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Oct 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Tina Vasquez
On an August afternoon, Pablo stared down at a foam plate sloshing with flavorless pinto beans and a particularly bad version of huevos a la Mexicana. The simple, usually delicious scramble of eggs, tomatoes, onions and jalapeños is difficult to mess up. But if anyone can find a way to make it unpalatable, it’s the cook at his labor camp. Soupy eggs are the last thing the 42-year-old from western Mexico wants to eat.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
theassemblync.com | Tina Vasquez
Manolo Betancur’s 12-year-old daughter has no idea what she wants to do for her quinceañera—and that’s not because the important milestone is still three long years away. It’s because the possibilities are limitless. “I am Colombian, her mother is Mexican, and she was born here in Charlotte, North Carolina,” Betancur explained. “That’s three different cultures.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
palabranahj.org | Tina Vasquez
Editor’s note: This story originally ran in Prism. Being an immigrant in the U.S. is a deadly job. Americans were reminded of this when six immigrant workers were plunged into the cold waters of Baltimore’s Patapsco River after a 984-foot cargo ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its collapse in the early morning hours of March 26.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
foodprint.org | Kristen Link |Tina Vasquez
This essay is excerpted from “Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically,” a new anthology from NYU Press that explores the question of “eating well” from multiple angles. Elsewhere in the collection, you’ll find pieces from the editors — Jennifer Cognard-Black on fatphobia, Melissa A. Goldthwaite on food as medicine — as well as essays by writers like Taté Walker, Adrienne Su, Nikky Finney and Ross Gay covering issues from colonialism to carnivore culture.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
theassemblync.com | Tina Vasquez
As Eli Porras Carmona boarded a bus on August 22 headed for the U.S. Consulate General in Monterrey, Mexico, it was hard not to think of the money he would typically have made by then. For nearly 20 years, he’s harvested many different North Carolina crops: cabbage, broccoli, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, and tobacco. “But everything has gone to hell,” Porras Carmona said.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
resilience.org | Tina Vasquez |Vicki Robin |Marie-Lise Breure-Montagne
Latine workers form the backbone of the American agricultural industry. American agricultural industry. Without them, we could not eat. Without them, our larger food systems would crumble. But farmworkers earn “far less than even some of the lowest-paid workers in the U.S. labor force,” according to the Economic Policy Institute. And the overwhelming majority of farm laborers in the United States are Latine, while more than 40% are undocumented.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
business-humanrights.org | Patricia Sulbaran |Fernanda Echavarri |Tina Vasquez
Agriculture/food/beverage/tobacco/fishing: General Agriculture & livestock Recruitment agencies Deaths Intimidation Migrants & Immigrants Labour Rights Forced Labour & Modern Slavery Company Grievance Mechanisms Workers/Employees Recruitment Fees Dismissal Withholding Passports Wage Theft … DIEGO AND MARIO HAD ONLY WALKED THE DIRT ROAD OUT OF THE CAMP ONCE BEFORE, AND IT WAS DURING THE DAY. IT COULD BE RISKY GETTING OUT TO THE MAIN ROAD.
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Aug 9, 2023 | 
kiowacountypress.net | Tina Vasquez
(California News Service) Latine workers form the backbone of the American agricultural industry. Without them, we could not eat. Without them, our larger food systems would crumble. But farmworkers earn "far less than even some of the lowest-paid workers in the U.S. labor force," according to the Economic Policy Institute. And the overwhelming majority of farm laborers in the United States are Latine, while more than 40 percent are undocumented.
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May 18, 2023 | 
yesmagazine.org | Tina Vasquez
Latine workers form the backbone of the American agricultural industry. Without them, we could not eat. Without them, our larger food systems would crumble. But farmworkers earn “far less than even some of the lowest-paid workers in the U.S. labor force,” according to the Economic Policy Institute. And the overwhelming majority of farm laborers in the United States are Latine, while more than 40% are undocumented.
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May 18, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Tina Vasquez
Latine workers form the backbone of the American agricultural industry. Without them, we could not eat. Without them, our larger food systems would crumble. But farmworkers earn “far less than even some of the lowest-paid workers in the U.S. labor force,” according to the Economic Policy Institute. And the overwhelming majority of farm laborers in the United States are Latine, while more than 40% are undocumented.
