Unions, Liberal Activists Cite USMCA in Asking Mexico to Free Labor Lawyer
A coalition of unions and nonprofits, including Public Citizen, sent a letter June 26 to the director of Mexico's Human Rights Commission, asking her to intervene in the detention of Mexican labor lawyer Susana Prieto Terrazas. “Ms. Prieto’s detention is…
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casting a pall over the proposed July 1, 2020 start of the revised North American Free Trade Agreement,” they said, and noted that the U.S. trade representative, when he was asked about it during congressional testimony, called the arrest a “bad indicator” of Mexican intentions to comply with tougher labor standards.