Migration Police detained striking Nicaraguan pinneaples workers to benefit Northern Exports

Dozens of Immigration Police are detaining more than the Nicaraguan pinneaples workers who
were carrying out a strike strike, in front of the facilities of the Exportaciones Norteñas farm in
Santa Fé de Los Chiles. They were making the claim for dismissals as a result of trade union
persecution, payment of minimum wage by law and social security. According to the confirmation,
the detainees would be imprisoned for 24 hours in the Los Chiles Police Delegation to investigate
their immigration status and the deportation of those who are in an irregular migration status to
the neighboring country of Nicaragua. When questioned by Ricardo Solís, Secretary General of
SITRASEP, Jorge Quesada, responsible for the operation, justified the reasons for the detention
with a supposed report of "threat of burning things" and added that it was a "47 in area dark. "
This arbitrary detention represents an attack against the Constitutional freedom of assembly of a
group of more than 100 striking migrant workers who were demonstrating peacefully and without
blocking any public way of passage at the time. His strike movement sought the restitution of
around 60 workers dismissed without cause, including trade union leaders who are members of
the Board of Directors of the Section of the Private Sector Workers Union (SITRASEP). In the
morning he had already been registered as Juan Carlos Orozco, contractor of the pinneaples farm,
and one of those responsible for the violation of various human and labor rights on the farm, was
being escorted by the public force that carried assault weapons of very thick gauge. Now it is
confirmed that the migration police themselves are willing to intervene in favor of an employer in
the context of a conflict of labor rights that does not concern them.