Mexico: children still toil in tobacco fields as reforms fail to fix poverty

Industry and government have made steps to tackle child labor in Mexico’s tobacco fields, but Nina Lakhani finds low incomes for working families slow progress. Photography by César Rodríguez

• Revealed: Child labour rampant in tobacco industry

Lucia Reyes is five months pregnant and winces with pain every time she bends down to cut the big, floppy tobacco leaves.

The 35-year-old has had six stillbirths over the years, which means it’s down to her daughter Maria, aged 11, to step up and work alongside her father, Camilo Gonzalez.

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