Ecuador’s plantation workers pin hopes on historic slavery ruling
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Susana Quinonez was born and raised on an abaca tree plantation along Ecuador’s western coast where back-breaking work and extreme poverty were what passed for a normal childhood. For 16 years, Afro-Ecuadorian Quinonez laboured on the estate, stripping abaca fibre from the stalks of banana trees, removing the pulp then washing […]