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Photos: Labor movement mobilizes thousands of farmworkers in Mexico

Simple houses overlook strawberry farms in Vicente Guerrero, Baja, Mexico, where most farm workers residents are happy about the historic negotiations to raise their daily wages.

Simple houses overlook strawberry farms in Vicente Guerrero, Baja, Mexico, where most farm workers residents are happy about the historic negotiations to raise their daily wages.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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Fidel Sanchez, Justino Herrera and Eloy Fernandez play important roles in the labor movement that has mobilized thousands of workers to strike at the peak of the late-winter harvest in this coastal region 200 miles south of San Diego.

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Workers harvest strawberries on the Rancho Seco farm in Vicente Guerrero, Baja, Mexico.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Farm worker representative Justino Herrera makes an empassioned speech to hundereds of fellow laborers in Vicente Guerrero.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Juana Villa, the matriarch of a farm worker family cooks on an outdoor stove in her yard overlooking strawberry farms.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Reyes Soriano, 40, picks blackberries in Vicente Guerrero, Baja, Mexico for Driscoll’s, an American-owned distributor.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Fidel Sanchez, one of the farmworker negotiators, wipes a tear as colleague Fermin Salazar talks about the accord reached Thursday night in San Quintin, Mexico.

  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Eloy Fernandez wakes up in a makeshift camp for striking farmworkers in San Quintin.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Fidel Sanchez and fellow farmworker leaders listen to a growers representative at the bargaining table in San Quintin, Baja, Mexico.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Fidel Sanchez leads a protest march of striking farmworkers.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Justino Herrera outlines labor’s demands for higher wages at the bargaining table in San Quintin.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

Baja California farm workers

Fellow farmworker organizers confer with Bonifacio Martinez during a break in negotiations.  (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

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