Here were the maquiladoras
, the huge electrical assembly plants that provided microwaves and hair dryers to the First World, the prices kept down by paying the workers $10 a day and denying them legal protection or union representation. Outside the perimeter fences stretched row upon row of crate houses, the colonias populares without sanitation, running water, electricity or paved roads, home to the men and women who labored in the maquiladoras, the more fortunate of whom were picked up each morning by the red-and-green buses once used to ferry American children to and from school, while the rest were forced to endure the perilous early-morning walk through Sitio Colosio Valle or some similarly malodorous area.
, the huge electrical assembly plants that provided microwaves and hair dryers to the First World, the prices kept down by paying the workers $10 a day and denying them legal protection or union representation. Outside the perimeter fences stretched row upon row of crate houses, the colonias populares without sanitation, running water, electricity or paved roads, home to the men and women who labored in the maquiladoras, the more fortunate of whom were picked up each morning by the red-and-green buses once used to ferry American children to and from school, while the rest were forced to endure the perilous early-morning walk through Sitio Colosio Valle or some similarly malodorous area.Gargantuan graveyards sprouting thirty-story tombstones, mausoleums proclaiming "God Is Dead." What better place to prepare for our great Metamorphosis than a giant insect hive? In those smoke-blasted edifices, to which so many flocked to choke out their lives, no one noticed the arrival of a lone immigrant - or the subsequent disappearances of several others... then, too, the vitae of a kine child half-dead from a 14-hour day in the factories induces a pleasant lethargy - and in those days, if one grew careless in one's feeding, the gears were always happy to devour undesirable evidence.
—Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce
