A small town in the middle of everywhere (Le Monde diplomatique)
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The jobs went south — to Mexicali, Mexico — after the Nafta liberalisations of the 1990s. New owners have come and gone, the last US employees are awaiting redundancy, and only a very few money men have profited, handsomelyPro-North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) forces staged on 9 November 1993 what may be remembered as the greatest salesman’s trick in televised propaganda. Millions of Americans had just watched CNN’s Larry King show, and its “debate” over the ratification of the (...)