Maquilapolis - Sebastian Salfate

The information is really powerful and personally not easy to digest. The working conditions becomes not only relevant in a micro-territorial aspect but also in the larger scale as it becomes a problem of macro-economy, politics and soil.
I was specifically interested in how they develop alternative union's in a respond of how the different enterprises they were working didn't allowed social and political gatherings.

The border is also an interesting topic in this documentary as it shows how different mechanism of repression prevail depending on the designation of certain soil. Human delimitation have only created contrast that are resourceful for large economic conglomerates, using the dynamism of different social status to reproduce exploitation of the working force. Limits and control become really relevant not only in the economical alliance of the countries but also in the potential geopolitical effect of the land in the body.


The image that really struck me - and that I feel seems as a perfect analogy of the silent control of these big corporations- is when they flood the city with toxic waste and water, processing a devastating action that seems quietly been produce by the factories. This for me ressemblance pretty well the quite authoritarianism that capitalism produce in the people, the place and the body, affecting everything without any visible responsable.




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