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Laborers suffer misery ... and cold
With frost in central and northern most farm workers arrive to Escuinapa
Tiznado Carolina
15-02-2011
The laborers have a hard life.
13-02-2011
ISLA DEL BOSQUE, Escuinapa._ For farm workers come to work in Sinaloa has become an opportunity, but also a destination for marginalization, abuse and overcrowding.
Since November the arrival of day laborers started to Isla del Bosque, a shelter Sedesol insufficient because increasingly more labor reaches of laborers from the south of the country.
"More and more people come, there are more people out to Isla del Bosque and there in the night, between the mountains, hear the voices of those who are living in the bush," he revealed Anastasio Cabanillas, Trustee place.
For the inhabitants of this area, the arrival of seasonal workers has been part of economic activity, since they also benefit their business.
However, housing has become a major problem for day laborers and a business for those who rent their homes or yards for installation.
In addition in the field dozens of yards in the community have tents made of rubber, spaces for which they pay 600 to 900 pesos a month, on the same day laborers.
These spaces are vulnerable to the calm and cold have been more acutely felt in recent weeks. Children with their mothers dressed in costumes from their places of origin, wander through the courtyards with visibly diseased airways.
Some farm workers say the situation in which they live has already cost the life of a laborer who died of pneumonia because he was not given due care.
"I lived under the rubber, with all the above and so serene as he was sick with pneumonia, with this cold, babies died fast and left little ones," said a neighbor.
The situation has worsened in recent weeks because the loss of crops in northern Sinaloa, by frost, is enabling more and more laborers to reach the rest of the state in search of work.
"They've been looking for work (the laborers), in other places from here, see it's full Isla del Bosque, and now you see them everywhere in the Green Palmetto, Cristo Rey and Teacap?n, we are looking for jobs," says the Receiver.
The problem is not only housing but also the abuse they have suffered, as they say, who sometimes are left without eating due to lack of payment for their work.
"Sometimes there is no work, when there do not pay us because as they have not been paid (crops), but sometimes we wait to eat there," said an Indian tlapalteca through a translator of the same ethnicity.