Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Even as deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: It’s time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work.The U.S. government has mounted a campaign to persuade Mexico to reopen many factories that were closed because of the country’s social distancing guidelines, warning that the supply chain of the North American free-trade zone could be permanently crippled if factories don’t resume production soon.“The destruction of the economy is also a health threat,” Christopher Landau,...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Even as deaths soar at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: It’s time for plants that have stopped production to get back to work.The U.S. government has mounted a campaign to persuade Mexico to reopen many factories that were closed because of the country’s social distancing guidelines, warning that the supply chain of the North American free-trade zone could be permanently crippled if factories don’t resume production soon.“The destruction of the economy is also a health threat,” Christopher Landau,...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Throughout March, even as business and manufacturing slowed to a halt across much of the world in an effort to contain the new , work in foreign-owned factories in northern Mexico carried on as usual. Hundreds of thousands of workers continued to toil side by side in Juarez, Tijuana and other border cities, churning out electronics, medical equipment and auto parts. Meanwhile, the virus was spreading. At a plant owned by Michigan-based Lear Corp. that makes textiles for automobile seats, workers began turning up at the on-site...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Throughout March, even as business and manufacturing slowed to a halt across much of the world in an effort to contain the new , work in foreign-owned factories in northern Mexico carried on as usual. Hundreds of thousands of workers continued to toil side by side in Juarez, Tijuana and other border cities, churning out electronics, medical equipment and auto parts. Meanwhile, the virus was spreading. At a plant owned by Michigan-based Lear Corp. that makes textiles for automobile seats, workers began turning up at the on-site...WW…