HILA 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Miguel Ángel De Quevedo, Maquiladora, Agave Fourcroydes
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Key words: environmental history, cotton in la laguna, oil in veracruz, dos bocas spill, constitution of 1917, conservationism, miguel angel de quevedo, maquiladoras, environmental justice, mexico city pollution, biosphere reserves, monarch butterflies. Environmental history: power relations are rooted in material and natural environments through the use of access of resource, windows of how humans relate to one another, in porfiriato, many plantations practiced monoculture. Dos bocas, oil spill, 420 million gallons of oil devastated water ways each day for weeks people used these lands to farm, fish, hunt. but could not anymore urbanization was strong in mexico city, was a place of lakes. Us: in contemporary mexico, there have been rising demands of workers from maquiladoras to regulate the standards of us companies. It wouldn"t be a problem if they polluted the area with lead or heavy metals in tj: cheap labor and weaker environmental problems.
