Mariano Alvarez (left) explains in Triqui Bajo to farmworkers the requirements that employers provide bathrooms, water, shade and brakes to workers in the field as required by law.
Mariano Alvarez, CRLA’s Indigenous Program Community Worker based in Salinas, California, was awarded the Reconocimiento Ohtli by the Mexican Consulate in San Jose, in recognition of his work to improve the lives and defend the rights of indigenous Mexicans in the US. This is the highest honor awarded by the Mexican Government to a member of the Mexican or Mexican American community living in the United States. The award was presented on Saturday, May 3 at the Mexican Consulate in San Jose. Previous recipients have included luminaries like Dolores Huerta, Hilda Solis, Antonio Villaraigosa, Henry Cisneros, and CRLA’s Executive Director José Padilla.
