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Diana is a vibrant young settler in one of Tijuanas newest colonias,
built around the Mattel plant. Like many of these neighborhoods, hers
is poor and lacks basic infrastructural services:
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This
colonia is far from the city center. There's no pavement, no sewage
lines, no running water. We only have electricity. When it rains, it's
a mudbath, you go walking and your shoes stay behind, stuck in the mud.
I have to walk pretty far to catch public transportation to take my
daughter to school. When it's raining it's so difficult I prefer not
to take her.
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Living
with the problems that arise from this lack of urban infrastructure, Diana
promotes health and wellbeing in her community by volunteering at the
local health clinic and by becoming a promotora. Inspired by her work
at the local clinic and hoping to devote herself full-time to community
organizing, Diana applies for and receives a scholarship to work in the
Grupo Factor X office:
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I
don't let people take advantage of me anymore. I know that I can orient
and help other women. I have three daughters, and I want to learn all
I can, for myself and for them. But my husband doesn't like this change
in me, he's jealous. It's sad for me, because he isn't supportive.
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Vianey
learns to fight for her right to bodily integrity and health at home and
in the workplace. She marries a man who is a true partner for her, and they
become a team, working together for a better future at home and at work. |
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I
have changed because I met people who helped me. They taught me my rights.
I began to feel more sure of myself, began to feel I was worth something.
Now I can defend myself.
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MAQUILAPOLIS
traces these characters' stories as they develop over the course of 18 months.
As the piece draws to a close, the characters reflect on the changes they
have each gone through in confronting the difficulties of living on the
leading edge of globalization. |
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