MEXICALI

māhēkäˈlē, city (1990 pop. 438,377), capital of Baja California state, NW Mexico, across the border from Calexico, Calif. Once noted chiefly as the center of a cotton- and cereal-raising area, it has experienced extensive construction of foreign-owned assembly plants called maquiladoras; the items produced in such plants include consumer electronics.

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books on: Mexicali  - 234 results

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On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor
Book by Ramón Eduardo Ruiz; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Mexican-American Border Region--Economic Conditions, Mexican-American Border Region--Social Conditions, Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Economic Conditions, Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic Identity, Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Social Conditions, Mexico--Relations--United States, United States--Relations--Mexico
...doors proclaimed, to drink a bottle of Mexicali beer and decry, one foot on the copper...vegetables from San Quintin and the Mexicali Valley, and textiles. When the peso...from Saltillo or Monterrey. Those from Mexicali refer to Highway 8, which runs from Yuma...
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The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border
Book by David Bacon; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Alien Labor, Mexican--United States, Canada--Treaties, Etc--1992 Oct. 7, Labor Movement--Mexican-American Border Region, Mexican Americans--Employment, Mexican-American Border Region--Economic Conditions, Mexican-American Border Region--Social Conditions, Migrant Labor--Mexican-American Border Region, Quality Of Work Life--Mexican-American Border Region
...farmworkers who lived across the line in Mexicali and San Luis. During union organizing...Fernando Valley to the outskirts of Mexicali. Whats more, Price Pfister workers who...Photographs of the children working in Mexicalis green onion fields add another dimension...
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NAFTA in Transition
Book by Stephen J. Randall, Herman W. Konrad; University of Calgary Press, 1995
Subjects: Canada--Treaties, etc--1992 Oct. 7, Free trade--Political aspects--North America, Free trade--Social aspects--North America, North America--Economic integration
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Life, Death, and In-Between on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Book by Martha Oehmke Loustaunau, Mary Sánchez-Bane; Bergin & Garvey, 1999
Subjects: Mexican-American Border Region--Social Conditions--20th Century, Public Health--Mexican-American Border Region
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The Colorado Delta
Book by Godfrey Sykes; Carnegie Institution of Washington and the American Geographical Society of New York, 1937
Subjects: Colorado River Delta (Mexico)
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journal articles on: Mexicali  - 52 results

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Is Semi-Informalized Self-Employment Counterhegemonic? A Comparison of Irish Jarveys and Mexicali Brickmakers
Journal article by Tamar Diana Wilson; Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, Vol. 32, 2003
...Counterhegemonic? A Comparison of Irish Jarveys and Mexicali Brickmakers. by Tamar Diana Wilson...examined below, the Irish jarveys and the Mexicali brickmakers, the heads of "microenterprises...horse and carriage drivers) and the Mexicali brickmakers are marginal to the society...
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All Night at the Owl: The Social and Political Relations of Mexicali's Red-Light District, 1913-1925
Journal article by Eric Michael Schantz; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 43, 2001
Subjects: Mexicali, Mexico--History, Prostitution--History, Travel industry--History
...Social and Political Relations of Mexicalis Red-Light District, 1913-1925...Schantz What is in the name Mexicali? Engineers and planners at the turn...the century crafted the place-name Mexicali and that of its border twin, Calexico...
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Tijuana's Toxic Waters
Journal article by Lori Saldana; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...waters A chemical plant near Mexicali leaves the New River heavily polluted...forced to do so by the authorities. In Mexicali, for example, the city government required...has helped to keep these wastes out of Mexicalis overburdened municipal collection system...
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NAFTA Increases Chances to Clean Up Polluted New River
Journal article; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 56, 1994
Subjects: Free Trade Agreement, 1992, United States-Canada-Mexico, New River--Environmental aspects, Water pollution--Environmental aspects
...severely contaminate river flowing from Mexicali, Mexico into the United States at...and partially treated sewage from Mexicali, Mexico. "Despite the evidence of...commercial project financing from Mexicali residents and companies.
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The River, the Delta, and the Sea
Journal article by Thomas R. Mcguire; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 45, 2003
...was ceded 800,000 acres of land in the Mexicali Valley by Porfirio Diaz, and ran a diversion...process of being destroyed. Calexico and Mexicali were also washing away, along with the...the Colorado to the croplands of the Mexicali Valley. Finally, Glen Canyon Dam, begun...
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magazine articles on: Mexicali  - 37 results

