Chihuahua

Workers in Mexico’s border factories say they can barely survive, so they’re turning to unions

February 29, 2016Business

Factory workers in Ciudad Juárez now make only 40 percent of what Chinese factory workers do, on average. For the first time, efforts to unionize are meeting with some limited success.

Vicente Robles in his apple orchards in Bachíniva, Chihuahua.

Mexico is waging war against American apples

May 12, 2014Business, Economics and Jobs

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