Mexico blames California employer for death of vineyard worker

Posted on: May 29th, 2008
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“The Mexican government said on Wednesday that negligence by U.S. employers was apparently responsible for the death of an 18-year-old farmworker who collapsed last week after working an eight-hour shift in 100-degree heat at a California vineyard.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department issued a statement on Wednesday blaming employers at a San Joaquin County vineyard for the death of Mexican citizen Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, who was two months’ pregnant at the time.”*

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