Who or what are the maquiladoras? death squads that hunt and kill the beggar children of brazil elite members of mexico's newly
emerging industrial capitalists assembly-for-export factories along the mexican border mexican migrant workers who cross the border to pick crops in the u.s?
Maquiladoras are "assembly-for-export factories along the Mexican border." In Spanish, "máquina" means "machine," so we can think that "maquiladora" (which sounds similar) has to do with making machines, or that the maquiladora itself is run like a machine, since the employees often work in assembly lines. Another word for "maquiladora" is "maquila," which further bolsters this word association to "máquina."
Chai Ling is a Chinese psychologist who was one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; which ended with the massacre of hundreds of demonstrators by army troops and riot police!
