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...from human rights organizations, and all results are fully disclosed. It is also the only monitoring organization endorsed by local unions and worker advocacy groups, those who actually have workers’ interests at heart. Already the WRC has made significant gains, for example at the Kukdong factory in Puebla, Mexico; the WRC there gained recognition from Nike for an independent worker-organized union, the first of its kind in a Mexican textile factory. The WRC worked with Nike to keep the factory open and to improve working conditions, contrary to fears that an organization such as the WRC would...
CAPTURED. BENJAMIN ARELLANO FELIX, 50, Mexico's biggest druglord; in Puebla, Mexico. He confirmed that his brother and partner, Ramon, 36, was killed in a February shootout. They ruled the Tijuana cartel, the top traffickers in Mexico's $30 billion drug trade...
...country's third largest source of dollars, after tourism and oil. But some 60,000 Mexican migrants lost their U.S. jobs after the attacks. With workers like Guzman stuck at home, and Mexico in a recession provoked in part by the U.S. slowdown, Mexicans are hurting. In Puebla state, the town of Chinantla lives on cash sent back by migrants. One resident, Antonio Castellanos, is watching business tank at his burger-and-pizza stand. "If things don't change," says Castellanos, who learned his trade during eight years at a New York City pizzeria, "I'll have to go back...
...only one thinking that way. At midday, by a gate in the chain link fence that separates Mexicali from Calexico, Calif., a border-patrol officer ushers a group of deportees back into Mexico. They're all planning return trips. Rocio Moredia sees no other option. She's from Puebla and notes, "There is no work there...
...unit vetted for honesty and supplied with training and intelligence by the U.S. The CIA has been supplying the Mexican special operations forces with intercepted communications of the drug traffickers and other timely data, but it was not immediately clear whether the intelligence that led to the house in Puebla came from the U.S. or had been developed by the Mexican authorities themselves...