100 children who work as laborers in Colima live in plastic tents

At Los Humedales in Colima children work more than eight hours a day for 140 pesos a day (US$7.8).

Since October last year, 273 people, 100 of them children, have been living in an improvised camp made with plastic tents behind the Technological Corn University. The youngest children walk around naked, and are constantly bitten by mosquitoes. They eat tortillas and beans.

They come from Guerrero and work for vegetable producers. One of them Miguel, says they may leave in May and look for another job.

The Labor Ministry said that an urgent meeting has been convened with the producers of Los Humedales to inform them about their obligations and warn them about penalties if they fail to fulfill them.

Recently the director of the Integral Family System (DIF) of Manzanillo, Lilia Delgado, said that the institution sent them food and medicines, but Luisa, one of the laborers who live in the camp, says she did not see anyone visiting or receive anything.

Also Mayrén Polanco Gaytán, director of Colima's DIF, said that mobile classrooms and soup kitchens would be installed in the area and that the families would receive health coverage.