PowerPoint Show by Andrew

Fruit pickers in the Baja California peninsula of Mexico, railing against a life of grinding poverty, have blocked roads, staged marches and held meetings with lawmakers since March as frustration over working conditions boiled over.

One laborer in San Quintin, south of the border town of Tijuana, sleeps with his family on the bare earth in a tiny wooden shack on scrubland.

He said after picking between 242 lbs and 440 lbs of strawberries a day he earns from $56 to $79 a week. Strawberries fetched $2.36 a pound on average in the United States in 2013.

Produce pickers pose for a photo with handkerchiefs tied around their faces to shield themselves from the sun and pesticide sprayed on fruits and vegetables in the farms in San Quintin in Baja California state, Mexico on March 30.

A produce picker's house stands in San Quintin in Baja California state, Mexico on April 1.

Fruit pickers harvest strawberries at a farm in San Quintin in Baja California state, Mexico, April 1.

38-year-old Genaro Perfecto, who works as a fruit picker, shows his hands which are stained with strawberry juice.

Fruit pickers Genaro Perfecto, 38, and his wife Cecilia Feliciano, 37, pose for a photo with their children in the courtyard of their house.

A produce picker removes clothes from a clothesline in the courtyard of a house in San Quintin.

A produce picker carries her baby in San Quintin.

Picker Hector Martinez, 33, looks at his mobile phone as he sits next to a fire while cooking in the courtyard of his house.

A produce picker pushes a buggy in San Quintin.

A destroyed and abandoned cardboard house is seen in San Quintin.

Genaro Perfecto, 38, and his wife Cecilia Feliciano, 37, are seen inside their house in San Quintin. The family prepare to bed down for the night on a floor of bare earth.

Produce pickers board a bus on their way to work in a neighborhood.

Fruit pickers hold baskets of strawberries as they line up before weighing them at a farm.

Children play behind a fence in San Quintin.

A produce picker repairs the wall of his house in San Quintin.

Produce picker Cecilia lies down with her daughter inside her house.