El Arbol de la Muerte: Maquilando Mujeres is a powerful work that highlights the layered violence women face in border towns. Xóchitl Flores-Marcial explains how themes of capitalism, labor exploitation, migration, and the erasure of Indigenous voices are interwoven in the piece. These issues are rooted in historical policies like NAFTA, which encouraged factories to move to the border for cheap labor. El Arbol de la Muerte exposes both systemic oppression and the personal sacrifices made by women, many from Indigenous communities, seeking survival in spaces marked by injustice