They call to protect the rights of migrants who work in Chiapas

Andrea Becerril

Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday February 18, 2023, p. eleven

It is necessary to legislate to protect the labor rights of Central Americans who work temporarily in the coffee-growing areas of Tapachula, Chiapas, and lack social security, highlighted Morena Senator Eduardo Ramírez, during the inauguration of the photographic exhibition The jaguar and the quetzal, mounted to commemorate the 175th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Guatemala.

Social security must be given to these workers, the majority of whom are Guatemalans who arrive in Chiapas to work in the planting and harvesting of coffee, in addition to guaranteeing that they work in decent conditions, he stated.

The exhibition consists of 28 photographs of animals, landscapes and historical monuments of both nations and was inaugurated in the old senatorial headquarters of Xicoténcatl, in the Historic Center of Mexico City, where diplomats, officials and legislators gathered yesterday, among them, the ambassador of Guatemala in Mexico, Marco Tulio Chicas Sosa.

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The director of Coordination for Central America and the Caribbean, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Imanol Belausteguigoitia Reyes, commented to the Guatemalan representatives present: You will see that one of the things that we are organizing is a stamp to commemorate this anniversary, to show a bit of the closeness of the peoples and point out a lot about this millennial approach of us..

He mentioned that it is in the process of opening three cargo border crossings in addition to the one we now have.

The senator commented that the problems of his Chiapas countrymen in the 18 municipalities that border the border with Guatemala and Central America are worrisome.

He sent a message to Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard to advance the pending issues in that demarcation, especially the one related to the commercialization of cattle.

Most of it enters through customs, and we have tried to formalize that this step, if it is finally a permanent step, that it be done with all the health measures and all the export and import protocols that are made between the two countrieshe expressed.