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Latin America

Cirque du So-What

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1. I worked at a company that moved a big chunk of its manufacturing to Reynosa (a city in Tamaulipas)

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2021, 08:54 AM

Feb 2021

It necessitated a good amount of travel there to educate the local workforce on how to do the jobs they were relinquishing to the new employees. One new expense of doing business in Tamaulipas was paying off the cartel to leave their operation alone - not unlike a bar owner paying off the mob in any major American city.

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Mexico moves to strip Tamaulipas governor's immunity for alleged organized crime links [View all] Judi Lynn Feb 2021 OP

I worked at a company that moved a big chunk of its manufacturing to Reynosa (a city in Tamaulipas) Cirque du So-What Feb 2021 #1

Wow. Interesting situation, could be uncomfortable. Sounds as if they have the run of the place. Judi Lynn Feb 2021 #2

It's a bad situation Cirque du So-What Feb 2021 #3

He fled Guatemala looking for a better life. But he and 18 others were killed en route to the US. Judi Lynn Mar 2021 #4