Mexico City, February 28 - Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tries to close Pandora's box of wage demands that he helped open when he doubled the minimum wage in the border areas with the United States.

His commitment to ending the government manipulation of unions opened the floodgates to new and more combative labor movements in a country where unions have been silent for a long time and a wave of successful stoppages emerged in 48 maquiladoras in January, where plants are mainly assembled. export_ in the border city of Matamoros.

The labor unrest has already spread to other plants not dedicated to manufacturing in the city, bordering Brownsville, Texas. Workers in local industries, for example from bottling plants, demand the same 20% increase and $ 1,650 equivalent bonds that maquiladora employees successfully negotiated, and there is a risk that the stoppages will spread throughout the country.

López Obrador tried to calm the wave of work stoppages on Thursday, saying that salaries should increase, but "that there should not be an environment of instability in the workplace."

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