The Poisons

In the province of Misiones, Argentina, where the tobacco industry is one of the main economic activities, persist a dark network: the combination of labour in unfair conditions, millions of litres of agrochemicals, multinational companies and congenital malformations.

A chronicle with this story won the Second Chronicle Award by Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez and published by Marea Editorial in a book called: “La realidad, esa ficción. Crónicas novísimas”.

Jorge Finke walks through a tobacco plantation, he is a tobacco producer living in the town of Dos de Mayo, a few kilometres far from San Vicente, at the Misiones province, Argentina, January 2014.

The youngest daughter of a social worker from San Vicente runs to her house on the outskirts of the city, San Vicente, Misiones province, Argentina, January 2015.

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