Word: fadia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along the 2,200 miles of the winding Rio Grande and land border with the U.S. the story is also one of sordid contrasts, but the people who live there and the thousands moving in are optimistic. "This is the best of two worlds," says Fadia Barraza, a university freshman in Juarez. "Life gets steadily better." At the maquilas, the sprawling assembly plants that produce goods for export to the U.S., parking lots filled with employees' cars suggest she is right...
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