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A chilling reminder of farm labor conditions in Mexico: 80 farmworkers go missing after reporting labor abuses in the state of Chihuahua\u2026<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Farmworkers are transported to the fields crowded into the back of a truck in Mexico\u2019s tomato fields in a photo from the Los Angeles Times\u2019 devastating 2014 expos\u00e9 on labor conditions in the Mexican produce industry.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Meanwhile, at last month\u2019s annual meeting, Wendy\u2019s execs\u00a0tell shareholders concerned about labor rights abuses that the company is \u201cperfectly happy with the quality and taste of the tomatoes [we are sourcing]\u00a0from Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n

And OSU administrators condone\u00a0their corporate neighbor\u2019s callous indifference\u2026<\/p>\n

Late last month, news broke of the disappearance of 80 indigenous Mexican farmworkers who\u00a0vanished from a farm near Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after they reported illegal wage deductions for food and housing that cut in half their already desperately low wages. \u00a0When the authorities arrived to the farm to investigate the complaint, all 80 workers had disappeared, along with the unidentified recruiter who had originally brought them from the small indigenous town of Camargo.<\/p>\n

Here is the full translated report from El Proceso <\/em>from May 29:<\/p>\n

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CIUDAD DE M\u00c9XICO (apro).-\u00a0One week after \u00a0being removed from a farm where they worked as day laborers, the Labor and Social Security Secretariat (STPS) of Chihuahua reported that Monday it began to search for 80 indigenous people who were exploited at work.<\/i><\/p>\n

According to information released by El Diario Mx, staff from the STPS and other agencies came to the Camargo shelter for temporary workers to investigate the report of labor abuse that they received on Sunday the 21st, but the farmworkers had already been taken away and could not be located…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get the full story on this latest reminder of unchecked farm labor exploitation in Mexico over at the CIW website…<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A chilling reminder of farm labor conditions in Mexico: 80 farmworkers go missing after reporting labor abuses in the state of Chihuahua\u2026 Farmworkers are transported to the fields crowded into the back of a truck in Mexico\u2019s tomato fields in a photo from the Los Angeles Times\u2019 devastating 2014 expos\u00e9 on labor conditions in the … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charlestonpeace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}