Guerrero Indigenous Workers Depart for Northern Mexican Farms

On 4 August, a group of 117 indigenous day‑laborers from the Mountain region of Guerrero set out for agricultural work in the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Zacatecas, Michoacán, San Luis Potosí and Sonora. The contingent includes 25 girls and 26 boys under 17, many of whom have never attended school.

The human‑rights organization Tlachinollan reports that the migrants arrived at the Casa del Jornalero in Tlapa to find insufficient food, inadequate sleeping arrangements and a lack of basic services such as gas for cooking. The group accused the federal Secretariat of Migrants and International Affairs, the Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare, and the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples of neglecting their basic needs. Children as young as five months are expected to work alongside their parents in the fields, and further groups from the region are expected to follow in the coming weeks.

The migration highlights ongoing poverty, limited employment opportunities, and gaps in governmental support for indigenous communities in Guerrero.