2 Million Mexican Peasants and Natives in Precarious Jobs, According to Expert Prensa Latina
go to original May 19, 2015

Members of the EZLN hold banners saying "You are not alone," and "Your anger is also our's" in solidarity with Ayotzinapa. (Reuters)

The recent protests of the day of workers of San Quintín, in Baja California, make visible the conditions of precarious work of approximately 2 million peasants and Mexican natives, affirmed the doctor Armando Bartra.

The teacher of the posgraduate course on Rural development of the Unit Xochimilco of the Metropolitan Autonomous University expressed that this situation has increased in the last 30 years.

He highlighted that this is an exercise of violence that is practiced from the moment in which the whole family works.

This activity facilitates the work of children and women, that is why when they come to the farms, they all work but not get paid, as it is the case of children, he said.

Bartra pointed out that it is necessary to demand the fulfillment of the Constitution and the Federal Law of Labor, since the rights of the workers are not recognized as it happens with other sectors, and for that reason it is among their demands to receive at least a daily salary of 200 pesos (15 dollars).

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