When I saw this documentary my mind went to Ica, a southern province of Peru. The governor of this province brags about the employment rates being the higher in the country. The stories of the women of Las Maquilas are the same than the stories of my friends in Ica. The ingredients for this abusive work relationship were the same. Huge powerful transnational companies and under resourced women in many cases single mothers. This story repeats in many places. Gender inequality represents a key component to understand the structure of this abuse. We can see the technification/intelectualization of sexism and racism in pro of the capital. On the other side we can also observe radical hope as Junot Diaz would argue. The difference between the Peruvian case and the Mexican Case seeing in the documentary is that after a hard fight women are understanding and taking ownership of their rights. I believe that the use of video documentation as a form of Art/activism is a wonderful tool to empower this women in their fight for their freedom (rights).
A Brief History of US Cuba Relationships.
I finished my last post explaining how the US has no friends in the rest of the Americas but only interests. This short documentary tells the story of the constant abuse of the US over Cuba. Project Ardilla even beautiful, is still a relationship in which the US tell Cuba what to do. Probably Obamas attempt to end the embargo has been the most horizontal approach of the US to Cuba in the last 200 years but we have to analyze actually the outcome (nov 2017) of this initiate. Higher powers in the US made sure that this process had a quick end. I hope that Latin America empowers itself with democrat leaders such as Evo Morales and Pepe Mujica and we can start creating a history of freedom in our own terms.
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