Capitalism grows in Mexican desert

Posted on: September 19th, 2006
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“Just a year ago, this was wild, open desert, featuring nothing more than scattered shrubs and occasional funnel clouds that kick up blinding dust storms.

Now, a $100 million factory rises from black asphalt, a young tree planted near its entrance. The Electrolux plant has done many things: It has taken away jobs from Greenville, Mich., where Electrolux closed a plant before moving here. The plant and other factories have transformed Juarez and the Chihuahua desert into a bustling crucible of capitalism, and changed the lives of many Mexicans. “

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