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CNN/ B. ByrnesIn Buenos Aires there are an estimated 3,000 clandestine clothing factories with some 25,000 workers.
About 80% of Argentine clothing is made in those factories...often by virtual slave labor.
In Buenos Aires, a Bolivian seamstress relates her sad experience getting work there.
"I was promised a sewing job in Argentina that would pay a dignified salary of $200 a month. But just like so many other victims, I was lied to..."
Entering Argentina with counterfeit documents,the seamstress worked in a hot, crowded factory...sewing 18 hours a day, seven days a week...rarely allowed outside and slept alongside 20 others in a hallway...for $25 dollars a month.
Now, she sews clothes for the La Alameda clothing collective at a community center that serves B.A's large Bolivian community.
