afterwards i talked to rosea. sleaze 14 years old. she told me the father of her story, armando, he grew up in the southwest part of mexico and recruited to come in the late '80s to the border to work in the plants there. international companies from china, australia, korea, the united states, recruited, 300,000 people to live without electricity, without water. they worked for 32 pesos a day when they first got up there. but, remember, nafta devalued the peso in half twice. so after a couple of years they were earning eight pesos a day, which at that time was ten pesos to a dollar. they worked hard and then took the city bus into the city of juarez to get pallets to build their houses, to build their community centers, to build their churches while the plants decided they could make more money by moving into the center of mexico, and you know, and then into central america and then into southeast asia. and armando worked at a plant which was generous with him, told him he could have another job if he wanted to relocate to la las cruz