As director of the Philadelphia-based Quaker aid organization's maquiladora worker rights program, Hernández travels to Reynosa and Matamoros about six times a year. Often, the companies use charitable contributions as a way to gain sway with local officials and stay in the communities' good graces, while ignoring the more central issue of low wages, he said.
Como director del programa que trabaja sobre los derechos de los trabajadores de las maquilas, Hernández viaja a Reynosa y Matamoros cerca de seis veces al año.