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Farmworkers and COVID-19

Published: April 12, 2020, 9:16 p.m.

On Thursday night, Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela had a Facebook Live conversation with M\xf3nica Ram\xedrez, a former LR Radio co-host and the founder of Justice for Migrant Women. Julio and M\xf3nica talked about how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting the country's farmworkers\u2014essential workers still facing serious challenges. This podcast episode highlights part of that conversation.

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Featured image: Field workers harvest onions in the Imperial Valley, El Centro, California (Carol M. Highsmith via Library of Congress/Public Domain)