Realidades; Otro Paso; aka "Another Step" and "Desarrollo Economico"

En este país de las oportunidades abundan los mal entendidos sobre cuáles son esas oportunidades y que valor tienen los programas de desarrollo económico. A medida que la inflación disminuye el valor del Dora y las industrias intentan obtener mayores ganancias, la población latina de los Estados Unidos, encuentra que la brecha que existe entre el sueño americano y la realidad americana crece cada día más. I don't know. I think it better ask them. I guess they don't seem like they're from here. Are they looking for work in the truck? No, I think they're hungry. I

think they're gonna hit the milkman for some milk orange juice or what they have. I think they're from across the world. I think they're from across the world, actually. Thank you. Yeah. What's the time you say that? 15. 15. 12. ¿De qué edad empezaron de trabajar? Yo como de seis años. Yo como cuatro años. Yo pasé como de siete años. Yo tengo cuatro años, cuatro cinco. ¿Qué tipo de trabajo pueden encontrar? Hay veces que vamos al fí. Cortando sacarte, pico la parla, fiendo vídeos, marriendo, barrimos, en veces las que son dineras.

Un empiando vídeo, dos dólares, dos tomoboro. Yo trabajo en el cuatro pulker. No. También se los da un dólar acanquiendo. Dólaro. Dólaro. Dólaro. Estos muchachos no pasan el tiempo en juegos de niños. Se están preparando para el gran juego de la vida. La situación económica en la frontera se caracteriza por el desempleo masivo. Los obreros se encuentran a la Mercedes de una economía inestable que los dejan con pocas oportunidades de trabajo, poquísima seguridad económica. Estas condiciones son inducidas y promulgadas por las ciudades americanas fronterizas de modo de atraer capital de afuera. When you look at El Paso, you've got to look at the available labor force in the area.

For twelve and a half percent unemployment rate, El Paso has a large number of people looking for jobs. They are not just working, but they are getting out of the box. All the stores have a lot of people to play. They pay for it. $40 per week. $40 per week, you can't eat for your family. $40. These people are Mexican-American usually by birth, and are highly productive. Along with El Paso is our sister city of Juarez and their twin-plant operation. We find the productivity of the people in this area is very, very good. It's predominantly female working in twin plants in modern industrial parks with all utilities and security. Mexican workers had a tremendous productivity. Again, I say it's highly productive, a terrific motivation to work, easily trainable, and very good with their manual dexterity.

This is one of those rare, very initial opportunities where both sides of the border are benefiting from it. Naturally, our wages are much lower than they are in the United States, so American industry, for instance, would benefit by much lower, and I mean much, much lower labor costs in Mexico than they would have in the United States. Besides, this, immigrants from the Central of Mexico continue coming to the border. Before this situation, the Mexican government opted to develop the front-off program for industrialization. This program brought to company Americans through subsidies, lower taxes, and above all, lower salaries. So the basic incentive was this huge labor pool available to be recruited right away. Almost immediately, American companies appeared throughout the border, bringing machinery and administrative personnel, leaving in the United States thousands of unemployed.

In Bloomington, Indiana, the company RCA pays approximately $4 a day. In Mexico City, the RCA pays for $80 a day. These companies can only fill up to 3% of the income. And for those who do not find work in the border, there is only one alternative. We cross the river towards the pass. We work in the border. Why is your 머�,,? Nothing, noMore Hadena. Let's chasefully go. We sacrifice the river for supreme.

And we're on the streets Tacos parte del latino Procedentes olan traje De plezas But on this day was never bad and that's why they were coming. The forces to organize the workers in both sides of the border have found the strong or economic and political opposition of the two countries. In Mexico, the government is the main factor in the regularization of the government. The government is the main factor in the regularization of the government.

For these workers in Welga, as well as for other essential workers in the border economy, the future is in the hands of those who control the dollar. As I have said, in Welgista, the billets are going to dance to the jungle. In the near foreseeable future, our economy can afford to have our wages increased to a point where we will be competitive with the United States. So that we will not have that problem of an industry which faces a situation where wages are no longer competitive, moves and creates an unemployment problem in the area to go somewhere else where it can be competitive. You have to look at this situation on an international perspective on a war market type of perspective. Since you are in first grade in Puerto Rico,

