Here's an article I found detailing one of the many factors creating an incredibly depressed economy in my area:

Workers at Ocotlan Continue Year-long Struggle for Jobs

Workers at Indústrias Ocotlán, located in the Guadalajara-El Salto-Ocotlán industrial corridor, continue their year long fight to reopen the closed plant and return to work. Industrialist Isaac Saba Rafoul closed the plant suddenly in March 2007, putting 460 workers out of a job. Rafael Yerena Zambrano of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) negotiated a severance settlement with Saba Rafoul which the workers found inadequate and insulting.

In May of that year, workers put up the red-and-black strike flags, taking control of the plant and its equipment. The strike was upheld by the labor authorities. Workers also voted out their old union executive board, elected a new one, and began to take their cause to other workers and to pressure the government to intervene. Workers have had support from the Cooperative of the Democratic Workers of Western Mexico or TRADOC, the former union of the Euzkadi plant.

My next post is much more disturbing, concerning human rights abuses in my own little city.