Sindicato Nacional Independiente de Trabajadores de Industrias y de Servicios
El lunes 8 de junio, la abogada y dirigente laboral, Susana Prieto Terrazas, fue detenida y arrestada en la ciudad de Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México por la Policía Estatal de Tamaulipas. El Fiscal General del Estado de Tamaulipas la está acusando falsamente de “ataques contra servidores públicos, disturbios y amenazas y coerción de personas.” Sin embargo, la razón verdadera por cual la Lic. Susana Prieto Terrazas está siendo atacada es por organizar a los trabajadores de las maquiladoras y por desafiar a los sindicatos charros que trabajan con funcionarios estatales y federales para reprimir el movimiento de los nuevos trabajadores en México. Matamoros es una ciudad fronteriza situada directamente al cruzar de la ciudad de Brownsville, Texas.
North American capitalism has been transformed into two over-lapping, yet starkly contradictory realities for capital and labor. Nowhere is this more apparent than through observation of what has taken place between the United States and Mexico over the last three decades. Through the aegis of the state, its two major political parties, and its junior counterparts across national boundaries, the US capitalist class has transformed the region into a singular borderless economy for capital.
Integration in this form has been accomplished through what are mischaracterized as “free-trade agreements” (FTAs). These were imposed under authoritarian conditions. Freedom was conspicuously absent when FTAs were dictated to the Mexican people during economic crisis as conditional in exchange for emergency loans. These “structural adjustment programs” required by outside entities such as the International Monetary
