FRIDAY, MARCH 20.
PROGRAM # 7479 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
Farm workers from the San Quintin Valley in Baja California, asking for an eight-hour workday and 300 pesos a day, were repressed and jailed when they blocked highways. A leader of an indigenous group calls for an investigation of the agricultural companies which may lead in the future to a boycott of their products, to force the owners to negotiate. In the region, farm workers are usually hires for 120 pesos for 12 hours a day. Also on this edition, the testimony of José, a survivor of the attack of September 26th in Iguala, Guerrero, as the parents of missing students of Ayotzinapa travel through the U.S. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts the program Voz Pública from Mexico City.
Guests: Rogelio Méndez, State Coordinator in Baja California, Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales (FIOB), Tijuana, Mexico; (pretaped interview) José, Student, Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero.
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