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Matamoros : the human face of globalization / narrated by Edward James Olmos ; executive producer Kim Haddow ; directed by Amanda Boxall.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17).
- North American Free Trade Agreement.
- Free trade--Environmental aspects--Mexico.
- Free trade.
- Ecology.
- Globalization.
- Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico)--Environmental conditions.
- Matamoros (Tamaulipas, Mexico).
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (11 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Video Project, 2001.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This video reveals the alarming environmental and human toll of NAFTA, the free trade agreement of the Americas, initiated by the U.S. government, on the border-town, Matamoros, Mexico. Through NAFTA, U.S. companies are encouraged to build factories in border-towns like Matamoros, escaping tough pollution control laws, labor standards, and taxes that pay for social and environmental needs. The people of Matamoros, attracted by the promise of employment, suffer low wages, inadequate housing, poor sanitation and disease, revealing the true human face of globalization.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed April 03, 2017).
- OCLC:
- 986467795
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