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A maquiladora (aka 'in bond' or 'twin' plants) is a manufacturing facility located in Mexico that temporarily imports materials for assembly, without payment of tariffs, as long as the product is to be re-exported. (This last stipulation has changed under NAFTA agreements.) For eight years, somebody -- probably several somebodies -- has been raping and killing women in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. To date, more than 60 deaths fit the rape-murder pattern, although about 260 women have died violently since 1993. The string of gruesome sex attacks abated in 1999, but eight more corpses turned up earlier this month. Then, last week, there was a ninth. Many of the victims are slim, dark-skinned women in their teens or 20s, workers at the in-body assembly plants known as maquiladoras that produce electrical goods and car parts. They come to the border from poverty-stricken towns farther south, drawn by the promise of steady work and a more exciting life. The plants, famous as examples of unfettered free trade, provide jobs but few amenities to the cities where they are installed. Some of the women were strangled, some mutilated, some tortured and beaten to death, many after leaving work to return to their shantytown homes.
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