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All pregnant women deserve the right to keep a job in safety conditions, but this is not the case for Laura Martinez, A 19 year old single pregnant women who lives in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. Laura already has a one year old child. In order to feed herself and her child she must work overtime. She works in a well- known sweatshop in the border of Nogales, Sonora. In this factory she has been exploited by her employers since they make her work more than eight hours per day for less than six dollars. The working conditions are intolerable because she is exposed to dangerous chemicals with no protection. A free trade agreement with the United States sounds excellent for the economy of a country in Latin America. This is because these agreements offer tariff reductions in the exchange of goods, natural resources and services, which will enhance commerce in these countries. The business that is been recognized as one of the most important in these kinds of trades is agriculture, which commercially is known as agribusinesses. These businesses are greatly benefited by increasing profits; however the income for farmers and laborers in factories declines and the environment becomes polluted. This is the case
This is the main reason to reject the FTAA since Latin American countries are rich in natural resources but poor in the economy; agribusinesses from the participants country will be the only ones who will benefit. By examining the procedures of NAFTA, we can predict how FTAA will work. Even though they were working hard in their own lands for the exportations that gave this amount of money, they were not receiving a fair income. As a result of farmers losing their lands, they have to work for others as farm laborers with low wages of $3. As previously stated, when farmers lose their lands, they not only work as farm laborers but migrate to the urban areas where the unemployment level is high. Because Mexican farmers were not able to pay the expenses to work the land, due to low income received from the exportations, they lose their farms. The system commerce is satisfied with these agreements, but the poor people, the ones who really need economic support, are the only harmed with these negotiations. The FTAA is based on commercial purposes such as exportations and new businesses. of the so planned Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) that the United States is organizing to enact with all the 34 countries of the American continent excluding Cuba. The North American Free Trade Agreement exploits many Mexican laborers humans' rights to obtain what US wants. The position of rejecting the FTAA is based on the results of NAFTA, because both consist in the same procedures just with the difference that the FTAA covers more countries than NAFTA. Farmers will continue being poor and their economic condition will continue to worse while the agribusinesses becomes richer. On one hand, US farmers were pressured in doing their jobs by exceeding their working hours. This is what the United States is looking for, cheap labor, and it is easy to find in Latin America since many of these countries are in deep debt with economic problems.
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