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.
Workers harvest strawberries on the Rancho Seco farm in Vicente Guerrero, Baja, Mexico.
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Farm worker representative Justino Herrera makes an empassioned speech to hundereds of fellow laborers in Vicente Guerrero.
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Juana Villa, the matriarch of a farm worker family cooks on an outdoor stove in her yard overlooking strawberry farms.
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Reyes Soriano, 40, picks blackberries in Vicente Guerrero, Baja, Mexico for Driscoll’s, an American-owned distributor.
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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.
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Eloy Fernandez wakes up in a makeshift camp for striking farmworkers in San Quintin. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
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)
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Fidel Sanchez leads a protest march of striking farmworkers. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Justino Herrera outlines labor’s demands for higher wages at the bargaining table in San Quintin. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)
Fellow farmworker organizers confer with Bonifacio Martinez during a break in negotiations. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)