Santiago Nieto has walked across California to draw attention to the impoverished conditions in which the state's farmworkers live.
, who in his crazy wanderings around the world mistakes windmills for menacing giants. But Nieto isn’t crazy, actually, he’s painfully sane and has decided to put his time and effort into helping California farmworkers.
On his last walk, for which he traveled a total of 530 miles and crossed 27 cities on his way from Los Angeles to Sacramento, he was looking to raise $100,000 to give to, which at that time needed support to continue helping working families hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Knowing and seeing Santiago on these journeys has had a profound impact on me, because he has always given me the impression that there is a supernatural force behind him.
He pauses as he watches a plane drop insecticide from a very low altitude. “Do you think that doesn’t make them sick?,” he tells me, staring at the vehicle passing overhead.A farmworker picks oranges in the field where Carlos Garcia, 73, works, near Reedley in the San Joaquin Valley., one-third of the vegetables and two-thirds of the fruits and nuts produced in the United States are grown in the Golden State.
So far Nieto has made five walks through the state and is preparing his sixth, which will start from the Mexican Consulate on Sept. 15 and will try to reach Bakersfield seven days later. On that occasion, he’ll be seeking not to raise money but to raise awareness about the poverty in which hundreds of thousands of farmworkers live in the richest state in the United States.
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