Judge ends Ecuador’s modern day slavery on it plantations
The case is being hailed as a legal milestone in a country where hundreds of Afro-Ecuadorean families have lived in slave-like conditions for more than 50 years
06 February 2021 - 07:19
Bogota — Susana Quinonez was born and raised on an abaca tree plantation along Ecuador’s western coast where back-breaking work and extreme poverty were what passed for a normal childhood.
For 16 years, Afro-Ecuadorean Quinonez laboured on the estate, stripping abaca fibre from the stalks of banana trees, removing the pulp then washing and drying the yarn for export to the US and Europe to use in paper, cars, and tea bags...
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