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May 20, 2020

Mexican Maquiladora Workers March to Demand Safe Working Conditions
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In Mexico City, an Associated Press investigation uncovered more than
4,500 death certificates that listed COVID-19 as a possible factor -
suggesting the city's death toll from coronavirus may be three times
higher than official government figures.

This comes as workers at U.S.-owned factories in the northern Mexican
border city of Ciudad Juárez continue to resist orders to return to
work, citing shortages of personal protective equipment and unsafe
conditions. This is a factory worker speaking at a socially distanced
protest march in Juárez on Monday.

Maria: "They prefer economic gains to keeping human beings alive and
healthy. They prefer to sell things rather than acting according to the
health needs of all of us who live here."



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