Byproducts of Open Trade

Politics in the Zeros points us to this article discussing how the maquiladora industry in the the eastern Tehuacan Valley, the historic breadbasket of Mexico, is making the water run blue.

Wear Calvin Klein or Guess? Congratulations! You're part of the problem!

Brings to mind a different lament in Iris DeMent's song Wasteland of the Free:

We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess
who cannot pass a sixth-grade reading test
but if you ask them, they can tell you
the name of every crotch on mTV
and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

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