Ironic because the Mayan along with other indigenous Mexican groups are known “for their strong social cohesion, manifest in the highly functional community institutions, such as reciprocal labor relations, intergenerational socialization and strong cultural and linguistic identity” (Poole, et al., 2011). Mayans and Zapatista’s communities have not been politically helped or increased their living standards since the 1990’s, although they are still Mexican citizens. The only reason they have roads was because they were built for tourist, although commercial centers and transportation are still far from them so they can barely get new jobs (Poole, et al., 2011). Nonetheless these indigenous groups, without government help have worked with their dry tropical climate, shallow soil, and low rain fall, which brings me to the next point of why so many Mexican children are …show more content…
Both Colombia and mexico say under laws made by convention 138 that children workers cannot be under the age of 15, but “countries whose economies and educational facilities are insufficiently developed may initially specify a minimum legal working age of 14 when ratifying the convention” and work cannot intrude with school (Laws Governing Exploitative Child Labor Report, 2008). In Colombia, the Municipal Ombudsman Offices say that parents who fail to protect their children from economic exploitation, the worst forms of child labor (prostitution), or work that harms their health, safety and integrity get fines “up to 100 times the minimum monthly wage and imprisonment” (Laws Governing Exploitative Child Labor Report, 2008). But how many cases do we actually hear about parents being fined for that knowing the rates of child poverty and working children? These few laws that I mentioned make almost all of the impoverished children’s jobs and lifestyles