Mexican Megafarms Supplying U.S. Market Are Rife With Labor Abuses
"Product of Mexico" — it's a label you see on fruit and vegetable stickers in supermarkets across the U.S.
It's also the name of an investigative series appearing this week in the Los Angeles Times.
Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep spoke to reporter Richard Marosi about his 18-month investigation in Mexico. Wednesday's story in the series follows Ricardo Martinez, a farmworker who tried, unsuccessfully, to leave a labor camp.
According to Marosi, the farmworkers are "the invisible people of Mexico, the poorest, the most discriminated." That's what makes them so vulnerable to abuse in farm labor camps.
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