At Least 70 Injured After Clash Between Farmworkers and Police in San Quintin Aristegui Noticias
go to original May 10, 2015

Hundreds of workers took to the streets of San Quintin on Sunday morning, accusing Baja California state police of a 'violent repression.' Local media reported that authorities entered the homes of workers without authorization and assaulted men, women and children. (RuptlyTV)

About 70 people were injured, seven of them seriously, after the police entered the neighborhood New San Juan Copala in the borough of Vicente Guerrero, in the municipality of Ensenada, Baja California, reported La Jornada. The neighborhood of Nuevo San Juan Copala is located some 180 kilometers [112 miles] from the city of Ensenada.

MV Note: The municipality of Ensenada, with a land area of 52,482.40 km2 (20,263.57 sq mi), slightly smaller than West Virginia, takes up the majority of the state of Baja California. It is the largest municipality in Mexico and the Americas. It contains all of Baja California apart from Tijuana and Mexicali. (Wikipedia)

Justino Herrera, leader of the Triqui indigenous community in San Quintín, told La Jornada Baja California that there are no deaths, but several day laborers were seriously injured.

The version given by the laborers is that it all started when, at the gates of Rancho Seco, one of the largest producers of tomatoes in the region, a group of laborers from their Alliance appeared to ask their colleagues not to enter to work and to wait until next Wednesday for the visit of the state's Deputy Secretary of Government, Luis Enrique Miranda Nava.

Realizing the situation, the ranch owner called police, who arrived around 5:00 a.m. and attacked the laborers who were asking for their strike to continue.

Read the rest at Mexico Voices

Related: Mexican Farmworkers Demand Attention after Police Violence (teleSUR)

In March, Al Jazeera met the farmworkers striking in northwestern Mexico (Al Jazeera English)

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