Reply #60: Well, we really can't control those things very well, can we? [View All]

[EFerrari]

The solutions come at the policy level which means, it's paid for by the same corporations that you rightfully say exploit these workers (and us workers). That's how we got NAFTA and all the other FTAs that have wreaked havoc on countries like Mexico. That's how Mexico got its last elections stolen away from the reformer and for the guy that was up to his eyeballs in the corpo pocket.

We should have workplace enforcement but that will never work completely because the agencies that enforce that stuff are too easy to pay off, because some people make more money arresting workers when it's the employers who need arresting and so on.

We have to turn around our Latin America policy and I don't see that happening. It's too lucrative for a few people for things to be exactly the way they are now. :(