Mexico City At first Mexico City may not seem like the place to be when there is a heat wave in the USA, but July at a mile high turns out to be the rainy season and wildly pleasant especially reading about power outages in Toronto, record heat in NYC, and I don’t even have …
Month: July 2010
Mexican Remittances And Wal-Mart’s Shadow
Mexico City We met early in the morning with the director of research for the Universidad Obrera de Mexico (Workers University of Mexico)’s direction of investigations, Laura Sanchez. We had already read some of her articles in the bi-monthly magazine, trabajadores, about the way that Wal-Mart was reducing wages in agriculture in Mexico, which had …
Bancos de los Trabajadores
Tegucigalpa and Mexico City Early on Sunday morning walking through the centro in Tegucigalpa I noticed a branch of the Bancos de los Trabajadores, the Bank of the Workers. I had heard about them repeatedly the day before while meeting with the women in the colonias Ramon Amalia Amador, and we found ourselves discussing them …