Jennifer Lopez Plays It Tough and Down and Dirty, on The Mexican Border - Bordertown

“Written and directed by Gregory Nava (El Norte, Frida, Selena), Bordertown is a devastating, emotionally charged fact-based drama touching on the rapes, murders and disappearances of thousands of Mexican women factory workers in the multinational maquiladores factories lining the border between Mexico and the United States. The virtual labor camp fortresses that sprung up in the 1990s in the wake of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) economically thrive off the absence of tariffs and humane working conditions.

Juarez in particular, where the film takes place, is home to nearly a thousand of these maquiladores, as explained in a prologue to Bordertown. And with the enormity of these unsolved and virtually uninvestigated horrific crimes against women in this desolate desert terrain, are ongoing charges of cover-ups and complicity of government and business interests, to prevent interference or interruption of the business boom there.”*

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