft drink from the USA. The original orange flavored Tang was formulated by General Foods Corporation in 1957 and first marketed (in powdered form) in 1959. It was initially intended as a breakfast drink, but sales were poor until NASA began using it on Gemini flights in 1965, and that use was heavily advertised. Since that time, it has been associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program

10 Hamlet contempts the death of Yorick ..and his own.
11 M C Escher http://www.eszlinger.com/escher/escherbirdf.html

September 19th, 2009

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Does this look like it helped or did it cause more illegal immigration?

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0425-30.htm
With US firms unwilling to pay even minimal taxes, NAFTA has hardly produced the promised uplift in the lives of Mexicans. Ciudad Juarez Mayor Gustavo Elizondo, whose city is crammed with US-owned low-wage plants, expressed it plainly: "We have no way to provide water, sewage, and sanitation workers. Every year, we get poorer and poorer even though we create more and more wealth."

Falling industrial wages, peasants forced off the land, small businesses liquidated, growing poverty: these are direct consequences of NAFTA. This harsh suffering explains why so many desperate Mexicans — lured to the border area in the false hope that they could find dignity in the US-owned maquiladoras — are willing to risk their lives to cross the border to provide for their families. There were 2.5 million Mexican illegals in 1995; 8 million have crossed the border since then. In 2005, some 400 desperate Mexicans died trying to enter the US.

United States economic policies have been a hindrance to Mexico’s economy for decades, with the passage of NAFTA the United States is illegally dumping American subsidized corn on the Mexican market, and destroyed the life of millions of small farmers. Now Americans complaints because those displaced people are looking for work in the U.S. . I think that is poetic justice.

September 17th, 2009

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Homework Help Please! (Mexican History)?

**ALLof these questions deal with MEXICAN HISTORY and MEXICO.**

1.) list two achievements of each of the following civilizations:

Olmec:

Maya:

Aztec:

2.) Discuss how a person’s ethnic identity is determind in Mexico today.

3.) Discuss the advantages Hernan Cortes had in his conquest of the Aztec.

4.) Where are maquiladoras (foreign owned factories) located?

5.) Besides an elected president, what does Mexico’s government include?

6.) How many states and federal districts does Mexico contain?

7.) In which culture region (of mexico) do many people still speak Indian Language?

8.) Which culture region (of mexico) has Maya ruins and sunny beaches?

**exact dates would be great. thanks alot
I know number 3 is:

It allowed Europeans to settle there and start building colonies!

September 15th, 2009

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Roberto Matus Director de la Asociación de Maquiladoras de Matamoros

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September 14th, 2009

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definition help plz!?

i need the definitions for these words if you can do them or at least some of them ty

weather
climate
drought
tornado
hurricane
convection
ecosystem
deciduous
coniferous

innovation
acculturation
birthday
fertility rate
mortality rate
rate of natural increase
population density
population pyramid

hydroelectric power
push factors and pull factors
pampas
infrastructure
Andes
varied climate
terraced farming
rain forest
mineral
tourism

maquiladoras
capoeira
Inca
Merosur
Nacional Action Party
NAFTA
United Provinces of Central America
Institutional Revolutionary Party
reggae
cultural hearth

global warming
biodiversity
deforestation
oligarchy
land reform
Junta
democracy
caudillo

glacier movements
Pyrenees
agricultura land
Iberian Penninsula
North Atlantic Drift
Arctic Circle
Polders
Venice
Baltics
Black Forest

Southern Slavs-
slam
Yugoslavia
ethnic cleansing
Serbia
European Environmental
Agency

Vinny is right.

In the time you took to type the terms, you could have had half of them defined.

And ever heard of dictionary.com?

September 13th, 2009

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Spanish speakers, please help ? (: Thanks?

Con acerca de 500,000 mujeres trabanjando en esta frabricas, condiciones puede estar muy malo, y peligroso. These companies import maquins y materiales around el mundo. Todos los mujeres quien trabajan es muy jovenes y tienes illegal documentes.
Es very comun para jovenes mujeres operan esta frabicas porque sus wages esta muy puqueno. Diario, una mujer es pagodas tres dolares por dia o a veces menos. Ustedes puedan trabajar para cuarenta (40) hora por meses, para apoyer su familia. A veces es no suficien para apoyan sus familias, y es muy triste. Los directores a veces molestan los mujeres y blackmail ustedes.
Finalmente under NAFTA maquiladora empleo went up cincuenta (50) percentaje en Ciudad Juarez y una grande population. Juarez, Mexico ahora no tienen waste treatement facilidad para un milon gentes quien viven there.
Yo pienso que los condicionese para mujeres should be better porque ustedes trabajan muchos muchos horas con sin una (break) y es muy dificil. Although las maquiladoras provides trabajadoras los condiciones estan muy probe. These estan gentes trabjando para su familia, y hay no proper treatment. NAFTA ayudan los condiciones pero mas should be done, y la pagas should be higher. Dando una opurtunidad para gentes does not mean torturing them.
Por favor ayude?

I know I made a lot of grammar mistakes, and hopefully can learn. So can someone please help me edit this? I’m stuck, but I tried, and some I dind’t know in Spanish, i just put in English. Thanks.

Cerca de 500,000 mujeres trabajan en estas fábricas, en condiciones que pueden ser muy malas y peligrosas. Estas compañías importan máquinas y materiales a todo el mundo. Todas las mujeres que trabajan son muy jóvenes y tienen documentos ilegales.
Es muy común que sean mujeres jóvenes las que operan estas fábricas porque sus sueldos son muy bajos. Una mujer es pagada diariamente $ 3 (tres dólares) o a veces menos. Pueden trabajar 40 horas por mes para apoyar a sus familias. A veces no es suficiente para mantener a sus familias y es muy triste. Los directores a veces molestan a las mujeres y las chantajean. Finalmente bajo el NAFTA un trabajo como maquinista subió 50% (cincuenta por ciento) en Ciudad Juárez y a una gran cantidad de gente. Juárez, México, no tiene en el momento instalaciones para el tratamiento de los desechos de un millón de personas que viven ahí.
Yo pienso que las condiciones para las mujeres deberían ser mejoradas porque trabajan muchas horas sin descanso y es muy difícil. A pesar …. Las condiciones son muy pobres. Estas personas trabajan para sus familias y no tienen trato adecuado. El NAFTA ayuda a las condiciones pero se debería hacer más, y los sueldos deberían ser más altos. Darle una oportunidad a la gente no significa torturarlas.

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September 11th, 2009

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Mano de Obra Disponible para la Industria Maquiladora. (1/4 SJOIIM)

Servicio que otorga el Sindicato (SJOIIM) en la ciudad de H. Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México, a los obreros agremiados y los trabajadores que desean agremiarse a este sindicato, personal que será enviado a las diferentes Maquiladoras de Exportación, instaladas en la franja Fronteriza Noreste de México, colindando al Norte con el Estado de Texas, USA y al este con el Golfo de México. (1/4)