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This article analyses the role of women in recent Mexican labour movements in the northern border region and their relationship with transnational solidarity, especially in the maquiladora companies. The analysis focusses on two cases: the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras (Border Committee of Female Workers—CFO) directed by Julia Quiñonez in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, and Movimiento 20–32 (Movement 20–32), a labour movement launched in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, headed by labour lawyer Susana Prieto. I argue that transnational solidarity has proved to be a key ingredient in sustaining progressive female leadership over the decades, contributing to the current prominence of female leaders, but it has two sides: one is advancing in the strengthen of struggle of workers and other the persistence of historical vices in labour leadership although it will be headed for one woman.

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Female Leadership and Transnational Labour Activism in Mexican Maquiladoras Under USMCA: Steps Forward and Steps Back

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    2026年

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  • Cirila Quintero Ramírez

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This article analyses the role of women in recent Mexican labour movements in the northern border region and their relationship with transnational solidarity, especially in the maquiladora companies. The analysis focusses on two cases: the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras (Border Committee of Female Workers—CFO) directed by Julia Quiñonez in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, and Movimiento 20–32 (Movement 20–32), a labour movement launched in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, headed by labour lawyer Susana Prieto. I argue that transnational solidarity has proved to be a key ingredient in sustaining progressive female leadership over the decades, contributing to the current prominence of female leaders, but it has two sides: one is advancing in the strengthen of struggle of workers and other the persistence of historical vices in labour leadership although it will be headed for one woman.