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Mexico's New Braceros: How NAFTA Promotes Child Labor - and Truancy - in the Onion Fields of Mexicali
Magazine article by David Bacon; The Nation, Vol. 264, January 27, 1997
Subjects: Child labor practices--Mexico, Child labor--Mexico, Free Trade Agreement, 1992, United States-Canada-Mexico, Mexicali, Mexico
...Labor - and Truancy - in the Onion Fields of Mexicali. by David Bacon Mexicali Valley, Baja California From a distance, Muranaka...Farms green onion field, in the heart of the Mexicali Valley, looks almost festive. Dozens of large...
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Mexico's Real War on Drugs
Magazine article by Jamie Dettmer; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, September 10, 2001
Subjects: Drug abuse--Political aspects, Drug traffic--Political aspects, Fox, Vicente--Political activity, Mexico--Politics and government, Presidents--Political activity
...Tijuana and nearby Mexican cities such as Mexicali. But for all their clout and alleged...particularly in and around the cities of Mexicali, the stronghold of the Quinteros family...family -- the violence has escalated. In Mexicali alone, 28 have died this year in drug-related...
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It's Boycott Time in California
Magazine article by Richard Steven Street; The Nation, Vol. 240, March 23, 1985
Subjects: Abatti Produce--Cases, California, California. Agricultural Labor Relations Board--Political activity, Chavez, Cesar--Management, Collective bargaining--Cases, El Centro Agricultural Labor Relations Board--Cases, Farms--Cases, Imperial Valley, Migrant agricultural laborers--Cases, United Farm Workers--Political activity
...supplier of produce durig the winter months. The Mexican town of Mexicali, home to as many as 8,000 migrant "green card" farm workers...workers return from their migratory circuit to their homes in Mexicali. During their five-month stay, their days follow a numbing...
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Delta in a Delicate Balance
Magazine article by Jeffrey P. Cohn; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 53, October 2001
Subjects: Colorado River--Environmental aspects, Environmental policy--Planning, Environmentalists--Practice, Mexico--Environmental policy, United States--Environmental policy, Wetland ecology--Protection
...irrigates 500,000 acres of farmland in the Mexicali Valley and supplies municipal users in Mexicali and Tijuana. All together, water from the...Mexico, pumping ground water, and sending Mexicali Valley agricultural wastewater to the Hardy...
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Following Salinas
Magazine article by George W. Grayson; Commonweal, Vol. 121, September 23, 1994
Subjects: Cardenas, Cuauhtemoc--Political activity, Fernandez, Diego--Political activity, Institutional Revolutionary Party (Mexico)--Political activity, Mexico--Elections, Presidential candidates--Mexico, Zedillo, Ernesto--Elections
...balloting? What problems confront Mexicos next chief executive? The forty-two-year-old Zedillo grew up in a modest family in Mexicali. His father worked as an electrician; his mother as a low-level public servant. As a child, Zedillo shined shoes and collected...
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newspaper articles on: Mexicali  - 36 results

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Mexico Arrests Suspect in U.S. Agent's Death
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 24, 2008
Subjects: Border patrols, Murder
...Public Safety Department, Mr. Navarro left Mexicali in Baja California on Saturday, headed...after running down the agent, he drove to Mexicali and gave the Hummer to accomplices for...also was a warrant for his arrest in Mexicali on alien-trafficking counts. Last night...
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Smugglers' Tunnel Linking California, Mexico Discovered
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 17, 2003
...second time in two months, have discovered a tunnel connecting Mexicali, Mexico, to Calexico, Calif. - just 200 yards east of another...Mexican police said that tunnel led to an auto repair shop in Mexicali, whose owner told them it had been used to smuggle drugs and...
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IN TIME OF ILLNESS; Children's Inn Houses Families of Youngsters Being Treated at NIH
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 14, 2004
...of events that landed Ms. Rivera, from Mexicali, Mexico, and her 16-year-old son, Alejandro...Times; Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, 16, from Mexicali, Mexico, was diagnosed with leukemia...Times; Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, 16, from Mexicali, Mexico, sits at the kitchen counter...
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Mexican Identified as Driver in Agent's Death
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 25, 2008
Subjects: Murder
...warrant issued by a district judge in Mexicali, Baja California, the Mexican Embassy...found that Mr. Navarro left the city of Mexicali and headed for the United States "driving...also was a warrant for his arrest in Mexicali on alien-trafficking counts, the embassy...
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Justice Denies Request in Agent's Death; Inquiring Lawmakers Rebuffed
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 17, 2008
Subjects: Legislators, Murder, United States. Border Patrol--Investigations
...lawmakers, had asked why Jesus Navarro Montes was released from a Mexicali jail in June, when he was suspected of running over and killing...Washington confirmed that Mr. Navarros release was ordered by Mexicali Federal Judge Laura Serrano Alderete after she dismissed pending...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mexicali  - 6 results

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Mexicali
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MEXICALI maheka le, city (1990 pop. 438,377), capital of Baja California state, NW Mexico, across the border from Calexico, Calif. Once...
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Baja California , State, Mexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Mexico, on the Baja California peninsula. Mexicali is the capital. A rapidly growing state, Baja...United States. The plants are centered around Mexicali and Tijuana . Mexicali also serves as the center of a rich cotton producing...
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Calexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...lek siko, city (1990 pop. 18,633), Imperial co., S Calif., at the Mexican border; inc. 1908. A port of entry from adjacent Mexicali , Baja California, it is also a trade center for the southern part of the fertile Imperial Valley . Tourism is central to...
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La Paz , City, Mexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Los Cabos resort area to the south. La Paz is linked to Mazatlan and Los Mochis by ferry, and to Tijuana and Mexicali by highway. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Baja California , Peninsula, Mexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...valleys. However, irrigation systems on the Colorado River have made possible the development of a rich farming area around Mexicali, and the region is a leading national producer of cotton and wheat. There are fisheries and fish canneries at Ensenada, which...
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