El Salvador Workers

“El Salvador Sees Industry as Pillar in Quake Recovery” (July 12) says El Salvador is “creating maquiladora business zones ... for landless, jobless earthquake victims” and that “labor groups have criticized the plan, saying unemployed families will be forced to take low-paying jobs in uncertain working conditions at the factories.” According to Charles Kernaghan, head of a U.S. labor group, “The workers are enormously in danger of being exploited.”

I have two questions for the liberal, activist busybodies: What business of theirs is a contract between two other mature adults, in another country, and how can you “exploit” people who are doing something voluntarily, with pay? Obviously Kernaghan would prefer to see these poor people absolutely jobless and without any income whatsoever.

John Jaeger

Irvine