Baja farm laborers one year after a violent strike

Union leader Fidel Sanchez, a former picker blamed by many growers for last year’s unrest, remains a controversial figure.

Farm owner DeWayne Carlos Hafen, right, works alongside Milea Gutierrez to demonstrate the correct procedure for planting onion sprouts.

Labor leaders Bonifacio Martinez, left and Fidel Sanchez look over strawberry fields where last year’s farmworker strike erupted in violence.

William Hedrick, an executive for Watsonvolle, Calif.-based fruit grower BerryMex, walks among raspberry fields in San Quintin, Mexico. BerryMex pays farmworkers the highest wages in the region, 226 pesos a day, or about $12.

Celena Santiago picks raspberries at a BerryMex farm in San Quintin, Mexico.

Farmworkers return to the Villa de las Fresas labor camp in Baja California after a day’s work. The camp houses 500 seasonal workers and is among the most modern in Mexico.

Farmworker Lorenzo Timoxtl opens the curtain in his room after a day picking rasbberries for the BerryMex company. The migrant worker lives in one of Mexico’s most modern farm labor camps.

Farmworkers play cards on their bunk in the Rancho Los Pinos labor camp in San Quintin, Mexico.