they tell you that Puerto Rico is a very, very small island that you could hardly see in a map. It doesn't have natural resources. And Puerto Rico can never survive without North Americans. And North Americans give us everything. Well, in the first place, this is Puerto Rico, USA. Once you establish your business here, you make your investment. You don't have to worry about what's going to happen to it. It's a safe investment. And then, in addition, we are offering a tax exemption. This is a complete tax exemption from Puerto Rican taxes. And as you don't pay any federal taxes in Puerto Rico, it's equivalent to a complete tax exemption on income. Well, naturally, those corporations find a paradise here. Puerto Rico, as the propaganda says, is becoming a profit island in Puerto Rico. The important point to consider in the analysis of Puerto Rico's economy is that

this foreign investment, North American, in this case, that does not generate any employment or generate very little, which is highly contaminant, which has an exorbitant guarantee that the repatriation of the United States takes away from the country without re-inverting it, and that it complies with its needs but not with the needs of Puerto Rico's economy as a nation. Well, you have other opponents. It doesn't solve the problems of employment, employment and income. And on the other hand, the government has an official policy of migration and the public control. This mechanism, this gubernamental mechanism, is used as an escape valve and literally that, so that the oil does not explode, you have to go out of it,

a large part of the population, which leads to the ironic fact that Puerto Rico grows, but the necessary condition for it to grow is that there is no Puerto Rican. And then, for whom is the growth? I travel out of Miami, and I make the Puerto Rico market here on my own four times a year. The Puerto Rico area has become so sophisticated that many manufacturers years ago felt they could come to Puerto Rico and sell practically anything. I personally, right now, do about a little over a quarter of a million dollars in the Puerto Rico area, where on my first trip in, first trips in 1960, I did about $50,000 for the year. $24.75 is $49. Puerto Rico has one of the most high values in the world, almost twice the Soviet Union, China and India,

and nothing. The industrialization of this small island is such that its agricultural production is no longer enough for its consumption. Puerto Rico matters more than 60% of the food that consumes. The tourism has always contributed significantly to the Puerto Rican economy, and this makes the island depend on the foreign investment. In Puerto Rico, the foreign capital controls the 80% of all the jobs, 81% of the factories, and 100% of all the transport, the area, as well as the maritime. Despite the industrialization of Puerto Rican,

almost 20% of the sovereign forces are unemployed. The half of the population receives some form of public assistance. The cost of life in Puerto Rico is higher than the United States. The vast majority of the workers of Puerto Rican live a marginal life. A marginal existence, as the workers' children, who live in Mexico and the United States. They pay $25. That paid me because I know who I am and I don't know what to say. And how long will you come out for the week? Well, I come out as for 86. I work for about 4 days. That's what I earn in the week. And when I work for 3 days, I work for 32 days. Sometimes I work for the field.

I work for a little bit more than the field, and I work for a little bit more. In these two rooms, without bathroom, without heating, or a potable water, I live a family of 4 children and 3 adults. The grandfather sleeps in the sofa, and the children sleep in the basement. When the gas comes to me, the light comes to me. The light is to pay what I owe. If there is no way out, we don't know it. In some way, in some way, we know it. That's why I say that. That many people are impossible. To what they earn, and to what they buy. They have to make the money. That's how it is. Before the threat of being beaten by their homes, the inquiries of this building organized a collective to prevent the property from being sold. Well, here it is a deal that the inquiries

take their own future in their hands and determine their own existence. We see that for years it has been exploited by the continent, and now we see actions like this that want to be justice, the same in the inquiries. In any part of the world, there are two neighboring countries like Mexico and the United States. And in any part, you can see this clearly as in the border. Usually, when you have this type of a development, it is one side benefiting but the other side suffering from it. This is not the case in this program. Both sides are gaining and both sides are interested in the outcome of the program because it is good for both of us. Where all the Mexicans on this side like on the other side of the river are dependent on the Gabaachu.

If the Gabaachu is rich, the Mexicans can be a little rich. If the Gabaachu is low, it is being poor, the Mexicans will be poor too. The condition of the worker for your rich man is similar to the worker in the Mexican border. These problems are complicated due to the actions of the government that favor the oil and technology industries which produce great income without creating sufficient jobs. Recently, due to the lack of jobs in the United States, more rich people have returned to Puerto Rico that have been emigrated to the United States. The return of those rich people to Puerto Rico has become a serious problem. The solution to the government is to sterilize women. It is to limit, for other means, already a little more drastic the population growth.

