Although Mexico is one of the 20 most attractive countries for foreign investment, commercial activity focuses on a few industries, whose products have a local content of 35% on average.
Since March, thousands of day laborers have blocked roads, staged marches and held meetings with lawmakers to protest the grind of picking strawberries, raspberries and blackberries in the Baja California peninsula for as little as US$1 an hour.
The state and federal governments, along with senators, committed themselves to negotiate with growers so that the wage increase is as close as possible to the demand of at least 200 pesos per day, retroactive to May 24.
Denuncian al gobierno del estado de incumplir los acuerdos prometidos