China in South and Central America

Nicaragua

• An expatriate Cuban trade union movement in the United States has claimed that Cooperad Hortícola Shangai of Managua, Nicaragua, mistreats its workers, who “are forced to work seven days per week even when they are paid for six days and receive poor nutrition, and Chinese workers are served in a different dining hall.”

Federación Sindical de Plantas Eléctricas, Gas y Agua en el exilio. Informe sobre violaciones sociolaborales durante el año 2003. Miami: Movimiento Sindical Independiente de Cuba, 2003.

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