And for the moment of fact, the only problem that exists in Puerto Rico is that there is too much for Puerto Rican people. More than the third part of the Puerto Rican population has emigrated to the United States. Those who have abandoned the island have done it with the same solutions, the same hopes of those who have abandoned the field to go to the city of San Juan and Ponce. In other times, the United States, like this one in the South Bronx in New York, lived with the spirit and the hope of a better life. Ironically, only 25 years ago, the population of the Bronx made more money

than any other district in New York. But 10 years ago, the factories abandoned the Bronx. There is an exodus of businesses and exodus of residents from the South Bronx area and we are trying to play a stabilizing role in the South Bronx. Some communities struggle to improve their economic conditions. This company belongs to an organization for the development of the community. We are now trying another approach, which is the economic development, where a community has a say in the policy making and so far as businesses concerned and hopefully large business where we are talking about a million, two million, three million. And hopefully we can build up portfolios of community corporations who own several of these businesses, large businesses. Our dream is to be anywhere

between 50 and $100 million worth of a portfolio, emanating jobs, profit. All right. Go boom, boom. Go down deep. The rusty guys go short. Let's go. You know, after all, since we're in this country, this is a capitalistic system and we have to learn what the heck this is all about. Go, go, go! Go, go, go! Go, go, go, go! Go, go, go! Go, go, go! Because we are in business, almost always we are the least prepared academically. And that also applies to the only partners, but to all the technical groups that have come here before, have always started their economic development by the download below which is always the small commercial. Why do we enter business? Look, they are the forces of men and women

who take us to get out of the factories, and the hotels' jobs. I'm talking about our level. To enter a business that means entering a very sacrificed life as you just mentioned. But then, in the end of certain years, we see a progress. We see a progress that has emerged from our own force. When this national entity was born to supply a necessity, our commerciality had a need of an organization that was able to defend it, to do it, to respect it, to give it a prestige and to help it in all its problems. So, the companies that sold it were the ones that were more aware of the ignorance of the Spanish War.

Well, the problems are that the companies don't want to give the same special ones so the competition is very strong for us. Identified that problem, now I thought I had to do something to try to avoid that problem. Then I thought about the idea of a cooperative. The goal is to teach the company to administer its business better and by the means of the cooperative to offer competitive prices. So, the company is better prepared to give a better service to its customers. The cooperative has allowed these volunteers to improve their possibilities of their performance, including to wait, where others have failed. In California, a group of Chinese companies have had the opportunity to organize

agricultural cooperatives. Only five years ago, these companies worked in the fields for those who maintained them in dependence conditions. Today, the cooperative estimates a value of more than one million and a half million dollars. Well, you know what we worked on in different parts, one in La Lechuga, and another in La Lanzana, in Sherry-Tomeiro, and one in Finn, in the field, 100% of the companies. We started only with this amount of land that is 10 acres. Right now, the cooperative has been able to put about 300 acres in fresh production. Knowing by hand that the level of one of the most educational companies is very poor, and at the same time, we didn't have funds. We went out to look for land only with the idea and the enthusiasm

of being able to develop the cooperative. The necessary funds to impose this cooperative were pressed by an organization for the development of rural communities. Or, in the case of the Bodegueros by your clients in New York, the members of the cooperative had to learn the necessary techniques in the management of a rural cooperative. Now we take our play. But the most important, most important, perhaps the economic success has been the triumph of self-sufficiency, independence, and having maintained the importance of society in the North American society. Sir, this is the copy of the contract of the plants. We made a contract for 300,000 plants. The main base to establish a cooperative and make the effort is the trust.

Because all the time when there is that particular one in us that the trust is the one that destroyed almost all the project that we started with ourselves or that we want to develop. San Gerardo, where 50 families cooperated to buy this land that had been a field of agricultural workers and that they would convert into a community for farmers. They will own this project as a cooperative, a housing cooperative, and this will be the first farm labor housing cooperative in the country. This is a very good thing, right? To think about it, in my 60 families, those 50 families together, because if you can add all the ideas and then open another step to improve the group. So you have a security

of work, you have a security of your family and you have a better stability in life. The hardest thing is because we have never had anything. When we want to do something all the time we are with this idea that we are going to lose or we are going to fail but I think that the only way to fail is that you never forget that word of trust. It is the only way that you can fail any project and it doesn't matter how strong you are. But if we take that particular part as I said before, any project is very good. El Paso has 400,000 citizens and combined with Juarez and the National Metropolitan Region.

El Paso's past and present, as well as her future ambitions, combined to form the city's style of living. A style that appeals to increasing numbers of people and causes them to change from visitors to residents. In El Paso, you can sit outside on a cool summer evening. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande.

It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. It is a good life by the Rio Grande. Thank you. Thank you.