:43:04
I went down to these
Mexican border towns in the mid '80s.
:43:09
They were called "Maquilladoras"
:43:10
when they had
the first trade agreements
:43:13
between Mexico and the United States.
:43:16
And everyone was saying, "This is
gonna raise Mexico out of poverty,"
:43:19
and things were gonna be so great,
and within ten years,
:43:21
they'd all be driving
shiny new cars in Mexico.
:43:24
And I went down there and saw this...
:43:27
the incredible poverty
in these Mexican border towns.
:43:30
Fifteen years later, I went back.
Not a damn thing had changed.
:43:34
Here's all these workers working
for all these American corporations,
:43:38
and you just go across the street
:43:40
and you found people
living in the same horrid conditions,
:43:43
the same poverty existing.
:43:45
And you had to ask,
"Well, who's benefiting from this?"
:43:49
Who benefited were
these American corporations.
:43:51
During the 1990s,
they became even more wealthy,
:43:54
they posted record profits-
larger record profits,
:43:57
and the people in Mexico
just continued to suffer.
:44:00
It was all a big scam.
:44:18
Is this the one?
:44:20
No. You got the wrong one.
:44:23
Shit.
:44:25
"Will WTO stand up?"
:44:27
Oh, my God. It's got pictures.
They're nice, too.
:44:30
Yeah, they actually look okay
at that size.
:44:32
"Bichlbaum isn't...
but he plays one on TV."
:44:36
This is basically the core
of what we do.
:44:38
All of these newspapers
and magazines have articles
:44:42
on the Yes Men,
:44:44
and this is why
we are doing these things.
:44:47
This is why we go
and do these conferences.
:44:49
It's not for the 200 people
or the hundred people
:44:51
that might see us give the lecture.
:44:53
Although we'd like them to come away
:44:55
with an interesting experience
from the lecture,
:44:58
the reason we do it is so that people
who read Bizarre magazine