Arsenio Farell Cubillas (June 30, 1921 – May 15, 2005) was a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
He received a bachelor's, master's and doctorate's degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he also taught several courses for almost 19 years (1954 – 1973) before heading the Mexican Institute of Social Security in the López Portillo administration.
Arsenio Farrell Industrial Park (in the text, the name appears with an additional letter 'r') is a fictional maquiladora which is mentioned several times in Roberto Bolaño's final novel 2666, specifically, in book four, The Part About the Crimes.
It has been reported that Arsenio Farell Cubillas had assisted PRI's (Institutional Revolutionary Party) Miguel Nazar Haro and Luis Echeverría Álvarez to detain and torture suspected terrorists (leftists, intellectuals, etc.)
The maquiladoras also symbolize the PRI's long-standing facade of democracy and free trade built on the backs of the working poor.