Portrait of Huichole Woman In Nayarit, Mexico
Romano, U. Roberto
Creator
still image
photographs
2002
image/jpg
born digital
90 percent of the tobacco grown in Mexico is produced in Nayarit. The workforce of the tobacco fields is comprised almost entirely of Huichole and other indigenous groups. Entire families migrate from tiny villages in the Sierra Madres to work in the tobacco fields. Families work and live out in the open, picking, sorting, spraying, drying and threading tobacco leaves. Their long hours in the fields leave them exposed to harmful conditions such as pesticide contamination, polluted water, and nicotine poisoning. Most tobacco growers are simply middlemen- usually in debt to the company. They're responsible for the hiring of workers and the application of pesticides provided by the companies, including chemicals which are illegal in the United States.
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U. Roberto Romano (Robin) Romano Papers
Human rights
Agriculture
Tobacco
Farms
Nayarit (state)
Mexico (nation)
22 00 00 N 105 00 00 W
Romano, U. Roberto
5518#16
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
University of Connecticut Libraries
eng
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860201553