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In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern-day slavery


In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern slavery
A teenage boy transports bundles of abaca fibre from the harvesting site to the machines where they will be processed. Known as burreros, these workers are usually men with little experience, woman or children.
(Marco Gaete
)
22 February 2021
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A teenage boy transports bundles of abaca fibre from the harvesting site to the machines where they will be processed. Known as burreros, these workers are usually men with little experience, woman or children.
(Marco Gaete
)
In December 2003, after 30 years spent labouring on an abaca plantation, Susana Quiñonez finally summoned the courage to demand better working conditions from her employer, the Japanese-owned Ecuadorian company Furukawa. The company’s reaction was harsh: far from simply ignoring her request, it went so far as to send the police to evict her from the plantation where she and her f ....

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