Interview Write-Up I decided to interview my mother, Carmen Buendia, who is a living representation of how globalization changed the lives of countless rural Mexican people when American manufacture factories where first introduced in Mexico. Specifically, Chihuahua, Mexico my hometown.
1. How was the state of Chihuahua before the all the factories were introduced, and all the immigrants started moving into the cities? A. Well first of all, I myself emigrated from the southern state of Coahuila when I was a child. However, I got to see how the people of Chihuahua lived their lives before they received all the people from all over Mexico and even Central
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How was Chihuahua before the manufacturing boom similar to current Elk City, Oklahoma? A. I find the life style of the people of Elk City quite similar to the people in Chihuahua back then. Back in the 80s people in Chihuahua made a living from farming, the towns were small, and a lot of people knew each other; Crime almost did not exist and of course pollution was not a thing to worry about.
3. What about Chihuahua made you decide to move there? A. back in the day I was just a little girl. I did not know what was going on, I just knew that your grandparents wanted to relocate in Chihuahua to get jobs at the maquiladoras and hoped to make a decent living. When I became a teenager and I had moved back to Coahuila I remembered that job opportunities were available in the town I had lived with my parents when I was a child, so I moved back to Chihuahua for my own decision.
4. What positive changes do you think happened for the Mexican people after NAFTA? A. job opportunities became available for thousands of people, the economy drastically grew, to this day the state of Chihuahua can be named one of the most prosperous states in the Republic of Mexico.
5. What negative changes did you notice happened in