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The Breakthrough: A Reporter Crosses Borders to Uncover Labor Abuse
by Joaquin Sapien
ProPublica, June 30, 2017, 8 a.m.
The men on the mountain road in rural Guatemala looked to have averted disaster. Their truck was teetering on a mountainside, but they’d kept it from toppling over with a rig of ropes and tree branches.
When ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell came upon the scene, he saw a solution to a different sort of problem.
He had been in Guatemala for days, searching for people who had worked for an infamous North Carolina-based chicken company called Case Farms. But until then, he hadn’t had much luck. So he and his driver pulled over to ask the men if they knew of the company. The move worked.
As it turned out, many of the men had worked for Case Farms and knew others who could help Grabell with his story.
More:
https://www.propublica.org/podcast/item/the-breakthrough-case-farms-labor-abuse-guatemala-michael-grabell