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In Baja, a System That Protects the Rich

By AAN Staff
august 27, 2002  09:25 pm
In Baja, a System That Protects the Rich
It's build a home, go to jail for Julio Sandoval and Beatriz Chavez, who face possible five-year prison terms for helping to house the poor in Baja California. But Mexican officials don't even enforce their own rulings when the culprit is Duro Bag, which illegally fired workers trying to form an independent union. LA Weekly's David Bacon reports that the common thread is a system that looks after Mexico's rich as well as foreign investors. And President Bush wants to expand this free-trade reality across the entire hemisphere.
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