I have just read the short story "Madonna of the Maquiladora" (Fictionwise www.Fictionwise.com ©2002 by Gregory Frost First published in Asimov's, May 2002) and thought to make a comment. My cousin, whose wife an executive introducing Avon products in Mexico, died while there he once directed "Huntley and Brinkley" and had other jobs, last with CBS as a producer for the conventions of 1976. Edwin Newmin read a eulogy in the UN Chapel, a letter notifying his crew in Vietnam, their long "common soldier's view" had been cancelled by higher-ups while at NBC, they later sued by General Westmoreland over "body counts".
About that time the "maquiladora" system I think started, "An assembly plant in Mexico (near the United States border); parts are shipped into Mexico and the finished product is shipped back across the border" many US companies jumped on the "bandwagon", (here a similar one in Ogdensburg, NY near where the Remington Art Museum is, with Canadian assemblies made in the U.S., "duty free" and shipped back into Canada) and there have been problems since. Some have to do with cleaning up pollution, and getting simple roads to places in Mexico to pick up trash near the border and the unregulated dumping in a few cases of toxic materials (which also happened from Canada while I was there in Ogdensberg, NY shovel testing for a new hospital in our once "mutual battlefield" next to the prison and state mental hospital, by-the-way can't be used above the first floor because of fire door codes and the expense of replacement). Perhaps, we should work something out in review of the "maquiladora" system we use with the Mexican authorities first.
The other door seems obvious, review all licensers of flight, now.
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